Most humans are priced out of their dignity at even risking a $2000/hr expense.

The community is based on fandom of a podcast that champions antagonizing liberals.

They encourage vocally expressing disagreement and disapproval and don’t have downvotes to facilitate that.

This runs counter to most instances that tend to prefer disagreement and disapproval be expressed quietly through downvotes.

So they tend to culture clash.

In the one example with the grocery co-op: I can assure you, few if any, of the people involved with the co-op were Marxist-Leninists, let alone comfortable with Marxism or the ‘S’ word. So that was kind of a critical flaw in any Marxist-Leninist theory in practice.

A lot of people practice forms of community action without having any sort of class consciousness. A wealthy philanthropist can offer a bunch of money with strings attached and people will jump at the promises without second thought and rarely keep up with the follow-through.

Point I was making nonetheless was these operations tend to exist under seige from competing and profiteering interests. If I remember correctly the grocery co-op was having issues making the skyrocketing rent payments for the commercial lot. That was the problem the money solved: the one created by the landlord.

So in a sense I was saying ‘the pressures of capital tend to be too great’ than money being tempting or greed from the community.

They are run out of business, most simply.

The operation that does not focus their profits on building further capital and establishing monopoly will fail in the arms race of those that do.

For example: there are countless community and public efforts establishing childcare and pre-k through pooled resources. They are in direct competition with things like Bezos’ childcare academies. (Personal anecdote: they bought out my kids’ building for public pre-k and evicted them.)

And a successful co-op will get pressure to be bought out like a start-up. (Often starts as a great way to expand! Then the expansion changes the culture, the new location feels corporate and the original location is later shut down and left vacant. -Also personal anecdotes for a grocery co-op and an employee owned operation I once worked at.)

No Child Were Left Behind.

Dude seems pretty sanguine about being put in this position in panel 1.

He was a best a signal Kamala was going to be a departure from Biden. There were a few weeks where that seemed to be the case too.

Dude looks like Prince.

But now that artillery gunner at the Somme aimed their next shot just a tick over to meet its mark…

And now Jenkins survives…

I am all for it. Elden Ring was riding that Game of Thrones wave for lore and story, but I am expecting something in the Sekiro vein out of them next.

I want to think something Bloodborne is being developed but I will perpetually have my doubts.

Middle top takes your medicine for themselves.

“Dad snores and corrective surgery is considered elective by our insurance and not covered.”

I guess they’re just following the logic of the DOGE.

AI wishes it could do this.

What tends to emerge from the ashes of war and empire.

“The price of patriotism”.

FFS.

I am american who opposes the military industrial complex so I tend to be perpetually exposed to news I don’t agree with or support the framing.

I have to work to find news sources I agree with consistently. I often wind up just playing Bingo with CSpan and State Dept press breifings.

She went on some rants about taking offense to the term ‘birthing person’ and got expressly angry that Cenk’s nephew got rich off Twitch so she kinda put out there she’s willing to grift for money. Which sucks.

I feel like I can trust some assholes more than my friends’ mouths. Part of the zeal is when there is knowledge and/or trust that preparations have been made, but I will not deny some folk are too trusting, too quickly. Which, bringing it full circle, is why I don’t trust my friends’ mouths.

Truly the paradox of our time.

Also known as: “Surrender.”