Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
From the 2nd paragraph of the Communist manifesto from fucking 1848. Liberals never change.
OP should just find a better audio player or figure out how to enable loudness normalization.
Yeah I figured it was an issue with my software.
The “genocide Joe memers” forcing the Democrats to be unrepentant capitalist mass murders who hate their own voter base:
The west is literally commiting a genocide. They are mass disappearing people into the afterlife. Mind boggling that in 2025 we still have incredulous libs who believe in western exceptionalism.
Are you going to lay track on every street?
Not necessary. You can walk a few hundred meters to your end destination. It’s actually good for your health.
Not to mention, laying tons of tracks on streets for a light rail network is a thing that’s been around since before personalised cars.
For the non-worlders seeing this message,
Politics isn’t about your identity. It isn’t about getting a “leftist” in power (which is just an identity label). Politics is about making useful things happen. And having a congresswoman who cons dissenting opinions into pointless liberalism is dangerous and counter-productive.
76 comments as of now. This will be good
I’m stupid. I completely forgot that the worlders have enforced an authoritarian tankie censorship regime 😔
From a basic labor theory of value perspective, bitcoin requires labor to produce because mining it requires massive amounts of compute power. This computer power is supplied using GPUs and electricity, both of which require labor to produce.
If you use this calculator, and enter the values 67 TH/s (tera hashes per second, the rate at which you are mining), 2680 watts for electricity consumption rate, and 5 cents per kilo watt hour as prices, you will see
4.25 USD revenue per day 3.22 USD cost per day Profit rate = 32.0%
To make the values of the the hash rate and energy consumption rate realistic, I consulted the specs of the machine antminer S17, which is aparantly a machine used in the bitcoin mining world (I ain’t into crypto mining). The cost of electricty comes from Kazakhstan, which has cheap electricty and substantial mining operations.
So basically, at the current price of bitcoin can support a gross profit rate of 32% for the people who produce bitcoin, assuming you keep all the profit (no taxes, interest, rent), have no employees or maintainable costs. This is the price currently settled at based on the technological conditions and level of competition.
It is nothing too crazy of a price, and the rapid growth of price in bitcoin is due to how the currency was designed. Basically, once a certain number of bitcoin have been mined, the bitcoin generation rate per mined block halves. This forces an exponential rise in the difficulty of mining bitcoin, and therefore an exponential rise in its price.
Most probably, if bitcoin was designed to have a constant difficulty of producing, its price wouldn’t have increased at all.
I’ll bite. This is a genuinely new take I haven’t seen before, despite 3 years of the war. Would you mind explaining how exactly Russia is an American minion?
Biased, politicised science is real science. Not the platonic ideal you have in your head.
That didn’t feel like science so much as politics and I get why some would be against that.
Respectfully, this is a weak sauce excuse, and a completely unscientific attitude. Scientists do not establish arbitrary barriers between different fields.
These kinds of statements 99% of the time come from people who don’t even do science, and whose understanding of science consists of “take down data points, analyse data points, be neutral” (paraphrasing your comment).
In reality, scientific names are usually given to honor specific people. The idea that the community just gives names to people who discovered things is simply ignorant of history. There are literally cases of people purchasing name recognition. There are also cases of people being honored by having their name on a phenomena they didn’t even discover, or a unit they did not create (typical for units, which are standardised by committees and not named after people in the standardisation committee)
Amazing to see people in 2025 who still believe in this nonsense.
structural issues like command and control policies
Planned economics is precisely the reason why China has grown faster than India and become so dominant. Because they can control their economy for long-term human needs instead of putting everything into finance like the west.
the dictator
Anyone who still thinks Xi is a dictator despite the very strong collective and decentralised governance of China doesn’t know enough about the country to pass an elementary school civics test.
The whole reason the property market bubble happened was because the Chinese government is way too decentralised. Local governments bet all in on property values as a way to boost tax revenue (land taxes are their main source of income). The central government should have stepped in way sooner, but that would have required centralising the Chinese tax base significantly, a tough thing to do because it would also require centralising public services. Not only would that require buy in from the vast number of local representatives and the national people’s congress, but it would have also interfered with the poverty alleviation campaign.
an economy built on unnecessary public spending
Pure neoliberal cope. I hope you are enjoying your deindustrialised austerity economy.
an educational system which continues to emphasise blind obedience over individualism
This is hilarious coming from westerners who have naught an original thought, only memes.
I mean the ruling class of Russia, China, and Iran, can also be my enemy.
The ruling classes of maybe Russia and Iran can be considered “enemies” (although if you live in the west, they don’t have any power and little influence over you), while the ruling class of China is neutral for westerners (and positive for the Chinese) in the most cynical reading.
Furthermore
No need to be choosy when you can instead have solidarity with the mistreated and exploited around the world :)
The exploited and mistreated of the world in general have a net positive perception of Russia, and China precisely because these countries have a continued track record of helping these countries. And this is especially true with China.
It’s absolutely possible for the UK to increase its defence spending while also not harming civilians, in the Middle East or anywhere else.
Not for imperial Britain. It’s possible for other countries, but not for imperialists. If you have the slightest concern for the people of Britain and people in other countries, you should oppose all attempts made by the imperialists to arm themselves. I oppose the imperial British arming themselves for the same reason I oppose nazi Germany arming itself.
Has there been a single year in my entire life where the western powers were not at war against some third world country? If the British really can be trusted with a military, they should prove it.
it is perfectly possible for the UK to increase its defence capabilities, while also refraining from attacks upon the Middle East
This is for a hypothetical UK that has divested from the imperial system in west asia, a hypothetical UK that does not exist.
I think that’s a separate issue from the UK and its allies spending more on defence in order to protect themselves from Russia, though.
It very much isn’t. You don’t have 2 seperate militaries, one for defense against Russia and one for use against everyone else.
In any case I don’t think the UK is planning new military action in the Middle East.
You’re basing this on what? And who said that the UK’s future aggression will only be limited to the middle east?
Starmer recently criticised Israel for its conduct in Gaza.
Congratulations for the mildly worded letter while still providing military parts and daily reconossaince missions I guess.
You seem to suggest that a powerful military is a good thing then.
It is a good thing if only it is used for defensive purposes. Other than WW2, the UK has practically never seen a defensive war. However, I am using your logic here. You want a powerful military for “national security”. I am telling you that your politicians are not creating a powerful military.
I don’t believe in the UK harming anybody in the Middle East.
Then you are not keeping up with the news. The UK has provided a lot of arms to the occupation in Palestine and runs daily reconnaissance missions for them. Furthermore, the UK has been a willing partner of America in its war on terror.
Not to be an LLM shill, but perhaps the reason we are not seeing a massive increase in apps being released and new domain names is due to economic factors stunting the potential AI. It’s just a confounding factor I can think of.
If the author wants to steelman their argument, they could look into the total number of developers before AI and after AI. They could compare working hours (not officially recorded working hours, but actual “I am working on making code” hours).
There are other economic factors also. Large corporations will control the majority of developer working hours. And large corporations won’t be making shovelware. Meanwhile people who are not so beholden to factors of economics aren’t necessarily going to build public shovelware. They might just be building scripts for personal use.