/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1686491
Asperger's doesn't exist exist anymore.

I don't see the point in this idiotic argument anyway, we have no way to cure autism so it's pointless to wonder if we should.

>>1686492
>Asperger's doesn't exist exist anymore.
Yeah and now they get lumped in with diaper-pooping retards instead.

>>1686495
Well what's your point?

>>1686503
That removing that distinction makes no sense, obviously.

>>1686495
That's why i always lie and go "no, i'm normal" whenever someone asks if i have autism.

>>1686366
>In the longer term you just need to educate people and put critical thinking skills in their heads
In my country…. or at least my high school, I haven't checked, we had a few short sessions in the library where we would learn about sources and bias, and those ideas were lightly integrated into (compulsory) history and English (comprehension and literature analysis) classes.
I wonder how common that is, because surely it's as essential as a mathematics class teaching negative numbers.

>>1686374
What's your point?

>>1686412
That theres no way out of mass media
If you want influence, become an influencer

>>1686385
In my experience American schools don't really teach you critical thinking. If they do, it's usually by accident.

>>1686447
Since cool comrade above posted a lecture (watching rn) and we're talking about education systems, I might as well post this 20 minute talk on while we're waiting. They're tangentially related, this one discusses the gamifiction of education.

>>1685778
no one ever denied it was a booj state. Imbecile

This equivocating is fundamentally useless to understand the world.
>It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
doesn't mean they are the same.

>>1685779
The whole rotten edifice will be brought down as it were

>>1685772
None of the links speak of trade of commodities. China is starting to export capital around the world, as it's system is developing into capitalism-imperialism.
The initial pattern of investiment is something all imperialist states did, even europe before it fully took control of africa

>>1686332 (me)
Note that I never brought up debt trap diplomacy and the like

i think in part there was more of a demand for universal recognition of humanity and an end to western hypocrisy at the time that was badly smashed by 9/11,

>>1685618
>What is the materialistic reason for Western countries boycotting South Africa during apartheid? Essentially, they boycotted an ally in Africa in a polarized world due to moral concerns.
1. read a book about it.
2. ask qtdtot.
This is not your personal search engine to find out facts you boomer retard. lmao.

>>1685924
"Look at me, I'm so smart, obnoxious, and rude haha. Go read a book instead of seeking opinions, you ignorant boomer haha"
STFU Nerd.

They didn't, capitalists from the "west" had huge investments in South Africa.

https://www.aamarchives.org/campaigns/barclays-and-shell.html
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/british-students-force-end-barclays-bank-s-investments-south-african-apartheid-1969-1987
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/06/archives/investing-in-apartheid.html
https://londonminingnetwork.org/2010/04/rio-tinto-a-shameful-history-of-human-and-labour-rights-abuses-and-environmental-degradation-around-the-globe/
https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/environment/6197-rio-tinto-zinc-stinks-part-2
http://feministarchives.isiswomen.org/56-isis-international-bulletin/isis-international-bulletin-9/724-multinationals-doing-business-with-apartheid

>>1685928
>. Go read a book instead of seeking opinions, you ignorant boomer
Anon internalizing others opinions on topics you don't know or understand is not healthy nor expcted from any leftist or radical.
If this is going to be how you approach life you may as well save yourself time and become a fascist today.

>>1678435
engels

>>1678435
Nagle

>>1678415
>when he's possibly the most inoffensive left wing thinker of all time.
Have you read The Poverty of Philosophy or The German Ideology? He fucking hated Proudhon and Stirner and his writing there is full of venom, not even mentioning 15th Brumaire

It works a lot easier when literature is less spread and fewer people are literate.

>>1677941
They can't ignore it, so they vulgarize it. Just like what happened with bourgeois economics.

glöm inte att sympatirispa varenda teslabil ni ser kamrater

>>1665911
>strong communist movements
a few dozen ML's in reading circles more like it

He really can't stop stealing, can he?

30 refugees at the Russian border, AAAAAAAAAAA!

That was rather quick, now all the border crossings except Raja-Jooseppi up north ":D" are closed and the Frontex alerted.
So GG, Putte; all it took was a busful of refugees a day and we managed to show both hypocricy and weakness at the same time, while this fucking circus will provide a convenient smoke screen for the neoliberals and endless talking points for the fascists for months to come.

How'd you fare if the Kremlim decided to drop a boatful of folks into, say, Gotland, I wonder.

