“Either hundreds of millions of people have always predisposed to the lure of the fascist, in which case the entire democratic endeavor is doomed anyway, or something of corporate liberalism has brought us here. Whatever the quality of its rhetoric, any politics that buckles at the prospect of even mildly inconveniencing the rich, or resisting an ally’s genocidal intentions, will always face an uphill battle against a politics that actively embraces malice. “Yes We Can” is a conditional. “Yes We Will” is not.”

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Chapter 3

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That’s definitely an option, but it makes a bone broth which tastes less “meaty”.

I used to work for a production company that made food related video programming so “food hacks” is something that is burned into my brain at this point.

If you don’t bake bread in a Dutch oven, toss a few ice cubes in the bottom of your oven to make steam while the bread is cooking so it makes a crispy crust.

Pressure cook a whole rotisserie chicken (bones, meat, and all) for 20ish minutes for amazing chicken stock.

Not really a hack, but Beef bullion and sun dried tomatoes in a cream sauce is a lovely combo.

Add MSG to food when you cook.

Toast spices before grinding them in a mortar and pestle to really make the flavors punchy.

When making ramen, I typically make ahead of schedule some spicy compound butter I can add to the top for extra flavor. It includes butter, salt, garlic, Thai chili peppers (possibly even Szechuan peppers) blended and then refrigerated back into a butter shape.

Boil water while you are searing steak so your smoke alarm is less likely to go off (assuming you have an oven vent that blows air rather than vents outside)

You eat with your eyes first, so presentation is actually important when preparing food. It can’t turn around nasty tasting food, but doing a little bit of extra work at the end like adding chopped chives or parsley to a dish without anything else green on it adds a lot.

But if you blend it, you don’t choke on the first bite by inhaling cocoa powder. Isn’t that the whole point of tiramisu? Lol

That doesn’t mean that Israel controls the actions of the US. It just means they have similar interests. If the US wasn’t fully supportive of these war crimes, they could stop providing weapons, funding, and intelligence to Israel. Hell, they could even instigate a coup and abduct Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir. Trump plays a convenient fall-guy for the empire but they won’t get rid of him so long as he’s useful. Should these wars end horribly for the capitalists in the US, getting rid of trump (likely with the epstein files as the reason) serves to reinforce people’s shared belief that the US has bad individuals, but the system itself is fine since it can remove bad individuals. No need to consider that this system creates people like Trump, then puts them into power when necessary.

Why do foreign leaders need to be pulling the strings for the US to do what it always has done? Seems like that framing is trying to deflect responsibility from the US.

You came in here saying that OP would be getting less judgement in .world because it’s less political than ml. I agree that they’d get less judgemental comments over there, but not because it’s less political. World’s politics just align more with the kind of politics OP desires- hence less judgement. If directly responding to your claim is irrelevant, then yours was as well.

I guess it’s on me for expecting you to finally respond to my actual point after trying to restate the same thing over and over, but seeing as that never actually happened, I’m out.

Do you think I’m trying to convince you to become political or to change your ways? Or are you just imagining my responses without reading them? My entire point is there’s no such thing as being apolitical in a political world. Every single action you take or doesn’t take reinforces or undermines the current system unless you’re in kindergarten in a heated discussion about your favorite color. Assuming you’re not in kindergarten, you should be able to handle a bit of how various topics are impacted or are connected to politics regardless of your own participation in those discussions.

Not caring IS political. It’s a political stance to be so disconnected from reality that one would prefer to bury their head in the sand and ask for advice on how to bury it further.

Not caring about the state of the world doesn’t absolve you of your responsibility to it. It just makes you a negligent parent not wanting to talk about your kids every time you go to the bar.

Because being able to ignore politics is helpful to the liberal west who is trying to cling to status quo. It’s not helpful to marxist leninists who don’t like the status quo. This doesn’t make .ml more political, it’s just equally political reactions from different sides of an issue.

Assisting and seeking to ignore or cover up clear abuses only serves to shield the abuser. Whistle-blowing might seem like a more political response to abuse, but covering up abuse is also political.

The fact that you’re so avoidant of the inherent politics of the everyday world is a reaction desirable to the status quo, which is itself political. Congratulations, your kind of politics is status-quo-enjoyer which kills countless people every year for you to remain comfortable and blind to politics.