Hey Jerome, you socialist faggot.

[qan]

Plutocracy's the state of rule across the world and across history, and keeping charming, wealthy god-emperors from having undue influence is one of the most difficult and important problems of our time.

I'm definitely encouraged by the success of the teacher strikes accomplished outside of corrupt unions. But I see this as more of human progress within a capitalist structure, moving forward toward a more civil existence, and not necessarily any push toward socialism. Not sure how the world would ever transform that way ... at least, again, without almost unending resources coupled with some as-yet-unforeseen way to reward effort.

(Bear with me here, it's this one again...) In a true socialist state, I've never found a way to get past how to get anyone to get up off their asses to do anything without it being self-interested. How can we appeal to self-interest? The self-interest which causes people to risk their life savings (and often lose it), to work unbelievably long hours for little earned and despite little progress. In my more idealistic days I contemplated a world where social status would become the driving force behind human innovation. But resolved that that couldn't occur unless resource scarcity disappeared, as people will always compete for resources if there is a reason to. A new resource would then need to become deeply important, worth struggling for, risking for, working until you're almost at your wit's end. Social status/"respect" seemed possible enough.

Once had a girlfriend whose great-grandfather invented the shrimp peeling machine when he was a teenager. His father told him if he could figure out a way to peel shrimp faster than by hand, he could make a million dollars. He grew obsessed with this idea, a chance to leap ahead in the world, a lucky break that probably would never come ... but something to try for, still. Eventually, after a hell of a lot of failure, he managed to rig an old hand-crank washing machine to peel shrimp. After that he went on to make his millions and file over 70 patents for various inventions.

I don't see that happening in a socialist country, even if he was respected for having improved everyone's lot by lowering the cost of shrimp production. After all, how much respect can you give such a person? A head-nod when you pass in the hall. He's not going to have parades where he's carried on the shoulders of the people. Nothing even approaching the triumphant feeling of making millions through ingenuity, or the triumph of discovery experienced only after you've had sufficient motivation to get there in the first place.

I've never seen a way out of this. An old, tired criticism, I know, but like the problem of evil for some of the world's religions, not an easy one to sidestep. So I've never been able to feel comfortable with socialism. Meanwhile, capitalism is deeply corrupt, provides paths to profit from the misery, murder and mutilation of people born in the wrong place at the wrong time. (But that evil is perhaps a more natural one -- leave the world be, and that's what you'd have. "Laissez faire!..." The beast bares its teeth in the woods.) But there's still room for improvement, always. I suppose I don't see it as a system you can really replace, so much as refine, temper, improve, struggle against. A struggle you might call the history of human governance. Sometimes that governance steps too far in its hubris and replaces the tyranny it wants to overcome with one far more terrible, as in the case of the USSR. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth working to improve. Slow, incremental steps... ones we can be sure are in the right direction. Cocksure revolutionaries, count me out of your schemes, now and forever.

[Jerome Scuggs]

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

-Stephen Hawking, his last post ever made on Reddit

"duhhhhhhhhhhh venezuela"

-the top minds of conservatism

[wicket666]

@wicketnatas #MAGA #QNN #QAnon #TrumpTrain #Trumpster #2A #Constitution #Trump

[Dierienow]

Well I didn't read, and that background ain't blue,
Status of this game? Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru..

[Jerome Scuggs]

A Story In Three Parts, Or: I Love It When I'm Right!

the right has called welfare "socialism" for so long that y'all have forgotten that welfare isn't socialism. it's an alternative to socialism. i dont even know why i'm fighting the GOP effort to burn it to the ground, in doing so you will jumpstart the mass socialist movement i dream of.

hey kthx, if the media is so "liberal", and if "liberals" are all socialists, why was this teachers' strike, where every single teacher in every single school in every single city in west virginia went on strike for 9 days, not covered by the mainstream media until today - and even then, only 30-second blurbs and brief mentions?

fuck the capitalists, fuck the union fat cats, over the past week we've witnessed an entire people organize for better working conditions. they SHUT DOWN the entire state's education system. they held out. they told the union fat cats to fuck off when the unions agreed to a measly compromise that would have not actually resulted in a raise. (look up the term "wildcat strike")

but thats not all. the teachers also organized food drives to feed kids who depended on the school lunch program. they held workshops and classes to continue working with students studying for SAT/ACT tests, AP tests, and other standardized tests.

and what did the teachers get? they got a raise... not just for the teachers: for every state employee in west virginia.

