I absolutely disagree that they are a few good conversations from being left-wing. Especially for the libs that are pushing the abundance agenda, the abundance agenda is specifically a way to off ramp liberal voters who are radicalizing from listening to left-wing analysis. It is a limp response to the question “Why isn’t M4A even on the agenda anymore? What happened to the GND or Bidenomics?”
That is part of the reason they got rid of conscription. During Vietnam, there were studies done that showed that a large number of officer death were likely ‘friendly fire’ incidents by conscripts. That and it got rid of the social pressure created by constant protests of conscription at home. As the empire begins to flail though, it wouldn’t surprise me if they start to reintroduce the idea of mandatory service.
So, basically your claim is simply that it is better to take worker’s money at the point of consumption?
Because “stand your ground” has always meant “can shoot minorities of you are ‘scared’”.
It is a very silly movie that gay culture in the 70’s got really attached to, so like when they throw confetti in the movie you were encouraged by the theatre to throw confetti when confetti is thrown onscreen. It was an organically grown cultural thing that developed from the NY arts scene I think and grew out from there, though I could be getting the OG location wrong.
Interactive theatre has been a thing for a long time, this was just interactive movie theatre. It’s like shouting things and changing the script through pure audience interaction in amateur professional wrestling.
The problem is that this shit has always been fun to do, corporation or no. It’s like a worse Rocky Horror Picture show.
Yes, and my point is that people have been looking at that in the U.S. for years, and the only way for them to get large facilities in the states has been to literally give them tax free status for a decade, and even then it does not always work or follow through. The unemployment just isn’t there, and underpaid factory work doesn’t solve the main problem of the U.S., which is underemployment, which we are seeking to solve primarily by defunding education, which is an incredibly backwards way of doing shit.
Asking for a major shift in the economy, which has been a primarily service economy for decades now, is extremely difficult. What we actually need a huge expansion of social spending and de-privatization and de-monopolization with some level of onshoring of basic consumer goods.
Yup, this was real at the time. Was posted abit before she went onto TrueAnon, where she was incredibly lucid and insightful on how a woman can find herself in a position like that, and what the glaring red flags are and cautioning young artists especially against getting too involved with their wealthy patrons.
The problem is that there is a reality between people who claim to want to take those jobs, and the real actual jobs that exist on a modern factory floor. I need to keep reiterating this to people because the propaganda is so thick, but there are manufacturing jobs in the U.S. the problem is that most of them are third shift and under some pretty shitty circumstances even for factory work and they don’t pay near equivalent to what they did in the 70’s, none of which is solved by ‘bringing manufacturing jobs back’. The problem is what first world people want for ‘factory work’ fundamentally does not exist under global capitalism, even if it is still a pretty easy way to make some decent money if you can hack it.
As I keep telling people irl, bringing jobs back is admirable, we should be producing closer to our areas of consumption, but who is going to work them if we can’t fill the lines on the factories we already have?
Dbz the user is an insufferable debatelord who barely hides their contempt for you while posturing as jaqing off. Who was rightfully banned here around a year ago due to said tendencies (that I may or may not have got them to mask off on).
Dbz the forum is pretty chill. Little to Reddit for my liking, but not terrible.
They aren’t dodging karma though, they may be dodging personal karma, but their projects will never actually succeed in the way they want them to or claim them to, and ultimately they are running the American project they claim to love straight into the ground. Their legacies will ultimately be ash in their mouths.
Respectfully, from an ML perspective, religion and the occurrence of religion is simply the replacement for tribal solidarity as class society develops from primitive communism towards settled agriculture, which produces enough surplus to create an ownership class that does not produce anything, but rules through violence and justifies that violence through superstition. Religion is not ‘natural’ but a creation created to ease the contradictions of class society without challenging the ruling class. Due to this very nature, religion no matter how benign, cannot be the vehicle of class abolition as it is born out of class society itself.
I have no personal animosity towards the Pope (outside of his comments on gender) nor even most individual catholics, but I absolutely hold an animosity towards religion and religious based thinking. And I would argue, one has to hold this animosity if one wants to call themselves an ML.
Hilariously incorrect. The problem with slaves isn’t that ‘automation by machinery is cheaper because it is non humanoid shaped’. It’s that slavery is incredibly inefficient because slaves have absolutely no incentive to work. And automation by machinery and slavery do not go together easily because machines are incredibly expensive and also easily sabotaged, and the amount of overseers you would need to fix that problem eliminates any efficiency gains you have made with your machinery.
And this is disregarding the absolutely repugnant and pure evil slavery is morally.
Phew, with him taking another IMF loan I was beginning to fear he wasn’t a real libertarian.
Yeah, I didn’t follow that, but it definitely isn’t out of left field for him, given his hatred of the fanbase. It was probably his way of saying ‘oh you’ll all give this much just to hear one shitty chapter out of my shitty book, but not just out of actual charity? You all suck fuck you I’m just giving the money away.’
I have to keep reminding my parents, of whom are really coming around on the ‘America is currently a fascist state’ hypothesis, that the only real difference between what is happening now as to what was happening before was that before they kept quiet about it and only those who knew better feared it, now they want everyone to know and fear it.
The propaganda for these people is extremely deep.
He had, as far as I know, completely stopped editing his last book over eight years ago, and based off what I know from acquaintances who actually know him, and some podcast episodes that featured him, he doesn’t really intend to start again.
As far as I can tell, there were three strong reasons, the first is that he absolutely hated the amount of pressure he was under from fans during the editing of the second book, due to the fact that he basically claims he made an amateur mistake by claiming that the trilogy was completed, which lead to his second thing which was growing to genuinely despise his fanbase and hate his fans, because Rothfuss is a pretty politically conscious guy and basically views these people in the same way we view the treat hogs, who in turn accuse him of using politics as a distraction from his writing (which is a neverending cycle), which then led to the third thing, which was that he grew to despise Kvothe as a person and as a kind of power-fantasy character that appeals to these fans (even if that isn’t actually why we enjoyed Kvothe).
I would be shocked if we actually get a third book that isn’t some sort of ‘fuck you’ to the fanbase, if at all. I mean, the even the short story was basically his way of telling us to ‘shut the fuck up’.
My understanding is that he is a kinda nice guy, unless you want something from him, then he can be abit of a dick, who made a best-selling fantasy novel on his first try without actually developing the writing chops to finish what he started and didn’t have the social graces or care to deal with the fallout of that.
Lol, no, now they just will say ‘we have to do it, look who we are up against!’
Typical Jack Bauer shit.
There was literally some idiot talking about how the U.S. can only exist as an isolationist fascist state or liberal imperial state (literally the same thing I know), and that he was willing to fight for it to be the latter, and I was like, doesn’t that mean it’s literally not a state worth fighting for? Absolute buffoons.
I disagree with that assessment. Is it craven? Absolutely. But the entire empire is craven, it only acts when it thinks it is in complete control.
However, this kind of stuff is only stupid if they are going to face any consequences for it personally. They will not, and they will be rewarded for pulling out the copper wiring of government control.