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What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

Girl you literally classically conditioned them to only follow the rules if they get a reward for it

“Why won’t they follow the rules unless I give them candy?????” idk probably because you gave them candy for following the rules?????? What else did you expect???????

(I absolutely believe in using extrinsic motivation in addition to intrinsic motivation, but intrinsic is much more foundational to my classroom management and the extrinsic stuff is N E V E R for doing the bare minimum. Ever.

we have to work together to get there <3

[image id: Engels and Marx holding hands.]

tools to help you read

beeline reader, text to speech, google any questions you might have as you read

texts

the principles of communism

the communist manifesto

the black panther’s ten point program

in defense of self defense

pedagogy of the oppressed

the wretched of the earth

why i won’t vote

heterosexualism and the colonial / modern gender system

racism in the communist movement

abolish restaurants

other links

crush capitalism (pretty neat website if you’re new to communism)

List of Atrocities committed by US authorities