YT straight up is like gas station restrooms: I’m not above it, but I’d rather not.

If lemmygrad had user taglines this would certainly be a candidate

Oh cool, you also gargle propaganda from an evangelical nutjob Adrian Zens and from the U.S State Department on it’s number-one global rival. Very analytical and socialist of you.

There is no “plight”, the U.N found nothing and reported nothing. Again and again, people like you do the work of the feds back in the 50s-60s.

Jesus christ.

That is why I linked youtube. I don’t like it either but Invidious and other players have been having some serious issues lately. The articles looked a little “tabloidy” for me but if it works it works!

"one of the closest advisers to the late President F. Roosevelt, former Secretary of the Interior H. Ickes, lamented: “Sometimes, when I hear these anti-communist speeches, I wonder whether Goebbels is really dead… It seems to me he simply emigrated to the United States.”

page 18 so far, very good read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyhA-DIYvg

the internet itself was designed for mass surveillance and narrative control.

Not saying this makes your point null or anything but I find it funny that despite this the first “online transaction” was for marijuana.

against shipping lanes which prevented the fleet’s CWIS, Sea Sparrow, and other close-in weapons defense platforms from tracking incoming ordnance as the chance of locking neutral shipping or passenger liners was high.

Realistically, wouldn’t those shipping lanes be diverted/closed? I dunno if a cruiseliner is floating along an active war-zone but I could be wrong, honestly.

"Additionally, the Clown itself needed to be updated as well. Lunacharsky writes: “Their jests are the favorites of the people, and that is esthetically pleasing… but we demand more from a clown. In the ‘renewed circus,’ the clown must have an extensive repertoire. The clown must dare to be a publicist. The [stance] of the clown, of [his] national character, must be totally believable, and deeply democratic”

alternate/cooler origin story for ICP

You’re a delusional, rabid shitlib that is actively towing the line for a invasion of Venezuela by a hegemonic power that has over 200 military bases in the world while playing down the actual efforts of a socialist nation that has succeeded in nearly eliminating homelessness with a higher literacy rate, higher home-ownership rate and higher protein consumed per capita as demonstrable effects of socialist policy meant to assist and uplift the working class of the nation.

A large majority of those in China is a PART of the Communist Party of China and it has one of the highest government satisfaction rates in the entire world, despite the criticisms people can level at it rightfully or not. You tow the line for imperialism, deny the accomplishments of one of the most successful socialist experiments and have the right to call anything “delusional?”

Back to Reddit!

Even using that logic by itself, the bigger “Domestic Consideration” would be resources to exploit from the country we’re invading than the Epstein Files that have done fucking nothing, wouldn’t it?

Just so galaxy-brained on their end.

I have a deeply personal hatred for landlords. Let’s just say that despite the common attitude Marxists have towards landlords, I was a pretty respectful, polite renter that did my own work/repairs with permission and saved them tons of money before getting absolutely fucked over multiple time and having my roof that I paid rent for get spray-painted in neon colors for a political advertisement for Trump over months.

Since then, pure, seething hatred. I fucked with that one good.

All I have to say is I hope Venezuela causes as much suffering, pain and hardship to the military and every U.S soldier who partakes in this unjust invasion. At no single point in history has these regime change operations been asked for and they have NEVER been successful in improving the material conditions of the country that is targeted.

You are doing nothing more than towing the line for the invasion of a sovereign nation and deposing of a leader who was democratically elected by his people against an opposition that is currently split on justifying the invasion of their own country in comparison to a strong revolutionary leader that is in opposition to the global hegemony martially and in trade who now seeks to terminate his position and his revolution.

If you are in open support of this invasion I wish for you to enlist and suffer the same fate every rabid gringo dog will have on the beaches of Venezuela; choking on sand and blood. I love seeing how confident your type gets before they choke and/or sink just like they did off the coast of Yemen, in the jungles of Vietnam and hopefully more in the future!

One of my sources of entertainment is to go on landlord support groups or pages and sling theory, showcase the statistics of and the development of China during Mao and afterwards while generally reminding the more egregious ones that they should probably be shot.

Good paying trade jobs have always been like that, sadly.

but it has nothing to do with the macroeconomic policies that governments can do to improve the lives of the working people.

Gold and crypto cannot replace fiat monetary system. The Bretton Woods collapsed precisely because of this, but libertarians continue to believe in their natural interest rate nonsense so they extrapolated that the dollar will collapse one day. It won’t stop being a speculative asset that can let some people make a lot of money, but it’s irrelevant from a macroeconomic perspective.

Yeah, I know, I said this specifically.

