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PKMKII
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This is why liberals are so impotent against Trump because ultimately they don’t want to destroy him, they want to be friends with him. They want him to have an about face, come to Jesus moment and starts having steak dinners with Schumer and Jeffries.
One thing I’ve noticed is that back when I was a kid, before the term STEM was in use, when people talked about science and engineering it was all about what they produced. An engineer was great because they figured out how to make the more efficient, more reliable widget that would make our lives easier and more productive. It was all about the use value. Sure, they’d make a decent living doing so, but that was secondary to what they produced or discovered. This was the tail end of the Cold War, when capital propaganda was putting an emphasis on claiming quality of life was better under capitalism than state socialism.
In the post-Cold War era though, without that existential question looming over the political economy, it’s shifted to STEM as great because the graduates will make a lot of money. It doesn’t matter if the engineering graduate will just go work for Wall Street figuring out new ways to shift piles of money around while skimming off the top every time and isn’t making anything with use value. Capitalism doesn’t need to prove itself anymore so it just focuses on maximizing profit extraction.
So in this context, philosophy is devalued as it is both seen as not leading to big incomes, but also because it’s treated as asking a question that’s already been settled. It’s the liberal “End of History” mentality, if the big debate of society and political economy has been settled, then what good is philosophy except for navel gazing and intellectual parlor games?
So yeah, I think the dearth of philosophical understanding among STEM majors contributes to the lack of serious scientific progress (aside: if you want to tilt a STEMlord, point out that science is just empirical philosophy applied), but I think it’s a reflection of a general attitude that true progress isn’t necessary. Oh sure, there’s lip service to surface level social progress and having a slightly faster iPhone every two years, but not transformative progress. Liberalism doesn’t want another industrial revolution because that would be another reordering of the class structure and hierarchy.
Haha, getting the worksite for the gas chambers on OSHA and buy-America provision violations will surely stop the fascism!
I went to high school in a small rural town, and when I was there were a handful of kids that were in a “gang.” Which meant a few dorky white boys sitting around listening to gangsta rap.
In an attempt to get “cred,” they started a rumor that they had pissed off some gang from a city with a reputation for violent gangs, and that as retribution this gang was going to drive to the high school and shoot it up during lunchtime, so noon. The city in question, though, was a six hour drive away. So there was both the 
aspect of, how did these dorky white boys from the sticks even get into the same sphere as this hardened urban street gang, as well as the six hour drive meant the gang would have to roll out around 5-6am. Gang members aren’t exactly notorious for getting an early start.
Nevertheless, the 
parents freaked out and only like a 1/3 of the school showed up that day.
Honestly, I could see that working in a rural red district that’s more light rust belt than redneck cosplayer kulaks. A combination of God, guns, and NASCAR, but matched with that old school coal miner union economics, would go over quite well in a lot of parts of flyover country.
Most of those chain emails from the 90’s had reactionary and racist undertones (the Mexican rat-dog one is especially relevant to the current moment).
Aside: if you’re under 35 and you call yourself “Grungette” that’s some sad le wrong generation shit there.
"We want to be clear, no one has a license to commit violence in our city, especially against law enforcement, this damage is unacceptable and we will find the person who is involved," Mayor Eric Adams said.
Property destruction now counts as violence if it’s NYPD property.
“They told me to my face: ‘You know what those stars mean? Those stars are styled by gangsters in your country,’” he told the Tribune. “I said, no. I got these stars when—no kidding—I was starting to leave adolescence, started working. I got them because I liked them and I wanted to get them.”
ICE is operating on the same level of intelligence analysis as one of those “FW: fw: fw: fw: RE: FW: FW: WARNING NEW CRIME SCHEME IN OUR COMMUNITY” chain emails from the 90’s.
Which is so fucking rich given how many times, prior to ranked choice, that an establishment dem won their primary with 40-something percent of the vote and the various progressive/left/antiestablishment candidates split 50-something percent of the vote.