Lmao off to reddit I go with this idea

As A LeFtIsT, i’M aS lEfT aS tHeY cOmE

CUT CUT CUT CUUUUTTTTT!!!

It’s weird how often Horse the Band has been coming up recently. I saw them in middle school at an all ages venue that closed down years ago, of course. Got a bright teal shirt that had cutman on it

Also got to see He Is Legend in middle school or highschool at an all ages venue inside a church. God I’m so nostalgic for my youth lol

Hell yeah I’m a former Banana Slug, proud that all the students, like your room mate and yourself, have been holding fast. UCSC has a long ass tradition of radical politics; when I was attending there always seemed to be TA strikes and other Cafeteria/Custodial strikes, sanctioned or wildcat. In the early 2000s there was a ton of ALF activity on campus too. As always tho, fuck 12

Tangent: Back in the day UCSC didn’t even use a grading system; professors would write student summaries giving feedback about performance and progress. I think they were kinda forced into giving grades due to pressure from other institutions (people pursuing work or graduate level education at other universities etc). I had one professor provide me a feedback summary and it was so nice; like she ACTUALLY knew each student and took the time to know their work.

I wonder why though? Like, since it feels so good is there an evolutionary reason for that? Also I think if you rub too hard you can scratch your cornea or something like that, too. Luckily that hasn’t been the case for me as far as I know.

Fuck, how does one even avoid it?! My allergies are the worst during spring time too, sounds like torture to NEVER be able to. Luckily I have astigmatism and can’t get Lasik anyway

WHY does rubbing your eyes feel SO FREAKIN’ GOOD

I’ve voted in every local and national election since I was first able to vote and I absolutely cannot give one fuck about it this year. I’m so insanely disillusioned with my local politics that I haven’t even looked at my voter’s pamphlet. I still feel like I should vote for props and measures but it’s gonna be painful to even look at

TENACIOUS D! I unironically listen to their first album a lot lol. Weird Al, obviously. Suburban Lawns, the Aquabats, Reel Big Fish, Green Day (the album Dookie in particular), Presidents of the United States of America, Primus, Mr. Bungle, the Adicts, the King Kahn & BBQ Show, Nobunny, Weedeater, Spazz, Gravy Train!!!, the Pixies, GWAR, King Diamond, Busdriver, MF Doom, Talking Heads

Your mileage may vary with some of these; some don’t mean to have a funny shtick but I just find them funny personally

I mean, ice skating IS working out! It just doesnt feel like one because its fun lol. We never used to have to “work out”, we would just walk, run, jump, climb, row, push, all day long so we didn’t need to see it that way.

I love riding my bike and playing tennis is really fun. I’ll piss my partner off because I don’t care so much about being good, I just love running all over the court lol. Plus with that you do a lot of lateral movement thay I dont think we do often in our every day lives. Bouldering is also really fun, kayaking/swimming too. Also just going on walks and hiking

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

the impostor syndrome with that is real. But if we didn’t actually struggle from.tjese things we wouldn’t want to be able to do normal things so badl6 it makes us upset, we would just roll with it

What do you think makes people get so cynical? I just don’t understand it.

Damn I forgot that about Castro and I don’t know much about Lenin (yet), that’s wild that they would just ignore that to bully someone online. Pretty much everyone told him it’s a self serving idea. Link it felt insufferable and I wanna read and post that booklet now

Here is the article

I haven’t read the whole thing but it sure did make me wanna cry and quit my job lol

I just recently saw a couple of posts on reddit that blew my mind with how condescending and downright hostile some folks were to someone asking an honest question on the fucking communism101 sub. Basically the person asking a question about if being a lawyer would be a good profession to get into to assist people and they were basically told that they just wanted to live a cushy life and were self serving, unethical, and basically gave the impression that whatever good they wanted to do was just liberal fantasy. I felt so bad for OP especially since it was a communism for beginners sub. There was a similar post on the regular r/communism where OP got their ass chewed out too. I can see getting annoyed with those types of questions but good lord did they leave a bad taste in my mouth.

One person did post a pretty interesting article that has made me shift my perspective a bit but even in that they called social workers pathetic and like, how is that constructive at all?

Panty liners is honestly a brilliant idea! I used to go sans underpants but uh, tight jeans is not the jam for that. I think having multiple pairs of pants you rotate through+panty liners would be the best bet.

I’m not familiar with the history of US interest in Ukraine but that does not surprise me. As someone seeing the war happen and knowing it was against Russia I figured it was about the “noble fight against communism” but combined with the fact that an aim is also to be a large scale weapons manufacturer sounds like there is gonna be much much more Imperialism to do besides fighting Russia.

It just kinda tied things together for me yesterday learning about the natural resources in Gaza that Israel is likely after as well as conflicts like the Armenian genocide, the strengthening of US relations with other countries in the area, all of it

Also, since October 7th, the entire world has been watching Palestine. This is what had to be done in order to bring any overwhelming attention to the conditions that Palestinians have been living under since 1948 and prior to that honestly. I’ve been saying “What’s sad is that it has had to come to this” instead of focusing on Hamas bad with people.

I see what you’re saying. I didn’t intend to make you feel that you needed to explain yourself in the way you did here; I think after reading through your comments again I understood much more clearly where you were coming from, and I appreciate you expanding on that even further for my benefit. My mind isn’t changed completely, but you do make very good points that I’d like to reflect on. I also wasn’t under the impression that you were trying to make anyone feel bad, and I’m sorry if I came off that way after this last response. I think a lot of my questions and statements were more rhetorical, I wasn’t trying to challenge you or change your mind, genuinely. Sometimes the way I express myself can come off more confrontational than it’s meant to be (to the exclusion of my first comment to you that was a dick comment and I feel bad for that). Anyway I respect the disengagement, and I appreciate your effort especially if it was frustrating for you, wish it wasn’t