They are Arabic numerals. That's the joke

Friedrich Engels wrote "The Origin of the Family", by the way, not Marx.

I don’t disagree with your points on alienation, the abstraction of labor, or finding authentic connection through physical craft like leatherwork. That’s all real, and it affects us heavily.

But insistently reframing an offhand vent about the exhausting, arbitrary social scripts of life into a lecture on historical materialism is over-intellectualizing the point. Yes, the economic base influences culture, but neurotypicals didn't need a bourgeois mandate to invent confusing social etiquette, ambiguous conversational games, and masking.

Not every expression of neurodivergent burnout is a dialectical thesis waiting to happen. Sometimes people are just exhausted by the daily theater of "how you're supposed to do life," and you don't need a reading list to validate that feeling.

This is about societal behavioral expectations, comrade, not material and economic class structures.

No ruling class cabal designed small talk, ambiguous subtext, and sensory overload to extract surplus value from the proletariat. The post is about the exhausting, arbitrary social etiquette neurotypicals made up on the fly. Not everything is Capital. Sometimes people just want to exist without having to perform conversational gymnastics.

Howdy, neighbor! It felt great to wake up in a blue Texas!

Lemmy.ml for sure be like that. Bunch of sourpusses

Well make sure to remind everyone who Elon really is if he tries to pull that.

I pet my dog! FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

I'll be just returning the favor. Those MAGAts won't shut up about Trump either

Democrats got the Senate, the House... hell, even Texas is going blue. Thank you Trump for creating the biggest, most beautiful, strongest blue wave! 🌊🌊🌊

Makes sense why corporations have more rights than people in the US

Those leopards have gotten soooo fat in these 2 years

It's like they had another important job to do besides campaigning...