robert harper

You know society is really fucked up when we actually have to avoid vegetables. It’s almost like the country’s being run by a child.

This is not some random failing of the US working class. These attitudes were carefully and purposely engineered in the first half of the 20th century. At this point, the lies are so ingrained in the American psyche that people can't imagine thinking any other way.

NYC finally got some more public restrooms

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Saturday Night Live warned us all on March 5, 2016. Now the joke is on us America. 👇

Two different Hamptons stories in the NY Times recently. One is about the $150 chicken tenders. The other about the homeless men who work on the kinds of homes occupied by the people ordering the $150 chicken tenders.

apparently yes!!!

How ‘The Wire’ Star Jamie Hector Spends a Hot Day in Brooklyn Bike rides, ice cream, museum, dinner with his wife: Mr. Hector’s busy day even included helping the next generation of actors. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

these pedestrians feel so entitled!

One of those perfect Mike Judge moments in Office Space was depicting office workers trudging through a ditch to go from their workplace to the restaurant next door, because the environment was so hostile to pedestrians and car-oriented. I used to work in a building that looked exactly like this, and soon learned it was designed with no thought to its surroundings. It had no sidewalk connections or crosswalks despite nearby bus stops and restaurants. To walk to lunch I had to hop through a ditch just like this one. A cluster of empty buildings surrounded by vast deserts of hot parking lots.

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just learned that the word "ferret" is derived from the Latin word furittus meaning "LITTLE THIEF" and that a group of ferrets is called a BUSINESS and i am absolutely pleased with this new knowledge

never forget that—much like the closure of trader joe’s wine shop in union sq—this was about union-busting

Explosive diarrhea outbreak due to a parasite found on produce. Advice for now? Don’t buy produce…unless you can cook it. usatoday.com/story/graphics…

Anti-fascist chalk art spotted in southern Indiana

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they should make a slavoj zizek that you can actually bare listening to

Today some DSA person told me the best way to make changes in US politics is to work within the Democratic Party to elect left-wing candidates and advance progressive agendas. I said, "You guys have been trying that for ten years with nothing to show for it." I mean, how much longer is it going to take before people admit that the "change the party from within" strategy isn't working? Do you want another twenty years? Another fifty? Do you need to spend the next century watching a handful of vaguely progressive imperialists get elected to Congress and then getting primaried out by opponents with mountains of special interest funding before you admit that you're not making any meaningful gains? Our planet could be lifeless before then. The Bernie Sanders "revolution" was ten years ago. Large factions of the American left took up his call to take over the Democratic Party using primary elections throughout the nation, and ever since then it's been a two-steps-forward, two-steps-back addition of zeros. The people never got President Bernie, and the few progressive gains made on Capitol Hill were either kicked out like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman or went full pro-establishment like John Fetterman. The few who stuck around have turned out to be perpetually disappointing empire managers like AOC who know how to straddle the line between left-wing lip service and status quo swamp monster. It's time to admit the commies were right, kids. The factions on the so-called "far left" who've been rejecting electoral politics and calling for real revolution against a system designed to suppress leftward movement have been completely vindicated over the last decade. You cannot change the system using a political party that is designed to prevent change. The Atlantic has an article out by David Brooks titled "Democrats Became Great by Fighting the Left," and in a sense this claim is absolutely correct. It's not correct for the reasons David Brooks suggests, but it is correct that the reason the Democratic Party has been allowed to remain so dominant is because it is such an effective tool for thwarting all leftward political movement in the United States. In the article, Brooks (who last year published an article titled "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" shortly before showing up in the Epstein Files) begins by rehashing the same tired old Hillary 2016 talking points arguing that the loony left is full of communists who must be forcefully opposed by the sensible center. What's more interesting is the brief history lesson that comes later, in which Brooks notes that after World War II the Democratic Party leadership took action deliberately "in order to block the leftward advance" toward socialism within its ranks. That's all the Democratic Party has ever existed to do. If it wasn't such a successful tool for suppressing leftward advancement, the party would not be permitted to exist as a mainstream political force by the capitalist oligarchs who run the country. It is the Democratic Party's job to prevent peace, equality, justice and socialism. That's the only reason it is permitted to exist in the hub of the capitalist empire, and that is the only reason why ten years of effort to change the party from within has produced no meaningful results. The experiment has been run, and the results are in. You can't conduct a socialist revolution using a party whose primary function is to suppress socialist revolution. This has been conclusively established. It's time to find another way.