As a colorblind commie I can’t make sense of it at all… The least and most seem like the same color?

YES

I could DEF learn a lot more in that department. Especially in the realm of farming and food storage

Prepping as in hoarding resources? I’m not so big into that. Prepping so that I and a group over dozens, to hundreds, to thousands of miles could maintain communications? That shit’s my special interest.

I definitely feel like I could be a much better communist and find and culture actual relationships and arrangements with others to improve situations for us all.

In all fairness I don’t doubt that we have total Nazis in the military. But I also believe there’s intentional disregard for any other reason to not want to go Bring Democracy™️

So any resistance to fight on the side of apartheid is straight antisemitism? Not wanting to fight against a Semite people? Got it 🙄

'06 for me actually

I’m just barely younger than “elder millennial”. Certainly out of highschool, by almost 20 years

Man, dinosaurs are silly

TFU!

I’m a salty commie that wants a mate 60! 😭

Mint is Irish? Aaayyy, I’m Irish! Cool beans… or potatoes, I dunno

Me too! But I’m poor!! 😭

Where I completely disagree with disallowing people in Cuba from using a distro… I’d wager at least some of it has to do with redhat being a business that makes money and that is at odds with the horseshit blockade and sanctions. And by that logic I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar from canonical, especially support related as that’s something you can purchase if I’m remembering correctly.

That’s my thoughts without knowing the specifics so I’m quite literally talking out of my ass and spitballing.

I’m still weighing how continuing to vote for (2020 was the first time I’ve voted) liberals are just pushing back possible material conditions for more people to feel the need for class consciousness.

Would I personally like for neoliberalism somehow to be regulated to the point where capital interests are restricted and the people of the world aren’t pitted against each other for oppression and have social safety nets? Obviously not ideal, but for a number of years I thought that was the hope. I thought I was voting for more “rights” and more “equity”.

In the dichotomous US politics it certainly seems that only one side makes any sense to me. That’s with having to take all of the neolib propaganda fed to us at face value and even believe that the world was as it was presented to us. Invading other countries was for “spreading democracy” and “pushing for human rights” or “fighting terror”. The companies and corporations “helped” and “advanced society” and that’s just the way it is and that’s the best idea.

As I learn more I realize that neither of the “two sides of the coin” have or will ever make changes that support the majority of people in the country unless absolutely forced, and then only in the most miniscule way possible. MUCH LESS help the majority of people in the world.

Today I’d LOVE to see major sea changes and revolution. But no sort of revolution happens from one person’s actions and without the vanguard and community and many many people.

Personally, I’m planning on voting for West with the full knowledge that nothing will come of it other than raising some eyebrows and people questioning how he got any votes. But I’m also trying to get more involved and find community, because that’s the only way I see making progress.

A: I said “n’stuff” and “n’shit” waaaaaaay too much in the 90s. B: I wasn’t a teenager until 2000 so…

That’s what I was hoping for, a more active local org that was involved in support and that I could volunteer with, even if it wasn’t as out as walking around with CPUSA banners. However in my area the CPUSA club is tiny tiny. Like TINY. Being in the southern US, it’s fairly dangerous to be a known communist with the neighbors a lot of us have down here.

Whereas I couldn’t care less if someone wants to try something towards me, threats or otherwise. The few party members I’ve met are young’uns that have an ok grasp of theory, but faced with some of the opposition I can definitely see coming up… we need more people and more community support. To my knowledge it’s basically less than 2 dozen kids for the whole state chapter. Quite possibly less than one dozen. Obviously I’m not trying to say that any comrade would in any way not be welcome… but there’s a lot of work and organizing to be done and growth is definitely needed.

I’ve been trying to think of different ways to find more, I really need to get more involved in things where there are larger groups of people involved in mutual aid and community action and look for them, but like I said that’s what I was hoping for in joining. I’m in no way a leader but we need a lot more action. As we don’t have the numbers, and even if we did, I think the best option is to get involved in actions and volunteering that we agree with that’s not necessarily communist, to get the ball rolling building and finding our people.

Just because it didn’t mean that originally doesn’t mean we can’t make it mean that today

I already have YouTube premium and I’ve moved from Spotify to YouTube music (since that’s included) years ago. I’ve been using Google podcasts for several years and it works well enough. There’s several Patreon podcasts I listen to and until YouTube music supports rss podcasts it won’t be my main podcast app.

Now, this stupid “commenting on songs” thing YouTube music added I have zero use for. Why tf would I want to have a social interaction while I’m trying to get a dopamine hit from loud music that rattles my bones so I can FORGET ABOUT SOCIAL INTERACTIONS for just a moment. JFC it makes no sense to me. Apologies, rant over.

When Google gets rss podcasts on YouTube music I’ll switch over

I have to prioritize other things, it just doesn’t have a place in the budget. Absolutely least of which is a piece of paper that tells other people my brain works a little differently. I’m totally averse to taking medication for ADHD, I “self meditated” for years with “trailer park meff”. Clean for over 5.5 years now and I don’t plan on taking any sort of stimulants for anything. The most caffeine I drink in a day is 2 cups of coffee every morning.

Besides that, I absolutely do not struggle with it. Since I’ve allowed my scatterbrained ass to shine unimpeded depression never gets a chance to take hold as my brain “turns the page” to something else when I start to go down, I never ever ever get bored, I have hobbies (you could probably call them rotating special interests, but whatever) that I love to learn about. And more than all that I found happiness. Like I might not look forward to everything I need to do but I’m genuinely excited that I’m here today. Every day. After spending so much of my life in full self destruct mode and really really just not wanting to be alive, it feels amazing. It took over 30 years for me to figure out and accept myself and I’m pretty fuckin fond of the person I am.

Yeah I’m super excitable, yeah when I’m in my moment I appear manic as hell. My attention span for things that aren’t my special interests may be shorter than convenient, but I’m me. I love me, besides that it’s the only me I’m going to get. I’m supposed to be an individual and I embrace the hell out of that.

I’m not trying to just sit here and toot my own horn but if folks knew how my feelings for myself were so much of a polar opposite from that for the majority of my life… sorry I’m rambling.

I wouldn’t know what to do if my weirdness and eccentricities that I’ve finally embraced were to disappear or change. I take my qualities and quirks as a part of me and while they can be challenging, I far more often lean on them as the strengths they are for me and the way I handle things AND my happiness.

Would healthcare be neat? I’m sure. I wouldn’t know what to do with it though, never used it. I supposedly had fantastic coverage when I was a general manager of a Papa John’s, but I never had a chance or desire to use it.