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i always avoid making bold predictions cuz i hate thinking that i might be wrong... but then, whenever i'm right, i regret not posting the prediction

so fuck it im gonna make a prediction, so i can quote it later and make fun of kthx:

this teacher strike might be one of the most significant events of the past decade. our politicians (not just republicans tbh) have all but destroyed unions, they have destroyed workers' rights, they have destroyed the ability for workers to bargain with their employers. and you know, they really thought they had finally smashed the working class down into permanent obedience... they really thought they could announce cuts all across the board to medicare, welfare, and other programs while also transferring 1.8trillion in tax cuts to the richest corporations and individuals.

and republicans are so fucking stupid that while this strike was going on, republican pundits were screaming "arm the teachers! arm the teachers!", completely oblivious that teachers were ready to go on strike without the added burden of learning to use a gun and becoming a part-time cop.

and republicans are SO FUCKING STUPID that they caved like little fucking bitches. they didn't even reach a compromise... they straight up caved to the demands of the teachers. so, if you're keeping count... a group of workers demanded higher wages, they organized in order to get higher wages, they ignored the original compromise proposed by the government, they ignored their union bosses who told them to accept the compromise, they went for the whole shebang - and got exactly what they wanted... and more, since -every- public employee is now getting a raise

so. once again. keep on yapping about "welfare queens" and "muh socialism", keep on supporting these budget cuts and attacks on our social safety nets. keep telling yourself that the people who complain are "lazy" or "entitled". because you know what? in the past week i've been having conversations with friends of mine who are teachers, and suddenly they seem far, far more receptive to the shit i talk about than they did 2 weeks ago. they now see that solidarity and organizing DO work. they are now educating themselves. they are getting curious, and naturally, daddy jerome is here to help them find their way.

i mean, i'm always hopeful... but for the first time i can now see the possibility of being involved in a general strike, in louisiana, in my lifetime. fucking crazy.

i fucking love 2018, here's to hoping we see more direct action like this

edit: no seriously, go look up the term "wildcat strike", and consider why the word "wildcat" is used, what the word is a reference to, etc

[Jessup]

This faggot thinks global warming is real rofl

[kthx]

This faggot thinks global warming is real rofl

[Dierienow]

There was another thing I saw about the ice caps. I'll save you a minute of your life and tell you the arctic is shrinking!!! over the past 40-50 years we've been recording, or so, with the total area decreasing by some small yet significant amount (around 10-15%) but the real thick ice that reflects the most light back has declined by a far greater amount, somewhere in the range of 75-85%. It's not insignificant.

Cool fact that I at least didn't know: the US aircraft carriers (the huge and fast ships out in the middle of the ocean that lead the fleet) are freaking nuclear powered, bitch. Btw is Ironman not the coolest superhero? He made his own power through science. He's the civ that's like, we're going to build roads, walls around every town, 65%ranged,25%melle,10%support, use builder (w/ infinite build mod) to clear everything and tech up to better and better ranged units, upgrade them and turtle even when they question your military. Deal with the barbarians. Ok maybe it's not exactly the same.. Ironman fuses the nuclear with biology...perhaps not today but 100 years in the future maybe. It's kind of difficult to move forward though if you're unwilling to deal with a threat (global warming) because that problem won't just go away without awareness and solutions. Coal is not a long-term solution, it is cheap and quick and so are the consequences evidently. We've recovered the Ozone (apparently?) and the Arctic is recoverable too, thankfully, because it is a reversible process. If the Arctic fully melted we could just build a white shiny thing and house it there 365 days a year, use it for something like a international space base where we combine all the nations after we've tried our hardest to solve evidently eradicatable problems such as disease, malnutrition, housing/poverty, mental wellness and happiness, unsustainable environmental practices, disarmament, respectable values, and so on. As I say people would rather hold the negative emotions because they are so powerful. Healthy mind, conscience, and body. It's true that nobody can be perfect, so the past you must be forgiven, and let go of as "you today" while retaining the experiences. To do something today because it agrees with what you did yesterday, and the day before, rather than what could agree with now, and the future. Do I have to explain the mistake in that? See everyone would read this and agree and say of course that's so obvious but where do they implement this? Why would Trump target Mexicans in New York and shit with families? Is that the dangerous guy? Does it all on the taxpayer (YOUR) dollar and you ride along like hehe that tickles my bum too! dingle berry cucks. I mop up these cucks like nothing else I wouldn't be surprised if these Russians with fake ids all voted too what a joke. Russian mafia in your government I can't wait until myself and people like me aren't allowed to post THIS message and messages LIKE THIS... I take it VERY seriously! The threat is here in Canada, too, and it's all these old fucks and pedophiles in Hollywood and fuck dude this world is crazy fucked up I just want to skateboard when it warms up like DUDE. Lol.

