/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>767329
Hitler Schicklgruber was a jew himself

>>767156
>marxism is just saying that the rich are mean and we should give free stuff to the poor
this is actually true independent of whether it is "Marxist" or not. name one good rich person. you can't.

>>767336
Define "good"

>>767293
Sure but this doesn't look good on Marx himself

>>767156
No thats Christianity.

>>767136
>the case that it hurts the global working class more than alternative forms of capitalism has not really been made. (which should be distinguished from saying that capitalism doesn't hurt the global working class. one can - and i'm not saying i do - believe that neoliberalism was historically progressive, but that ultimately capitalism must go.)

>i would also, pedantically, say that bombing isn't an inherent part of neoliberalism. Korea and Vietnam, after all, took place under Keynesianism. The neoliberal era briefly gestured towards what a market-lead world should really have (UN peacekeeping, or at least the facade of it) but, as it draws to a close, you now see more or less naked gangsterism paired with a hostility to trade. this is an ominous portent.

Yeah, I was tactically using the leftoid terminology ("neoliberalism") to bridge the theoretical gap and help a potential leftoid reader make the leap.
The particular forms of imperialist bourgeois self-management are highly relevant only to the imperial bourgeoisie and its internal opposition (middle class, petty bourgs). To the enemies of the system, it is only important in so far as there is a need to understand and exploit the contradictions within the enemy camp.

To the recepients of imperial violence, it more or less looks like a straight line from early colonization, to the american revolution, to nazi germany (inter-imperialist confllict critical point), to victory of america in the inter imperialist conflict and absorbtion of nazi germany into the now unified imperialist hegemon, to weakening and disintegration of the socialist camp, emboldening the empire and creating the unipolar world.

neoliberalism isn't particularly responsible for bombings because neoliberalism is a particular slice in the timeline of imperial strategy, the genocide of the third world is an ongoing cyclical process and was never "interrupted" for as long as capitalism existed.

keep dickriding the epstein class bro

>>767074
True, just screaming into the void and allowing anyone that isn't completely libpoisoned to pull out of it.

>>767097
The Poor are only 'richer' because of technological progress and because the goalposts of wealth have become unclear. The fact of the matter is, people who were once lower-middle class are now considered poor, skewing the results. The income of the top billionaires also skews the results of average wealth. Finally the USSR and China are the reason for this increase in living conditions, even the fall of the USSR still left Russia with infrastructure that put it ahead of Imperial Russia in 1913 (materially) and the USSR's focus on improving its HDI forced capitalist states to have welfare programs and be organized and managed so as to remain competitive and not have the proletariat completely revolt. African-American and Women's rights were only granted because the USSR's influence and the fear of said influence. China's population also significantly contributes, as they went from the same Feudal living level as the USSR and rose up dramatically.

Liberalism and Neoliberalism and Conservatism may all portend to be different from one another, but really they're all part and parcel of the same system with the same ideology, that morphs like some eldritch monster to fit whatever niche its trying to fit, like a dying hideously rotted octopus.

>>766850
Actually, moralism is the weakest argument around socialism
Controlled economies work. Socialism is inevitable. Marx said so. What separates positive socialism from negative is what class benefits. When workers benefit it's progressive socialism, when the bourgeois benefits it's fascism.

That's not just a bad word, its a fact.

>>767141
i think vis-a-vis the case against nordic social democracy, you run into the structural and dispositional problems with self-declared neoliberals that i was getting at. in terms of the big picture, the nordic countries are still neoliberal - their tax rates are high by US standards, but low when compared to their own history, their labor protections are strong by US standards, but since the 90s they've pivoted to "flexicurity" (e.g. easier to fire/hire, higher welfare to compensate.), their government provides some more essential national services, but others (for example Scandinavian Airlines) are standard mutlinational corporations (in the case of SAS: they have an Irish subsidiary to avoid Scandinavian Labor laws, and 2/3 of the national governments that used to own it have privatized their share in the company.). they offer a social democratic flavored version of neoliberalism, if you like.
the best possible neoliberalism (in terms of being sustainable) would pair an aggressive deregulatory attitude with an extensive welfare state. the problem (everywhere, but particularly in the US) is, if you're a neoliberal you're probably not dispositionally enthused by proposing boosting the welfare state - especially if you wind up in the worst of all possible worlds, with both more welfare and more regulations. so you wind up, generally speaking, fighting against welfare and for tax cuts, while regulations fall to the side despite over-regulation being a much more logical barrier to economic growth. (a tax is just a tax, moving the price slightly. pay and move on. a regulation requires you to pay, to undergo uncertainty, to wait, and to generally mess around with the possibility it's all for nothing. depending on the circumstances, it may simply be that you legally cannot open another coca-cola bottling plant despite being able to do better than the incumbent! madness!)

if neoliberals had thrown in with the liberal-left instead of the right, somehow, they might've had a future. (what leftist would surrender a welfare package to save the coca cola bottler? what liberal would reject the case against individual choice, coherently made?) by throwing in with the centre-right they find themselves adrift amongst socdems and liberals and utterly hopeless among the deranged base of the modern right, bought and paid for by our qanon-believing Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>767397
not*

>>762297
Should mutilating baby genitelia be illegal? Gee I dunno.

