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Capitalism isn't freedom. It isn't trade. It isn't competition. It isn't the rule of law. It isn't markets. It isn't the absence of a centrally-planned economy. It sure as fuck isn't democracy.
Capitalism is capital being in charge. It is the organization of society around the interests of capital, which are further consolidation and the generation of profits.
Anything positive you associate with capitalism is an accident of history.
@pluralistic Hmm... but isn't feudalism the natural consequence of capitalism? It's ownership of the means of value creation ( = production) & arguably the most important one is people, which is why capitalism drives towards slavery. Rent or profit seem to me to be just as much issues of commercialism, which can exist just fine without capitalism if properly regulated...
@pluralistic @jwcph Absolutely. More accumulated wealth turns to rent assets eventually. Feudalism is the inevitable result of over concentration of wealth no matter who/where it starts from.
@pluralistic @jwcph It's a compelling idea considering entrepreneurs these days seem to be like, "We're disrupting X by charging subscription fees for stuff you used to be able to own and turning employees who have labor rights into contractors who don't."
I recognize that my post about capitalism isn't for everybody. And honestly? That's fine.
Look, some people just really get off on having a boot on their neck, as long as that boot belongs to a rich person. I'm not here to kink-shame anyone.
explain difference between Capitalism and Democracy to people over 40 in Czechia. They think capitalism and oligarchy is democracy. @vitex (sorry za ping, nemam kamarady haha) o7
we must look to countries which combine controlled and regulated capitalism with a strong social conscience and comprehensive welfare. These are the Scandinavian countries. Uncontrolled capitalism and uncontrolled communism are equally bad. The solution lies in democratic control by the community for the community.
In other words an educated population, transparent government and reliable democracy. Neither capitalism nor communism must be allowed to take total control.
“Anything positive you associate with capitalism is an accident of history.” Thank you. I immediately recoil when I hear “Capitalism sucks, but you can't deny it has brought us many great things...” No, those things were gained in spite of Capitalism, not because of it.
Well, if we're doing definitions... capitalism is having private pots of money (=capital) to finance projects.
Nasty downstream consequences come from insufficient regulation by government, not the pot of money by itself. It's the slavish devotion to pots of money and willingness to do anything to get (more of) it that's the problem.
So, tangentially, one of the most important regulations would be to prevent the accumulation of giant pots that seem to drive people insane. Have a cap on wealth as well as a floor on poverty. No billionaires.
Less of an accident and more a serious, violent, and bloody fight to level the table -- tilted away from capitalists and more in the direction of workers and citizens.
The decline in union membership over the last 50 years is a big part of why the current situation has been relatively easy for the billionaire class. People have accepted getting screwed, year after year, decade after decade, by corporations -- and corporations used the accumulated wealth to buy politicians, who passed laws that were pro-corporations, and anti-worker.
The 'golden age' of a single person being able to work a job (literally ANY job) and being able to pay their bills was because unions and non-corrupt politicians fought for worker rights and minimum wage and social programs.
"The Redditor is an archetype that transcends the internet. He’s a self-loathing ex-gifted kid who indulges in childish consumption rather than face the duties and uncertainties of adulthood. He thumbs his nose at traditional authority, and makes that bratty rebelliousness his whole personality. Redditism is not just an aesthetic or a collection of fandoms, it’s an ideology, one that has been taken up and instrumentalized by the global elite against everything good. It animates a death cult that wants you dead first. It’s the end of the line." newrightpoast.substack.com/p/t…
'Israel' loots Gaza’s ruins to bury its war crimes
As Palestinians struggle to rebuild from ruins, 'Israel' turns their destruction into profit, militarizing debris and erasing all trace of its war crimes.
I took the NYT "Do you know your Silicon Valley Lingo" quiz, and got 4 out of 5. The kicker was this scoring paragraph:
"Nice work! You’ve graduated from Big Tech engineer to A.I. start-up chief executive. You probably live in an A.I. hacker house, and left a cushy salary at Meta or Google for the promise of millions in equity if your company eventually gets acquired…by Meta or Google."
