Musk has levels of loser divorced dad energy never before seen

Yes! I think FRSO has the right idea on embedding with UPS workers to make them more militant. It also creates a real grass-touching consciousness among the org members. Logistics workers should be able to flex their muscles, as you mention. At the same time, they lack class consciousness. Getting experience trying to organize and educate such people is the best instruction any communist can get, as it will not go well most of the time and you can use it to build patience, discover more effective approaches, and get a better read on where US workers are at, politically.

The status quo is the liberal solution

"what're you doing this weekend" means "would you like to make plans?" 🤦

Bad news: sometimes this is just small talk and the only way to tell the difference is tone of voice and context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E5MegoW2pA

Say what you will about Teamsters, they fought this shot at UPS

Critical support to capitalism's contradictions in the imperial core.

I have many words but would you believe it they're all in Minecraft!

Sorry you had to deal with that! I'm sure you processed it the only way you knew how. I hope you're doing better now.

White supremacy and misogyny are part of the same reactionary circles and feed into one another in many different ways. Sometimes it is just as simple as rejecting all ideas of social progress and thereby embracing your new ingroup more thoroughly. Though these groups are not self-consistent, so you eventually reach absurdities. For example, that guy had some east Asian heritage that would have excluded him from ever being truly accepted in the circles he coveted.

The specific details and paths can vary, though. I knew a woman whose family heritage was basically half French and half Chinese (she was herself American). Within the family, there was a ton of white supremacy that favored the French half and looked down on the Chinese half and this peemeated her upbringing. She felt shame at anything that made her feel Chinese in any way and exclusively dated white guys (though she never stated she had a rule about this). So even though this aligns pretty well with my generalizations, in her case there were very specific fucked up family dynamics and her upbringing to blame.

This is the usual way things are, really. The larger social forces echo down through our immediate personal relations, how we are raised, who we interact with, what media we are exposed to, etc, and it is possible to miss that forest for the trees.

Wrong. The Spaniards, and particularly priests, methodically gathered and destroyed the "heathens'" works and destroyed them. They engaged in cultural genocide long before that was a term.

The exceptions are what us actually noteworthy. When there were priests that opposed these practices and tried to preserve culture and knowledge from wholesale destruction and substitution. They were a fringe minority and usually lacked power and were punished for their actions.

That is not my experience. It is much easier to convince people that cops are just organized crime for capital than to achieve anything worthwhile by pretending they deserve the benefit of the doubt.