Even popular egalitarian movements face significant resistance to social and economic change. This will not only come from elites who stand to loose from social change, but also from common people who for one reason or another oppose that which benefits themselves. Beyond the social and economic connections to the elite, the social inertia to change is on the side of capital.

The solution, from Bolivar to Lenin to Castro has been to force the people to be free because you can’t have socialist democracy if people would vote to return to capitalism or colonialism.

Leftists have long talked about “educating” the populace, but this is another tempting avenue for creeping totalitarianism. It’s not like capital is innocent of coercion, but so long as it accommodates the ignorant, it has an overwhelming advantage over a system that requires an improved humanity.

I suppose we’ll iron this out. Remember that the social anchors for capital are hundreds of years old and have their roots in feudalism and aristocracy. Socialism is young and her sins are close in our minds not because their failures are extraordinary but because they’re recent.

The problem here isn’t nutrition or fallacy from nature.

The problem is that everything special about RFK jr. was true before his umbilical chord was cut.

According to the SCOTUS, the State and police have no constitutional duty to protect the public, uphold the law, or enforce court orders.

source: (warning child harm)

DeShaney v. Winnebago
Town of Castle rock v. Gonzales.

I enjoyed the channel “forgotten weapons”. I think guns are neat, but I don’t wanna hear any right wing NRA bullshit. The presenter avoided politics and I was happy.

Then he did a series on guns from Rhodesia. OK, I give him the benefit of the doubt, though people who are interested in Rhodesia are way more sus than those interested in Nazi Germany. But then, the channel featured anti-riot weapons at the height of the George Floyd summer and I can only view that as pro-pig messaging. Fuck that channel.

Some people have strong negative feelings about certain topics. Out of repect, some people obfuscate or disguise those topics to make it easy for sensitive people to avoid. It’s kinda like how pedants get annoyed when words are written slightly differently, except it’s worthy of respect from other people.

A quick Google search of the name leads to results about British adventurer and environmentalist David Mayer de Rothschild…

This is likely the explanation. GPT has some kind of bug in the antisemitism filter.

They have a clear mandate from misogynists.

Suction machines are used to remove excess mucus from the sinuses and throat in medical settings. The public should not use these machines because you can accidentally stimulate a nerve in your throat that can cause your heart to slow, beat irregularly, or stop.

New CEO --> layoffs ----> line go up ----> ops, not genius after all ----> deploy golden parachute.

Consumer goods become cheaper through innovation and economies of scale. Freeze drying is a mature technology with limited appeal.

My wish is to take my dollar and by one share of Tesla at market price.

The beating heart of American progressiveism: San Fransisco where the residents would rather kill the poor than inconvenience everyone else. If only you could patch a caved in skull with a pussy hat…

And then there was that bogus article that said Argentina had lowered it’s inflation to 2% and you find out in the article that’s monthly inflation and the yearly figure was like 190%.

Musk’s abrupt firing of the team initially seemed like a display of power—a way to assert control and show he could make tough decisions in the face of investor pressure.

This is justification for wrecking 500 employee’s lives? So he could show he’s a tough business boy? In order to reassure people who’ve gotten over 50% returns for a decade? In a company that’s “worth” more than the GDP of Saudi Arabia?

Investor confidence is so important to Musk because he knows Tesla is a bubble.

If France was a gun it’d obviously be pointed at England.

There are two genres of capitalist optimism.

one is the “it’s going to be different this time baby I swear” and the other is “prayer to an angry god”. This piece obviously is of the former category.

Oh no! Without the FBI, who’s going to murder civil rights leaders and entrap morons into terror plots? Federal policing is an institution that we’d be better off without and people shouldn’t lick-boot just because Trump is the one fucking them up.

Historic Fascist movements necessarily have incompetence problems because they value loyalty over ability. Of course this did not prevent them from doing harm, but it did hasten their downfall.

I welcome Trump appointees doing purges at the FBI. If you’re worried about an FBI stocked with racist pigs who’ll target minorities and progressives then take assurance that the only difference between that and the FBI as it exists is competence.

the circle is complete:

FELLAS! IS IT GAY TO BE HAPPY?

I don’t care about MSNBC. Cable news sucks. It’s a format with five minutes of information to deliver and 24 hours to fill. Its a promise to make you wise, but with the same effort as ignorance.