Solo's flaccid performance at the box office is proof that the 99% is sick of what the 1% think is entertainment. A "Star War". Absurd.
Blame it on the capitalist roaders in China.
Solo's flaccid performance at the box office is proof that the 99% is sick of what the 1% think is entertainment. A "Star War". Absurd.
Solo's flaccid performance at the box office is proof that the 99% is sick of what the 1% think is entertainment. A "Star War". Absurd.
i'll be honest i wasn't expecting you to pivot towards being a reaganite
i'll be honest i wasn't expecting you to pivot towards being a reaganite
i saw people getting mad at this (the policy, not the name) but i still have no idea whyMatt Bruening put out a proposal for childcare benefits program with a very dumb name.
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/family-fun-pack/
I'd love to hear the story here, but congratsGoing to a DSA chapter meeting today
Transition from succdem (scust) took too long tbh.
Rosy palms hide my shame.
Not much of a story really, just confronting the fact over the last few years that the Democratic party and liberalism are woefully and painfully unqualified and unfit to deal with the world we live in and staving off the oncoming collapse. There's no point in sticking with a party that has no ideology, stands for nothing, accomplishes nothing and means nothing. Watching everything in 2017 and 2018 just be a bunch of bloviating stupidity and infighting to constantly hash up the primary and learn no lessons because they actually don't care all that much that they lost, watching the world melt around us as nothing changes in any meaningful capacity and in fact is trending downwards in many aspects while everybody smiles and pretends the coming hellscape that they propagated isn't going to kill us all. And just the nauseating self satisfactory hand-wringing (to which I am guilty for sure) over norms and values and all this dumb meaningless shit while people die and the country is on fucking fire like fucking christ some of us are old enough to remember both Bush's and things were way fucking worse under W than they are now, but every day it's more inane dumb shit that doesn't matter clouding up the views on what matters and what we can do as a society to seize back power from the ever growing bourgeois. The Dems stand for nothing but continuing the status quo and I finally had that crystallized.
also even if they "know" what they're doing technocrats cannot solve normative questionsI'm was in the same boat during my transition as well. Technocracy is an illusion. The self-styled technocrats have no idea what they're doing more than anyone else, but they managed to convince their base that they know what they're doing and that when they make a mistake it's someone else's fault.
I worked in that end of tech for like 4 years, it's amazing how little of a grasp on reality they all have. It's all empty stupidity to basically be like "I invented the taxi cab". It was really astounding seeing the arrogance of these 23 year olds who've never had to actually work for anything a day in their lives think "I'm the next Steve Jobs" while pissing away millions of dollars on trying to make the go-pro on a pogo stick into the next "innovation".also even if they "know" what they're doing technocrats cannot solve normative questions
HBO's Silicon Valley? True to life?I worked in that end of tech for like 4 years, it's amazing how little of a grasp on reality they all have. It's all empty stupidity to basically be like "I invented the taxi cab". It was really astounding seeing the arrogance of these 23 year olds who've never had to actually work for anything a day in their lives think "I'm the next Steve Jobs" while pissing away millions of dollars on trying to make the go-pro on a pogo stick into the next "innovation".
Nobody in tech lives in reality, it's why I left.
i miss valleywag as them writing up on elon musk getting really mad at the premier event for that show was funny as hell
lmao of course he would.i miss valleywag as them writing up on elon musk getting really mad at the premier event for that show was funny as hell
Yep, I watched like 6 episodes and couldn't watch anymore because it was just "oh god this is my life isn't it". Except the unhinged technocrats that were the butt of the joke were my boss. I worked for 8 different start ups and not one, not a single one, ever actually produced a single thing.Yes.
When I was bouncing around start ups that show was very much reflected in my life.
Someone's uploading the Marx anime on YouTube and lol @ the opening and ending themes. God it's so bland.
I should start adding "That is very Marx" to my vocab.
uh sir sir sir actually calling it anime is inaccurate because it was it was not made in japan and to try and define it by a specific art style removes the large number of artistically different anime that exist and without the cultural context it is qualitatively different from creations in other countries sirSomeone's uploading the Marx anime on YouTube and lol @ the opening and ending themes. God it's so bland.
I should start adding "That is very Marx" to my vocab.
I'm was in the same boat during my transition as well. Technocracy is an illusion. The self-styled technocrats have no idea what they're doing more than anyone else, but they managed to convince their base that they know what they're doing and that when they make a mistake it's someone else's fault.
There's an implicit disdain there for the lower, less educated class, and this is conflated with disdain for Republicans and racists (who tend to be low educated) to give it a moral dimension. However the higher educated class is by no means immune from bigotry either though technocratic politicians will pretend they are above such petty concerns owing to graduating from Yale or Harvard.to a lot of these types, it just seems fundamentally wrong that it's possible to succeed in politics with big, ambitious ideas that ordinary people can actually understand. they really think that policy should require a PhD and reading multiple 30-page white papers to comprehend
It's almost like people respond to policy and a promise that "we will give you back your future" with concrete policy proposals with firm basis in how to accomplish and phase it out is the only way forward in electoralism.There's an implicit disdain there for the lower, less educated class, and this is conflated with disdain for Republicans and racists (who tend to be low educated) to give it a moral dimension. However the higher educated class is by no means immune from bigotry either though technocratic politicians will pretend they are above such petty concerns owing to graduating from Yale or Harvard.
The lower class aren't idiots though. Maybe they can't write a dissertation about class structures but they can smell the disdain and aren't buying it.
Ah. Maduro gunning down the minorities that Tankies say are his most popular base.
Love the Twitter narrative over the past week. Defend Maduro because his base are minorities. Maduro's cops start murdering minorities. "Well, see, those were counter revolutionaries and there were guns baked into that bread!"
To be honest, I'm not a Liberal, Not Yet a Succdem.
What pushed you guys into becoming socialists?
Welcome!
To be honest, I'm not a Liberal, Not Yet a Succdem.
What pushed you guys into becoming socialists?
In a word? Capitalism.To be honest, I'm not a Liberal, Not Yet a Succdem.
What pushed you peeps into becoming socialists?
It's a slang pejorative corruption of socdem popularized by the chapo trap house community I believe.
That's the pyramid scheme right? I'm sorry for your troubles.Fuck Amway and its livelihood-sucking, dream-selling schemes incidentally.
Yup. But technically legal is the best kind of legal!
entering the workforce and being exploited directly by the boss and management to the point of a total mental breakdown while the sa subforum lf was alive and wellTo be honest, I'm not a Liberal, Not Yet a Succdem.
What pushed you peeps into becoming socialists?
the highest form of political ideology
Basically just means a situation where the state has more power.What's a Statist?
If I'm not mistaken, you've described the Maoist insurgency in the Philippines as statist too.
Socialism is the liberation of the proletariat. The two cannot co-exist as the states inherent existence incites the creation of a class structure and precludes the total ownership of labor by labor.Basically just means a situation where the state has more power.
Socialism inherently contradicts statism, as the state is an institution of capitalism.