I mean she didn’t tell you, I’m not sure what you could have done short of waiting longer to have sex on the off chance you might discover she was hiding something, or asking outright. Which is a pretty toxic way to approach relationships from my point of view.

I swear the process is designed to discipline labor. It’s a weird hazing ritual we’ve normalized as part of making a living so you feel indebted to whoever hires you for ending the madness.

It’s not about good or bad, it’s about efficiency. I get being skeptical about Americans currently being able to come up with a reliable system of sharing, but we desperately need to curtail consumption and durable shared goods is one way to get there. If I had the extra time afforded by reasonable production levels to go to collective repositories for a vacuum I wouldn’t mind that. It’s a drag right now because I alternate shifts with my partner to afford to live, but in a more reasonable society a little exercise and planning wouldn’t hurt me.

Westerners live an unsustainable lifestyle. Things will have to change to coexist with everyone on a planet we can sustain.

Reading about how money capital and the ability to extract interest without needing to perform the function of an industrial capitalist eventually leads to their conversion into managers was kinda interesting. So is the end state of Capitalism a single money capitalist paying companies to hire managers for businesses he has nothing to do with? It’s weird to see the industrialist disposed of so late in the game.

Yeah this reminds me of some of the Cushvlogs, Matt would sometimes go into how a lot of people on the left get driven to wild places because they can’t handle the idea that they might not be there to see history unfold.

Nah, whatever fella. We saw how you felt about it. Why are you returning to the trough now, weeks later?

Are we ?

Time for more historical analysis of the development of Capitalism.

La carroza, la carroza! Invertido! Carta de guerra, de venganza! La vi sin ruedas sobre un rio obscuro! Un maleficio! Carroza de muertos, llena de huesos!

Are things like ground rent and interest also going to be something like that to? As in just taking a portion of the total surplus value yet to be realized?

They must be right? There’s only one source of actual surplus value so any extraction that isn’t just consuming what already exists has to be feeding from that, I think?

Some of these people believe homeless people are actually middle class and pretending because it pays better than getting a job. I had one tell me he honestly believes they go home, wash up, and then go engage in upper middle class pastimes once they get enough money standing on the side of the road.

I’m not sure how you even argue with that.

Wasn’t the problem that Hindenburg could appoint any chancellor he wanted if he rejected the pick of the legislature? By the time this election happened he had been ruling by emergency decree for like 2 years. And he was a conservative, even an imaginary alliance of centrists with the SPD and KPD would not have been able to force his hand if he didn’t want to accept a nomination he didn’t like, and he didn’t like the socialists or the communists.

I don’t think China wants to be the enemy of the US. They are the largest trading partner of the US. They seem genuinely interested in cooperating and bettering their own society. USians seem to be the ones bent on enmity. The US apparently thinks building infrastructure and developing the economies of other nations is ‘malign influence.’ The US killed citizens of allied nations through propaganda to ensure they wouldn’t become friendlier with China, who was offering them vaccines while the US and Europe were hoarding their own.

The US sees ‘being a large country and having influence’ as threatening, there’s no way to peacefully coexist with a country that sees everyone else as a threat by default.

Well we could devote those resources to solving the problems they are criticizing maybe. It would improve the lives of USians and undercut the arguments being brought up.

Spending billions to tell other countries that more infrastructure is actually bad is probably counterproductive and wasteful. Like how we spent money to kill Filipino people by telling them to avoid the Chinese produced covid jab.

Right, he doesn’t expect to be listened to, he’s cynical about democrats in a way Katie isn’t.

Edit: I dunno maybe I’m totally off about him, it just feels like he’s being jaded about them, not trying to defend Kamala. Maybe I need to kill my Showdies.

Warmbo is such a great character. There are almost no caricatures of libs from a left position that embody what’s so irritating about them like he does.

I think Cody is generally better than most of the team and probably has more control over what comes out of his mouth for the videos. The more everyone else talks the more lib it seems to get.

I think he’s been friends with many of them (especially Katie) for a long time and tolerates their lib takes because they are friends.

It’s a smokescreen, we can’t credibly claim to have a stronger or healthier industrial base or social system, all we can do is pretend we’re ahead in imaginary tech arms races.

It was inevitable.