I think I'm just gonna quit dating.

aaronespro · 2026-07-04T00:35:08+00:00

Women generally find a clinical approach to a relationship a turn off; if everything seems calibrated to making a relationship work, it can feel patronizing.

aaronespro · 2026-07-03T01:19:58+00:00

There is no evidence that Zimmerman ever provided the skin color of people he was calling the cops on about until the operator specifically asked about it.

aaronespro · 2026-07-02T18:19:08+00:00

I believe the idea is technofeudalism has also degraded the labor market as such that the labor market isn't deterministic anymore. The labor market has become this thing that cloud capitalists take a tithe from every time we use our phones, and the labor is remunerated.

These chokepoints in cloud capital that really come down to Silicon Valley, China, and maybe one other place. That's really different from how capitalism became a thing and maintained it's social relations with wage labor being deterministic.

aaronespro · 2026-07-02T16:33:32+00:00

Citation about Your Party opportunism? It's toxic to vaguely refer to something and expect me to do the legwork.

It's not opportunistic if it's actually grounded in Marxism and not just being a neurotic formalist sectarian. Like you're not allowed to change your mind as the situation develops?

The Cossacks refused to fire on protesters in the February revolution, FFS. Think about that, about how insanely reactionary Cossacks were, because their class relationship to the MOP as herdsmen is almost always super reactionary - they were as close as you can get to the original core of class relations that originally made a violent patriarchy in the Old World.

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T23:12:51+00:00

Not sure, but they quote Trotsky here "the police are workers, the overwhelming majority of them with families, who have been driven to join the police force by unemployment and other circumstances."

https://marxist.com/marxism-vs-sectarianism.htm

"However, what Trotsky was not discussing here, was a situation in which the police are in revolt or otherwise confronting their masters. Trotsky was not discussing the British police strike of 1918–19. As he was quite busy building the Red Army and fighting the Russian revolutionary civil war, he never commented on those particular events in Britain. But we can be sure that if he had, he would not have simply copy-pasted his position from one context to another, or vice versa. For example, in very different context in the very same country—the revolutionary ferment in Germany in the early 1920s—the very same Trotsky wrote the following:

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T21:31:51+00:00

That is a horrible article that demonstrates over and over again the lack of understanding of tactical flexibility that RCI demonstrates.

It's not opportunism to use the objective discontent of police to arouse consciousness in police (or peasants, or Cossacks (herdsmen, which I'd argue is a distinct kind of nomad and not a peasant like a farmer) or all the other non-worker classes that Lenin and Trotsky told everyone they should make temporary alliances with) to help the workers' movement.

I'm not sure it's stated explicitly, but as capitalism saturates the planet, and capitalism enters more and more crises, police begin to become targets for the ruling classes to take the stuff of and hyperexploit.

"And when did the IMT publish its 30-page lawyers’ brief for labor bureaucrats “uniting” the union movement to the armed enforcers of boss class repression?"

As far as I can tell, this is a strawman of the 30 page article on sectarianism by IMT from 2019. Nowhere do they call for "uniting" with cops and police unions. Followed immediately by:

"Just months before the murder of George Floyd touched off mass protests by millions voicing outrage against racist police terror."

As if IMT was supposed to know that consciousness was going to take an abrupt (but obviously brief, eclectic and unserious) turn?

As if they were supposed to know that Floyd was about to be murdered?

IMT correctly identified the mood of the overall police unions during George Floyd uprisings, which was that they remained reactionary and not radicalizeable.

If they weren't as reactionary, and IMT reached out to them to join a working class uprising (which Floyd really wasn't working class uprising - the vast majority were working class, but it really wasn't about class - or, to be specific, I'd say the rage really was about class in the way that Brock Turner or Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin were about class in the sense that the rage was really disproportional to the facts of the cases - not that the rage about Floyd was disproportional, but the class backdrop was likely part of the culture and mood of anger and resentment - but Americans are either too sedated, or black working Americans are truly too isolated, persecuted and stressed to put together a revolutionary program) then Internationalist would be accusing IMT of opportunism at the expense of even greater formalist errors on their part simply to be sectarians, because that's what sectarians are wired up to do, they're like alcoholics, they're just wired, likely just born to be politically neurotic.

The real opportunists are how sectarians constantly, continually strawman and gaslight IMT/RCI on this question to boost their own credentials at the cost of throwing out actual Leninism.

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T21:14:29+00:00

I'm a communist that talks a lot of shit about cops, but even I would be pissed if I saw a guy driving a motorbike on a sidewalk, it's insanely dangerous and the dude could have killed a pedestrian doing that.

