Nothing gets me more ‘oh great commie forefathers we have failed you’ than seeing old soviet propaganda about uplifting and empowering women. I geniuenly believe we still need that to this day and absolutely loathe the placification of feminism under liberal ideologies

yeah tankies have fun with your revolutionary larping LOL you have NO Idea how the world works!!

anyway don’t you guys think russia will split into a dozen different states after a post-putin revolution? maybe even china would get involved hey anyone wanna play HOI4?

it’s not your fault that sort of crushing labor is poisonous to your soul. we’re all a product of our material conditions and yours are different to others.

i struggled a lot with work myself, feeling useless for most of my life because i couldn’t enjoy or even tolerate most types of labor that were available to me. there was no easy solution for me but it’s not an impossible situation to escape.

the support you’re going to get from your comrades on grad won’t be as helpful as support you can get from your co-workers or other people immediate in your life. when I worked a factory, we had union reps visiting throughout the week. even just talking to those guys made me feel sane, though the trade union situation in my local area meant they weren’t effective help, they were firm commies (that just couldn’t say so in as many words.)

i hate the whole ‘white women have sex with dogs’ meme

it’s disgusting, obviously, but it’s so mean-spirited as well. like it’s resentful, geniuenly hateful, due to a perceived trend that women have sex with dogs

of course almost all fetish content with animals is made at the behest of, with the involvement of, or specifically to appeal to, men.

If you join an official public server, there’s an extremely high chance you’ll join with cheater bots that spawn endless, aimbotting snipers. It’s less of a problem on community servers as they’re actively moderated by players, but official servers have to rely on vote kicking a fresh cheater bot every few minutes.

This is all done by some script kiddy group who apparently want to highlight Valve’s deprecated support. Basically ruin the game until Valve fixes the game. There’s also some measure of farming ingame item drops to sell for money, I think.

Honestly, I don’t believe save TF2 will get anywhere. Valve is clearly uninterested in supporting the game, and who could fault them? It’s an old game, and games don’t need to be supported just because people play them.

The real problem Valve is playing with is that TF2 is still monetized. They should not be selling microtransactions for a game this broken. If they weren’t selling microtransactions, they would be entirely in their right to kill all official support and leave the game to community servers.

My main concern is that Valve will calculate this over the bad PR they’re receiving, and rather than do anything to curb the bot problem, simply kill their support for TF2. I would be okay with this. I think most people wanting to #SaveTF2 won’t be.

my time working in a factory was similarly crushing, though, i always believed that if the job had paid well enough and considered me as a person and not a number on the floor, i would prefer manual labor over the mindless white collar shit i’m doing now. but we’ll never be in a position where labor workers are compensated entirely for the body and soul crushing work they’re expected to do, so i’ll never be in a factory again.

hopefully, anyway.

shit like this reminds me of before i was accepted for a line of credit, when financing a grocery store gift card to pay off over 4 weeks was the best way for me to keep the house supplied

This is the most haunting thing anyone has ever said to me on this website.

I think there’s something to be said about raising kids in a Marxist environment, though. Even if they grow up and have a fundamental disinterest in that sort of thing, you’ve normalized Marxist thought and maybe even warded off some brainwashing from capital. That’s a powerful thing, making even one to three new people who believe Marxism to be normal and logical in the west.

Plenty of children need adopting as well, but it’s made extremely difficult in comparison to just doing a creampie repeatedly. I would love to adopt. I consider it an actual dream of mine. But my government has essentially said, no, if you aren’t pulling in a high income and have the means to travel internationally frequently, you cannot adopt.

It’s a foundational human desire that brings great joy and I believe everyone should deserve a chance to experience it should they choose. The fact that capital makes it hard for the poors to reproduce just emboldens me in regards to this. That mindset implicitly says that only the bourgeoisie should reproduce. Fuck that noise, I say. They’ve already coopted all luxuries and pleasure from this world, they’re not going to steal the joy of parenthood from me too.

soviet connection intensifies

I kinda think it has the potential to be the long drawn-out death knell of humanity. That’s my most pessimistic take on it, but it’s not an unrealistic take for me. I could see western imperialism sooner ending the world than ceding its power.

But it also often feels like we’re sitting on a powder keg, and the contradictions are growing so severe that the average person is starting to realize there’s no clear paths to a happy and safe life under current economic systems. If we get hit with a bad enough financial crisis, or even some sort of natural disaster the governments of the world are incapable of handling, we might hope to see a resurgence in socialist thought in the west.

I think a lot of it has to do with how well China fares in the coming years. Their existence really does hurt the idea that the ‘american way’ is in any way a requirement for a fulfilling life, as most average westerners believe I assume.

I really like Alistair Hulett’s version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2r-9d1po2Y

Not sure the translation is all that good/literal, but I like the chiller vibe of this version.

poor gaming never got a chance to exist outside of capitalism, and i’ve always been sure that gamings shaky relationship with artistic merit is because of that. it only took like 50 years from games to turn from interactive media adjacent to toys, into nightmare gambling simulators overly tuned to take your money, with optional gameplay portion available.

Your loss, man 🤷 You’re competing with fraudsters to work with fraudsters, it’s just the market.

I wish I had more advice to offer than just lie on your resume. But craft good lies. There’s nothing illegal about severely misrepresenting your educational history, you just need enough supporting evidence to have the lie pass, but not so much that you’re committing fraud. Example being: it’s fine to have a friend pretend to be a reference from a company that never existed. It’s not fine to draft a fake degree document.

Most companies aren’t going to put in the leg work to fact check anything you put int here beyond references. With a couple of committed friends and enough industry knowledge between you, you can have most recruiters believing you have years and years of experience.

That’s my advice wrt resumes. Don’t have enough experience in this specific industry to offer any other help.

yeah the coolest thing about modern economic systems is that we can culturally recognize the ethically barren landscape of pyramid schemes as a bad thing that we obviously don’t get into and even ban in sane places! But economically well yeah sometimes your friend since high school is just going to bumble into an MLM scheme, financially wreck themselves, bomb their social lives, and spew propaganda about being their own boss selling soaps, and that’s just ok. that’s fine. if anything, it’s their fault for falling for it!

Yes, this is my strategy too. It’s definitely a strategy, and not just a reflection of living near the poverty line.