[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago

i've just had a horrifying thought. as we all know capitalism is destroying itself because of the contradictions inherent in it, one of which is that technological improvements increase productivity while decreasing wages. but what if vampiric neoliberalism and its attendant corruption and grift counteract those technological improvements? what if the endless series of middlemen involved in literally every project in the west actually save capitalism by virtue of making literally every process as inefficient as possible? agony-acid

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 14 points 3 hours ago

incredibly powerful aura

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RIP valencia, this should have happened to london

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 10 points 3 hours ago

That said, liberals aren't "beyond redemption," IMO,

i cant agree with this. anybody who witnessed the government murder over a million people with COVID and then a few short years later double down on supporting the genocide of palestinians is indeed irredeemable. the only libs who aren't are those who aren't really interested in politics enough to be paying attention.

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 15 points 4 hours ago

it made me want to say that I would only vote for whoever looked like was most certain of victory so that I could support the winner and therefore win at this game of voting and brag about being in the winning team.

this framing is pretty much what libs have internalized. everybody knows, on some level, that there's no hope of turning off the child murdering machine, so there's nothing left to get excited about except whether the child murdering machine will be painted red or blue

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 31 points 4 hours ago

imagine being such an entitled little baby that you think you deserve the opportunity to vote against genocide 😂😂

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 38 points 4 hours ago

going to start using "american disinformation" to disarm libs, that's such a smart turn of phrase rat-salute-2

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago

such is life in the greatest country on earth

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lol. lmao even

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broke: amber was the worst chapo host because she was a girl

woke: amber was the worst chapo host because her politics are dogshit

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iraqi passports found at ground zero vibes

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if i were claudia sheinbaum i would simply use the capitalists' newfound love for "nearshoring" to do a little dengism (somebody who knows about material conditions in mexico please tell me why this wouldnt work)

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Sometimes I have like manic episodes, for lack of a better term, in which I fixate intensely on a topic and I'm suddenly extremely motivated to learn as much as possible (i don't think they're real manic episodes and I'm mentally fine so dw), but for the first time I want to actually follow up on this momentum and learn about the topic I'm fixating on. Behold my ramblings:

What books should I read to learn about the stuff below? If no such books exist, I'll write one.

Overall question: what are the mechanisms by which capitalists extract surplus value from labor? And how can the working people of the world dismantle these mechanisms?

  • I use the phrase “what are the mechanisms by which” and not the word “how” intentionally, because I know that the answer to “how” is “by violence or the threat thereof.”

  • The question I want to answer is more in the financial “nitty-gritty” of the process. It is obvious that, for example, a coffee farmer in Ethiopia, stevedores in various ports all over the world, and a barista at the Starbucks in my neighborhood all produce value which is extracted by the Starbucks corporation as well as other companies involved in the production process of a cup of coffee (international shipping companies, the companies that make the plastic cups used at Starbucks, etc.). But how, precisely, does that extracted surplus value turn into wealth (not just money in a bank account but wealth in the broadest sense of the term) for the people who own those corporations?

  • The most obvious answer is in the dividends paid to shareholders and the increase in the stock price of the various companies involved. But what else? Surely there is a huge obfuscatory architecture of financial tools that hides the true extent of the wealth of the haute bourgeoisie.

    • Examples that jump to mind include: money laundering via fine art (e.g., Salvator Mundi), off-shore bank accounts, and shell and holding companies

    • What do the “bank countries” (Singapore, the Cayman Islands, the City of London, etc.) have to do with this?

  • Of course, the final question to ask is: how can we destroy these mechanisms? What are their greatest vulnerabilities? Taking control over any given state seems like an insufficient response, since international capital has numerous bases from which it can operate to hide the extent to which the haute bourgeoisie are hoarding wealth and there’s no indication they can’t create more if we did manage to destroy one. How can the proletariat take control of international finance?

Background reading

  • What do the Panama Papers tell us about this question? What other work has been done so far to unravel the obfuscatory architecture mentioned above?

  • To what extent would Marx’ Capital provide a framework in which to answer this question? What about writings by later Marxists?

I apologize if this makes no sense at all

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linked article is what has convinced me he's got it in the bag. the wapo/nyt libs are exactly as insufferable as they were in 2016 and the results will the identical. he'll win for all the same reasons he did the first time and libs, having learned absolutely nothing, will make all the same complaints and tear their hair out trying to figure out what happened. watching the most performatively irritating people on earth eat crow is going to be absolutely chefs-kiss

and i don't even have to feel bad about laughing because kamala's policies are literally identical to trumps, so its not even like theres gonna be additional palestinians/trans people/women who are suffering because of it

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it's joever for me

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[posting this here bc the fitness comm is pretty dead]

I'm tryna track my calories more closely and I've got a solution for tracking the calories I eat (shout out to the Nutritionix app) but its functionality for tracking calories spent is very rudimentary and I want to get something more precise than just going to an online calculator like this.

If any of yall have recommendations on cheap wearables that'll keep track of the calories I burn while exercising, I'd hugely appreciate it. I don't need it to do anything else and I don't even need it to connect to my phone, since I'm willing to manually input the number of calories burned every day.

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wokeoil companies and the mafia worked with the cia (namely hw) to kill jfk because he was insufficiently anti-communist for their liking
spoiler bespoke they killed jfk because he was the white obama and thats too much power for one man :::

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lmao

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anybody who you're calling deeply unserious, whatever that's supposed to mean specifically, 1) already knows they don't seriously espouse the values they claim to espouse and 2) doesn't care. it's a pointless comment to make

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they never should have let white people have guitars

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yes it's nice that it's joever but kamala is fucking evil. she's a cop, she laughed about putting parents in jail for their children's truancy, and she wouldn't let cannabis offenders out of prison after it was legalized because she got paid by private prison lobbies to do so. total scumbag who deserves absolutely 0 support from anybody but the most trump derangement syndrome riddled liberals

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credit to for indi.ca for sharing this photo in this article

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