the antisemitism awareness act is about raising awareness of antisemitism and everyone already knows that the evangelical christian nationalists are antisemitic so of course there’s an exception just for them. checkmate empathy sinners
almoravid hackers are about to invade east portugal and you’re resorting to ad hominems
the last person to talk to trump is in full control of the united states until the next last person to talk to trump gets their turn
A social services worker doesn’t produce a marketable commodity or value for capitalists
instead they play a role as a relief valve for the contradictions of capitalism.
You should let the capitalists know this then because what you’re describing does not decribe the system, how capitalists behave or how capitalist governments define policy. If one plays a role as a ‘relief valve for the contradictions of capitalism’, then under capitalism their labour is both desirable and subject to market forces. Capitalist governments absolutely do treat public work as a marketable commodity. No resources are allocated without a calculus behind it, or behind the intent of devaluing the labor as much as is possible.
And, again, being a proletarian is a social class in respects to ownership of the means of production. That’s it. Any more splitting of hairs and soon enough you’ll be claiming that the soup kitchen worker is a PMC akin to cops.
The working class is comprised of everyone whose relationship with the means of production is at its core selling their labor. That’s it. There’s no reason to split hairs about who’s PMC or not. The fundamental and likely difference between a judge and the clerical worker under that judge is that the judge likely makes enough money and comes from a social background that makes them a shareholder of american capitalism.
Anything more than that and you’ll be talking past each other because you’re thinking of bankers who were turned into department heads and they’ll be thinking of middle income administrators. Meanwhile DOGE is spends its days firing park rangers and such. Dismantling a state institution isn’t good or bad on the condition that its staffed by capitalists or not. It’s good or bad on the basis of the policy that is being attacked. This being the US, everything outside of spending on the military or Israel is under attack.
an italian with a name as descriptive as battista de pizzaiolo would be contractually obligated to call themselves Pope Papi
kamala’s influence on politics is ever present
this isn’t new. the courts of europe and asia have utilized astrology for thousands of years. i wouldn’t be caught dead serving an emperor that doesn’t define all state policy on the basis of jupiter, the planet.
for a company that loses money with every transaction, this will be the kursk offensive of business deals
There are examples of cultures which chose to be left alone by the Federation. They do not exist to challenge the liberal zeitgeist from which Star Trek sprung, but its interesting to note that 90s trek could abide things which today’s american culture might not. The civilization with the dying sun, for an instance, is simply isolationist. They’d rather be left alone and the Federation leaves them alone. Helps them when they call for help, but leaves them be afterward. The key issue of the episode is that the locals choose to die at the age of 60 so as to unburden their family and society, which causes the story’s main personal conflict.
The episode as a whole too isn’t limited to showing them as xenophobic backwards people, which they aren’t portrayed as. Rather, the ultimate reading of the episode is that while a liberal struggle for freedom and lives is more than worthwhile it may not be worth people’s livelihoods and community. ‘It will take a courageous person to change things but I can’t be that person’. I think it’s an interesting example because it comes from a time when american liberal hegemony was so sure of itself and so comfortable about its future that it could ‘afford to wait’. As far as it is concerned, the arc of history bends liberal so if some people aren’t ready for it yet then you can let them be.
Then the war on terror happened and now we have rainbow imperialism playing musical chairs with imperialism classic.
by deciding what charlemagne was you just re-triggered the franco-prussian war
Most gazans are minors and Lancet estimates of the famines/killings we saw put total deaths at close to 200k. That was in Oct 2023 EDIT: 2024, thanks for the correction truthcarp.
the pope dying is entertainment. giving feedback is only par for the course
Liz Truss killed the Queen. JD Vance killed the Pope.
That is not what was meant as unprecedented. Of course US policy has triggered global debt crises before. The weakest countries in the world have been in one for years at this point simply due to high FED interest rates. Rather, what is unprecedented is how the underlying assumptions of US policy would render the washington consensus financially obsolete. One thing is to say that neoliberalism is hurtful austerity. While that’s the truth, what is also true is that oligarchy benefits from the sort of measures countries have taken when dealing with dollar scarcity - hyperinflation, devaluation, and export volume increases.
If we get to a point where South Korea cannot acquire dollars and there’s nothing it can do to finance itself and its trade, if every single thing that the US government claims to believe about its consumer market’s importance in the world is true and nobody except China can retool their economies to face the new normal then this isn’t just another sovereign debt crisis. It is much bigger than that.
South Korea is a country at the highest levels of technology and firmly within the center of center-periphery relations. If we get to a point where it and other major economies cannot acquire USD simply because their exports to the US are down, then its unprecedented. We might as well entertain a global sovereign debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar as a reserve currency.
the bad part about living in south america is that you’re in here. the good part is that i dunno i think people will just forget to nuke us.
milei accused of not lying when he called himself a libertarian
I assume both sides got what they wanted, which is to shore up support at home.