SummerIsTooWarm

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[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't use that shit rack as a source

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OK, I feel stupid but what does dd stand for in that context?

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Why are you posting this? This is a good take!

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

This is the only situation, where I like seeing that flag wave isntrael

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, is it another situation like Promised Neverland, where they never did a second season? But thanks! Will check it out

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where is this from?

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

That's the beauty: execs still get paid for their "innovative leadership" and "future earning potential" (aka make free product and enshittify later). Should the company go under while theyr still there, they just sell their stocks and pull their golden parachutes. They always win, that's why we should do funny things (in Minecraft)

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Isn't that typical rightwing hypocrisy? As in: the in-group needs to be protected by the law but not bound an vice versa for the out-group. The double standard is not a contradiction, it's the point.

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nah sadly not, her party is more Nazbol/Patsoc. While commendable that finally a party with some relevancy calls it a genocide, their other positions are kinda dogshit. They split from the (socdem) Die Linke, because they were socially too 'woke'. Wagenkencht's party is against LGBTQ rights, because they are not relevant to working people. They are close to the bad parts of Russia, though this led to a more nuanced approach to the current conflict. They are also iffy on climate change because acting on it costs jobs/reduces industrial capacity

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Problem with that is that wealth (and life quality) in western nations is subsidized by exploitation of the global south. Huge parts of the western working class benefit from the exploitation of the global working class. Western capital managed to align their workers' (short and medium term) interests against the interests of the rest by granting these concessions.

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago

Lol, are they complaining that communist are better at capitalism (on an international level) than themselves? Cornering a market and then using it to your own benefit is Capitalism 101

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Thank you for this comprehensive and informative write-up! fidel-salute

anti-immigration and anti-migrant discourse has become VERY powerful in this country, so much that even the PSD and PS took it up in this election

That point shows again, that liberals are fascist at heart. Liberal and "left" parties here, that a few years ago had a humane veneer on migration topics, also have adopted right-wing views and are now asking themselves why they lost the support of the left and the right electorate.

If I had to blame 1 single thing though is that the private news channels, where most people get their politics from, are completely dominated by right wing pundits

Yes, absolutely. The same problem since the first communist movements. In bourgeois societies money controls the press/media, combine that with modern attention-economics and we get the conditions for a really popular right wing. I think combating this is one of the keys to redeveloping class-consciousness in western countries, but I have no idea how it can be achieved

 

I've been sick the last few days and to pass time I watched a Video from Geopolitical Economy Report, where he states that about 8 percent of the US GDP (I know that that measurement is shit, but it's still the most used one) is attributed to imputed rent from owner-occupied housing and therefor bullshit.

I tried to read up a little on the topic because I have trouble believing that such a bogus figure is included in the GDP, because it doesn't add value. Everything you do in your own home is not work that 'benefits' the economy and if you hire contractors or buy materials it's already included in the GDP. Though the reading material I found is either full of jargon or skips this question.

So now I hope that someone knowledgeable can clarify this: is this rent imputation really just padding for the GDP or does it server another purpose?

Material I used:

And footnote: It's very telling, that capitalist countries view rent as an important part of their economy agony-deep

 

The whole uncut conference is here with the relevant part starting at 41:41, though it is completely in german with no english subtitles available.

It is baffling to me, how libs don't see (or care) how basic rights are just ignored in germ*ny, when it would be uncomfortable for the settler colonial entity on palestinian soil. I also wonder how slimy one has to be, to weasle your way out of every difficult question when giving a press conference.

Note: I'm not really familiar with DiEM25 or Varoufakis, though they seem to have at least some based takes. But please don't consider this post an endorsement for either.

And obligatory germany-cool

 

Refers to this atrocity and is ~~stolen~~ appropriated and modified from here

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