Texas Tribune - Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state today in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the US House next year. texastribune.org/2025/08/03/te…
The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map Democrats have condemned as a political power grab.
PancakesCon is looking for a CTF provider, prize sponsors, more CFP submissions, and villages.
It's a unique talk format and I highly recommend you come up with a topic and apply! I submitted, but I would MUCH rather watch your talk than give mine.
(Other than the submission I am not involved in PancakesCon, just a big fan)
I just sent out volunteer notifications for @pancakescon. Thanks to everyone who offered to help!! I really need a few things for this conference to succeed:
- More CFP submissions. - Village submissions - We are still seeking a CTF provider. - Prize sponsors.
Please feel free to message me. This is entirely a community effort with zero budget. It only succeeds if people help out.
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Diesem Text der @tazgetroete merkt man an, dass dieser mit viel gutem Willen und Bemühungen geschrieben wurde. Aber da drin sind jede Menge Verzerrungen drin. Es wird mit False Balance gearbeitet.
Am Ende geht der Tex aber auch am Problem vorbei. Es geht doch nicht darum ob nach einer juristischen Lesart, die so eng ist, dass sie fast unmöglich ist jemals einen Genozid zu beweisen Israel einen Genozid begeht, sondern darum was tatsächlich passiert.
>>Lemkins Definition wurde zur Grundlage für die wegweisende UN-Völkermordkonvention von 1948.<<
Das ist auch irreführend. Lemkins Definition ist viel breiter. Die UN-Konvention eher eingeengt. Politisch begründet. Richter am ICJ bemühten sich seither so sehr - gerade wegen der politischen Brisanz - die Maßstäbe um Genozid zu beweisen immer strenger und strikter zu ziehen, dass nahezu nie etwas ein Genozid sein kann - damit all die genozidalen Handlungen wenig politische Konsequenzen haben.
Die Zahl derjenigen Experten - für Genozid, internationales Recht, etc. das was in Palästina passiert fundiert einen Genozid bezeichnen ist inzwischen um ein vielfaches größer als die diejenigen die das anders sehen, auch wenn diese zu verschiedenen Zeiten zu dem Schluss gekommen sind, und zum Teil verschiedene Ansätze dafür haben.
Leute die das was in Gaza passiert nicht für einen Genozid halten sind oft politisch motiviert, setzten oft sehr unterschiedliche Maßstäbe an, leugnen Fakten, leugnen genozidales Incitement oder setzen den juristischen Maßstab zum Beweisen für Genozid so hoch, dass so gut wie nichts in der Geschichte als Genozid gelten kann - so dass selbst von den Genoziden der Nazis wirklich erst das was ab der Wannseekonferenz passierte ein Genozid sein kann.
Klar kann man diese Auffassung vertreten. Aber wenn man den Genozidbegriff so einengt, dass noch nicht mal der ganze Holocaust darunter fällt, dann taugt der ganze Genozidbegriff auch überhaupt nichts.
Bei der UN-Konvention soll es ja gerade um Prävention von Genoziden gehen. Das wäre dann aber völlig unmöglich, wenn 95% von dem was etwa Lemkin beschreibt gar kein Genozid sei.
Natürlich kann man Incitement durch israelische Politiker, Militärs, Medien ignorieren oder herunterspielen, den großen Teil von dem was der Staat Israel in Gaza und der Westbank tut ignorieren, verharmlosen, jede fadenscheinige Begründung geltend machen, die PR-Leute der israelischen Armee von sich geben, und so tun, als könnte man so ganz nebenbei unbeabsichtigt alle Punkte aus Artikel II der Genozidkonvention durchführen.
Nur warum sollte man das wollen? Woher kommt dann die Motivation?
Einen Einblick in die Motivationen derer - die finden dass der Staat Israel keinen Genozid begeht kann man in der Kommentarspalte unter dem Artikel lesen. Die @tazgetroete tut sich wirklich keinen Gefallen unter dem Artikel Kommentare zuzulassen. Allein was sich darunter finden lässt ist reichlich wiederwärtig. Wirklich radikalisiert, in ihrer Welt aus Verschwörungsglauben gefangen, voller Überzeugung von ihrer heiligen Mission.
