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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • See this thread for why D’s will never learn, and do not deserve to govern. Still blaming everyone they failed to motivate.

    “You should have accepted the continuation of the slow D genocide. Now you’ll get the extra double R genocide, and it’s all your fault!”

    This is why progressives abstained; to let Trump destroy the corporate-whore duopoly and charade of “democracy” in America. It wasn’t under some fantasy that R’s would be better for Gaza, America, or the planet. It was because the D’s are captured by the corporate oligarchy — thus will never offer meaningful change — and spent the last few decades helping the R’s sow the seeds for fascism, building the surveillance state and MIC, destroying the financial and housing security of the working class, etc.

    Eventually some victims will stop accepting the abuse, and lash out at their abusers; even if it means much worse abuse or death.







  • OP also completely neglects the geopolitical and demographic history that lead to the rise of US tech companies, and the continuous brain drain from elsewhere to the US.

    After WW2 Europe and Asia were destroyed. It took decades to rebuild. The benefit of this to America can’t be overstated. A significant proportion of the worlds scientific community emigrated throughout the 20th Century because of this. US tech companies had the wealthiest capitalists/investors, and the most skilled labor pool. America also had a much higher wealth inequality, so all companies that came after benefited enormously from a comparatively wealthier and experienced skilled labor pool. Then add the neoliberal low tax, low minimum wage, and undocumented slave labor funneling money to all these companies.

    Capital — especially preexisting capital — is the greatest determinator for success. The EU is not doing it wrong. The US is! It’s a corporate dictatorship, now descending into totalitarian fascist dictatorship.



  • The entirety of global capitalism is lining up to bend the knee and gargle fascist balls.

    This is what leftists have been warning forever. Capitalism wants the monopolies, bailouts — the political, financial and military backing, etc — that state-capitalist dictatorships provide. Democratically elected governments, acting in the interests of the people, are really the only threat to the corporate oligarchies wealth and power.

    All of the wests “enemies” are equally supportive of fascism, because state-capitalist dictators are easier to influence (bribe).







  • All of our modeling doesn’t account for enormous (potentially catastrophic) confounding and compounding variables which are too hard to estimate because we have a rudimentary understanding of the system. One example is the fact forests have already stopped absorbing carbon (something all our climate goals depended on).

    What I’m saying is that the 2070-2090 window will in reality probably end up starting in 2030 or 2040. Remember, we weren’t supposed to exceed 1.5c for another 10-15 years, but we’re already there. At the end of the day we’re talking chimps attempting to understand a system many orders of magnitude more complex than we’re capable of understanding anytime soon… and our entire civilization is structured around the thing causing its own destruction.