Diva (she/her)

Show up in a ripped shirt with a mustard stain on it looking dazed and slightly disinterested, like you already visited 4-5 houses that day.

I really am getting tired of having to walk on eggshells around liberals about this extremely obvious issue.

Yet I will be talking to a lib and they will be like “but at least it’s killing a lot of Russians right?” 🫠

Tag NSFW images of human fecal matter pls

Idk but I’m ready to fold space with my mind

takes massive dab

Have you considered that world history prior to 1600 is broadly fabricated, the Peloponnesian war actually happened in ~AD1000 between medieval city states, based on the timing of an eclipse triad described by Thucydides. Jesus Christ was actually Andronikos Komnenos (AD1152), he was born in Crimea and publicly beaten and crucified near Constantinople.

google Morozov

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Frankly the whole trotskyist tradition can be a bit woo-woo-y when it comes to talking about global revolution, at baseline.

At some level it’s also a quasi-doomer meme to be like ‘okay nuke us already so the space comrades can save us’

I don’t buy the flying saucer stuff, it strikes me as at best creative speculation.

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And because scientific progress can be achieved through any of these economic systems*, we can’t just assume that extra terrestrials found themselves on our doorstep due to one particular economic model.

• At different rates obviously, but progress nonetheless.

My read on the passage related to this is that there’s always some inherent inefficiency when it comes to scientific production, due some combination of the economic system (and also the need for global collaboration vs national borders/defense concerns). For example if you were viewing technological development on different planets, all other things being equal but one has a fractured global government with hundreds of different defense concerns and intra-class conflicts sapping resources and scientific ability, vs a planet that has progressed beyond that, and is able to direct all resources towards a single purpose. One of those is going to be more effective in material terms. Maybe there’s some benefit to class competition when it comes to over-stepping what is sustainable within a given system, but I would say it’s debatable.

• I would actually point out that we have an extremely pressing example on our current planet where the endless-growth orientation of our economic system is de-terraforming our planet before we have demonstrated any ability to re-terraform it, when you’re looking at things on an interstellar timescale this starts to look like something self-defeating rather than a ticket to rapid development.

I would say that given the large scientific capabilities and organization, and commitment over time needed to meaningfully act on an interstellar scale, any systems which are not at a stable equilibrium will simply not exist long enough to actually have an impact.

My original statement was:

any interstellar species is going to have already necessarily passed far beyond our existing social structures, and would looks like communists to any earthly observer.

The rationale is essentially just that any system stable enough to actually sustain existence at those timescales across those distances would necessarily look different, and could not look like a system with constant boom and bust cycles, as eventually the technology gets the the point where the ‘bust’ is a self-annihilation. I guess I’m just not that confident that we’re on a trajectory which would result in us becoming an interstellar civilization without the need for major overhauls to our political economy first, and it makes it hard to envision aliens getting to that point while still also being tied up with internal ethnic strife and economic crises.

I have some thoughts, though I need to wait until I’m off my phone or it’s going to be a rambling mess

I always read it metaphorical in terms of ‘they make available the resources with which to undermine them’

I feel like it’s the case for most idioms attributed to famous people

buying a hospital (system I guess?) in order to sell off all the equipment and property and rent it back until they’re bankrupt is just so cartoonishly evil, wtf

yeap pretty sure that was Lenin, lmao

I am citing this work, it’s not my original thought.

It’s a deeply reactionary institution, I support anything that makes a mockery of it.

Maybe I just don’t have an appreciation for what an “independent” judiciary is for when it’s never seemed to be anything other than an instrument for the wealthy in my lifetime.

The judges are free to take endless bribes and rule themselves above the law- and enact the will of businesses over that of normal humans, to our collective detriment. At least my proposal has a clear connection to a popular will, you just think that an actual democracy getting to enact the will of the people would be a bad thing, and that reactionary judges with life terms are something that can be reformed away rather than dealt with directly. I welcome your proposal.

If this is what independent looks like it doesn’t seem to be working, or you and I have very different objectives.

It would have been really funny if they had given like Austria or half of Germany to be “Israel” on top of actually removing the Nazis

I don’t have much hope either, Obama literally ran on hope and change and kept us in all the wars we were in and started started more while bailing out banks at home. I think it’s going to be more of that, because that’s “stability”

It actually rules that they worked all those Nazis to death digging a ditch between the Don and the Volga.

Yeah,I really don’t care how many Nazis got worked to death after that they did, it’s a shame they let so many of them right back into the west german government afterwards.