@GRA3432 Es ist ist wirklich so abgrundtief widerwärtig. Was da alles steht ist ja nicht nur menschlich abgrundtief verwerflich. Das scheint mir eine Menge davon strafrechtlich relevant zu sein. Und @tazgetroete scheint das völlig egal zu sein, und nichts zu moderieren.
OK Atticus it's time for your hot toddy, now shuffle off and remind Scout about how all your white supremacist neighbors also have their own valid points of view and warm yourself in the memories of the time you maintained the moral high ground in your utterly failed defense of Tom Robinson.
Revisited To Kill A Mockingbird last year and it's very good but reading it as a person of budding awareness is to be constantly frustrated and infuriated by Atticus Finch. The book does a great job of making its points. In high school I did a great job of missing them.
It's not even the look. It's the whiny "I don't wanna do it just gimme" attitude. It's a complete lack of confidence coupled with complete apathy that creates a worthless waste of space of a person. Woke theory says that if we just hand things to these people they'll grow into the role. Clearly that's not working.
And I hate to bring it up again, but there was a time in Jane Fonda's era where they were all saying, "You can have it all. You can be glamorous and beautiful and desirable AND be respected."
The black women do the same thing and additionally claim some racial excuse.
July 31st 2025 Galveston Texas police departmentThe officer that asked me to move his name is Officer Bretting https://www.facebook.com/galvestonpolice?https...
This summer, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, remotely guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This marked the fourth and final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a collaboration between ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to develop how astronauts can control robotic teams to perform complex tasks on the Moon and Mars.
The session introduced new levels of autonomy and complexity. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim operated two robots – ESA’s four-legged Spot and DLR’s humanoid Rollin’ Justin – to retrieve scattered sample containers and deliver them to a lander. Spot navigated the terrain autonomously, while Justin was guided through a mix of direct control and pre-set commands. This setup allowed Jonny to delegate tasks and focus on higher-level decisions, building on other sessions where robots required full teleoperation.
In a second scenario, ESA’s Interact rover transported DLR’s robot dog Bert to a cave entrance. After removing a boulder, Jonny deployed Bert, which then simulated a malfunction in one of its legs. Jonny had to retrain Bert’s walking algorithm in real time before it continued into the cave and detected signs of martian ice. This tested how operators respond to unexpected challenges and adapt robotic systems on the fly.
The robots are controlled from the International Space Station using a custom-built interface developed by ESA and DLR, combining a joystick and a haptic-feedback device. The interface allows switching between first-person view for immersive teleoperation and a top-down map for broader mission oversight. This flexibility lets the astronaut manage multiple robots efficiently, balancing direct control with strategic delegation.
Over four sessions, the Surface Avatar team has refined its approach to human-robot interaction, improving both teleoperation and task delegation to autonomous systems. The experiment has also helped to identify which tasks astronauts prefer to control directly and which can be safely handed over to robotic systems, offering valuable insight for future mission planning.
He apparently made the announcement 2 weeks ago via his Twitter account, but most of the privacy community seems to be catching wind of it only now. I can’t help wonder what happened.
Carville is the portrait the Democratic Party keeps in its attic that grows increasingly hideous as they magically stay beautiful, except they don’t stay beautiful, and they don’t keep it in the attic, they trot it out endlessly like a goddamn cayenne pepper andouille mummy’s cadaver museum display. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cvne4…
This exploited child suffers from an mortal desease, not malnutrition. Is it Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq?
"After the photo was published, an independent journalist said he had obtained hospital information that Muhammad had a serious genetic disorder that affected his health, and the use of the photo was misleading in representing the conditions in Gaza."
Demokratie heißt: Mitbestimmung. Aber was, wenn zentrale Entscheidungen längst anderswo fallen? Wirtschaftliche Macht wird zur politischen Macht – und wir schauen zu, wie Demokratie zur Kulisse wird.