[Jerome Scuggs]

historically illiterate moron conservatives are having a really hard go at it right now



also, in other news, this



president bone spurs, who literally has zero known record of him running anywhere, would just absolutely run into gunfire. like he did in vietnam



fearless god emperor

[Dierienow]

Every day the pieces fall into place. If the piece doesn't fit consider that there's another puzzle, but if they fit then you don't just stop putting it together because you don't like the picture it's making. Every time you get some new information put it to the puzzle and see where it fits logically speaking. That said I think it's just coincidence that Republicans are racist and happen to enjoy the economic benefits that privatization brings them. I'm sure some of them are actually quite close to being Nazis to be fair. I find it more interesting that they would call themselves 'socialists' while doing everything the opposite. It's like people can just say shit and there's so many bozos in the world (kings of their world of course, where they made $50 extra last paycheck for doing the same work yet don't see that as unfair) that they just don't give a fuck and vote for the guy who appeals to them emotionally. Appealing to human emotion is like appealing to a fucking cesspool because people are tuned more towards negative emotion than positive so you get some of the worst atrocities in history simply by appealing to the common person's emotional side. Quite dangerous if you think about it, emotions that is.

People who see the world without emotion are blessed with either psychopathy (and may become quite successful in their evil acts) or autism. My understanding of the people without either of these disorders is that logic might as well be a 25th century concept because FUCK YOU we're worshipping God, bitch. Demons, bitch. The world is a fucking magical fairy tale where God never shows up but the consequences of our actions appear perpetually as if it's cause-and-effect. But fuck you, we're believing in angels, gaybo. When you're already willing to believe in such fantasy then your reality is much easier to manipulate, since you already know they're willing to believe in something with zero evidence beyond a book written 150 years after the fact.

Anyway I found this gem of a picture off of reddit:




I love Ben Carson's reason for not taking a cabinet position in Trump's whitehouse despite being offered: "The last thing he [Ben Carson] would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency." Yet he ran for the fucking presidency, against Trump. And that's the guy you want operating on your brain lmao ffs.

[Jerome Scuggs]

lmao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization



i dont know why ive never actually looked at the wiki page for "privatization", in one sentence i learned that 1) nazis cant be socialist if they literally invented the concept of privatization and 2) people who want the government to privatize things are literally advocating for nazi programs

ahahahahashsbhdsabfalhksdf this world is too surreal

[Jerome Scuggs]

[kthx]

ICE is now looking for ways to spy on Americans. you know.... for illegal immigration reasons.

http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/20/no...want-to-spy-on

kthx gonna wake up anytime soon or just keep ignoring the actual threats to our freedom?

I am too busy working 70 hours the last two weeks to worry about it right now to be honest fam. But as always I am right about everyting.

[Jerome Scuggs]

ICE is now looking for ways to spy on Americans. you know.... for illegal immigration reasons.

http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/20/no...want-to-spy-on

kthx gonna wake up anytime soon or just keep ignoring the actual threats to our freedom?

[Jerome Scuggs]

lol a former head of CIA was on fox news the other day and straight up said the US interferes in elections all the time, except we 'do it for a good cause' or whatever

here's an interesting article: https://medium.com/s/story/the-singu...s-3e280baa045c

From a financial point of view, Amazon doesn’t behave much like a successful 21st-century company. Amazon has not bought back its own stock since 2012. Amazon has never offered its shareholders a dividend. Unlike its peers Google, Apple, and Facebook, Amazon does not hoard cash. It has only recently started to record small, predictable profits. Instead, whenever it has resources, Amazon invests in capacity, which results in growth at a ridiculous clip. When the company found itself with $13.8 billion lying around, it bought a grocery chain for $13.7 billion. As the Recode story referenced above summarizes in one of the graphs: “It took Amazon 18 years as a public company to catch Walmart in market cap, but only two more years to double it.” More than a profit-seeking corporation, Amazon is behaving like a planned economy.

casual reminder that corporations are literally just as bad as "muh gubmints"