It’s definitely a lot more enjoyable if you’re familiar enough with Star Trek to get all the references, because there are a lot. But it’s still enjoyable with no context.

Funding, yes. Also voting for them in local elections, no one benefits from trying to thrust them straight into national elections. Yeah it’s gonna take a few election cycles, and yeah blue is our best bet for those cycles.

It moved us right slower than if Republicans had been in charge the whole time. Americans don’t have the class consciousness to spontaneously vote left. Leftist third parties hold very few offices at all, and zero major ones.

Without a shift in cultural hegemony, and a flood of leftists in local offices to make good candidates for higher office, third party votes are a waste. They’re not electorally successful, they’re not even good marketing.

Voting blue slows the rightward slide. It can’t save us, it’s not supposed to save us. It’s supposed to give us enough time to save ourselves, to do the ground work to shift the culture to embrace the left when a party is ready. The culture has not shifted, the party is not ready. The least we can do is strategically keep out the politicians who most fervently legislate against worker rights.

Gotta get rid of one of the current two first. Here’s my suggested strategy:

1. Vote blue no matter who while they slide right. All the leftists hold their nose for the cause.

2. Send the MAGA party the way of the Whigs, absolute Democrat domination until the fiscal conservatives join them, and the fascists and libertarians make their own third parties.

3. Push a new party, leftist policy with blue collar vocabulary. Proper terminology is poisoned by propaganda, “hard working Americans”, not “proletariat”. You wanna distance yourself from those snobby college libruls.

4. Lefties jump ship, scoop the progressives on the way out. Bam, new second party.

There’s no movement without class consciousness. Grassroots doesn’t work without, well, grassroots

How would you define dialectics?

Really? Who’s her dad?

Is it a DMT vape pen?

Fiduciary duty to shareholders. Line must go up, as much as possible, as fast as possible.

Wow, full circle. I remember when I first started reading xkcd and you could buy basically that exact product from ThinkGeek. A simpler time.

Um ackchyually it’s the Marines and National Guard.

Seeking help when you’re unsure how to address your problems is a part of helping yourself. No one knows everything, you have to learn somehow. Sure, the industry is plagued by commodification, but the principle of learning these techniques and perspectives from books isn’t inherently lesser than learning any other subject that way.

The real self-help secret is balance, but different people have different biases so the changes necessary to achieve balance are different.

Timid pessimists need to learn the power of yes.

People-pleasers need to learn the power of no.

Procrastinators need to work more.

Workaholics need to work less.

Narcissists need to be considerate of others.

The insecure need to be considerate of themselves.

Trying to read every self help book for maximum mental health is like taking every pill in your medicine cabinet for maximum physical health.

That doesn’t make sense. That makes horses apple trees not apples.

There is the theory that dreams are simulations to prepare you for stressful situations. Being exposed to rejection in simulation helps to not react… poorly irl.

Is spliffbull, just as good as speedball, better even.

Looks like the cover for an album called “Experimentation” by a band called “Synaptic Response”

Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them “pommes de terre”, apples of the earth. Ipso facto.

I will not be accepting questions at this time.

Make sure you’re distinguishing between a circle and a disc.

That '70s Show aired in 1998, 22 years after 1976, when it was set.

1998 was 27 years ago.