@Jendrischik, vor allen Dingen,eine Erziehung die kritisches Denken fördert und wahrheitsgemässe Information in den Medien, wenn nicht, wird Demokratíe nur eine Verarsche bleiben.
I just sent out volunteer notifications for @pancakescon. Thanks to everyone who offered to help!! I really need a few things for this conference to succeed:
- More CFP submissions. - Village submissions - We are still seeking a CTF provider. - Prize sponsors.
Please feel free to message me. This is entirely a community effort with zero budget. It only succeeds if people help out.
Quand vous entendez un sioniste ou une de leurs serpillières dire ceci : "Que le Ramass rende les otages et la guerre s'arrêtera immédiatement" . Montrez lui ça.
Buenos Aires, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) As promised by the Argentine president, Javier Milei, he vetoed the social assistance included in the laws of retirement, moratorium and disability emergency, rejection that the opposition is working today to revok…
Rappelez-vous bien ceci: Eveillez d’abord un ardent désir chez la personne que vous voulez influencer... Celui qui en est capable a le monde avec lui, celui qui ne l’est pas reste seul.
"Because our rural areas can provide the acreage, the water, and the fracked gas that these facilities require, many of these operations are being proposed for our own communities."
"The residents who will be directly impacted by the facility were not notified, either informally or by way of community meetings. One resident, who was contacted by a friend about these plans, says he knows nothing about them."
What the heck is going on in Pennsylvania? On July 15th, Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University hosted a Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit which, behind all its star-powered hype, was essentially a branding exercise.
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Elaine Chao, former labor secretary under GWB and transportation secretary under Trump 1, as well as wife of Mitch McConnell, defending the integrity of the jobs numbers and process on CNBC.
@niobleoum @ledocool I earn 800 euros a month. I am a poormaxxing corruptionpilled balkancel slavnigger i live in squalor and nobody likes me, you will never be like me, Grzegorz
@niobleoum @ledocool If you think coming out as LGBT is hard, try telling other people you're Bulgarian, see how much acceptance you get from the """tolerant""" left
Even the data center industry is beginning to realize how incredibly environmentally destructive it is.
The tech industry has, since the 1950s, sold a Big Lie that it is ethereal, in the Cloud. Nothing could be further from the truth. Tech is toxic and hugely resource intensive.
Pacific Palisades fire victim shows there were 2 FULL massive tanks of water not used and says a firemen told him they were ordered to let the area burn
** «L’homme qui peut se mettre à la place des autres, qui peut comprendre le mécanisme de leurs pensées, n’a pas à s’inquiéter de ce que l’avenir lui réserve.»**
At the beginning of the month, the Greek Parliament passed a measure to stop #asylum applications from North African countries for three months.
Greece's far-right Migration Minister #Plevris says that the path for people fleeing their countries is now “either to prison or back to their country.” Suspending asylum procedures is a clear violation of human rights and is almost unparalleled in its cruelty. Hundreds of people are now detained to be deported without asylum procedures.
It has long been clear that harsh measures designed to prevent people from entering the #EU do not lead to fewer people fleeing, they just make their already extremely dangerous journey even more life-threatening.
We call on the Greek Government to immediately withdraw this illegal legislation and demand freedom of movement for all!
Hélas! Le monde est plein d’individus avides et égoïstes. C’est pourquoi l’être exceptionnel qui s’efforce de servir autrui généreusement et sans arrière-pensée possède un énorme avantage sur le reste de l’humanité, car il ne rencontre guère de concurrence.
Bahah. Somebody has also FOI'd Ofcom too asking them for their own assessment into how safe it was to tweet links to their own website, which then (with hyperlinks) subsequently links to the 34 porn sites they are investigating. Which do not have age verification.
ALT
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@wy7usa saw a story this morning about James Whale being moved to hospice and that he is “ready to go”. Sounds like you’re on the doorstep with your scythe.
"Le Hamas ne représente plus une menace stratégique": des centaines d'ex-responsables sécuritaires d'Israël réclament l'aide de Trump pour "arrêter la guerre" à Gaza
Dans un courrier signé par 550 anciens responsables de la sécurité en Israël, ces derniers demandent l'aide du président américain pour faire pression sur le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu et mettre fin à la guerre à Gaza.
