While MSF is more progressive than your average NGO, they are still part of the western NGO complex, and individuals are easily sacrificed towards that end, ‘mistakes’ forgiven, as long as they don’t go after their funding.

To be a pedant, but not to dog-pile, if you want to boil communism down to a statement, that statement is (as Marx points out in the Manifesto) to paraphrase ‘Human development would be best if all lived by the maxim, from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.’ Which is, of course, why reading theory is important.

There is a difference. It’s not ‘just’ ‘everyone is equal’, as liberals claim their society provides with legal equality, and that from legal equality stems liberty. It is a statement that strips liberals of their claim towards the ‘maximization of human liberty’, and posits that the giving of real materials to the people who are in need of them, not just ideals in a vacuum, are what maximizes overall human development and liberty.

I’ll see if I can actually find it, I only know about it second-hand myself.

Good explanation, clearly it’s horseshit, but that is what I hear being pushed.

Look I haven’t received my check in years George.

They are usually talking about ant-colonies or other micro-ecologies. Tbf, there is likely alot of unaccounted CO2 production from those areas, but there is no way that it comes even close to the amount of CO2 industrial processes (particularly farming) create. It’s just throwing chaff and is horseshit, but people want to rationalize it as not our fault, so they will grasp at even bullshit explanation.

They aren’t ‘universal’ (other than the studio, yuk yuk) enough, as apocalyptic as they should be. Already seeing people just blaming California state government, and not connecting it to the awful smog and fires coming down from Canada, because memory is basically a month for most.

Small correction imo. They have billionaires literally funding everything they do, which translates into political power. The left, especially in the U.S., have no billionaires on their side, which means that we are without the means of production of political power in this country. The sad part is the Democrats who also have billionaires on their side and are still outmaneuvered, but the stakes are much less for them so they don’t really care that much.

They are doing that one abit more subtly. They can’t challenge it directly, as that combats their opinions of themselves as ‘scientific’ but I am seeing papers coming out of Midwestern ecology schools (which are subsequently pushed hard on social media), that are pushing forward a hypothesis that ‘we just don’t know enough about the carbon cycle, there are lots of unaccounted carbon creating beings that could be helping with the warming’, as well as people saying that because there have been no apocalyptic universal Hollywood spectacal collapse that ‘the climate scientists got all their predictions wrong’.

It’ll creep into mainstream thought over time, especially as it becomes too late to change.

I guess the institution cannot reflect on itself if you ban the word ‘institutional’.

Np, it’s an easy mistake to make.

Well, it’s because smart people are rug-pulling after the inauguration because there was a lot of crypto hype after the election, but the reality is that the banks and institutional investors will never allow crypto to become an independent (bailed out by the government) asset to the degree that the bros need it to be in order for it to actually take off in the way they promised. I’m pissed because I literally predicted this would happen but I have no money to gamble atm so it was wasted.

We’ll see if it rebounds, but since Trump has taken zero steps towards fulfilling his promises of officially tying crypto into the central banking system, I doubt it, even though there is little else to invest in. If he does do it, the crypto people will have pulled off the largest scam in world history, even bigger than the stock brokers, literally turning on the money faucet for garbage code.

Completely disagree. Delay, Deny, Defend are specifically legal tactics companies use, whiile expropriation, exploitation, and appropriation are, in Marxism, specifically two economic terms based within how one both proves and discusses the contradictions of capitalism, while appropriation is a much more widespread cultural and sociological phenomena, which in part derives from the economic base of capital markets.

Delay, Deny, Defend is a tactic that encompasses both expropriation and exploitation, but it isn’t an actual description of the economic metrics occuring and how it relates to labor-value and use-value.

Not disagreeing that the way we use them tends to be a shibboleth.

Not disagreeing, to add, ‘AI GPUs’ are a crank term created by Silicon Valley and their lobbyists to jack up the price on newer western GPUs in the west and restrict access to China. TSMC doesn’t recognize it as an industry term, there are no industry studies that show any kind of significant performance difference for LLM work, as now additionally proven by the DeepSink model.

So I was robbed in SF many, many years ago. In retrospect, it was likely because I looked like an outsider and I was in an unfamiliar part of the city late at night after a comedy show. It fucking sucked, but I was prepared, with money and a BART card in my shoe (as my friends from Oakland had advised me), and a hundred dollars in the wallet so they didn’t take my ID (Classic take the money, just please don’t take my ID it’s a pain in the ass to get it from another state). All they got was my shitty phone and some cash. I didn’t even bother filing a police report, as it would have taken more time and they never would have caught the guy anyways.

That said, I went back there a year later after acculturating to the Bay area and was just fine, didn’t get harassed or anything for being in the ‘wrong neighborhood’. Just wrong place, wrong time probably. That said, getting to know some of the people who grew up around there, tech-people are seen as ‘gentrifiers’ and ‘rich’ regardless of the actual circumstances (though tbf they are probably both those things) so they are equal opportunity for both punks and neighbors to fuck with, because they are rarely seen as part of ‘the community’, which again tbf they do not actually see themselves as a part of.

Yup, and he argues that he should be able to just be there, chat with his friend, stand by a sample cart and eat samples without being accosted by strangers. While Stav said the proper ‘fat’ etiquette is to eat while making laps, thinking you are working off the calories. It’s a funny bit.

If you download F-Droid and get Antenna Pod, as your podcast aggregator you can add the feeds directly to your ‘Add RSS’

Player.fm works as well. It’s mostly preference, I just prefer the GUI of Antenna-Pod.

Yeah he deserved to be shot for sure. An extreme nihilist when he wasn’t being an outright nazi.

It’s been awhile since I read it, but I think Herst’s conclusion for that chapter was that, the best he could personally do was get them to learn how to shape the message, but he was never able to truly disabuse them of the notion that what they believed and what they had been told was shaped in exactly the same way, if not more egregiously false, which he believed would eventually be catastrophic for the U.S. down the line. Never believe your own bullshit.

That’s the one.