>>767397
>some muslims do it to
Not all of them?

>>767514
This is such an american dilemma, jesus

>>767514
They will call you hysterical for framing it that way

>>762457
What LARPing chud/tradcath gets married?
Most of them end up single and sexlesss for life. They have to cope with parasocial semi-sexual relations with minors/mentally ill post-pubescents

i was trying to travel on the bus but it was difficult because it kept stopping. then at one point the cops with sheriff hats made us stop in the middle of the road to search all our bags. they went back to bully the first guy they pulled over but he ran away and so they shot him. then the cops went over to examine the body on the train tracks. we heard on the news that trump had finished bombing north korea

I was told I had a huge bald spot on the back of my head but when I managed to take a look in a mirror, it was not only the hair missing, a huge part of my skull was also gone. I could see inside my head and there was nothing there.

Reporting for duty at 5 am like any sane person would
Dreamt that a few of my friends and I went to a futuristic movie theatre. We sat in its equivalent of boxes, right in front of its bar/kitchen and, at least in my case, proceeded to ignore the movie and stuff our faces with what to my hungry and tired brain passed as fine food for hours on end. Very enjoyable. In addition to the popcorn and soda I walked in with I recall having a lot of eggs and rice, decent amount of various types of fish, nuts, and some chicken with a mango cocktail.
I could do a play by play but that was the gist of it. Funny thing about eating dreams is that you're not actually being satiating yourself so you just keep going. At one point, well into the feast, a little girl in the row ahead of me got up looking like she wanted to discard a presumably empty box of pizza and I had to resist the urge to ask if there was any leftovers I could have.

I was at the shapeshifting competition finals. The competitors had to shapeshift into something and mingle with the spectators, without being outed as shapeshifters. One of the competitors was Alice Cappelle, and she was very easy to recognize as in her other forms she still retained some of her radiant beauty. And yet she still won.

Women are just cunts with the autism score of a yeast infection.

>>767434
FPBP

>>762418
Populations declining is a good thing. The only problem is how to fix Africa.

>>767434
>>767499
Stay in school.

shit no one cares about

trvke

My animated Japanese child pornography is actually based and commiepilled and will bring about the hecking revolution!!!

It's not.
>>767505
It's creepy that you assume it's all cp, you're definitely the problem here.

>>766638
>But seeing it as this demonic entity that’s corrupting people from the inside?
That's an exaggeration of the crazy idea that the media you consume has some sort of effect on your mind. Television didn't have any effect on how we see the world or think about things, neither did the internet or radio or mass literacy. That would be silly woowoo bullshit not immutable science dialectical Hegelian material Leninist math rock or some shit.

>>766444
You know what must be done

>>766678
The issue isn't what you're putting in your head, but what you're not using your head for. LLMs trick people inexperienced in a subject to cognitively offload those matters onto it and not learn about them, making them unable to vet it and thus assume its working when it isn't.

It's like if a fake calculator was sold to math illiterate people that then wouldn't learn math and realize the numbers it's giving are random.

>>766729
This. New tech requires new skill sets.
The problem is, most of our labor is concentrated in the service industry.

>>766519
It bothers me when cool looking watches do that. Like it's actively resisting being read.
Some fancy watches are built to be trivial to read, which neat.

"Touch digital grass" is much better because hyper-allistics like whoever made the pic in >>762495 won't misinterpret it as literally going outside and finding a member of the Poaceae, Cyperaceae or Juncaceae to touch. It's more obvious you mean "get off twitter and learn to use the internet in a less self destructive manner."

>>762262
Kinda felt this as well. Adults are always pushing kids to being “productive” and irony is, regulating childrens social lives often leads to stratification.

>>762265
Actually, the hedonic behaviors you’d deceive are condemned by society.
Leisure and recreation are pathologized.
Everything has to be about “changing the world” and “anti intellectualism” has become too frequent a slur used for people disagreeing with pop science

>>767485
>>762247
>young people aren’t even sociable at events anymore, they just walk around in little groups and keep to themselves. i’m someone who who likes to go to concerts and events pretty often, i can’t stand talking to people on the internet, and everywhere i go the patterns are pretty much the same.

Mainly due to juvenoia in meatspace and not having social autonomy in childhood

>>762092
Unironically lack of positive influences
Religion is good…sometimes. When it's backed by something meaningful like scholary autism, culture, music, self reflection

Alcohol and tobacco work wonders too
Drugs if you gotta
Pussy helps definitely