I get why Republicans think inflation is a good thing to campaign on, but what are they saying they'll do about it? It made more sense when they were blaming it on the stimulus checks, but nobody thinks more checks are coming, and Trump did the stimulus checks.
Maybe American voters are just stupid enough that saying "shit is all fucked up" when the opposition is in power earns a vote.
There's a huge difference between personal politics and organizational politics. There's massive inertia and the fact that it's by definition a democratic socialist organization.
There's value in joining if there's no other org you can be a part of, or maybe to poach people, but you'll never drive them significantly left.
This pdf has his manifesto with footnotes that explain everything and a lot of good research into the stuff that led up to it.
It's a good read, it changed my opinion of Dorner. I still fully approve of his later actions, but his motivations were basically all personal.
I recently bought a cool looking 1920's copy of State and Revolution from eBay for $15. I've had good luck buying used leftist books from there, especially the ones that were printed in large numbers.
To add to the ebook recommendations, Anna's archive has the biggest pirate collection of ebooks online.
Turn an orgy problem into an orgy opportunity
It's hard to finance a car that old, although you'll probably have trouble financing anything right now with limited credit. A buy here pay here lot will get you into a car, but you really don't want that.
Only thing you can do is try to build credit. Make a credit karma account, it gives you instant credit reports updated every day, and they have a tool to suggest credit cards you qualify for. Then use them each month and pay them off when the statement comes, it doesn't have to be a lot, just enough that it shows up on your credit report. You can get a pretty good score jump in a few months.
Also, you can absolutely lie about your income to credit card companies, they don't check anything. Just don't lie to any other lenders, because they will check.
I realized they were in the right age group when I looked the song up, but listening to that to be funny seemed at odds with the way they looked. They're probably not that much older than me, but they looked like frail old people to me. It was a whole ordeal to get her in the truck.
I came out of the supermarket the other day and there was a lifted pickup truck blasting the South Park song, "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo". I can't see anyone sitting in the driver's seat of the truck, so I assumed it was someone IRL trolling or something.
I get around the other side and a 50ish man is helping a woman climb into the stupid monster truck. I guess this couple earnestly likes listening to South Park music?
I can feel withdrawal in about 12 hours, but it's pretty mild until 24 and peaks at 48-56.
I only do hotels when I visit my family for holidays, but the ones I stay at have been way more expensive than they were 5 years ago.
They're also worse quality. My biggest gripe is that they put the AC on a motion sensor, so it stops working when you go to sleep. I'd be fine with it if the room stayed cool, but when you're on a higher floor it the heat rises. Climate control used the be the most basic feature of a hotel room.
It's all of the grift/graft reasons other people have written, but there are also a type of American that reads only this shit. They probably don't even read them, they just stack up until they die and their kids have to figure out what to do with them.
My partner volunteers at a charity thrift shop in the book section. They sometimes get shipments of books that were rejected by Goodwill because they're unmarketable. They get this kind of right wing political slop, which ends up in a dumpster.
That was my experience with therapy. The only thing I ever got from it was someone to talk to when I was completely isolated. Everything else felt very unsuited to the seriousness of my problems.
My guess is that they just don't have the tools to really help with serious mental health problems. I have no real knowledge of what therapists are taught, but it seems like therapy is really more geared toward helping with less serious issues.
One thing I noticed is that there is no kind of consistency of treatment. They all seem to be just trying different unproven things and deciding what they think works. I've had therapists that want you to find some kind of spirituality, want you to try some weird device, want you to fill out worksheets, even had one that wanted me to smile in a particular way. It's the wild west out there.