I see the validity in this, but I think a big reason for it is that right now I’m so exhausted constantly that I need a significant amount of recovery time before I can actually do those things I want to.

This, please

I’m wondering how you would burn it. I don’t think you’d want to set it on fire, really you want it to smolder. As far as how much smoke it would create and if it would fill up the house enough to get everyone high, I don’t think I have the knowledge to do that math.

But what if capitalism is the stupidity?

True, especially because isn’t gas prices one of the things that define inflation so doing that calculation doesn’t really mean anything? Also so many fewer people were driving in those days.

What if I want to de-normalize the idea that good people become president?

Is that why Clinton ousted the then FBI director in 93?

I’m aware it doesn’t say that, not sure why it’s desperate. Clinton was a frequent flyer on the lolita Express and was the president in 1996

Very believable that the order to ignore came from Clinton

Edit: to clarify, this comment was not directly inspired by the article but by the connection between the sex trafficker and the president in 1996

Love this game

“You look a little small. Are you drinking enough water?”

Interesting that the career aged adults are the most unsure

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Mannish Boy

I don’t think you responded to the right comment.

Looking back at the post, I definitely made some poor word choices. I do think social groups are good, but they don’t change the fundamentally isolating aspects of our modern society like cars. They’re also not a solution when a person doesn’t have time for them which is mostly a problem of capitalism.

I want the hopeful narrative that society will be better when we have a successful socialist revolution, we just need to get people on board.

I think a strong factor that shaped the problems you describe are a result of capitalist need to make a profit on colleges, as well as the type of education system with standards that were set by lobbyists wanting to create productive workers that will advance capital. I think socialist college would look very different and be a lot less dehumanizing

I don’t think you give capitalism enough credit. Especially using college as your example.

I don’t totally agree with what you started saying but you do get to some good points. I will say what I’ve said elsewhere that I’m talking more about advice on meme posts about large trend issues more than specific issues a singular person deals with.

I guess I would like to see fewer coping strategies that help you do capitalism better and more that work by subverting the powers that entrench capitalism. Also I do think frequently acknowledging that the cause is capitalism is important in the building of consciousness.

I don’t think I’m using a straw man to argue against capitalism. I think I’m using the assumption that capitalism is the main problem to argue against a straw man.

Also, there’s a difference between offering remedies on a forum where that’s expected and responding to a meme about how there’s not enough time in the day with your personal rigid schedule for everything. I’m talking about the latter though I might not have expressed it very clearly.

I feel like this comment most understands what I’m saying. I like that addition to the metaphor with the rescue from the burning building being escape from the capitalist economy.

I should add that the posts I was referencing were meme posts talking about less specific problems that relate to a great many people. Problems with not having enough time aren’t helped by someone else showing off how he follows a rigid schedule.

I fully agree that if someone is truly reaching out for help then you should offer whatever you can, even if it’s just what worked for you. Just don’t prescriptive about it.