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Everyone's a third-worldist declaring "Death to AmeriKKKa" until you suggest that a typical American should have to live on $1000 a month like someone in the average exploited nation. Then they all turn into treat-defending socdems.

Condemn imperialism? Everyone's on board.Materially preclude imperialism? Crickets.

  • Are ya ready for the future?

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  • One must imagine Sissyphus aroused.

  • If watching the entire Social-Democratic left turn into a cult for the warcriminal chud Graham Platner doesn't make the American left reject incrementalism and bourgeois electoralism, what will?

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  • Right but the primaries for seats they hold matter less to them than the primaries dor seats they don't hold. The exact political positions are secondary to the parliamentary operation.

  • If watching the entire Social-Democratic left turn into a cult for the warcriminal chud Graham Platner doesn't make the American left reject incrementalism and bourgeois electoralism, what will?

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  • We have Abdul El-Sayed this go-around, for the same office, who actually has a history of being a progressive, a union member, and somewhat anti-imperialist. The difference is that he'd be flipping a centrist Democrat seat instead of an old-guard Republican seat. Gram Planter is the logical continuation of Blue No Matter Who, where the party composition of Congress justifies any and all means to achieve it.

  • Second Texas screwworm case confirmed as outbreak fears grow

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  • In end-stage capitalist America, fly screws you.

  • ‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers. Get ready now

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  • This doesn't seem like a good representation, I think it has capital gains wrapped in.

    This source looks like it takes just the wages people are being paid, and it goes from $4.44 an hour in 1979 to $20.03 in 2024.

    I remember checking a year or two ago that the median worker earned around $45k, with a bunch of financial sleight-of-hand making up the dofference between this and the per capita GDP.

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  • Not all walkable cities are communism but all communism is walkable cities.

  • Two Jewish guests greeted with 'free Palestine' when they turned on TVs at London Travelodge

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  • If anything, people at large in the US and Western Europe are the ones who need to be confronted with messages like this.

  • Clearly this is a hit-job on Platner. But has anyone else asked the question, "Why was he dating someone who worked at the Heritage Foundation and other right wing OP groups?"

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  • Isn't the Heritage Foundation supposed to be "respectable conservatives" as opposed to the shocking mask-off racist filth this is?

  • ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

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  • At first I was wondering why this was in c/slop, then I started reading the article.

    "Electrification of transport" instead of slashing transport miles by 90% by just rebuilding everything close enough to bike across the city and take the train to other cities.

    They expect to be able diminish food production to less than 6% of all human labor hours, while halving total labor altogether, and feed the world on that equivalent of 3% of today's workforce. I don't see how that gets done without continuing to do monocrops that are dependent on heavy machinery and massive fertilizer inputs.

    Likewise, instead of re-orienting towards cradle-to-cradle manufacturing and instituting a major push for ecological construction, they just diminish these sectors to 1% and 2% of the economy respectively.

    Never mind the labor-intensive modes used for thousands of years that didn't overshoot the planet's capacity, just largely continue most of the current trends with a tweak to widen up the two most intangible ones. We'll run the economy on intangibles, with the Power of Future.

    Somehow everyone around the world is going to be making $60k a year, or $600T in global GDP, 8 times what it is today.

    "Encouraging people to eat less red meat" still leaves the CAFO model intact and as-is. Literally just asking people nicely to stop supporting the destructive and miserable industry that they've been plugging into for a century.

    Heavily-taxed billionaires are still billionaires that exist. 6% to 0.05% share is 1/120. $83M is still obscene wealth, and 1/120 of a Bezos or Musk or Zuckerberg is still a billionaire. The existence of billionaires is not compatible with equitable and habitable life on Earth.

    Instead of approaching "sufficiency" starting with practical and material limits, or taking the sectors that currently exist and reimagining the details of them for carbon neutrality or low impact, they pretty clearly just compiled their database, made a variable for each profession, looked at the carbon emissions and GDP output fron each, and then just made a composition that optimized first carbon emissions and then GDP. To picture the reality of this proposal, imagine two people walking down a street taking turns eating factory-farmed cow dung- forever.

    I'm surprised Jason Hickel endorsed this as serious.

  • re:re:re:re: SO TRUE!

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  • I always move in dialectical contradiction

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  • Proving this would count as something happening

  • I always move in dialectical contradiction

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  • Psychological direction where the conclusion is "You don't notice anything that's about to happen until it's already happened".

  • Mao, please come back.

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  • This is actually not even that profitable, because these units are going to be renting for a minimum of $500 a month (if they're studios), $25 is 5% of that. If it's a 6-month lease (unusual) at the bare minimum baseline price then $25 per lease cycle is 10% over the previous year. Inflation is 3-4% per year. A typical apartment is going to be on a 12-month lease with a predetermined rental rate for its term, typically about $1500. A $25 rent increase underpaces inflation.

    I guarantee you he is raising his rents by much more than $25 every go-around. He's also just flashing his money saying "look how much I have", not revealing the more shocking logic of how he accumulates his wealth, or the reality that the odds are overwhelmingly against the average person being able to do anything like that.

  • German War on Berlin WWII Monument is Smokescreen for Neo-Nazis in Europe

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  • Israeli politician and diplomat

    You don't wanna know the details.

  • I think about soviet housing often

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  • Might be an American saying. "Seems like tits on a door/tits on a doorknob" is a way of saying something or someone is sitting around being completely useless.

  • Github Copilot is going great

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  • Can't properly tokenmaxx without a net-positive tokamak

  • I think about soviet housing often

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  • Anyway the Hakka people in China have slightly smaller versions of this that they've been maintaining for several centuries, clan houses called tulou.

  • I think about soviet housing often

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  • Tits on a door.

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    Bird are very smart

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  • Beak matters more than eye.

    No Eye: fine, at least it's got a beakLarge Eye: yes but what about beakLarge Beak: YES, here is birb I'm looking forReverse Eye and Beak: found it, this is birbNo Beak: excuse me, who or what is this

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    infuziSporg [e/em/eir] @hexbear.net

    18 months in, I am eating pretty good on these 5y predictions (@Owl too)

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