The politics that support minorities and marginalized groups in America still throw untold millions of people into the furnace abroad.

You could argue that supporting a particular US government throws fewer people into the fire, but your you’re still choosing who deserves to be saved.

If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

It’d be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

Nobody’s opinion on immigration has anything to do with legality. To prove it, just ask them if they would be OK with immigration if we legalized all of it.

You will find that “legal/ illegal” is 100% a stalking horse for another opinion they’re not so comfortable espousing.

King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.

King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.

The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.

The Luddites were an early form of direct action of working people against the ownership class. They were also an early example of workers rights movement being crushed by State violence.

It’s discouraging that their history in popular understanding is 1000% from the perspective of said ownership class.

I saw a documentary about the ultra rich teenagers in the US years ago. One young girl in that film explained that maintaining friendships with “regular” people was impossible. Her reasoning was that rich people do rich people shit. And you have the choice to pay someones way, which makes for awkward obligation/ resentment. Or you could exclude them, which also causes hard feelings.

That teenage girl? Ivanka Trump.

Communism is young. At this point in capitalism’s history, it was all colonization, genocide, and slavery. Apples to apples, I’d rather live in the Soviet Union under Stalin than a South Asian under the Dutch East India company.

I need windows for flight sims. My problem is not so much the software, it’s the hardware. I have a head-tracking camera, a set of pedals, a throttle, and joystick. All need separate drivers. None support Linux. My throttle is so old that it hasn’t been supported since W7 and it’s work to get it going on W10.

It’s just way easier to dual boot than to try to get all that hardware running on Linux.

Treat capitalists as you find them. Forget morality. What is advantageous and legal is automatically good. What is advantageous and illegal is a cost/benefit calculation.

I think the apt comparison is Braxton Bragg. Both men being incompetent political hacks.

Everybody who laughs at this uses Yahoo for Email.

In American leftism there is a definite divide between black and white.

For example second wave feminism is often thought of as Women seeking entry into the workplace, but at the same time black feminists were trying to leave the workforce and take care of their own kids.

The labor movement has an explicitly racist history. A fact that Capitalists often took advantage of by leveraging black scabs who were often ineligible for union membership. Eugne Debs identified this as a problem with the socialist movement.

I’m not saying that racism is common among today’s lefties, just that white lefties are often ignorant of black American life and especially black radical thought and activism.

If you are vexed by Bernie Sanders’ struggle with black voters, you’re probably not very familiar with this history.

Even Rand thought libertarians were nuts. She considered them anti-capitalist because she recognized that capitalism couldn’t exist outside of a strong State to enforce it.

But with OpenAI, [Sam Altman] told me, “there’s something real happening here”.

This sentience strikes me because it’s a tacit admission that AI as it stands is way less valuable than people like Altman promised it would be. But trust me bro.

Zionists doing Zionism. If they thought of Palestinians as humans, it’d give them heartburn.

Onedrive is Microsoft’s attempt to make Home Windows users a revenue source by making it a subscription service. This has been SOP in smart phones for a decade now.

What people in the US are bad at is examining systems because we’re conditioned to believe everything is the sum of individual choice and ability.

This person has been spamming “mark of the beast” Christian paranoia content. This post is more obfuscated than the others, but notice the mark on the forehead.

The phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.

I’ve seen lots of rumors that this was political violence, is that substantiated anywhere?