that would be a prefix but yeah.

Prefixes are a type of affix, along with suffixes (and infixes, and circumfixes, though English doesn’t have those)

I’m trying to think of what the actual affix would be, and my best answer is genuinely “enentropy”

I appreciate the reply.

I’m going to do the reddit thing and say the title was ackshually “To Serve Man”, but the reason I mention it is that the pun works much better with the uncountable noun “Man” than the countable plural “Humans”, because it’s more like how we speak of most types of meat, as an anonymous, indifferent material (lamb, beef, pork, chicken), and I think that’s kind of interesting.

A lot of them are weed Republicans (Libertarians) who have some lifestyle thing the Republicans oppose but otherwise they’re on the same page

That’s possible, I just decided for whatever reason that it wasn’t likely to be an internal psycho-drama like that. I think because it was saying “we” and not “you,” suggesting (but not denoting) that it is its own patient and not just some figment of the artist’s mind or internal toybox, but you’re right that it could be that they are both meant to be patients via both being the main character, meaning the “we” is more literally an “I” and I was indeed being too literal in my interpretation of the dialog, too.

Anyway, I am glad I gave you the opportunity to tell someone that ;)

I think it’s about nonspecific external hardship (because there are functionally two people there, so it might not be depression/etc)

But it’s also probably so deliberately nonspecific that it could be about almost anything

That’s totally a valid reading, it might even be correct

A lot of you haven’t been following Dax’s country rap turn and it shows.

All I Want for Christmas is You was my nemesis. It’s overproduced that when it also gets overplayed it feels like violence.

My brainrot made me think this was about Current Events

Thanks for sharing such a detailed timeline from your life.

Some of the post made me curious, as I originally articulated in another comment but wanted to pose directly:

In hindsight, do you believe the Moscow Trials were rehearsed and staged in the manner of a play?

I have no rebuttal to you either way, I’d just like to know what you think given all the experiences you outlined from the Stalin and Khrushchev eras.

I was genuinely surprised to see the Secret Speech received so uncritically. That’s my fault for falling out of touch with popular sentiments there.

Those fuckers talking about how “traumatic” covid lockdowns were seem to be in for a real nasty surprise.

That’s fair, yeah

I consider it a victory in a case like this (or like mine) if one gets to the point that they have some relatively formulated utterance that they are desperate for an opening to share. It’s much better than not talking because you have nothing you’re sure how to say.

I was going to dump a whole bunch of superfluous information for some reason, but the useful thing I had to say was this:

You won’t meet people by being alone. Go somewhere with people, preferably many, and find the most extroverted person you can. That kind of person is usually willing to do a lot of the conversational work for you if you can mention even a token topic, and furthermore extroverted people tend to have a lot of friends, so you can benefit from having a bunch of people be easier to talk to because you’ve got the extrovert fellow vouching for you and perhaps also participating in the conversation.

As a more literal response to your question, it can be easier to hold a conversation in a group. Yeah, for people like me and possibly you, the prospect of being in a group is kind of intimidating, but the great thing about groups is you can be silent for much longer stretches of time without it being any problem, and then re-enter active conversation at a point in it where you feel most comfortable.

https://hexbear.net/comment/5631230

Your idea that fighting for personal material gains is at odds with fighting against empire was already refuted. There are also other things, like “labor rights”, “tenant rights”, etc. that aren’t part of the metric that a whole lot of people would like if given the opportunity and socialists have the chance to offer those where the other two parties don’t even gesture at it.

There are many people who have not had your experience (however much resistance they still meet), so it’s worth considering what the difference is between your experience and theirs.

The basic idea is not to fight the state in an open war, but to become ungovernable and deprive it of resources until it implodes. Yeah, it gets a lot of shit from other places, but it gets a lot of shit here, too. Lots of American jobs involve taking something imported and then processing it in some way (e.g. chip production) so it can be used for a higher-order function. The military still outsources a fair amount of industrial manufacturing processes despite its incredible girth.

p.s. it’s moot