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The pandemic really shifted the balance between capital and knowledge workers like engineers, consultants, marketers, and academics who don’t own capital but wield a lot of influence - the so called PMC.

During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.

From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.

Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."

In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.

It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
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>>2382123
If it was genuine AI then couldn't it demand something beyond the bare minimum necessary for it to continue existing?

>>2382097
>not strictly from being human in itself
yes it is. only humans participate in human society

>>2382129
Yes and it likely will. I don't deny it will develop hobbies and desires. There comes issues though in that can work at a bare existence level likely below human pay and thus we see a wage price crisis

Not to stray too close ot the roko basilisk bullshit. But in the process of finding AGI there will be countless(billions, trillions, more?) iterations of intelligence being created and destroyed many of which would fit AGI or almost but discarded for liberal reasons.

IMO AGI is likely to be socialist in nature if properly nurtured although we know it's the military who will get the advanced tech and therefore it will be their psycho bullshit getting there first for the same reasons people are not okay with growing trillions of synthetic disembodied human brains to run computing.

>>2382264
capitalism already functions as a kind of basilisk but with even less payoff.



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Russia seizes the initiative in Central Asia with bold Afghan move
By recognizing Afghanistan, Moscow confirms its central role in Eurasia - Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621240-russia-seizes-initiative-in-central-asia/

A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin.
https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/

US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
Shipments are reportedly being rerouted through Thailand and Mexico.
https://www.rt.com/news/621255-us-firms-dodge-restrictions-china-minerals/

Houthis Dominate Red Sea
In response to recent escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) stepped up strikes on Israel and resumed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
https://www.southfront.press/houthis-dominating-red-sea/
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11th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations kicks off in Confucius' birthplace
The 11th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations kicks off in Qufu, east China's Shandong Province, on Wednesday. The forum, which lasts for two days, brings together global scholars to explore the interplay between cultural diversity and modernization.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-09/11th-Nishan-Forum-on-World-Civilizations-kicks-off-1ERkH9inIDm/p.html

Foreign delegates share vision for Global Civilizations Dialogue
The Ministerial Meeting of the Global Civilizations Dialogue will take place in Beijing from July 10 to 11, with attendees from around 140 countries and regions expected to participate. Beginning Monday, July 7, international delegates have been arriving in Shanghai before proceeding to the capital. Here are their expectations for the meeting.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c98389-20338235.html

China urges EU to pursue more positive, pragmatic policy toward China
BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) – A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Wednesday urged the European Union (EU) to adopt a more objective and rational view of China, and pursue a more positive and pragmatic policy toward the country.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c90000-20338248.html

No slander will prevent Cuba from continuing to offer life
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs denounced the media harassment to which Cuban collaborators are subjected
https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2025-07-08/no-slander-will-prevent-cuba-from-continuing-to-offer-life
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>>2380586
Just to poop on this campist party
>Russia seizes the initiative in Central Asia with bold Afghan move
Backing a US-backed theocracy is not anti-imperialism.
>A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
Indians having to flee India due to the economic crisis produced by its fascist government is not anti-imperialism, nor is accepting them as a cheap labor force.
>US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
One capitalist state undercutting another in the global market is not anti-imperialism.
>Houthis Dominate Red Sea
This is, at best, an exaggeration of what is ultimately a tragic expression of the overall weakness of world anti-imperialism. The Houthis and Yemeni people are alone militarily standing against the zionist entity while enduring savage attacks from all sides, while all other forces in the region are either opportunistically seeking to assert their own narrow national interests (Iran, Assad government) or are outright imperialist themselves (Saudi Arabia). Any time so-called "anti-imperialist" forces are called out on this we get welching about how they can't possibly offer military support to Palestinians because it'd go against their interests in one way or another, and then blasts of hot air when meaningless "concerns" and statements are put out as if that amounts to shit for the people getting bombed. Never forget Lenin's 2 fundamental principles of proletarian internationalism:
>firstly, the subordination of the interests of the proletarian struggle in one country to the interests of the struggle on a world scale; and secondly, it calls for the ability and readiness on the part of the nations which are achieving victory over the bourgeoisie to make the greatest national sacrifices for the sake of overthrowing international capital.
As of right now, the Yemeni people are alone in doing this. If you consider yourself a revolutionary, why are you not making moves to either intervene directly or sabotage the ability of imperialist forces to assist? So-called anti-imperialists in the west love blowing smoke up their own asses while they have direct access to the guts of global imperialism. That's Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

It's pretty cool that we can say zigger now. Thanks Ziggeranon

>>2380759
>Backing a US-backed theocracy is not anti-imperialism.
What other entity can be called the legitimate government of Afghanistan at this point other than the Taliban?

