/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2494177
They buy in whole-sale dork. It's much more expensive to buy in print to order.

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>>2510035
>We’re basically facing epistemological collapse with AI videos right now.
very few people had a consistent materialist worldview to begin with. in a society where over 50% of people are literal metaphysical idealists and solipsists (this is the essence of being religious after all, you believe the material world is an illusion and only the souls and their relationship to God is real) very few people actually sought to understand reality as it actually is. AI is just more bells and whistles on the already dogshit epistemological situation. God forbid I live long enough to go senile in this world. If you thought Jamaican Prince scams in the 90s fooled a lot of old people, just wait until zoomers are in their 80s and holograms of the Virgin Mary are knocking on their doors asking for donations.

>>2510038
zamn

>>2510038
remember go for the dumbest must mundane explanation first. it was probably a gas explosion.

SHITS SIZZLING IN THE STREAM

>>2510047
what stream

Um, you know that globalism is shorthand for globalized capitalism?

>Is capitalism essentially proto-globalized capitalism?

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>>2509379
Yea, but my point was that the most important trait of the system is the ability to essentially play job market and product market arbitrage, whether that happens at a global or regional scale. Capitalists do this not simply because they own it, but because the trade law and labor law in their countries allow it. What we have then, "capitalism", is just a special case for conditions that allowed capital owners to do arbitrage.

We could also get into the power of rent, interest, and other financial points, but I think even these things are secondary to my point about arbitrage.

After all, prior to capitalism, we already had many of these financial instruments. Some people argue that the joint-stock company revolutionized finance, but I would argue that the logistics (and thus, potential for arbitrage) of the Age of Sail were really what made capitalism possible.

>>2509126
Enforcers

>>2510041
I make a law, my gang of bandits enforce it

Globalization was an inevitability due to technological advancements allowing humans to move commodities around the world more efficiently and in greater quantities. The question is not, "How do become Luddits and seal our country off from the rest of the world to stop globalization?", the question is "How do we make this paradigm work well for our country and all of our people in the long run?"

We would employ globalization in a way that benefits a few people right now in the short-term by outsourcing all industrial production overseas to poor developing countries with cheap labor, then selling the produced goods at inflated prices to our relatively wealthy middle class. But obviously that isn't going to be very sustainable in the long run - over time the other country's standard of living is going to increase while our country's standard of living will decrease and the cost of the foreign labor will eventually no longer be low enough to offset the costs of transporting the manufactured products back to the United States to sell to the Americans who are all poor and don't have jobs anymore. We will have effectively gutted out country's manufacturing sector to get a more immediate payout, killing the golden goose.

Or we would take advantage of the global economy in a more intelligent way. Instead of trying to use it to get huge immediate returns for a few private multinational companies at the expense of the entire country and its working class population, we could use it to more efficiently produce and export the things that we are already good at producing and only import the things that we can't easily make for ourselves, and view the global economy not as a huge table that must be tilted in the direction of one party, but as an even playing field where the various industrial centers of the world can freely exchange goods and wealth for the mutual benefit of both parties, to do what markets are supposed to do in the first place.

Ask the anarkids why most of the anti-hierarchy/anti-authoritarian policies that they champion as short-term solutions have failed miserably when put into practice.

Defund the police. Decriminalize drugs. Stop prosecuting shoplifting and fare evasions. Allow homeless encampments in city parks. Stop prosecuting graffiti. All these policies were massive failures and only lead to public life for the masses going downhill.

>>2509952
> Decriminalize drugs.
Where has this failed miserably? Once, let alone every time.

>>2509952
Where have these policies been implemented?

That aside, there's no point implementing those policies if the root cause is not attacked.

>>2509952
Drug legalization worked great Nixon

>>2509982
NTA, but the problem is the laissez-faire attitude towards it all. Places like California, Oregon, and certain provinces in Canada like British Columbia have experimented with decriminalizing drugs. The problem is, they don't REGULATE the drugs or do anything to help the addicts the way Portugal does, so the end result is addicts shooting up in public places and causing all sorts of disarray. Same thing with homelessness: sure, the government has an obligation to house the homeless, but toleration of encampments means public parks are now dominated by homeless tents and are no longer able to be enjoyed by the community.

I'd even say that sex work is also a problem in this vain. California has decriminalized sex work, yet does nothing to regulate it, so you're now seeing street walkers everywhere and brothels being set up across the street from schools.

>>2509348
Workers aren't needed, most factory/mining/farm labor can just be automated. The main problem is just economic, since old people drain government money for retirement pensions and don't generate tax revenue. I think this can simply be solved by systemic reform since in the current market system it means young people have to shoulder the burden of the old with increased taxes, but in a command economy it wouldn't be a problem at all since automated factories are producing just as much stuff as before just with less people, so there's still enough resources to distribute. Ofc they can't go full command economy while still being integrated into the world economy, so a halfway solution would just be to further nationalize the country's industries and add the profits to the government's income to pay retirement pensions.

>>2509589
>The main problem is just economic, since old people drain government money for retirement pensions and don't generate tax revenue.
and this is where anti aging solution can come in. Decrease the amount of old population that would depend on government services and welfare. Therefore lifting a lot of the financial burden from the gov and the young people.
Systematic reform could work too, I admit. But anti aging can solve the core financial pension problem

>>2510006
But then they would have to either lift the retirement age or lower the pension by a lot which would be difficult and unpopular. Because rn the retirement pension is so high that there's no reason to continue working once you hit that age, unless you're a workaholic or really really want as much money as possible.

