Yup.

Also, “where do you go to church?”

That’s required by the employer.

👍

Yay! I’m so happy for you!

Gorgeous!

Do you have new skin?

Sometimes we project things onto people on our subconscious projections of ourselves. Maybe she was or wasn’t interested. I remember your posts from before, and hope you took advice to get into therapy and are doing the dirty work none of us actually want to do until we start seeing results.

Maybe your own body language and facial expressions cued her to your subconscious self-perception or projection.

Pres, VP, speaker being neutralized, along with Pentagon and military leadership.

I fervently hope so.

No one is here to cater to you.

That’s what I get even when posting while still being sleepy.

Well I’m good with immediate nationalization of top companies, and cutting away bourgeois rule, too. I was offering a gentler transition, but now that I am thinking about Trotsky, that’s a poorly thought idea.

It seems the problem is most people can’t begin to imagine what actually existing socialism looks like from the inside, without suspending their belief in generations of propaganda fed to us for several generations by our own states, and while we may be able to imagine how to work differently within the framework we have, can’t imagine discarding that framework without something better to replace it. We can imagine bending the framework, but not building a different one before or during the process.

I wouldn’t be surprised if most people imagine a socialist replacement looking a lot like what DOGE did, but here’s a thing: we already have a blueprint for reimagining the existing framework ala New Deal, while we can also work toward building and implementing a new framework based on blueprints from AES states. Nobody is talking about taking a chainsaw to the current framework on day one.

Maybe what I’m saying isn’t realistic, either but I’m open to having it picked apart.

Lol

https://www.dw.com/en/german-welfare-state-can-no-longer-be-financed-merz/a-73742270

On the plus side, maybe the notion of American Exceptionalism will diminish a bit, which is long overdue.

Hope is a powerful thing, and I fervently hope so!

I feel like most people are so far gone they couldn’t even begin to connect with their honest human self outside of the traditional indoctrination we all receive from our national cultures.

Thinking about Lemmy and most people around me, it seems like it.

Lol; that’s what the EU common people said about too big to fail, too.

The holidays bring it out in a lot of people. Best to you.

Then there are people like Brett Favre taking from the social safety net with the help of the government.