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jrflowersyesterday at 8:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Me, seeing someone eating ice cream: “Here is one of several copies of The Permanent Revolution that I keep on my person for this exact situation”


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chungusamongusyesterday at 8:18 PM

It's not ice cream though. Quite the opposite. It's this notion that puritanical self discipline at the individual level will somehow get us out of this. It won't.

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shermantanktopyesterday at 8:13 PM

If it’s something like chocolate brownie truffle ice cream, that’s clearly a bourgeois citizen who needs their consciousness raised.