I mean, you are technically still benefiting from the racist systems set up by the elite even if you are working class, so you’re still technically (unwittingly) participating in it. But you can (and should) still do your best to not actively advance the system.

I’d like to subscribe to backyard bunny nest cam please

Ampersand is such a fun word

Oh wow. I have a pair of ray bans that I picked up from my old bar’s lost and found after they sat for a few months. They have a crack on one of the lenses but I can’t see it when I wear them and nobody has ever noticed it. I didn’t realize they’re supposed to be that indestructible, but I guess I have had them for probably 10 years and have never been terribly careful with them.

Yes you are valid. There is a microlabel that you may relate to, if you’re looking for it:

Reciprosexuals don’t feel sexual attraction until they know someone is attracted to them first. This can create a dynamic where attraction follows mutual interest rather than leading it, different from most other orientations.

But ace is ace is ace is ace. If you identify as being on the ace spectrum, you are valid. If you change your mind later, you were (and are) still valid. You do you boo.

I’m going to spoiler tag this because it’s a slur but I’ve always found this one the most comical

I listen to audiobooks while doing something mindless like cross stitching, a mindless game, or chores. It keeps my brain from drifting or going into autopilot.

It might also help to find podcasts or commentary that breaks down the books, but also read the books before or after. Those types of breakdowns will usually connect the theory with current examples, which helps reinforce the learning.

Editing to add: find a book club or socialist organizing group. Depending on how you lean, there are several different international options where you can join and learn together with others, and many offer virtual options if you’re somewhere remote.

Idk how it is in the US but in Canada, they already have all our numbers. Really wouldn’t be hard to enforce except many billionaires wealth doesn’t come from their income.

Civil disobedience maybe? Standing up for what you believe in isn’t always legal, especially under a shitty dictator.

Opt in ads actually sound like a decent idea. The key being opt in so that if I cant afford a service but still like them, I could choose an “free” ad tier as a way to throw them some support, with the website itself still being actually free and ad-free. I doubt that advertisers would be into that though.

It’d probably be best if Pete Thiel just died also. That would be pretty cool.

Being a billionaire almost always involves murder in some indirect or direct way.

I don’t have a preference, but the rest of my family has very strong preferences. My mom was convinced for the longest time that I was eating with the “wrong” one (I can’t remember what the “right” one is for her), so she’d always get me the “wrong” one, which is also what my sister likes. I just went along because I genuinely don’t care. Then my mom got very upset one day when I was using the “right” one, cause she was insistent that I always liked the other one. Nah, I just like cake.

So I’m not American but I do identify as Mexican-Canadian. I am an immigrant so for me that is a very important distinction.

In my perspective though, I wouldn’t ever want to make fun of someone for identifying as whatever. However, there is something about the cultural aspect of it that bothers me. If you are many generations in and have, for all intents and purposes, lost your connection with the hyphenated part of your culture, and don’t have any intent to learn with or contect with that culture other than by name, it does feel a bit preformative. If someone is actively reconnecting with their culture and trying to learn/understand more about their heritage, then it’s fine IMO, otherwise it seems disrespectful/appropriative. You can just as easily say “my ancestry is _____”, without claiming it as your culture.

Haven’t seen it, not from the US, but people should definitely be reading socialist theory and finding local socialist/leftist organizations to work and learn with.