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“You don’t think we should do anything about Ukraine?”
Me: “Nope. NATO shouldn’t be encroaching on Russia, they’re violating non-expansion agreements. And every clip I see of the war, the Ukrainian soldiers are sporting Nazi symbols on their uniforms.”
“But that Putin is just another Trump!”
Me: “Yep. And the war is a bunch of awful people fighting other awful people, throwing more guns at it isn’t going to stop it. We could be spending that support money on taking care of people here at home. We should massively defund the military and pull back our expeditionary units and close our bases around the world.”
“Then what will stop China from invading?!”.
Me: “Unlike the US government, China isn’t surrounding every adversarial county with bases; that should clue you in about their values and priorities”.
My parents were a bit confused by my choice of having a lasagna for dinner instead of turkey or ham, but i’m also an entire flight away from them so
lasagna is x100 better than traditional xmas dinner any day, in my opinion
Oh yeah, this is my gutbuster lasagna, with 4 hour sauce, bechamel, and each lasagna sheet was dipped in pesto. All completely vegan, and it’s basically cooked in a trough it’s so thick. Served with a nice persimmon and greens salad with balsamic vinaigrette, bruschetta, and mixed olives. I’m going to bed stuffed.
Drop the recipe bruh
Classic long-simmered red sauce that i add vegan ground beef, italian sausage, and home roasted red peppers (and a chili or two). Bechamel, which i add white pepper and nutmeg to. Pesto, with fresh basil from my indoor plant and some nicely toasted pine nuts, with a parm-style seasoning. Two egg plants, cut into circles, salted, and roasted, to add a surprise layer in the middle. Blanche your lasagna sheets in salted water, and then toss in the pesto. Bottom layer sauce, sheet, sauce, sheet, eggplant, sauce, sheet, sauce, bechamel, and sprinkle with shredded mozz. Place salted tomato slices on top, and drizzle some olive oil and sprinkle some dried oregano over the tomatos. Bake at 375f until the bechamel bubble, the mozzeralla is bubbling and browned, and the tomatoes have caramelized. I like to broil it for an extra thirty seconds or so. Let rest for 20 minutes. Eat, and then nap immediately.
I finally made it! No tomatoes or eggplant cuz i didn’t have em but looky!
Need a cross-section asap, that looks solid.
Actually it’s at its flattest point but i can’t eat another cross-section lol. Here’s a pic of the damage
This sounds dope and I will be making this
I just stayed home with my wife this year. My whole family is some kind of neuro-atypical but my wife and I being the most atypical, we always get bullied, my wife especially. Its just not worth the long drive to get drunk in the balmy south. My sister in law is always making snide comments, my brother tries to keep peace to a fault, my dad ignores it all, my mom is a narcissist, and my sister is weird like me but defends herself with being mean. I love them but they’re exhausting and I want my wife to have a nice christmas.
We made a spinach lasagna for christmas eve, a big ham that we’ll be processing for weeks for christmas day, and far more cookies than 2 people should be able to eat.
Happy for you guys. You deserved a chill time Comrade
Getting real fuckin sick of so-called “anticapitalists” with 0 materialism, 0 awareness of history and 0 ability to critique capitalism outside of the framework of capitalism, the market and economics
Help, having leftist politics is isolating me even harder than usual
“What do you mean, you hope the dollar collapses? Don’t you know that’s how I pay for my treats?”“Yes.”
Gotta recharge with comrades! We’re surrounded by liberalism and need to educate people but that can be very draining. Spending time with cool people can fill your cup back up!
Also despite me giving advice I wanna say I’m with you on it being exhausting. I have to take a few weeks off of liberals every so often because I’ll just hate people in general if I spend too much time in conflict over things like whether Palestinians are humans and as such shouldn’t have their hospitals bombed by an occupying force.
I thought I knew cool people, is the problem. Especially in queer circles it’s not uncommon to hear people say “eat the rich death to the bourgeoisie” or “capitalism is a death cult the empire is rotting” or similar variations. I figured that reading the Manifesto and absorbing a bunch of stuff through here would give me common ground with these people, but they’re always shocked and confused whenever you try to talk about anything seriously, like the DPRK maybe not being a “personality cult”
So the only cool person I have is my wife (thank fuck) and all other social ventures have failed dramatically for this and other (autism) reasons. Exhausting indeed…
There is a huge leap from “america isn’t perfect but it’s an overall force for good in the world” to “america sucks” to “maybe AES are the good guys.” I have a friend who has made the leap to “america sucks” but he thinks socialism = concentration camps for everyone, China bad, etc. We haven’t had a serious conversation in a year or two now.
