TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]

I’m glad to see PSL, the Green Party, and Cornel West are all collaborating. I don’t think I’ve seen major third-party campaigns explicitly support each other like this in the past. Obviously it won’t change the outcome of the election at all, but for people like me, where I had to vote for Stein since Claudia and Karina (as well as Cornel West) got removed from the ballot in Georgia, it’s helpful to see there’s at least a similarly-aligned option

Tbh I feel like that’s a pretty likely outcome at the moment lol

I don’t remember the source, but I always think back to that Stalin quote where he said he felt like a cult of personality was being built around him, with the aim that it would be used against him eventually. It seems like his suspicions were true, since that is exactly what happened after his death.

Reading about things like him being referenced in the national anthem, or the naming of Stalingrad, as a couple examples, there’s always a note that he objected to it before it was approved over his objection. Of course that’s usually portrayed as him putting on a show after ordering the things himself, but it seems to line up with the idea that it wasn’t being pushed by him, since he’s noted as disapproving of those kinds of things every time I’ve read about them.

It’s been probably a couple of years now, I stopped in the middle of an episode after Robert or the guest or someone (I don’t really remember at this point lol) went on an apropos of nothing rant against China, and I haven’t listened since. It had been getting on my nerves for a while, but that was the last straw for me. Something about an “anarchist” who makes their living entirely off of corporate sponsorships, enough that they stopped being a journalist and moved into a “compound” (his word, iirc), never sat right with me anyway.

Yeah I’ve been involved with them in varying degrees for the last several years, and I’ve never seen anything questionable from the leadership or regular members. Save for the occasional troll that gets into the Slack just to start drama, and is promptly kicked out

As far as I know, which to be fair isn’t much, it’s more of a landback kind of thing. Same deal as tribes in the US purchasing land in recent times, just involving the government directly rather than buying it from individual owners.

I’ll have to look into that. I switched to Pocket Casts years ago specifically for the cross-platform sync feature, and haven’t really given it any thought since lol

It’s not quite the same, but Pocket Casts lets you customize how many seconds the skip buttons go forward and back by, which can at least make it a little less tedious

I feel like I’m in a tough spot, where I’m close enough to a major city that I can potentially go to events, but far enough away that the time commitment involved means I need more advanced notice than there typically is between the announcement and the event itself. Especially since I have a kid and both my wife and I work, I can’t be gone all day without prior planning.

I was trying to go through the process to join, and did a phone interview with a guy, after which he wanted to meet in person for the next step. He suggested I come to one of their events and we’d meet up there, but I never had one line up where I could make it. We were going to try and plan a meet up, but I needed to let my work schedule settle out first, and at this point my last three messages across the last several weeks haven’t been replied to.

I’m not really sure where I was going with that lol, but I don’t really know what to do from here

You’re welcome, it’s the episode titled “Dialectical Materialism w/ Josh Sykes”, uploaded June 3rd

From what I’ve been able to tell, most if not all of their members are MLs, and it’s generally considered an ML party, but they don’t advertise a specific tendency. IIRC they started more or less as an ML split from a Trotskyist party. (Now I’m not sure if it was PSL or FRSO being referenced lol, but this was about PSL.)

I’ve also had issues trying to join. I did sort of a phone interview, and the guy wanted to meet me in person to continue the process. He suggested attending one of their protests and we’d meet up there, but they don’t get announced publicly far enough in advance for me to make it. My last message about trying to arrange a meeting didn’t get a reply, so who knows at this point lol

There was an FRSO guy on the Upstream podcast recently, explaining dialectical materialism. The host also asked him about the org, so he explained a good bit there

I know Yugopnik posted in the last couple of days that he had just met JT and Hakim in person, so that would explain JT being outside the US at least lol

Lol I’ve been waiting to see some takes on it. I haven’t read too much into it yet, but it seems like it could potentially be a big deal

And the christo-fascist president in Parable of the Talents using the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”. I wish she had been able to write the third book

Ah man I need to catch back up on it. According to my podcatcher, the last episode I’ve listened to was all the way back in June of 2020.

I miss having a ton of free time, I used to watch almost every single video Sips and most of the other Yogscast channels uploaded. Now it’s more like three or four a month

I feel like the execution could have been better as well. I don’t know how many people actually listen through albums from start to finish nowadays, but for anyone who doesn’t it’s just random hatred with nothing to contextualize it. Especially since they may never even hear the latter half of the album if they only listen to playlists or something. I was interested with the concept of the album before it came out, and there are a few good songs on there, but I’m pretty disappointed with the way he chose to do it

I second the Audio-Technicas. My headphones are the ATH-M50x, I’ve used them almost every singe day for almost a decade, and they’re still going strong. I’ve had to replace the cord twice, the ear pads twice, and I put a cover over the top once the fake leather started falling apart ~5 years in. The sound is still good, they’re still comfortable, and they show no signs of falling apart or anything, even though they get dropped on the floor at least once a week lol.

Apparently they have the M50xBT2 now, which is a bluetooth version, for $200. If the quality is the same as the wired version, I’d say it’s worth it, but that does put it $50 over budget.

Can anyone suggest a good current events recap video or something similar? Some of my siblings were recently homeless for several weeks, and now that things have improved and stabilized for them, one of them mentioned feeling like they don’t know anything that’s going on right now. I was hoping there’s something out there that would help them get caught back up, without me sending them like ten different videos on individual topics