@apicultor the seller appealed & had the feedback removed. Claiming Courier at fault. While they were, he was wayyy more to blame in the first place 🤷♂️
182 members of Royal Ballet and Opera “reject future performances in Israel” and stand in solidarity with performer who held Palestinian flag. CEO cancels 2026 Israel show The Royal Opera has pulle…
The Turkish presidential administration told Sputnik on Sunday that it had no information about a pending military agreement between Turkiye and Syria or plans to establish military bases in the Arab Republic.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to Max Leibman • • •I would argue that more precisely, capitalism is the system that allows profits to triumph over rents.
In addition to the class struggle between workers and owners, there's a separate struggle between entrepreneurs and rentiers.
Capitalism is the system in which entrepreneurs triumph, feudalism is the system in which rentiers triumph.
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to JWcph, Radicalized By Decency • • •Well, that's certainly Varoufakis's argument, that:
* feudalism was displaced by capitalism when entrepreneurs triumphed over rentiers;
* that Marxists predicted that capitalism would be a transitional stage between feudalism and socialism;
* but actually, capitalism was a transitional stage between feudalism...and feudalism.
pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/clo…
Pluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?” (28 Sep 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netDaniel Lakeland
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Isn't capitalism just the system that creates a market for rent-producing assets by creating tradeable titles?
@jwcph @maxleibman
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Absolutely. More accumulated wealth turns to rent assets eventually. Feudalism is the inevitable result of over concentration of wealth no matter who/where it starts from.
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Jargoggles
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •It's a compelling idea considering entrepreneurs these days seem to be like, "We're disrupting X by charging subscription fees for stuff you used to be able to own and turning employees who have labor rights into contractors who don't."
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •and socialism is the system in which workers triumph
Max Leibman
in reply to Max Leibman • • •I recognize that my post about capitalism isn't for everybody. And honestly? That's fine.
Look, some people just really get off on having a boot on their neck, as long as that boot belongs to a rich person. I'm not here to kink-shame anyone.
Justin Crozer
in reply to Max Leibman • • •Tenzo
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in reply to Max Leibman • • •Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦
in reply to Max Leibman • • •Peter Brown
in reply to Max Leibman • • •we must look to countries which combine controlled and regulated capitalism with a strong social conscience and comprehensive welfare. These are the Scandinavian countries. Uncontrolled capitalism and uncontrolled communism are equally bad. The solution lies in democratic control by the community for the community.
In other words an educated population, transparent government and reliable democracy.
Neither capitalism nor communism must be allowed to take total control.
TheStrangelet
in reply to Max Leibman • • •Aaron Caskey-Demaret
in reply to Max Leibman • • •quixote
in reply to Max Leibman • • •Well, if we're doing definitions... capitalism is having private pots of money (=capital) to finance projects.
Nasty downstream consequences come from insufficient regulation by government, not the pot of money by itself. It's the slavish devotion to pots of money and willingness to do anything to get (more of) it that's the problem.
So, tangentially, one of the most important regulations would be to prevent the accumulation of giant pots that seem to drive people insane. Have a cap on wealth as well as a floor on poverty. No billionaires.
Justin Derrick
in reply to Max Leibman • • •Less of an accident and more a serious, violent, and bloody fight to level the table -- tilted away from capitalists and more in the direction of workers and citizens.
The decline in union membership over the last 50 years is a big part of why the current situation has been relatively easy for the billionaire class. People have accepted getting screwed, year after year, decade after decade, by corporations -- and corporations used the accumulated wealth to buy politicians, who passed laws that were pro-corporations, and anti-worker.
The 'golden age' of a single person being able to work a job (literally ANY job) and being able to pay their bills was because unions and non-corrupt politicians fought for worker rights and minimum wage and social programs.
Galbinus Caeli
in reply to Max Leibman • • •tom jennings
in reply to Max Leibman • • •Osteopenia Powers ,
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