>>2510031 (me)
I wouldn't want to keep working past 60 anyway. It sounds much more appealing to me if the government eats up a few corpos, uses robots and a handful of human overseers to staff the assembly lines, and puts the profits towards my retirement pension lmao.

>>2510031
>>2510032
admittingly, its true people wouldnt want to work. Nor do they want their welfare to be gone…
okay systematic reform may be the only practical solution for the retirment pension problem

Do they have the Long March mapped out for those who wish to hike or bike it?

>>2509613
Yes, some guy did it on a motorcycle before. https://thechinaproject.com/2021/07/01/retracing-the-long-march-a-red-pilgrimage-on-motorbike/

>>2509318
I wanted to travel to the DPRK originally, but they're closed to tourism and I'd have to go to Beijing first anyway - so I went to China. When the DPRK opens up again I'd love to go there. Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba would also be great to visit, I've heard great things about Vietnam and Cuba and Laos just seems like it'd be cool - the Socialist country people often forget about.

Of course, at some point in my life I'd have to go visit Russia and see the sites of the Revolution… or its grave, anyway. Unrelated but I unironically think Russia will return to Socialism in my lifetime, it'll be a great day to see the RSFSR come back.

>A messenger model like this is supposedly being emulated by some other countries' private/partially privatized software companies, however unlike China none of them have the infrastructure (and are most of the time not socialist in the slightest).

I agree, I don't think any western Society can meaningfully emulate WeChat in the slightest. If Google or Apple tried to do it it'd just be a poor imitation.

>>2509524

I think some of it certainly comes from Legalism and Confucian ethics gelling well with Marxist concepts - e.g. the Five Constants and Four Virtues, Confucian Meritocracy, and insistence on Tian (天, literally "Heaven") as a transcendent Moral Order - though obviously the government dissuades other concepts like "Men are superior to Women". It's unsurprising that a culture based around Taoism ("go with the flow"), Confucianism ("Be nice to other people" and "there are people who are alive that aren't you, dipshit") and Legalism ("fuck you, obey the law") took to Communist ethics and economic ideas so well - since, logically, Communist governance tends to lead to what Confucianism would consider an ideal society.

>>2480632
Take a young pioneers tour guide uygha stupid uygha go to the young pioneers they literally do this shit uygha https://www.youngpioneertours.com/

>>2510033
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>>2508206
She was never Charlies. Charlie was for the moment, Trump is for eternity.

Because Kirk was ultimately a banal, unoriginal and uninspiring speaker. Whose only talent was appearing 'normal' whilst regurgitating the droppings rich people were feeding him.
People still bring up Burke, even Enoch Powell and De Maistre are quoted from time to time. But what has Kirk ever said that was interesting or profound?

Basically >>2508114

It's really the fate of any right wing media personality. How many people ever bring up Limbaugh? James Dobson died a couple months ago and nobody gave a fuck about that. Like multiple people said already, these are disposable pawns for the ones who actually have power.

It was tossed aside since it was a flawed redirection away from the paedo-fikes that backfired. Maybe the hit was to incite resentment against some leftist bogeyman but the algorithm which relegates conspiracy theories to digital ghettos will bury the botched conspiracy so nobody outside remembers the plastic gun stock and grip on a Remington found in a box when they claimed it was a Mauser and all the other phony hearsay presented as evidence when the crime scene was scrubbed and paved over… from 'flooding the zone', most people have 'oversaturation fatigue', for lack of a better term. And most people are afraid. That part is by design.

>>2508429
>Vid
Yea thats what the jewish king said

>>2509940
You can extend that to life itself, maybe we are living through one of the Great Filters of the Fermi Paradox, about 300 years to get off the home planet the moment industrialization hits before Climate Change destroys everything. Maybe we are one of the lucky ones because we had Engels & Marx right at the turn of the change of the mode of production from feudalism to capitalism while other intelligent species in the universe didn't have a chance at communism so early in their capitalism stage. Thinking that its like the transition from the slave economy to feudalism and boom, run away greenhouse effect and you're dead, game over.

>>2509956
Based on previous extinction events, especially the Permian, I have no doubts that life on earth will likely continue until the sun expands too far, including in the event of nuclear apocalypse. My bet is on North American black bears and their descendants dominating the land after humans are gone.

Another resounding RadFem revolutionary success, to be remembered right next to the Election of Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher.

>>2509940
it's dialectical yuo see. we are our own negation.

>>2508229
There's so many Chinese gusanos living in Japan that are about to get the "Mexican MAGA patriot deported by ICE" experience

>>2509607
What did he expect becoming a merc

>>2509971
That part's quoting Hersh also. The retard is in the Trump admin.

>>2510014
Live UA map and deepstate are showing most of pokrovsk unclaimed (naturally), but live ua is showing the T-05 north of town severed by Russian control, which just leaves the M-30 west of town as a supply artery. Deepstate is showing the salient north of pokrovsk cut up into several chunks, but liveua has it fully in russian hands so I think it's just wishful thinking.

>>2506975
who is the orthodox gigachd and who is the gays for trump rainbow flag faggot holder? america is faggot