Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name] @ Rod_Blagojevic @hexbear.net

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I also dislike folk punk.

My own mom opposed the Obama nuclear deal with Iran because of Iranian support for ISIS. You might say wtf are you talking about? Well, for boomers Iran isn't much different than Russia. It's very scary, definitely has a hand in every bad thing that has ever happened, and has motivations that defy understanding (so don't even bother, in fact, that would be really offensive to even attempt).

Damn. I didn't think of that.

A normal part of American politics is always forgetting that someone has to actually do the work...and you have to pay them. They think people having jobs is rich people just doing us a favor.

I'm reading ch 10 of Capital and it has extensive references to reports written by English factory inspectors. It's not encouraging to see what kind of deprivation the capitalists know you can survive for long enough to provide them a profit.

Also, she's talking about 34 million people. That's 10 percent of the population she wants to displace out of spite and to distract the working class from the rich people pillaging their communities. Are these 34 million all adults even? Is this a number with any basis in reality? How many people are on medicaid anyways? It's a bad look for capitalism that this many people rely on this last resort option to access healthcare.

Rich people imagine AI will allow them to finally fulfill their dream of accumulating value without having to pay a worker. It doesn't actually work that way, but like all capitalists they're dumb idealists.

I've seen some shit you couldn't imagine

I told my brother that we live in a bourgeois dictatorship and he told me I was crazy. When a liberal calls something a dictatorship I have no idea what they mean.

Have you been talking to my parents?

First of all, this shit isn't unconstitutional. That's up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn't doing shit for me. The bill of rights we're all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can't do on your behalf.

I thought it was a tool to remind you that you live in constant danger, so you consent to neverending war in the middle east.

Not left, not right, but right. I am a very serious person. Never in my life have I critically examined the implications of private capital.

I just raw dogged an entire shift at work!

Commodities generally sell at their value, which is the sum of the value of all the input commodities (which I'm pretty sure Marx calls raw materials) and the final input of labor power needed to make those raw materials into a new product. Demand adjusts according to the price (people may want something, but not at the price offered). What's important is that the seller makes a profit selling the commodity at its value, not by doing a markup of any sort. This is because the wage paid to the worker is less than the value they create. The worker is not compensated for all of the value they create. This is where profit comes from.

Read Value, Price, and Profit for a synopsis of some ideas provided in Capital.

Yeah, I've heard the same. However, it seems that relative to the US, the Russian Federation is less inclined towards exacerbating ethnic/racial resentment in order to pacify their population. They're not using their best weapon, so there's always hope. Also, Navalny is dead, so that helps too.

It's interesting to see people's homemade propaganda videos using the hammer and sickle. The old heads aren't the only people pining away for the Soviet Union.

What about the 300 trillion Russians that Ukrainian grandmothers killed in just the last month?

Your argument uses the term "authoritarianism", so I disregarded it.