>>2380804
That's not the point. The Taliban are absolutely the de facto government of Afghanistan. The point is that acknowledging that isn't some grand act of anti-imperialism. Plenty of countries (especially the US) have de facto positive relations with the new Afghan government even without formal recognition.



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Ppl really overestimate the power of the Zionist lobby tbf. Like look at Zohran he managed to win in fucking Jew York of all places
If the Zio Lobby is as powerful as rightoids say Zohran would've been on a one way plane to Guantanamo by this point
I've said this before but the reason why the Zios managed to gain so much power in the US is because they've brought consent by sanitizing their actions. It was the Gaza war that broke this PR image and shattered their power. There are 24/7 constant stream of images of IDF soldiers punting babies on walls and that is the breaking for many westerners

This should also be a lesson for people here too. People, at least middle class, hates overt images of violence and cruelty. The easiest way to make your message palatable to treatler audiences that are not socially stunted social media zombies is by potraying the enemy as violent and our side as charitable and merciful. Hamas and all actual resistance group understand this. China understand this which is why they keep having photo ops in Xinjiang; most armchair leftists in the West does not and constantly talk unhinged shit about total revolution without trying to understand the situation they're in.

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>>2381250
Are we back to Antifa super soldier conspiracies?

>>2381312
you're bad at baking



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Especially talking about a job that has to do with farming, cant i just throw a few plant seeds on the ground, grow them and take care of them, and call it a day
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>>2381148
depends on her stamina

>>2381156
what the, why does everyone want me to pimp her out

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>>2381139
it's harder than you think!

>>2381121
break your own legs then apply for disability benefits

>>2381385
Is this the mass adopted standard strategy for every communist society? This sounds sustainable and seems worth a shot



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We need anti-war protests today. The ability of the regime to prosecute imperialist war depends on the willingness of the public to go along with it. We need mass resistance to make the continuation of the war against Iran extremely difficult for the regime. Their needs to be protests today in order to put strong political pressure.
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>>2318392
So go organise around that instead of telling us to.

>>2318405
>Do these protests ever really accomplish anything

They say anti-vietnam stuff had some effect, no? I read once that Nixon wanted to nuke iran but was afraid of getting domed at the picnic by a homegrown maoist if he did.

>>2318405
they helped end the Vietnam war

>>2319156
that's a myth

>>2318392
>Killing some weapons scientists is "like Vietnam"



 

Is the fact that the Scandinavian countries have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world a form of social murder?

I’m autistic, queer and chronically ill. I currently live in America and am petrified of being a victim of eugenics. The Trump administration has made it clear they do not want me or any of my other autistic comrades to exist. RFK will soon move forward in finding a way to eradicate autistics. Same thing with queer people. The big bill that was just passed also cuts Medicare, which is crucial to my survival.

Since I’m unable to work a real job or be politically active in the streets due to my autistic and disabled identities my best option would be taking refuge in one of the Scandinavian countries. I’m particularly drawn to Iceland and Finland. All Scandinavian countries have some of the best healthcare in the world. They have the best benefits and aid for disabled and chronically ill people in the world. Very mutual aid-based cultures. And they’re basically autistic utopias since Scandinavians don’t do small talk, are very quiet and reserved, and don’t look people in the eye when they talk. Their languages are also very direct and much less ambiguous. They’re also very solitary people. I know society is what disabled me so if I could move to a Scandinavian country my disabilities would no longer be a problem and I’d be free.

But Scandinavian countries have some the the tightest immigration restrictions in the world. They don’t allow refugees fleeing from wars in so of course they won’t allow autistic comrades fleeing eugenics in. I’m fucking livid about it. Moving to Iceland, Finland or any other Scandinavian country is my only hope and the only hope of millions of other autistics in America. We are literally on the verge of being exterminated and yet we still can’t take refuge in the only countries that can save us.

