I think this is actually my disagreement, because I think capital in itself would do so, but capitalism as a system has systematized class collaboration between capitalists to prevent them doing this

Ian Wright is great. Vampires live longer than humans (but canonically are dead right?), just like capital. Good addition

I always find this one interesting. I think Capitalism as en entire system isn’t necessarily cancerous in total. Marx probably didn’t have the vision of cancer we have today, but I think his analogy about the vampire was still better. Capitalism as a system is hard to just call a cancer because it is productive, because its laborers are productive. Capital as cancer in the system is closer, but still not as good. So saying that capital is a vampire, and so capitalism is a society dominated by vampires, is a better analogy. It is dead, but can only keep itself moving and growing by consuming the living (labor). In doing so, it grows and gets more hungry, and continuously needs to balance a need to consume more versus to let the living (labor) produce (so that it can be consumed). Cancer has no such mechanism to protect itself and no desire to stay alive and growing. Capital is mindless but the system gives it interests and mechanisms to act within the system in its own interest.

I guess my point is that cancer as an analogy underestimates capital and the system in which capital functions as the organizer of labor.

Long rant, no real reason I wrote this out except I was kinda bored. Calling it cancer is fine too lol

Well they’re gonna try for sure. But I think China can resist it well

But honestly trump is right. The “independent committee” is so clearly political that the European governments could’ve easily forced Trump as the winner and it would’ve been so (or propagandized in favor of Trump to accomplish this). Now the libs act like it’s really independent and get all pissy that Trump doesn’t get it. Trump couldn’t understand it if it were truly independent, but it’s not anyways

We really need to educate on “the purpose of a system is what it does.” It’s a beautifully simple premise which no libs grasp in the political domain.

Well my guinea pigs need extra vitamin c from a lil chewable according to my vet. So what, are you calling my guinea pigs worthless or something??? /s

“this debate is over”

This is someone making the mistake that Sartre pignantly described in the hid well known quote about antisemites. They know it’s ridiculous and already did

Wow that’s a cool site, putting your name and pronouns into stories to test how it feels. I have no current doubts about my gender or pronouns and no real desire to explore at the moment for myself, but can see how valuable this is for anyone with any doubts or desires to explore! I’m going to keep this one in the back pocket for my child once he’s old enough to understand it.

Cool thanks!

Off topic but what are the tenses/grammatical cases of your pronouns?? I’ve never seen it with more than 3 cases and you have 5 in many. The last (with self) on it I can understand. But that still leaves 1 too many for my current understanding in between.

Edit: wait possessive, I figured it out with comparisons between them. Leaving comment for posterity though. Would still be interested if we should all be doing that? Or is it only needed for neopronouns?

I just mean that people in a post-capitalist society will still need to convince each other to use their limited time on earth to give their production the time of day. For example, artists are still gonna have to market their songs to get people to listen, even if the motive for it is different (not profit, but notoriety or being accepted as an artist for their contribution to society). If I make a new design for a train wheel, I still gotta convince people it’s worth their time to even analyze it for improvements. Even without profit, we will probably have people who think they found/made a good thing when it’s actually shit. Making a filter for time wasted means some convincing of others is necessary

In a post-capitalist society, people creating new things because they think it’s cool or good will need to be able to advertise it to people to convince them it’s worthwhile to even take the time out of their day for it. That’s just marketing but now without the bullshit. Otherwise how will new things ever get picked up and maybe even integrated into large production processes? Someone has to do persuasion, even if it’s not harmful persuasion with current marketing backwards methods

I don’t think it’s actually beneficial to be shit at marketing at any period, honestly. Like even marketing that the ideas of the socialist leadership are going to be beneficial when implemented well is msrketing, or at least utilizes the same skills. The methods and such will inevitably shift significantly, but marketing and propaganda are in distinct at that point.

Agreed, absurdly irresponsible to be acting like this is somehow conclusive. @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, give a time line with views and likes over time with the dates of the internet outages and shutdown of starlink to get a full picture. I’ll believe it once I see that. But these 2 static numbers at 2 separate times do not make a good argument.

I for sure don’t want to claim they do the exact thing. But the strategy of making yourself useful but on your own terms is possible in some way. That’s essentially what China managed, and Venezuela may be able to leverage something of theirs in a similar way. But I know little about oil so no idea what they could do specifically. Other than this, idk what they could do except go into guerilla warfare and stagnate as an economy.

Damn hexbear internal video playing. I can’t turn off mute in my browser on my phone

I have no idea. I think they should likely try to follow an accelerated version of China’s path, starting with a revolutionary purge to have a party in power and then allowing US investment but with ultimate ownership within the state. But idk how the US will react considering the difference of distance between the two. But this is just speculation, I’m no VZ expert

This is stating nothing that Maduro hadn’t been saying for well over a year + discussing consequences (not sure what this part will mean). This is not an indication of a coup.

I’d prefer the reality where they can just say “shove it up your ass, USA” but that’s not the world we’re in. This is a government buying itself time, maybe to its detriment, but not out of willing overthrow of their revolution

Oh Nia Frome said what I was thinking much better actually and I just saw it a second ago: https://x.com/i/status/2009651161289162838