I used to (and sometimes relapse) struggle a lot with always wanting to be liked by everyone. Like, to a really bad extent. A huge bunch of reasons for it, too, and just as many if not more reasons as to why that effort didn’t work out (and instead got me very disliked).

To speak anecdotally… As I’ve gotten older (and I mean legitimately older, not just “internet older”), I’ve had to accept the bitter truth that I can’t just ask to sit at every one else’s table all the time. I didn’t ask for my existence to be approved by other people. Instead, I’ve had to adopt the mindset of setting up my own table and being strict about who I allow to sit with me. It gets easier as you get older, not to assume too much here. Just… IDK a lot of the time this kind of worry stems from people who are younger.

You are you (and that’s the most awesome thing you can be regardless and including of everything that entails), and people are going to have to take it or leave it. The trash takes itself out at that point. The important thing is not letting this be an excuse to not look inwards and try to heal what can be healed. Many have used this logic to instead eternally cope rather than working with what they have going on.

Oh, well uh, thank you! Sometimes it’s hard not to feel like I’m typing like Strong Bad in one of those Spemail episodes of Homestar Runner. Do you know what model typewriter you got?! That sounds exciting!

I mentioned in another comment, it’s a 1960s Brother typewriter! :) So uh, pretty old I guess! I’m not really a super expert, mind, but it’s definitely a piece of hardware that’s much older than I am!

My husband says congrats on your vintage find! :) Have you been enjoying it?

As the other user said, yes, there is a whiteout ribbon. I’m pointing at the lever that lets you pick between the three selections here in this photo!

What I aim to do with the third reel, eventually, is to ink my own ribbon with a rainbow pattern. :3 That way we have Business Color, we have Oops I Kinda Screwed Up, and Whimsy

Edit: For those curious, this is a Brother Charger 11 from 1962. We (my partner and I) wanted an all-mechanical model specifically, and we got ours from someone on Ebay. :)

I think we have to observe what is actively happening in real time if we are to apply our science to the current time. Otherwise, we won’t be able to form strategy or adapt tactics appropriately.

Simply put, it does matter! But it matters in the sense that people in general (not just socialists) are aware that something is very very wrong and that something has to be done about it. People aren’t widely aware that there even is an alternative to capitalism (according to my talks with today’s youth, the common belief is that there will just be collapse or total annihilation…a lot of them don’t even know what communism actually is), and if they are they’re programmed to immediately identify certain shibboleths that socialists and communists use (as I’ve noted with my conversations with people older than myself who believe that this is “just how it is” and shrug, or the youth who are funneled the mental equivalent of hydrochloric acid directly into their brains by said older people). Right now is a key point in time to start actually trying to educate people in earnest, as now people’s minds are more open to “something has to change”.

Cuz everyone knows. It’s only getting more expensive to live. We all, regardless of where we are on the political map, have to stare at the same ridiculous fuel prices and the same equally ridiculous posts being made on Twitter/X that all sound exactly like the very things once only said in satire. Denial isn’t working like it used to; we can and should take advantage of this!

Only no backspace out of technicality. :) There is a backspace key, I just don’t have any whiteout to use with it. So uh, using that key just makes things mush together. You can see that on the page, actually! I make that exact mistake multiple times. x) Def its own skill ceiling though!

Oh! Universal disarmament, when you say that do you mean globally? If so, what do you think the enforcement of the dictatorship of the proletariat would look like instead? Hopefully my questions don’t come across as nitpicking, I just like hearing the thought process behind what people have to say! :)

Unfortunately it’s to be expected, fascism tends to prey on the vulnerable and the isolated! It’s what the entirety of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” is about, in fact. It’s understandable why some people would pick it up, they’re told it would ease their pain and get them on their feet again. That’s where it’s our job to help them see it, and to give the support necessary for the trap to stop working.

I like this perspective the most! A lot of people CAN think about these things more critically and in-depth, the main thing is in letting people feel like they’ve figured it out on their own. The good ol’ Socratic method of teaching! :) Applies to inspiring people to action just as much as it does learning a song or algebra!