YuccaMan

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Please... My son. He's very sick. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Either way, I read the first few pages of the deposition this morning, and it really just goes on like that. Musk's attorney is a piece of work as well. My understanding is that he's some kind of high profile celebrity attorney, but going by what I've read, he can't possibly be worth the fortune that I'm sure he charges. Or perhaps I'm overestimating the difficulties of the legal profession, and it's possible to make a living as a lawyer through sheer ignorant belligerence, I don't know

Please... My son. He's very sick. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Was literally just about to make a post for this, because how wasn't there one before now, it's so good. He's just so fucking stupid

Gray Wolf - New General Megathread for the 30th to 31st of March 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don't wanna be gross, but I've been having sexual problems lately, and it's really frustrating and stressful powercry-2 Somebody take my stupid ADHD away so I can get off

Good news in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How evil does a guy have to be to become known as the worst landlord in a city full of world class real estate scumbags

In the early 20th century it was considered attractive for men to have big pot bellies, women would buy magazines featuring big naked stomachs on comely men. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Bring this back so I can be an object of desire

Pros and cons of having long hair in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Pros: My hair is super thick and silky and luxurious when it's long (people like to touch it and they think I'm sexy)

Cons: My hair is super thick and silky and luxurious when it's long (it takes ages to dry and it's super heavy and always falling in my eyes and my ears get hot)

What's a megaproject you know is probably a bad idea, but would be sorely tempted to try if you were the leader of a wealthy country? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

NEOM, purely for the sake of amusement

Finnster is coming out as genderfluid in c/[email protected]
How would you say you're a communist without saying you're a communist? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I normally just tell people. Disdaining to conceal our aims and so forth. For those times when outright saying I'm a socialist would derail things into an unproductive debate about how "communism has never worked" or whatever, I usually default to saying I'm an anti-capitalist or something like that. Even then, I try to sneak in surplus value and class conflict and similar language. If I'm fairly certain I'm talking to another leftist, I let it slip as quickly as possible so we don't spend however many minutes using coded language and sniffing each other out.

Claudia Jones - General Megathread for the 20th-21st of February 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Absolutely do it if your situation allows it. Never let yourself be destroyed for a job, and anything that'll help you get clean is well worth doing.

Claudia Jones - General Megathread for the 20th-21st of February 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I keep skipping out on classes and friend meetups this week. I don't think I'm depressed or anything, I think I've just come down with a severe case of the fuck-its.

Bisexual men appreciation post in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh my 😳

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Anybody into cowboy action shooting? (hexbear.net)
 

I recently picked up Uberti clones of an 1873 Winchester short carbine and a 5.5" Single Action Army, and I was thinking about getting into CAS to sharpen my skills and make friends. Though the average age of the local CAS scene appears borderline geriatric, which is a pity.

Terrible shame that the closest SRA branch is like 90 minutes away.

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Why was the slave trade actually outlawed in England? (hexbear.net)
 

So I'm taking the last of my undergrad history courses right now, and one of the books that my professor assigned us is Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains. We're six chapters in, and so far, Hochschild has centered British abolitionists (primarily Thomas Clarkson) in his accounting of the outlawing of the slave trade in England (I phrase it that way because we all, I assume, know that slavery itself didn't go anywhere after 1833).

Now, I might not be the best read Marxist, but I know enough to be skeptical of any claims of significant historical events being driven by the energy and moral force of "great" individuals rather than the ebb and flow of material reality, a claim Hochschild is definitely making here. He even quotes Emerson in saying "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

Well! I couldn't let that nonsense go unargued, and since lambasting my professor would do no good, I'm here to ask if anybody happens to know the actual reasons the slave trade was outlawed, beyond vagaries about the industrial revolution and wage slavery. Gimme the real nuts and bolts.

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