Link to original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/\_6yrmitgcmo

"The point of boxing is to fight by kicking the ground."

Chapter 223 "Kick" (蹴る)

In the video "My Thoughts on Graham Platner " @iamblakeley defends Graham Platner after rape allegations.

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These are the allegations from 4 weeks ago. I didn't know about the new allegations when I posted this.

I checked the YouTube and TikTok accounts of @iamblakeley and they haven't made any statements on the new allegations. I think it's safe to assume that they still are a Graham Platner supporter.

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@iamblakeley pronouns are they/them. I noticed that some people in the comments accidentally used the wrong pronouns because they just didn't know.

>What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). And more and more frequently German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the “national-German” Marx, who, they claim, educated the labor unions which are so splendidly organized for the purpose of waging a predatory war!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm

>!I was joking when I said this was the flag of the DSA.!<

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I found this video here

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Here is the YouTube link

I saw this meme and it reminded me of Yujiro.

Dinner is just a bagel. Nothing else. Not even toasted. Just a sad, lonely, bread circle.

So I’ve been feeling sad and without purpose lately.

One night I (17 F) went to bed sobbing while texting my friends about my mom, who was being VERY unreasonable and mean. I woke up an hour later (10PM) with a horrible headache. I called my friend and sobbed for hours about feeling sick in the head because I have mental illness issues (anxiety, depression), I was feeling like a burden, and just feeling like I mean nothing to anyone. I was apparently apologizing nonstop for just existing.
(I was too tired and mentally broken to remember everything exactly.)

That’s when my friend started sharing about their own family. Not in a competition way, just in the way where we bond over how shitty our lives are and how we can overcome it as strong people.

He talked of his father, and then talked about how hard it is to live up to the name of a military father.

Military…

I have put thought into it before, and that night I remembered those times I did think about “hm. What if I went to the military to escape?“

I mean, I did have a senior friend when I was a freshman that went directly into the Marines when HE graduated. Actually, he missed graduation because he was on a plane to South Carolina for boot camp!

I submitted my application to the United States Marine Corps on Thursday, June 25th, at 11:58 PM. I got a response on Saturday, June 27th, at 10:52 PM. I met the basic qualifications, a recruiter will be in touch shortly.

I immediately was so happy, and I told my friends first. They were congratulating me, but also rightfully worried. “It’s a big step, but we believe in you!” Is what most of them said. But there was the one group that called me slurs and yelled about how attention seeking I am… I left that group.

Anyways, now to the family part.

My mom was more bullying me about my lack of motivation and inspiration, not even parental concern, just straight bullying. “You’re too weak, and you’ve never worked out before.” “You can’t quit like you always do.” “You’ll never make it with your… well… you.”

My father was a little more supportive, but overall told me that I’ve never been good at anything minor, so why try something major and expect it to be different.

My grandparents just laughed at me. That’s all. Then they walked out of the room.

My sister thinks I’m joining all because I like Call of Duty.

The only one who’s taking me seriously is my cousin. He’s also been thinking of joining the Marines, but was thinking about their tech departments.

My mindset with all of this is best summarized by this quote from the night I submitted the application:
“Maybe not every hero wears a cape or camo. Somedays the real hero’s are just the people that try. And tonight I’m going to try. If I can’t be good enough for them, then I’m going to be good enough for me.”