this is the measure i use to discern compatible leftists from anyone else and it’s been proven right many times in history.

Our ruling Epstein class wants it and it’s going to happen no matter how much they’re pissed off about it because Americans are allergic to collectivization.

it’s a wand that can only do certain types of magic – mostly the flushed/out-of-breath kind.

lol

their pursuit is accumulation

i’ve always understood this to be a trend instead of a rule of the ruling class and i suspect some cabals of the ruling class care more about pushing for absolute dominance more than anything else.

the american government managed to suppress generations worth of climate change anxiety w barely a peep because the green tech that could save us comes from china.

i fully expect the same strategy to work when it comes to AI or anything else going forward – the world’s biggest ecological destroyers in the global north will eschew anything that doesn’t come from them and would rather destroy human civilization through climate change & fascism rather than let dirty brown commies gain any sort of foothold anywhere.

agreed and they likely see it as a miserable failback as well, but what matters to them is that they have a failback so that they feel like they can be bolder than the rest of us who have any tailbacks.

the grocery stores where i live have full service bars (and even live bands sometimes) – you’ll need to be an alcoholic just to catch up. lol

… the truth is that they only care about keeping the empire going, which requires stableized fuel for the global economy. The US can either surrender to Iran, or wind down sanctions on Russia. Otherwise, the entire world economy stands to go to chaos.

they’ve hedged their bets with d-day bunkers so they can push it beyond the limit – past climate change – and still be buffered from the consequences if they fail.

unexpected madeline reference of the day. lol

he was the “progressive” that people like piker supported

it doesn’t matter what piker says, he’s popular until he fucks up like his compatible left predecessors usually do – like platner.

breach and circuses only got us so far and americans improved on it dramatically with propaganda.

we’re going to find out how far propaganda alone is going to take us once the money runs for the bread and circuses.

it’s not necessary and counter productive to this goal since this type of green tech is already affordable and scalable to degree that it can mitigate climate change. this exact same form of sanctioning is keeping this green tech out of our hands to protect oil and auto profiits and maintain a genocidal global hegemony at the expensive of climate change.

if i were an llm, i wouldn’t have said anything. lol

people’s copyright-protected material all chopped up into a slop-smoothie

i like how this is prosed so i’m stealing it :p

After our debt crisis when the dollar loses its world reserve status the system will blame social programs instead of its inherent rot born of profit.

that’s already been happening and i bet it’ll kick into overdrive after the petro-dollar goes away

i guess i should be patting myself on the back for not having used amazon long enough for it to forget who i am.

i saw the centaur, but i thought it was a bow & arrow and probably because of zelda. lol

anything touched by redhat is tainted and it hurts since they did so much for foss in the past – especially with kvm.