Capitalism incentivizes deception.
Why would he tell his customers, "if you like my products, then you'll like this other person's products even more!"
America is going to get its ass kicked by the B117 variant if the experts are correct.
The overall case numbers that have been decreasing are starting to flatten out because the old variants are indeed still on the decline, but B117's rise is cancelling that out in many areas. Unfortunately a flat line isn't enough to scare people, especially after a year of isolation fatigue and with spring weather upon us. Plus all the vaccine talk is a false reassurance that is still very much under way. This is what happened in Europe recently, and now unfolding in the US.
Unfortunately, American governments everywhere are loosening restrictions left and right because basically everybody knows that regardless of the threat, fuck you I'm going to party now.
Stay safe, comrades!
Lots of liberals are disillusioned potential comrades they’re just afraid of talking shit about democrats from a left perspective
Absolutely this.
It helps to call out chuds and libs in the same post/convo for everyone to see by framing it in a way that keeps everyone's attention.
Ironically this can lead to being mistaken for similar enlightened centrism if they don't understand leftist ideology or are arguing in bad faith, but you can anticipate/mitigate up front for that, too.
The main goal should always be to pull both chud and lib normies out of the conditioned "chud vs lib" framing, because neither of them really understand what leftism is (yet) and so can't even begin to factor it into their worldview without a guiding hand. I was once a chud and lib.
Don't frighten or bore them, make them curious.
Privacy-conscious comrades should consider checking out Qubes OS (has a bit of a learning curve but not bad if you RTFM)
Moved off windows a few years ago and haven't looked back except to laugh at and feel bad for windows users. Can you imagine paying for an OS and then tolerating ads and everything else? Lmao
Obviously it's easier said than done, but I've learned a lot and have a fairly stable system that I can actually enjoy using.
I like Proxmox as a hypervisor, and PCI-passthrough my GPU for desktop usage. This lets me run other VMs and containers at the same time for various services like Jellyfin. Backups are also a breeze with this configuration.
Jellyfin! It's a replacement for PLEX media server, and has lots of clients available for it along with an active community. Forked from Emby.
Yep, I'm instantly suspicious of any "leftists" who are saying "move along, nothing to see here."
We're not expecting this single event to turn into a revolution. Fuck off with your straw men. This is merely a radicalising moment for a lot of people who are normally not tuned into financials nor even politics. Why wouldn't we extend a hand to guide them? This is a unifying moment and it will be whatever we make of it.
There was a post not long ago about how The Office was the most watched TV show in 2020, and how depressing it was.
The Gervais Principle is a brilliant analysis of the predictable lifecycle of a modern company, including the clueless middle management you mentioned, and uses The Office for examples.
It's equally funny and sad that so many people relate to the show without even knowing why.
Externally linked images (hosted on cc) ought to have a cc watermark automatically applied to bring people in
I'm not convinced. Also, isn't Robinhood partly owned by Citadel, who bailed out Melvin?
But regular joe trading apps like Robinhood are probably fucked.
Lol apparently we can't say that on reddit:
Robinhood will not let new options or shares be bought apparently. This is market manipulation lol
Pinned mod comment:
No witch hunts on Robinhood please.
But that happens every day.
What's different about GME is lots of people are tuning into something they've probably ignored their entire life.
This seems to be turning into a radicalising event, and for that reason it'd be short-sighted for leftists to ignore. I say this as someone who cares nothing about stocks or gamestop or even games for that matter.
I mean, realistically, if MSM / capital think boogs represent a real threat, then of course they will find a few extremists and paint the entire group as white supremacists. I'm sure many of them are. But is it 5% or 75%? I don't know, but the media is going to tell you 95% either way. See: dem primary
Wouldn't it be the establishment's worst nightmare if well-armed boogs teamed up with leftists and other unrepresented independents? They seem ideologically naive and possibly malleable?
We've seen that coat of his at least once before, obviously.
Continued:
There is often a temptation to work toward passing major programs at a state level, particularly if you live in a wealthy, “progressive” state that you believe will be more amenable to a new social program than the country at large. But the idea that you could pass a single-payer health care program in a wealthy blue state not only over-estimates how progressive your state is, it forgets exactly why such states are wealthy enough to theoretically afford such a program — primarily because they generate revenue from industries that exist to commodify that which socialists fight to de-commodify. California is a Bernie state and a Medicare for All state, but more important, it’s the home of Kaiser Permanente.
Even if you could win universal health care in California, it would be weak, flimsy, and easy to cut — California used to have free public universities, and look how well those held up. Meanwhile, as the only constitutionally authorized government service, the United States Postal Service has endured steady attacks from both parties, but as a fundamentally republican — and therefore strong — institution, it has weathered the onslaught longer than any state program.
Over and over again, Democrats and Republicans alike have championed the idea of states as the “laboratories of democracy,” and over and over again, this has meant that human beings are little more than lab rats. These mercenary chop-shop artists are, of course, correct to fight on behalf of localism, “community solutions,” states’ rights, and every other political unit smaller than the nation itself. Their goal is to divide and isolate the working class in an effort to preclude the mightiest sum of parts.
Today, socialists are faced with a choice: Do we want to be big and strong, or do we want to be small and weak? Should we choose the former, we have to finish the project that the very first Republicans began more than a century and a half ago.
In the late 1930s, American Communists held their convention in a large arena in New York, under a giant bust of Abraham Lincoln’s head, dwarfing the Lenin and Stalin portraits below. It’s a patriotic decor that might surprise radicals today.
But those party members understood something that eludes and rankles many liberals, conservatives, and even leftists in 2020: that it’s socialists who are Lincoln’s true heirs. And it’s socialists who will lead the fight to finally achieve the goals of an American republic: “A government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
I finally cracked this open yesterday - excellent book!
Then I went to the first megathread and all the comments were 3 months old. Considering this was at the top of my reading list, it's time I reevaluate how bad my book procrastination habits are!
Anyway, I'm an ignorant cishet and this book has been awesome so far.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this:
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
Makes the show much more tolerable.
Of course this can go wrong very quickly with the paradox of tolerance / bad faith assholes, but generally I agree with you and appreciate your sentiment since this is so important.
On the topic, what's everyone's read on the recently resurfaced Richard Stallman drama over the past week? I don't want to make excuses for bad people, but I don't think RMS is a bad person and has been misrepresented to an insane extent by the wokie radlib brigade. Now we have companies like Red Hat and Mozilla latching onto these opportunities and it makes me very sad for free software in general. They're painting him as a transphobe to amplify the cancelling attempt and from what I can tell he isn't one.
Thoughts?