The motivations of wealthy libertarians are material, they don’t want to give up their wealth or ability to control resources. However, poorer libertarians don’t have that problem. They don’t have any wealth to give up. Therefore the ideology has to be tied to immaterial things like abstractions. It becomes about liberty, individualism, divine right, etc for them. The wealthy mystify their own relationship with labor and capital because it gives the workers a reason to join them rather than achieve class consciousness.

Dallas Fort Worth has a history of gas explosions after heavy rainfall due to the clay soil absorbing the water, expanding, then contracting, causing explosions.

???

Wonderful has $3.6 billion dollars worth of agricultural land in California. They also own a lot of water rights in the state. The water restrictions you hear about? Guess why it’s hard to get water to all the houses that have popped up over the last couple of decades.

They did this with Iran and pistachios too. The Wonderful company lobbied to stop imports of Iranian pistachios because they were competition.

He thought we could overcome problems by using capitalism. He was a true believer, not just a wealthy cynic. We would be the commies by introducing them to Coke-a-cola and blue jeans. We would solve imperialism by liberalizing previously occupied and having them join the world economy. He still wasn’t okay with having an alternative to capitalism. In a way he was a further abstraction of problems, not a counter to them. If he had continued we would continue to see imperialism, just by more abstract means. And eventually we’d still learn that you can’t have both, that the exploitation will be enforced by violence regardless of how it’s sold to the West.

Israel is not Judaism and it’s not an ethnic group by your own admission. The idea that the Jewish people employ dark magic rituals that murder and consume children is antisemitic. The idea that the police and military of Israel, with the public at broad’s supports, kills children in the interest of national security is not.

We can distinguish between the two. You don’t seem to separate them, which is antisemitic.

When the materialism kicks in

We’ll have tea in the pusary

We moved the Overton Window and we’re pushing capitalists out of it!

I hate this lame PR shit of “We hear you. We’re doing a growth. We’re working with the community. We’re doing outreach. We’re doing self-crit.”

You’re not on Tumblr in 2014, you’re a million-dollar corporation.

A little math here…if Democrats aren’t acting like Republicans then how do we keep getting so many Republicans in power? Like how is not acting like Republicans working out for Democrats? Obamacare has been torn apart. There’s no action on climate change other than lessening the amount of permits to drill. We’re not safer than ever from the worst Republicans. The worst person in the world was just President before Biden. So what gives? How does not keeping the party in line help us? What are we preserving if Trump can be President? Okay our anti-authoritarianism is intact. But we keep getting authoritarians…

You ever just think about stuff like that? Put the things you think on trial and see how they worked out in actual history? You ever go outside and look around and try to apply what you think to the real world?

I don’t know what policies he supported or what his past is or who he is as a person. I just know he has a square head and a neat haircut and wears a suit and speaks a certain way. That’s what I respect about him. We need more people like that in office. They are noble opponents.

“God sent her to save me!”

So you fired her?

“God sent me to fire her!”

Gotta love these fuckers. God just loves everything they do and everything they do is because of God.

US collapse is going to be slow. We’re going to dwindle into corrupt fiefdoms led by various wealthy families and individuals. These people will be in various overt states of war and treaty, just like olden times. As it becomes more obvious we are nothing like the liberal ideal of America, they will further entrench themselves in patriotic and nationalist decoherence. Some will perform a ritual where they dress up as the Founders and pretend to be them, warping history around their present. Some will turn to Lincoln, JFK, Obama as the focus of their nationalist emanation. These strange outbursts of black comedy will be punctuated by bouts of violence. Domestic terrorist attacks, organized crime.

We’ll slowly become a reflection of our projections against the global south. A third-world country with world-leading poverty and a corrupt government funded by foreign capitalists trying to keep The American Project going long enough to finally defeat communism.

It’s natural, it’s from the earth!

Joe Biden really is bringing back the Obama years.

Just spelling it all out. Wage slavery is just an abstraction of slavery that actually benefits the burgeoise.

A guy who owns an AI company that relies on collecting data about everything wants to pay me in company scrip is harvesting bio-metrics from the global south?

Sounds on the up-and-up. I don’t know why more people aren’t doing it. It doesn’t sound like a plot from Brosnan Bond movie.

That’s not a study. It’s a bible site that citing other bible sites. You asked us for studies, where are your studies?

Now, if someone could link a study to make me otherwise that’d be great.

That’s not how burden of proof works. You’re not correct until other people prove you wrong. If you’re going to have a strong conviction on this, then it’s your duty to be informed. You should be able to back up what you claim. Otherwise you’re asking everyone else to be well-sourced except for yourself. You make the claim, you provide the studies.

You can come at me at whatever angle but it’s a fact that males at birth genetically have more strength than females.
For example, males at birth have stronger bones, tendons, ligaments, and mean height difference of 5.1 inches.

What does that mean? Who is making newborns lift weights to test their strength? Males at birth barely have bones because they’re still forming and solidifying. What are you talking about? What is genetic strength?