This story is me trying to come to terms with feeling 'useless' (I mean, not in the face of apocalypse, just in the face of... everything, life, whatever) and realizing that no one is useless. We might not be fighting, we might not be defending, but we DO have a role to play in the world, always.💖

ohhhh. okay! that makes sense.

i had to look them up. they look amazing, but apparently salted butter is key? www.davidlebovitz.com/sable-breton...

woe is me if so, because mexico does not do salted butter AT ALL. and prolly not “european quality”.

how fussy are they really?

why *not* term limits for elected positions?

wait … what is “a rubber duck” in this context?

I’ve seen no indication of that yet; I don’t think Lina Khan would be working with him if he were not sincere. Fingers crossed …

Everything I know about socioeconomics suggests helping very small businesses the way Mamdani says he will do would be an excellent thing.

“… their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialised skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production.“

to copy it out, a Marx quote:
“The lower strata of the middle class — the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants — all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because …”

oh. well crap. thanks for the alert.

also this:
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paging @cassmorriswrites.com for interest in shakespeare lore

please elucidate what constitutes a “Problem Novel”?

I don’t understand what your issue is with this?

aaaaaaa