I do think it’s funny that liberals are so abhorred by the notion of a one-party state while also their entire notion of political action is ‘make sure one party is the only one ever in power forever’. like obviously there’s an entire field of qualitative differences and the existence of class analysis between the liberal and communist positions on the matter but also like. it’s hilarious that their own argument is 'we need to flip a coin every few years to decide whether fascists are in power. and we need to make sure the coin lands heads every. single. time.’ and if you say that sounds unrealistic they start screaming and crying and blocking their ears
Vice President Kamala Harris is now running ahead of Trump, 42 percent to 41 percent, the survey found. And former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the 2016 nominee who is not being seriously discussed as a candidate by voters anxious about Biden’s chances, is slightly ahead of Harris. Clinton leads Trump 43 percent to 41 percent.
Thinking serenely about the fact that the Constutionalist Originalist Guardians of History and Tradition on the Supreme Court really said that the President is immune from criminal prosecution because that’s what the Founders would have wanted. You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to George Washington or Alexander Hamilton or whoever, but any one of them would execute the justices immediately with an old time flintlock gun if you told them about this
guy who owns a really really old car: does this parade have a specific theme? actually i don’t care. i’ll be there. yeah i have a really really old car
elon musk had a third child with grimes that he kept secret until the release of his biography. he named it techno mechanicus
can you imagine being an adult nepo baby at a company your rich dad invested in and having to walk into the boardroom first day like. hi everyone. my name is techno mechanicus
I can tell this is fake because “techno mechanicus” doesn’t start with X
OH SON OF A BITCH
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I haven’t been reblogging this post because I genuinely assumed you guys were Goncharoving a nepo baby
Materialist analysis does not acknowledge the existence of “the soul,” the metaphysical, the “cosmic sin,” the quality of “spiritual righteousness,” etc. These are idealisms, in that they are fundamentally not material. There is no concern over “selling your soul” under a Materialist analysis. Likewise, dialectical materialist economic analysis acknowledges the existence of moral-ethical questions, ethical philosophy, etc, but does not concern itself with them because these are fundamentally irrelevant to questions of political-economic forces and their mechanics, and they are outside the purview of the relevant analyses. The contention is not that morality doesn’t exist, nor is it that nothing or nobody is inherently good or bad. The contention is that it doesn’t matterto this kind of analysis.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk aren’t capitalists because they are bad people. They do not choose to uphold the capitalist system and capitalist interests because they are bad people. They may be bad people! Who knows! That is an entirely subjective analysis! What one person believes is “being a bad person” may be “being a good person” to another. Moralism is subjective, even if to you, it does not feel like it is! What is not subjective is the actual reality of what political forces animate their actions and decisions – that they are moved and animated by class interests, that these class interests exist to serve their self-interest, which in another phrasing can be articulated as self-preservation, or their interest in retaining power and safety, or whatever other articulation you want. These class interests cause them to behave in the way they do, not because they are bad people (which they might be! I don’t really care either way!) but because they stand to materially benefit from the perpetuation of these political conditions and the continued entrenchment of their own power. A moralist would argue that Jeff Bezos “should just give his money away” because it would be the “right thing to do.” But a dialectical materialist understands that he will not, because to do so would be akin to choosing to cut off his own hand, and recognizes that what he will actually do and why is what matters more than what he should do.
We urgently need to move away from fossil fuels, but electric vehicles and other green technology can put their own pressures on the environment. That pressure could be eased with a new magnet design, free from rare-earth metals, that was built with AI in just three months.
Rare-earth metals are essential components in modern-day gadgets and electric tech – including cars, wind turbines, and solar panels – but getting them out of the ground costs a lot in terms of money, energy, and environmental impact.
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We now have a better understanding of the extent to which Israel applied the Hannibal Directive on October 7.
For those who are unaware, the Hannibal Directive is an Israeli protocol that allows employing “any means necessary” to prevent the capture of Israelis, more often than not meaning to kill them in order to prevent their capture.
In the case of October 7, Israel’s use of the Hannibal Directive meant that they had in fact killed far more Israelis than what was previously reported. As we find out now, Israel used the directive “widely” on its own citizens. The standing order on October 7, as we find out now, had stated that “no vehicle is going back to Gaza”, meaning all vehicles that were carrying Israeli hostages had to be targeted, and that the area between Gaza and Israel has become a death zone for anything and anyone.
So much to unpack here but let’s start with what the fuck, and the fact that it’s rather laughable to see that the state which the world had positioned as the cute democracy in the midst of a bunch of barbaric states is the one with policies that allow the literal extermination of their own people in order to save face; Israel regards Israeli hostages as an embarrassment, so killing them is more bearable especially considering that their death can then be used as leverage to justify massacres against Palestinians.
This is what common sense had told us when we first learned about Israelis being killed in ways that were beyond what Hamas’s weapons are capable of back in October and now we have to wonder yet again how many more lies have been perpetuated as a means to justify the slaughter of 45,000 Palestinians and counting in this ongoing genocide.
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