Dave Strock
@davestrock
Oof, what if we did good things for people instead? Read a book.
It's wild to see Thiel admit that the core issue with capitalism is an accumulation problem, while simultaneously relying on the most simplistic idea of competition, all to pretend that the vast majority of mega rich didn't do so via (the redundant) "undifferentiated commodities"
If folks want to support small tweaks to the capitalist production system, that's good and fine, but pretending that it's socialism is just silly.
Umm... you don't even have to get to the details of the page you just linked to to see that you are misunderstanding. "Social democracy" is not the same as "democratic socialism" even tho they both have "social" in them. By your definition, the local ice cream social is the same thing 🙄
Just hit me that Trump's new J6 slush fund significantly exceeds $1 million per J6 defendant.
The hidden caption of the image on the right translates to: "Forward, to demolish the German invaders and expel them from our Motherland!" Wonder why they hid it.
If Dems don't have a believable explanation and remedy for the increasing wedge of lost wages as wages stagnated while productivity continued increasing, they shouldn't expect workers to care what they have to say since Dems clearly don't represent workers concerns.
I guess so 🤷♂️ I understand this retort less than the original mischaracterization.
On this First Contact Day, as a deranged POTUS tries to hurry the timeline by bringing about the third world war early, I'm reminded of how Woke 2 is ascendant in that universe.
Even life expectancy has dropped the most since 1920. Pretending that "all the numbers are positive" is revisionist nonsense.
This is exactly what you'd expect to see if the wage stays static. No one is claiming that the same number are making the minimum wage. The reality is that the poor have been stagnant, the middle has improved slightly, and the rich are fucking booming.
That article definitely doesn't say "No". Did you read it? Compilers can definitely be deterministic, the question is what level of determinism is required. In adding to CS and Eng, there is a "safety" answer, which is in-between and insists on strong guardrails.
Yes. This, from your source, is an example of what we're talking about.
No, there are many, many other reasons to call the NYT a right-wing rag. I love how you don't even seem to notice that you moved the goal posts from "opinion" to "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord" 🙄 Your need to exaggerate is telling. Truly bizarre and sad to see.
I think it's funny how he didn't bother with the "It's for research" line. That'd probably go over well on Twitter, but Bluesky would point out there are few neocons left. Maybe that's why it's looking backwards.
lol I wanted to see what they'd find upon searching and it's more wild than I'd have guessed
So this is mostly a way for Trump to prop up the stock market via retail investors and pretend it's helping kids?
My hell is continually reading old books in which all the questions were answered but ignored. I just started Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" and she spends 3 pages pointing out what science fiction is (metaphor) and what it is not (predictive). You don't even have to finish the book.
This scene from For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940) plays in my head daily. "But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."