The PMC are more akin to cops. Their wage is earned through facilitating capitalist governance/violence. A social services worker doesn’t produce a marketable commodity or value for capitalists the same way a waiter or factory worker do—instead they play a role as a relief valve for the contradictions of capitalism.

I thought dim sun was supposed to get you steamed buns not stop you from steaming your buns!

I think I will pass. I reread my favorite Neal Stephenson novels from when I was a teenager and started to notice all that sort of shit.

I too used to be a foot centrist then a switch flipped in my brain and turned me into a foot fan.

Is it worth reading Siege to learn more about their worldview?

I just finished it last week.

This doesn’t work as a Kelly bit. Bella Ciao is mourning the beloved deceased & I hope you aren’t mourning for Teslas :p

welcome back <3

The acronym is CHE thought :p

shrekland has fallen

Return to your roots and shitpost with me comrade.

Almayadeen is an explicitly anti-imperialist outlet. They run a lot of socialist op-eds.

Prince has a song about it. Cold Coffee and Cocaine

Sooner than not Tesla will by BYD’d (bodyied)

Prayers for you and your family. Please stay strong.

I think you are being closed off to unexpected developments. For instance fusion could make energy an essentially free good within the scale of current usage within the next century.

The economy must stop growing when it stops making sense.

What would compel it do so? The logic baked into capitalism is to maximize capital as quickly as possible—there is no internal limit. Systemic collapse can limit it but that doesn’t seem to factor into your reasoning.

You don’t see a similar responsibility to leverage your place in the imperial core to organize against it?

did he eat too much pasta and so he died by shitting himself…pasta?

chug chug chug the diet pop slorp it down quick so good

in a restaurant you are sitting more upright so the soda passes through you more easier,