quarrk

joined 2 years ago
[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Referring to hemophilia as a “market” is evil

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

It’s wild that people talk about ECP like it’s some highly theoretical string theory that we could never test empirically. The largest corporations today are managing production far larger in scale than entire countries back when Marx was writing, or even during the Bolshevik era. Amazon is proof of not merely the possibility, but the current ability to coordinate production of a national economy.

Marx himself thought that the development of complex division of labor within private capital would produce the conditions for socialist production. This is obviously the case and it’s why capitalism undermines itself.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Some people have learning disabilities. That is why we must have a slave class

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Hate crimes are the norm, so no it wouldn’t change anything

I hate that I typed that

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

That makes it populism, which is a threat to our Democracy

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Like tectonic plates yearning for a new Pangaea

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

There are a few isolated lines critical of the Count. For example, when the Party council asks what his occupation was, he says that gentlemen don’t have occupations (read: he didn’t have to work for all his nice things). It also makes a point to show that his new room is in the cold attic where the servants used to sleep. But it’s more of a critique of excess, of abuse of nobility. Not a critique of the system itself. I think the vibe is more in favor of benevolent monarchy in which society is believed to benefit when the best-bred individuals are elevated.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So 1.3 million people dead. Extremely tragic

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Jupiter has been prominently visible most of the night for a while

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Drawn ire from the other nations, even

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

They’re blaming Biden for it lol

It’s almost Shakespearean that Joe Biden didn’t just kill his own campaign – he killed hers, too,” a Harris campaign adviser told the Post.

My friend in Christ, Kamala was Biden’s vice president. She did not suffer from secondhand smoke; she and Biden were sharing the blunt… or the “torch”

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

It would require that each billionaire sees themself in Brian Thompson, when in reality, they see in each other only another obstacle to their own accumulation

 

Xiaomi doing some clickbait saying it’s the fastest 4-door car… quite misleading. It’s a race car.

However, this is still a remarkable achievement. China stay winning

 

After 32 generations (~800 years) you have more genealogical ancestors than there are base pairs in human DNA. There literally isn’t enough resolution to store a “record” of each of your ancestors, even if you inherited exactly 1 base pair from each ancestor.

Additional complications make it an even shorter timeline. After about 8 generations, you share no more DNA with your ancestors than you do with a random stranger.

Politically this should be more well known. Of course, racists and fascists rely on “blood quantum” arguments to justify racial or ethnic oppression. But they don’t invent this idea of strict genetic identity. It’s latent in the population.

Leftists should more frequently call out genetic tests like 23andMe as inherently racist because it’s based in race science nonsense. It may not be as obvious as Nazis invoking aryan genes or whatever; but it’s still just as incorrect when your aunt at Thanksgiving talks about how she discovered she’s 2% Choctaw or whatever

pickle-liz

 

I watched a video by an adoptee who advocates against the adoption industry, claiming it is akin to human trafficking, and generally arguing that adoption is immoral.

This surprised me as something that I’ve never thought much about. Are there hexbears with thoughts or feelings on this view of adoption? Preferably people with direct experience? Any reading from a left/Marxist perspective would also be appreciated.

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I have nowhere better to put this

 

Not exactly an obscure song, but even 20 years later this song + anime music video still slap.

 

Pro tip: don’t not be a white man if you try this

 

This man is just fascinating to watch

When I first tuned in, he was ranting about neocons and their adventurism, and I was a bit surprised since I agree with that

Then he said Germany should stop supporting the war in Ukraine, and it doesn’t help Germany to just be a US base. Agree

… because “a strong Germany is the best defense against Russia” 🤨

Something something, Kamala is going to let BRICS happen and that’s bad

Just all over the place lol

 

tl;dw he had a “flat affect” after his daughter died because he was autistic, not because he was a murderer

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