Ah sorry, I was just being a smartass, no idea how much VR is on mturk now. To be clear I think you've got an accurately bleak view of the future of this stuff
joined 4 years ago
Chug
Including Gerald Ford is a good bit
What's funny is I never even saw the Sabine video on capitalism everyone hates cause I dropped her when she started saying stupid shit about HRT. But yeah this definitely isn't that bad, I think you're exactly right about it being some weird balancing act.
I really like/liked this guy and I remember when I first found him I thought he had really good material analysis and then learned after that he says he's a structural Marxist or something and was excited. I can deal with the Stalin ate all the grain crap but was mostly turned off by the bit about people treating Marxism religiously in the modern day, which is not how I feel at all. There's baby leftists out there who maybe are just waiting around for the second coming of the USSR (but perfect this time) but I felt he was painting with too broad a brush and dismissing historical materialism as ahistorical just because capital is in fact hard to win against. Bordering on end of history stuff.
I think maybe it annoyed me to see someone who I usually felt had really good rational analysis say some dumb ass shit (looking at you Sabine Hossenfelder). I think I was also hoping for something about capital as a "real god"/demiurge or something and maybe that wasn't a fair assumption to go in with
Mostly commenting to remind myself to come back and revisit this video at some point I guess but also hoping other comrades can help me articulate why it rubbed me the wrong way.
Voyager from ZSA, which is a wonderful board and sold me on low profile, but I do miss the tactility of the cherry switches on my last board. Waiting on lowprokb's silent tactile chocs so I can have my actual perfect typing experience, hopefully!
Seconding ZSA, I couldn't be happier with my Voyager
If the mods ban this guy that would be Power Dynamics so their hands are tied
Mods can we keep this one around like a court jester please
Previously I'd always said Buttigieg but a Newsom/Buttigieg ticket would not surprise me at all either, I am just assuming the rat will still be involved. AOC will be an even more controlled opposition than Bernie was, she'll spend the primary talking about how the frontrunner doesn't go far enough then she'll get in line and endorse around February 2028.