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what's important is that you found a way to feel morally superior to them from your phone
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Dawg. How is this not sinking in for you guys?
Republican framing right now is that Hasan Piker represents El-Sayed’s politics and the Democratic Party broadly. The Democrats who are condemning Hasan are doing literally the opposite of capitulating to that framing.
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Russiagate was real btw. 34 people were charged, most of whom were Russian nationals who fled the country. 8 Americans on Trump’s campaign were convicted or pled guilty and sent to prison.
And then Trump pardoned them.
You just forgot because he did worse stuff
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Tell your brother to vote for someone who truly wants what’s best for the vast majority of us. I’ve never run for anything in my life, and I’m happy keeping it that way. But thank you Shadow I’m honored.
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Do I look like I’m a part of the elite oligarch class. This was taken at a super 8 motel off I95 by the way.
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Alyssa Liu went viral during the Met Gala for her rant on the state of the public perception of data centers.
"We are being manipulated into ceding the compute frontier. Data center development is vital to national security." She adds, "Karen Hao's overstimation of data center water consumption by a factor of 1000 has done irreparable damage to the nation's efforts to stay ahead."
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.@AOC responds to this trend: "BOOOOO"
"This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together. And I think that the discourse around 'Everyone, let's all be like billionaires and opt out of our taxes,' I don't find it an inspiring message."
New: Tax cuts are the HOTTEST new idea for Democrats
Booker & Van Hollen (both 2028 prospects) unveil big tax-cut plans.
Katie Porter says exempt $100K in income from California taxes.
Keisha Lance Bottoms says exempt teachers from Georgia taxes.
Pitched as answer to cost-of-living struggles.
BUT: It has spurred a “wonk revolt” from liberal and moderate policy experts. The latter say the math won’t add up. The former say treating taxes as a punishment undermines the pursuit of a safety net.
nbcnews.com/politics/electio…
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Hasan Piker says the designated terrorist organization Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel.
His statement outraged many — who now just want to write him off. That's a mistake. He has a massive audience and is emerging as one of the major voices of his generation. Those of us who disagree owe him — and his audience — a real argument.
Here's mine … And my position doesn’t come from ignorance about oppression. For a big chunk of my life, I was a grassroots activist — because of the pain of my own people. During those years, I was lucky enough to learn from elders who had been in the Black Panther Party, in SNCC, in the ANC. These were people who had to choose whether to pick up the gun — and how to use it if they did.
They taught me this: even in armed struggle, there are principles. No women. No children. No rapes. No kidnapping. Mandela held that line. Amílcar Cabral held that line. You don't become what you're fighting.
Hamas fails that test. They are not fighting for MORE freedom for Palestinians. They're fighting for less. They want theocracy, not democracy. And their means? They don’t use principled armed struggle (hitting military targets). They use terrorism (targeting civilians).
The vast majority of Americans — including those who sympathize with the Palestinian cause — reject terror tactics. Reasonable people would agree on three principles: secure homelands for both peoples; no hatred for Jews or Muslims; and protection for all civilians. Hamas’ approach undermines all three.
That's the conversation Piker's audience deserves. Not name-calling.
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Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.
Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.
Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.
Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.
Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.
À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.
Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.
Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.
Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.
Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.
Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.
Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.
Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :
"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.
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I would vote third party because there’s a literal genocide in Gaza and both parties are the same
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
42%Red
58%Blue
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ANNOUNCEMENT: PV Endorsement Process
TLDR ~ Effective immediately, no candidates will receive any endorsement from Progressive Victory during a primary unless they are committed to defending Ukraine against Russian imperial occupation by providing both humanitarian and defensive aid to Ukraine.
Progressive Victory has always been committed to pushing a political agenda that would defend the sovereignty of all people against unjust imperial interests. In January, we relaunched our endorsement process and created an additional tier of endorsement for candidates willing to take #PV_Pledge. In the pledge, we included language reflecting our commitment to organizing for candidates willing to take a stand in support of both Palestine and Ukraine. In our attempt to create flexibility for candidates, we created a loophole where it would be possible for candidates to receive a PV Pledge endorsement while holding views on Ukraine that are self-evidently disqualifying.
To remedy this, we are announcing that moving forward, we will be rejecting all PV Pledge submissions from candidates not willing to vote to send humanitarian aid and defensive rearmaments to Ukraine. The ethnic cleansing of Ukraine by Russia is not something we are willing to compromise on, and we thank @DylanBurnsTV and @TrackUkraine for setting us straight and reminding us that values only count for so much if not properly enforced.
As a result, we are taking this one step further. Moving forward, we will not be endorsing any primary candidates who won’t commit themselves to defending the sovereignty of Ukraine, even including candidates not invited to take the pledge. Defending Ukrainians against Russian imperialism is equally as mandatory for progressives as defending Palestinians from Israeli/American imperialism.
Thank You Dylan,
-BGL
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I demand infinite digital storage, for free, forever, but also if you build a data center within a thousand miles of me I will start a jihad
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1/n Here’s a thread on why this is nonsense. I think it’s important to debunk bc increasingly the antivaccine activists and their rhetoric are trying to sound more like real science even though it’s fake.
WOW: Joe Rogan is convinced that “turbo cancer” caused by Covid-19 shots is not a conspiracy theory anymore.
He just revealed that one of his friends got cancer “very quickly after vaccination.”
“He was in his early forties, fit young guy, cancer came on like a f**king tidal wave.”
And Rogan broke down where he suspects the turbo cancer issue is coming from:
“They found SV40 in some of the mRNA vaccines.”
“SV40 is simian virus 40, and it’s a virus that… people got because they used kidney cells from monkeys in order to cultivate these vaccines.”
“And in certain batches, they’ve tested positive for SV40, which is like some just legacy material that they have that they make vaccines out of.”
“I think it’s a contamination issue.”
“Some of the batches had it and some of the batches didn’t, and then some people reacted very differently to whatever’s in it.”
“There’s a s**tload of ignored cases of what they’re calling turbo cancer that people have gotten after the mRNA vaccine.”
“It’s barely a conspiracy theory.”
“It’s more likely an… inconvenient fact that these pharmaceutical drug companies are trying to ignore.”
@joerogan @AndyStumpf77
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So the Dems did exactly what this site was crying about and predictably, Republicans blocked it.
Naturally, all of the outrage is / was directed at Dems. What a healthy information environment.
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Both parties are the same and that's why I keep demanding one party save me from the actions of the party in power who is trying to deliberately hurt everyone and consolidate power.
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I never have. Feel free to continue lying publicly, though. Those checks don’t cash themselves and you aren’t talented enough to be relevant with the truth.
