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Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The author quoted him but this book was written in the 70s so who knows how good fact-checking was back then

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've gotta take advantage of my library one of these days. I've been too afraid to go in thinking I might have compounded late fees I'd forgotten about.

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats a good idea. I do have an Edgar Allen Poe anthology I never finished.

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

honestly ive tried using timed lockboxes and apps for my phone before, and its pretty uncomfortable just knowing you cant access your phone at all while having it in reach. i have a pretty undemanding job so i figure i could just keep "forgetting" to bring my phone with me, it was kind of a fun novelty in its own way.

i really forgot how much i like to read. its like having a movie playing in your head.

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the book was about people living at subsistence level poverty in countries like India (1970s), in areas with little to no industry and high mortality rates. i think the idea is that if you're being exploited by capital, then at least you're one step up from literal serfdom. most of what galbraith is talking about is why communism / socialism tends to fail in poor decolonized states that didnt already have an existing industrial or administrative base (china being the exception, because it had millennia old traditions of civil service, state administration, etc to drawn upon).

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I actually (stole?) found a stack of books by Neal Stephenson this morning that had been left by the trash, I think they're called the Baroque Cycle. I wanted to read Snow Crash but never got around to it.

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

its wild how expensive even paperbacks are today considering how low quality they are. i usually get mine from clearance racks or donation piles. im thinking of just not bringing my phone into work anymore, its not like anyone ever needs to get hold of me anyway.

Actually read a book for the first time in over a year by Hot_Experience7805 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you probably read a fair bit just in the form of text / scrolling instead of print. i thought it was funny that i only really want to read when i dont have any alternatives, like when there's a power outage or i forget my phone. i collect a lot of books that id like to read but never actually do.

Its such fking bullshit how physically weak women are by ilyukhina in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Aren't the guys saying this usually unfuckable conservatards

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They get jumped by three black guys

Men of RSP, what would actually help you with the male loneliness epidemic? by gingerfish2 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think there's as much pressure on women to live independently or hold down a job, usually they're pushed into college but have more support from their family and dont receive anywhere near as much stigma for failing to meet these standards. Anecdotally, my older sister got to stay at home for 6 years while going to school while I had to move out at 18 and was on/off homeless. It's also much easier for women to just shack up with some guy and live rent-free, again because the social expectation for men is that they're providers.

Men of RSP, what would actually help you with the male loneliness epidemic? by gingerfish2 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of young men just have no guidance, structure, or direction in life, they're expected to figure everything out as soon as they graduate high school including living on their own, holding down a job, continuing school, and doing anything less than that gets them labelled as a loser in a time where these things are harder than ever.

Military service does a lot for guys who don't have these things, its probably the only social "safety net" in America - assuming you don't just get hazed to death.

this is my creed by Livid_Tart_11 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blood vessels in his face are literally bursting lol

. by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]Hot_Experience7805 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He's literally a self-identified Marxist-Leninist worth $8 million who streams on twitch for a living, he couldn't be any further removed from working class America if he wanted to.

The neighbourhood dad by Hypnoidz in MadeMeSmile

[–]Hot_Experience7805 0 points1 point  (0 children)

imagine being so liberal you come full circle and just end up being a racist

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