/siberia/ - Off-topic

Actually this entire thread is bait pls delete

>>2748389
>>2748390
This

>>767813
homeless people are the incels of meritocracy, capital doesn't owe you a house.

>>767819
JUST IN: New York City reportedly now spending more per homeless person than the median income of the city.

>>767820
"spending"
What you really mean is "Demoncrakkkars are funneling city funds into scam NGOs that don't actually house or feed the homeless"
If FDR could build hundreds of thousands of new homes per year a century ago then so can New York.

>>767654
Well for agencies:

• Above a threshold of emotional intelligence and stress management skills, or signs of improvement on these fronts.
  
• Understanding of law, particularly copyright, nondisclosure and libel
  
• Not too attached to their current online persona
  
  • having a romantic partner is a infosec breach risk, even if your audience is chill with you having one.
    
• Distinct personality, hobbies, and capacity to adapt to the character they're assigned
  
  • Agencies usually make a character before hiring someone to be that character
    
• Good infosec and cybersecurity
  
  • Being a linux user is a desirable trait as long as you aren't annoying about it (unless being annoying about it is seen as endearing quirk for your character to have)
    
• Good presentation skills (audition tapes are usually 5-ish minutes and need a lot of info conveyed)
  
  • Competent performance skills like singing and gaming
    
• Business-level English (not always required) + whatever language the agency natively speaks (not hyper-casual, no twitter incel gibberish)
  
  • If it's Phase Connect, at least demonstrate being able to speak in non-twitter gibberish English/Japanese, even if some is permitted
    

Indies don't have to start off with these but they generally have to develop these to actually make money from it.
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>>767661
yeah but why are you still watching vtubers when you get money? I tought watching shit like that was for people who have nothing else to do because they are broke and have to distract themselves from a shit life.

>>767694
>I tought watching shit like that was for people who have nothing else to do because they are broke and have to distract themselves from a shit life.
Real life is often less soyjakian in nature than centralized social media paints it to be. It can get unhealthy like that, especially with agencies, but now that people generally see vtubers as just a kind of talksprite it's a much broader thing now.

>>767730
>Real life is often less soyjakian in nature than centralized social media paints it to be.


I wish people would remember this whenever they go into some moral hysteria over an umpteenth “scandal”

change your underwear, uygha.

>>762775
Rich people are always testing the limits of how retarded they can be as they hire people who won't tell them they're being retarded so don't rule it out

World wars are when stupidity wins out which is often. Most people are some combination of evil, stupid, and cowardly. Obviously cowards wouldn't, smart evil wouldn't, but not everyone is smart and God forbid the stupid grow a pair and think they're the good guys. Then it's always the most awful Orwellian shit.

Thank God this generation isn't as cowardly as millennials. I remember when everything was labeled terrorism in 2001. Zoomers have no problem telling feds to stfu

>>762770
Strange how these low autism score retards think USA bombing Iran means WW3. Do they not understand that Iran doesnt have nukes?

>>767497
> Most people are some combination of evil, stupid, and cowardly.
we know its you bro

>>767600
You're comparing me to Thomas Hobbes? I'm flattered lol
Irony is I'm saying the exact opposite. Anti social contract, anti state. The church's role should be to contradict the state whenever possible be it pacifist and lawful means or violent and unlawful jihads.

>>767610
Sexualizing real life acquaintances is a no go.
Stick to fiction

>>767609
The problem is people get upset about sexualising fictional characters

what does "sexualizing" even mean? humans are a sexually reproducing species, and sexually dimorphic with obvious secondary sex characteristics. the same person in the same context might activate one person's neurons but not another's. idk how this is anything but an eye of the beholder situation.

>>767649
Imagining everyone is a hole you could stick it in or cock you could suck.

>>767649
I know you're trying to sound like spock but it comes off like Mengele

>>766156
Why would i want young wives? Lmao

Anyway, you are probably right. I'm really deep into depression lately, I should get some drugs or something

>>767518
Thanks!

>>731287

Most vapers I know take a quick hit and then immediately hide their device because they know how fucking cringe it is

Also, the "vapor" legitimately smells worse. It's always some artificial cotton candy bubblegum crap that makes me want to throw up.

Tobacco does make me dizzy so I can't join in on the spliff but at least it doesn't smell like diabetes

>>767601
Really? You must know some self-conscious vapers, then. Most of the addicts I know (and have seen) hit theirs 24/7 and don’t give a shit if they’re blowing it directly in people’s faces

I-If you were my girlfriend I would unflinchingly support you rising to leadership within the Party (>////<)

would anime girls have boils under their chin

>>767446
What do u do when she sends you to gulags?

>>767572
Idk most imageboardusers tend to be around thirty

>>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.