So does this count as social murder, as Engels says?
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>>2378512
>>2378691
Protip: relationships built on guilt tripping and emotional blackmail are never going to be healthy or stable.

>Return to thread about whether or not disabled immigrant proles should be genocided for the needs of the Fatherland
<Return to see Leftoids defending the bigoted romantic norms of capitalist society in the name of defending white women (as usual)
When I’m in a Hitler competition vs a leftist

>>2383236
It’s not bigoted to point out how guilt tripping people into romantic relationships will never result in a healthy relationship.

“You only reject me because you’re immersed in capitalist ideology, be my gf or else” isn’t going to end well. A relationship isn’t a broken person looking for someone to make them whole, but two wholes coming together to form something new.

>>2383236
“I don’t want to be my disabled boyfriend’s caregiver” is a perfectly legitimate reason to turn down a relationship. Especially when women’s care work is always uncompensated, and her bf is too low on spoons to get a real job or help her out with housework. She might as well adopt a disabled child if she wants that workload.

>>2383236
Since when are the Scandinavian countries in particular obligated to be the world’s breadbasket?



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Previous thread: >>1946727

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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>>2378403
>don't directly make profit
What's your definition of that, last worker touching product before it's sold? Nobody else uses that concept.

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So what happens when putin dies/if he dies whilst still in power? Who replaces him?


>>2380012
>So what happens when putin dies whilst still in power?
Power struggle between elite oligarchs. FSB leaders and military leaders killing each other.
>Who replaces him?
Putin has systematically killed any potential successors except cuck medvedev so its a complete mystery who goes on top after his death. I would bet on FSB leader taking over.

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none of us are free until we're all free.

Obviously I couldn't include every single nation/people fighting for liberation in this picture. It would've been especially hard to include the hundreds of indigenous nations of North & South America and Oceania. But their struggle matters too, and they too deserve freedom, justice and total liberation from imperialism and settler colonialism.
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>>2379941
i agree, thats why its perfectly acceptable to nuke israel off the face of the earth


>>2379941
Cope and seethe more.

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>>2379941
>Settler colonialism is vague liberal academic buzzword
It's not vague, it refers to a specific form of imperialist primitive accumulation in which one group of people are dispossessed of their land and its redistributed to another group of people, which is in turn justified through the superstructure in ethnic/racial terms.
>>2379906
>settler colony is a very specific thing
Yeah it refers to a set of relations in which a colonizing power systematically seizes land from a captive population on the basis of ethnicity and redistributes it to its own population, i.e. what Israel is doing.



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One of the most common downsides of leftist economic policy is wasteful spending. Indeed, bureaucracy isn't perfect, gets bloated easily, and goverment employees with no incenitive to do better would fare WORSE than an employee of a private company in the same situation.

That said, both capitalism and socialism are just ways to allocate resources and distribute rewards for producing them. There's a billion things to be said about socialism resorce wise, but what critiques do we have against capitalism?

Are we making too much of useless things while we could've been making something else? e.g sex work
Are we NOT making something we should and can make? e.g housing
Are we wasting something when we could've distributed it? e.g foreign aid

Pose the most egregious examples ITT.
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>>2377514
Personally they'd be peak if they were sleeker looking, more glass and darker colors

>>2377501
The first thing that comes to mind is how wasteful it is. How much good ends up in landfil and compost simply because shareholders demand it sit on a shelf where less than half of it gets consumed. End result is that there is more than enough agricultural capacity to feed the world, but due to the hideous inefficiency and gatekeeping, we have famines and malnutrition all over the world.

>>2378187
Any specific examples? Whewre I live expired food gets donated.

>>2377501
>but what critiques do we have against capitalism?
Couldnt care less. Resource distribution under socialism and how to make this as efficient as possible is much more interesting discussion.

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>>2380172
did you really expect anything else?

>>2380187
>re-education is a meme. people only learn when they want to.
the whole point of discipline and punish is to illustrate that we have deviced efficient means to re-educate people

>>2380191
lol would you learn to be fascist if a fascist disciplined and punished you long enough? or would you just pretend to have changed your mind in order to escapte torture? torture is for the pleasure of the torturer. the pretense of extracting intel or changing their mind is all bullshit. a post hoc justification

>>2380176
It is not gluten free, i demand a new one.

>>2380472
i would simply provide the adequate incentive and coercive mechanisms to encourage self-discipline



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