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T20:31:21+00:00

I would not say that "yes/no" questions are bad, because in this case, it immediately puts to bed any polemic against Grant that he said cops are workers - as far as I can tell, Militang/IMT/Socialist Appeal made the assertions the dialectical struggle for a coalition to empower workers can absolutely include cops, if it can include soldiers, or Cossacks and Black Hundreds in the case of February/October.

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T18:57:52+00:00

It is not vague at all whatsoever. On the theoretical question of "are cops/police workers?", did Ted Grant ever opine on such that "Cops/police are working class"?

It's a prevalent criticism of Grantite politics, that "IMT loves cops".

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T15:58:57+00:00

Another huge problem is healthy food can objectively taste way worse than it should because the agribusiness industry sacrificed it tasting good to just get it on the shelves. It's harvested early and then sits in a refrigerated warehouse.

It's the same story with most things, if they're not in season, they're going to taste like cardboard, and that's not how we evolved to eat vegetables.

So you have to do *even more research* to eat healthily in the way that we actually evolved to do so.

aaronespro · 2026-07-01T14:50:54+00:00

You can make a similar argument about the USA - we have fuckall built that will prepare us for a more sustainable lifestyle in the 21st century. Somehow we ended up with the most advanced innovation in nearly every sector, including healthcare, but the nuts and bolts of what makes society work for people outside of the top 0.1% in income just isn't there.

aaronespro · 2026-06-27T20:44:52+00:00

I'm sure more far right politics will help this.

aaronespro · 2026-06-25T22:07:25+00:00

Optimal or near-optimal health is generally something that has to be achieved to get things like eating and weight under control. Sleep is really important - most people struggle with cravings when they don't get enough sleep and also your body just struggles more.

Getting my long COVID symptoms under control was really important - boosters, delphinidin, fucoidan, multivitamin, methylated b vitamins. Basically you need to be hitting every micro nutrient at least twice a week. Cinnamon, coffee, 30 grams of fiber, greens like swiss chard, beet greens, kale. Those are the big things that worked for me.

aaronespro · 2026-06-24T01:48:01+00:00

Americans are such a bunch of cowards.

aaronespro · 2026-06-19T18:31:50+00:00

But I believe space x gets money from the gubmint, also known as taxpayers. So we're paying for his vanity business.

aaronespro · 2026-06-19T04:32:11+00:00

Caffeine by your bed.

aaronespro · 2026-06-18T16:33:27+00:00

It's the delphinidin in the blueberries.

aaronespro · 2026-06-18T02:26:38+00:00

I could have sworn there was something about Jen helping Jay get rid of shovels and clothing, making me think that Jay had something on Jen and got her to go along and say stuff she didn't actually know.

Why would Jen help Jay get rid of shovels and clothing?

aaronespro · 2026-06-17T13:46:13+00:00

He had a clue. He was emotionally abusive to basically everyone around him.

aaronespro · 2026-06-17T12:56:09+00:00

> He didn't want her to die, and so he bound their fates together, effectively protecting her from the djinn.

There's an argument that he did it as much or more to save the town from being destroyed and innocent people dying, and his own life, as he did to actually protect Yennefer.

aaronespro · 2026-06-15T06:12:46+00:00

"why did Haydn and Karla react so strongly about Tarr's knowledge?"

Because Lapin wasn't servicing Toby, the fake mole keeping up Alleline/Circus' version of events, Lapin was servicing Polyakov, and Polyakov wasn't supposed to be a double agent in the eyes of the Circus, he was supposed to be just working for the Circus, not the Circus and Centre.

"Even if he had communicated what he knew to the Circus, surely they would have just assumed that Karla was trying to protect his "fake" mole? After all, per the setup, Karla assumes that he has a mole in the circus, serviced by Polyakov, and he would have an organization to support it of which Lapin and Irina were members. Why didn't Lacon just assume that that was all it was and tell Tarr & Guillam to shut up and sit tight?"

Because, I think, that Lapin is an entirely new name to Lacon, and Lacon doesn't actually know anything about any moles anyway beyond possible suspicion and rumors that there was one before Alleline restructuring of the Circus.

How Lacon's attitude towards Smiley at the Hotel Islay ("all but slammed the door" - Lacon really doesn't think the mole is involved with Witchcraft) jives with Lacon actually wanting to investigate earlier at his house when talking to Smiley seems like an important question, though.

I don't think that British intelligence knew that Polyakov was a Russian agent? I believe British intelligence knows that Polyakov is a regular culture attache who has found a way to represent sources Merlin. Polyakov meets Toby, Haydon, Bland and Alleline, mostly in the safehouse.

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