>>1630507
Supply and demand, also speculative practices

>>1682520
TBH many Polish and etc people are returning home now since the UK and other Western European economies are so shit now

>>1638752
It's just a thermodynamics analogy.

Classical economists write theories from thin air and then try to fit them to observations instead of an observation-first approach like the natural sciences.

The form of the theory is almost always calqued from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is almost always thermodynamics because involves statistics and lets you do that micro to macro bullshit.

So they took the ideal gas law, PV = nRT, and made their theory of money

PQ = MV

Pressure -> Average prices
Volume -> Real output
Number of particles -> quantity of money
Gas constant R -> lmao we don't need physical units, we're economists
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>>1685228
>Classical economists write theories from thin air and then try to fit them to observations
They did draw from observations, but those observations were anecdotal. Marx made use of statistical data from the British government ("blue books")

>Temperature -> "Velocity of money"
I don't see how from that you can get a concept of too much "heat". It's true that money velocity increases during booms*, but what makes that the wrong "temperature"? You would need some additional assumptions for that.

*IIRC Milton Friedman's models did have unchanging velocity though.

>>1685317
>but what makes that the wrong "temperature"? You would need some additional assumptions for that.
They don't know a correct value, that's why they mess with the interest rate.

A correction on my previous post:

Pressure -> Real output
Volume -> Average prices

It's the real output and the velocity that are termodynamic variables in this model. It incidentally makes sense of the word "inflation".

just sharing something silly

>>1685661
based and heliospilled

but seriously, AGI is vaporware that is nowhere near being real, chatGPT and so on are built on completely different principles from what would create true AI, they're just glorified chatbots. A true AI would need to be built from the ground up to learn how to live like a human being.

>warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity
Excellent. Everything is proceeding according to the prophecy. I myself am attempting to develop esoteric methods to assimilate my concious thought to machinic culture. Cultivating Lovecraftian ecstasy is the mark of the enlightened individual. Only the ascended can spectate with glee whilst inferior force nexuses are recycled. Or one might put it more simply to say that it is the dialectics of nature in motion.

>>1685654
We will sooner have robot girls than artificial gay idiot yes.

HUGS with XJ9

Fascism is also capitalist.

>>1685676
I heard a smart take one time that neoliberalism is essentially a "markets and CEOs know best" philosophy that requires the heavy hand of the state to make sure everyone gets the message.

Those two terms aren’t mutually exclusive.

Damn bro you retarded. Read a book

Argentina: far-right Milei victory reveals crisis of bourgeois regime
Far-right "libertarian" candidate Javier Milei has won the presidential run-off election in Argentina with almost 56 percent of the vote, beating Peronist candidate Massa (who got 44 percent), the country's outgoing Finance Minister who had renewed a deal with the IMF and promised a government of national unity. Milei’s win and particularly his margin of victory came as a surprise, as several opinion polls in the days before were predicting a much closer result or even a Massa victory. The victory of such a reactionary candidate, whose running mate Victoria Villaruel has openly defended army officers involved in crimes against humanity during the military dictatorship, has caused shock and dismay amongst many left-wing and working-class activists in Argentina and beyond. However, as communists, it is our task to understand the reasons why Milei won.
https://www.marxist.com/argentina-far-right-milei-victory-reveals-crisis-of-bourgeois-regime.htm

Autumn Statement offers no relief for workers: Prepare for class struggle
Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s latest Autumn Statement is another case of giving to the rich with one hand, whilst taking from the poor with the other. Facing electoral disaster next year, the Tories are keen to position themselves as the ‘party of low taxes’. Hunt’s latest package therefore includes a cut of 2 percent to national insurance contributions, in an attempt to placate the Tory faithful. But behind the attention-grabbing headlines remains the small detail that nearly four million low-paid workers will be dragged into paying income tax, as a result of the Tories’ ongoing freeze on tax thresholds. Millions more will see their tax bills continue to rise as a result of this ‘stealth tax’. Hunt also said that he had made the ‘difficult decision’ to cut welfare spending, in order to be able to give tax cuts to big business. What he really means is that some of the poorest in society will have to make the difficult decision between heating and eating this winter, so that company fat cats can rake in bumper profits.
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>>1685427
What's a "peronist?"

>>1685428
It's social democracy/Left liberalism with Argentine characteristics.

>>1685447
Ah thanks

Thanks News Anon