It's great timing. I'm still digesting it

Naw. Don't feel like marking it NSFW

Just wanted to fill my comrades in

is this relevant

Yea

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Loving this Nordic socialism

Fuedalism is just culture man. Lol.

Seriously though. This is so close to the argument that the confederacy wasn't about defending slavery, but defending southern "culture" and "way of life"

Is it weird to anyone else that she looks like she's out on a trip to Target?

Something strange about a high government official being photographed in a long graphic tee, yoga pants and sneakers.

Is this the next level of the veganism struggle session?

How is giving a child the name taylor forcing them to be a genderless entity? Or teaching them to throw a baseball and also take dance?

If they say "I don't like dance" then don't make them go lol.

If the child says that they are a girl, that's fine. I'm not saying you turn to her and tell her she isn't.

Children don't need their parents to tell them what their gender is - theyre pretty intuitive about that.

If you treat them with an assumed gender, are you really giving them that freedom?

Either way you are forcing some kind of gender on them

Can you explain what you mean by this? Letting a male child cook with you or taking them to dance lessons isn't forcing them to be female lol.

"This election is the most important in history."

It's already started folks lol

I think its unfair to burden a child with being a "theybe" (if you want to call it that) unless you are a part of a community which normalizes the practice.

In the absence of such a community, I think the best thing to do is to try to avoid gendering the child as much as possible. Pick a gender neutral name (and favor use of name to pronoun), have gender neutral clothing, participate in wide variety of normally considered gendered activities, etc.

Just my two cents. Not an expert or anything though.

Edit: as I'm thinking about this more... Another thing is to also praise the child in a gender neutral way. If the child's sex is female, offer praise for their strength, etc. If child's sex is male, praise for their their gentleness, etc.

Uhh. Yes. Lol

Almost every machine or algorithm which capitalists use in place of labor.

Is a mixed bag in when productivity gains are hoarded by capitalists. Is great if productivity gains are shared as they would be with socialism.

Imagine thinking times were better when 90 percent of the population were self sufficiency farmers

Honestly it's generally applicable to almost every western state. Central valley CA is very right wing. Rural northern CA too.

It's similar to Oregon in some ways. Trendy upper urban areas with lots of libs and some lefty folks. Rural areas are lots of ranching, oil and gas, etc.

The mods have consistently done a fantastic job of navigating all of this shit time and time again

Dude. The mods created the shit

If you read the interview, Duncan said that he's the opposite of an expert in finance and hesitated even giving his opinion. His broad point is that in revolutions, a lot depends not on whether a state is strong, but weather the state is perceived as strong, ie confidence. When bankers become unsure of the stability of a government and fear loss of a loan, they can end up creating actual instability by withholding further credit.

It's similar to a bank run. As long as depositers have trust in their bank, everything operates ok. If depositers are unsure of their safety of their deposit though, it creates a feedback loop in which some people withdrawing creates further distrust in the institution and stimulates additional withdrawal.

That's the implication

That's different than what OP said, which was that all the pharma companies should have come together to produce one vaccine.

I know that Merck for example is working on licensure for one of the mRNA vaccines to get their production facilities added to the mix.

Of course vaccine production methods shouldn't be kept secret. This is a forum for communists lol.