came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]

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Attention Kmart Shoppers…
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.

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Cake day: September 15th, 2020

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  • make sure to have a softball but insightful question for them, something like, “what do you like most about working for this company/org?”

    it also doesn’t hurt to learn what you can about the organization by looking them up online. easily found public info is good because it’s usually something they want known widely. what they do, where they operate, how long they’ve been around. if you can shoehorn something you learned into an answer, it looks really good. “what made you apply for this job?” “i noticed you all did XYZ in [place] and would like to be part of something like that.” use your judgement tho lol. otherwise the knowledge about the org can be helpful in framing your interview answers.




  • i keep seeing that phrase “exit ramp” which speaks to the ameroidal car brain. kinda makes me chuckle every time. looking for the exit ramp of the war highway, the cashier at the war buffet, the curb cut at this war drive thru.

    anyway, i know im not treading any new ground here, but i legit don’t see any avenue to deescalation. every effort has been made to exploit every cheap shot that could be taken from sinking unarmed ships in a wargame in a neutral country’s waters, to blanketing the capital in toxic sludge. they opened this shit bombing a school full of girls and previously executed strikes on diplomatic missions.

    there’s no tactical or strategic reason for the iranian government to come to any table, even one brokered by a neutral third party because no nation could guarantee the US wouldn’t use it as an opportunity to make another strike. hell, it seems likely the US would.

    literally, if i was in charge of the US, the only move i could see at this point as maybe working is surrendering elements of the US regime leadership and command structure, turning them over to some neutral state for trial. like basically a complete capitulation with some firm of public justice against the perpetrators offered.

    because even if the US made some broad public withdrawal of forces from the region, that could mean the US was preparing to go nuclear from subs.

    anyway, just saying, i think the us has no cards to play here to deescalate anything and the epstein coalition is just going to have to get used to there being no end in sight.

    the only unknown is how this will all be marketed to those of us inside the core to make it all seem OK, normal, and not a big deal after weeks turn to months of bodies coming home and reports/videos of attacks leaking through the screen. and, if the analysis about stockpiles is true, the attacks on the US and its regional allies will continue to be more and more successful.









  • gonna need to see some kind of source for that claim, because the chap 12 bankruptcies have been steadily climbing for decades with the average farm operator age rising well into the 60s, healthcare costs spiking, lack of mental healthcare infrastructure in rural communities with rashes of suicides/“accidents”, but all of this pretty much exploded under the tarrif whiplash alongside the forced disappearance of seasonal labor.

    and though the rural petite bourg is maga’s mythmaking bread and butter, it’s a statistical minority that can be safely ignored and allowed to wallow in crisis after crisis as huge capital formations (bill gates, the Mormon church) snap up all the economically distressed prime ag land for their own completely normal agendas.

    not saying it isn’t happening or even that exploiters don’t deserve what they get, but theres a much larger context at work driving farm bankruptcies than any single recent policy tweak.

    also, the cap is not about land value nor is it a “bailout”, but rather the limit of debt a farm enterprise can have and be allowed to fundamentally restructure/reorganize without creditors being able to swoop in and seize the land or equipment. under chapter 12, if one meets the requirements, the creditors have to accept a structured payment plan which allows the farm operator to restructure the business and even the type of agriculture operation completely. the birth of chapter 12 was during the farm aid crisis of the 1980s when rural banks were starting to fold because they were mass foreclosing on farms faster than they could sell them and recoup their debts. the goal was to slow everything the hell down during a sudden crisis and at least keep farms in some kind production.

    the last adjustment of the debt cap was 2019, which went from 4.4 m to 10 m, and tied the cap to inflation.

    i have heard there were implied promises to issue direct payments from tarrif revenues (whatever those numbers actually are), but i haven’t seen anything I’d believe there. some real “check’s in the mail” type shit.

    it would be smart, but the price tag would be very high and very public.





  • back in the days of dialup, a friend of mine and i used to have this douche move on an RTS game. we would start a game in the lobby as “3v1 comp stomp” with new names and pretend to be strangers seeking to increase our W/L stats.

    about halfway through the game, we would turn off alliances with the third player and hose their base while pretending to be ignorant or that they were an AI in the rudimentary chat. just whatever we could improv.

    most people would just disconnect rather than interact, but generally the first thing the victim said in chat was “WTF”