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Hello! Welcome to my corner of the intertubes!
I will delete my blog if you donate 5k
My name is Claire, I also go by my blog name.
I use she/they pronouns, and am transgender. TMA
I'm also autistic so if I sound rude i'm sorry! It's not on purpose!
i feel like I should fire some rent lowering gunshots real quick.
ahem
ok thanks
Oh yeah, I remember what I wanted to say!
At the risk of sounding like a more standard USAmerican vague left, I do think that there is potential to see a revolutionary movement develop within the US military at some point. It's just that (and here I go putting on my Marxist goggles again) we are a couple decades and a whole bunch of humiliating military defeats away from seeing the conditions that could actually give rise to this en mass.
Like right now the US military is a) volunteer based, b) expansionist, and c) broadly seen as powerful. All three of these are condusive to producing/selecting for hyper patriotic subjects, yet none of these conditions is likely to hold as the empire further declines. As global class struggle develops the US empire will certainly find itself in the positions of reinstating the draft to maintain personnel numbers, defending established bases in previously allied countries rather than establishimg new bases to terrorize hostile ones, all the while appearing weaker and weaker to everyone watching. At this time the new generations of soldiers being brought up in the military will be much more amicable to the kind of socialist recruitment that leftists here fantasize about.
Which brings me to the other point, that even under the most ideal circumstances, the military can only become a ground for socialist recruitment if there is a functional and consistent Communist Party to recruit them! I have met enough (two) veterans who came out of their service with an actual anti-imperialist critique to know that it is possible, and if/when these above mentioned conditions are met I do believe it will become more common. I have seen some on here refer to even radicalized leftist vets' propensity to maintain an inconsistent politics and slip back into US chauvinism. Which is generally true—but *much* more reflective of the sorry state of socialist politics here than anything else. Anyone flirting with radical left politics will be statistically more likely to fall back into reactionary chauvinism because that's what the bourgeois superstructure promotes. If Communists in the US want to see leftists develop a more consistent critique then we need to build a political movement that can attract people. This much is as true for veterans as it is for Uber drivers (though the latter, of course, have much more immediate revolutionary potential at this stage)
you can order priority mail shipping boxes and envelopes in any size from store.usps.com for free. if you do not have a printer, you can buy them with the postage already paid on them. the postal service will deliver these boxes to your house. you can pack your item into the box at home, then go back to usps.com and schedule a time for the mailman to pick the package up from your house. this is also free. you do not have to visit the post office at any point in this process. if you use flat rate mailers you also do not need to weigh anything.
i have to explain this to people about 20 times a year, no joke. it is some sort of anti post office conspiracy that everyone thinks you have to buy shipping boxes and then drive to the post office and stand in line to mail things. you do not. shipping mailers and boxes are 100% free. priority mail service or above (and prices are now adjusted to the point that its usually pointless not to use priority mail) entitles you to a free pickup, and if you have even one priority mail package to ship, you can ask for all your other packages to be picked up on the same trip too.
if you are shipping JUST books, use Media Mail. its very cheap
Everything above is accurate. It's how I handle mailing out almost everything I need to mail. Every so often I go to usps.com and order a bunch of flat rate boxes and envelopes and put them in my office. When I run low, I do it again. I mail these all out with printed labels and scheduled pickups. Priority Flat Rate isn't super duper cheap but neither is my time, now is it.
I also order all my stamps from usps.com and always just get a huge batch of fun Forever ones.
As a money saver, it's worth noting that Media Mail is not JUST for books either. CD's and DVD's also qualify under media mail, as do "comics" without advertising such as fandom zines, and doujinshi.
Media mail is usually a TON less expensive than traditional mailing, especially on textbooks and other heavier items that will qualify, so it's worth checking to see if what you're shipping qualifies...
For those who need to hear it. To be ten pounds overweight is barely noticeable. To be ten pounds underweight is cause for concern if not outright alarm.
The primary health impact of being fifty pounds overweight is medical neglect. The primary health impact of being fifty pounds underweight is organ failure.
Skinny =/= healthy. You can not underfeed yourself into balanced nutrition. You can not subtract your way towards a healthy diet. You can not exercise all the spare calories off because bomb calorimetery is a joke of a scientific model that would have been laughed out of any other field.
The thing that really gets me about the anti isff force is how quick they are to just lie. Like, you point out "she made text posts they didn't like" and they freak the fuck out about it. They rant and rave but you continue to point out "that's a text post she hasn't harmed anyone" and then they start making shit up. The famous one being the child sex ring thing, which is just literally impossible if you know anything about her life. But there was some chick insisting isff was dating a 16 year old which like. No she's not? No one can seem to provide proof to that claim. The only one I saw was a chat log where someone used a screenshot of my blog, which would mean they think that I'm 16. Like. What?
But a lot of them call her a sex offender. And you push them on it, who did she do anything to, and none of them have an answer. They call her a sex pest, as if that term doesn't have an extremely transmisogynistic history, for *reads notes* untagged kink. A thing that only makes sense if you're an uptight conservative Christian loser.
Like, genuinely. It's transmisogyny all the way down. A text post ain't hurting no one. And if you point that out they misgender you and try to ruin your life.
sisters please embrace transfeminism
When you really think about it, Stalin’s life was pretty sad. Your mentor and close friend suffers multiple strokes and you have to watch him slowly deteriorate (Lenin). You have to deal with opportunistic and dangerous ultras seeking to sabotage the party (Trotsky and the left opposition). That aforementioned group assassinates one of your closest friends (Kirov) and you later learn another one of your close friends was plotting a coup (Bukharin). The security chiefs you trusted the most turn out to spy for the enemy (Yagoda and Yezhov) and one of your best generals turns into a reactionary fascist (Tukachevsky). You have to manage the stress of building socialism and defending against a potential genocide against your people and by the time you drop dead of sheer exhaustion and stress after 4 unsuccessful resignation attempts some random guy you barely knew takes charge and talks about how you were a huge piece of shit and that HE’S gonna do it better only to immediately fuck it up (Khrushchev)
so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig
I love you jar fairy
My boyfriend edited this one picture of a seal with huge wet eyes so that it had a super tiny head and it was so funny that several days later it’s all I can think about when my brain isn’t preoccupied
boyfriend here. world needs to see the image
Harvester (DigiFX Interactive - PC - 1996)