“I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with being a goldbug, just thinking it should replace the standard of trade/the base value of currency is dumb imo.”

“So what”, my point was that collecting/speculating on gold is still a very good way to make money and I suspect that it will lead to a significant amount of profit if you were to do so with current events.

That was my point with the price charts and additionally to point out that these precious metals, if you can afford them, are a good way to hedge against inflation. That is basic “financial advice”, sure but I wonder if a mid-sized organization should invest in gold for their treasury as it hedges both against inflation and is immune to your typical shenanigans involving sanction or embargo say against members that had their bank accounts frozen or other situations like that. I was not advocating for libertarian or gold-bug ideology.

Remember that most of us Marxists/MMTers are not interested in accumulating personal wealth

Personal wealth isn’t my main focus either but it’s something that’s certainly nice to have so you can actually organize, participate in action and be a functional human being (being able to afford basic necessities, etc). Having a speculative hobby or something that can make cash on the side certainly helps me with that.

“nah it’s actually totally fine and healthy to numb myself every single day with a psychoactive chemical, I am not addicted at all”

Sometimes when I garden in the beginning of fall, I have a horde of deer that will spend a straight month getting shit-faced on fermented crab-apples and banging to go back into the forest when they’ve eaten all of them. It’s a pretty huge tree and they clean out the yard pretty good to the point where they’re stumbling over eachother.

If there was more, I’m convinced they’d spend more time just dining on fermented fruit and getting fucked up constantly. While human beings are not quite just deer, the only place I can think of you coming from is expecting some “societal contribution” that is being hampered by me engaging in engaging in the binge or use of intoxicants or psychoactive drugs. Otherwise, who cares what people do? Why is a “drug addict” something to stigmatize?

Like 10% of the population are estimated to have ADHD and the vast majority of them find amphetamines amazingly helpful in symptom reduction

I think a lot of drugs should be over-the-counter but regulated. Amphetamines help with a lot more than just ADHD. I take a near-daily “psychedelic” that is just a tryptamine for migraines. A lot of people prefer marijuana and/or kratom over opiods which are prescribed to plenty of people for chronic pain relief. Why pay such large premiums, restrict access and place stigma on these when they can be regulated and controlled by the (hopefully socialist) state in production/distribution?

Further more, I don’t think you realize how many people in the U.S are just straight up “dealing” with chronic pain or minor disability that use these as coping mechanisms to be exploited by capitalism. Or pain of the mind and “soul” if you will.

Crypto is bullshit but I wouldn’t sleep on the value of precious metals as of now. I personally made a decent buck on palladium during COVID and am holding onto some as you can check for yourself the futures chart right now. Is precious metals absolutely useless during times of economic peace? Sure. But we aren’t there right now and I don’t think we’re going back for a while.

Gold is a bit more of a complex thing to trade/stack and I’d argue that it’s value only really becomes a good “offload” when it spikes during geopolitical events in my use-case. I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with being a goldbug, just thinking it should replace the standard of trade/the base value of currency is dumb imo. They aren’t wrong though that in times of economic distress, there are metals that SPIKE up in value and maintain their value. The 5y chart for gold isn’t anything to sneeze at.

Here’s a ten year chart for Palladium.

I don’t know about you but some of those “goldbugs” are making very much of a killing when they deal in other precious metals or “stack upwards” to gold as not only the metals they trade such as them stacking platinum into gold during 2014-15 because the price of all those metals have continuously gone up without a major drop besides for rhodium and twice for palladium in TEN years… I’ve known a few and while I lament their ideology and their idealism regarding Bretton-Woods and the gold-standard but I can’t deny that with the state of the U.S economy, their precious metals have held their value far more than the U.S dollar.

Palladium likes to spike with major economic downturns. The dot.com bubble did a number on palladium prices, so I am curious on how the AI bubble will affect it as well.

Who knows, maybe some major crash will happen. The major gold reserve found in China and Russia off-loading gold haven’t even done a big number to the market yet.

Optimism of will, pessimism of intellect or something like that. You can find something, but don’t ever, ever settle in a trade.

I can do basic welds but never took it up as a career; it pays pretty good and they’ll be more than glad to take you on. It’s a long apprenticeship with lots to learn if you’re just starting off but you can eventually make some really good money if you specialize without the overhead of higher-education over you.

The problem then becomes trying to find a good-paying job in a trade, which is harder than a lot of people claim it is unless you’re getting into a union to which then you might have to wait longer instead. A lot of stupid dickheads running dad-and-son fab shops that want the lowest possible overhead in labor costs.