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Because it still isn’t citing work and arguing with other Marxists, comrade.

It is abit frustrating. It seems like every time I engage with a new account, they get banned within the next couple of days. I’m fine with disagreeing with people, what actually annoys me is when they do the old set up a strawman and knock it down bit. I mean, it’s amusing insofar as I don’t actually have to think of a response since they aren’t even able to articulate a coherent response that doesn’t completely misrepresent what I have said, but getting rid of them so quickly is also pretty boring.

I never said it was ‘on him’. I’m not even mad that he is surface level. Don’t put words in my mouth, please.

I said that it was part of a larger critique. Streaming culture is bad for us, politically, as leftists. It is inherently bad because it creates a simulacra of community, without even a hint of theoretical will to power. It is the ultimate liberal simulation of politics without actually being politics. You feel ‘politically engaged’ without actually engaging with the polity. How can you? The community only exists if you are actively online supporting it, which means you are actively disengaged from the polity. You are engaging with a petite bourgeois capitalist influencer on a capitalist rentier platform. At least recognize it.

As such, even the best part of it, which Hasan absolutely is, is still bad. Therefore, I don’t like him, because I don’t have to like him.

Incorrect, the reason I don’t like him is because of this rod-polishing parasocial relationship people have with him for scraping the literal bare minimum, which isn’t unique to him but part of a larger critique of the alienation that is inherent to streamer media.

I mean for Christ’s sake, this is the exact same argument as ‘You just criticize capitalism and want communism because you are jealous of other’s success’ level of breadtube argument slop.

Yeah, the answer is that Marty’s pizza was larger than Luis’s. The teacher doesn’t understand the question. It’s a logic test (do you understand what fractions actually represent), not a math test (out of 1, which fraction is larger).

Edit: Unless it is supposed to be ‘Is this possible?’ in which case the answer is ‘no’, but I as a teacher would throw out the whole question for being too vague.

I really doubted it would be more conservative. Catholic attendance numbers plunged during Benedict, and it was during Francis’s tenure that they stabilized. Now I don’t personally think correlation is causation, especially for this kind of thing, but the Catholic Church is if anything a reactionary organization, which means that since things seem to be going steady, they are unlikely to make any drastic moves to one side or the other. Let the born-again rightwing Catholics wallow in their faith, it isn’t like they are joining the priesthood, since it often requires a sublimation of individuality and focus on community, both of parishioners and priests that is an anathema to the modern right. In the same way though, they also aren’t going to cater more towards their radical left-wing, because there is no money there.

I mean they are a part of it, and their abandonment of politics in general is pretty typical of what is going on. I am talking rn specifically about the channel the soy pill and I haven’t watched the Cody Showdy for awhile, so I can’t confirm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was bemoaning it.

Basically anyone who does progressive to hardline leftist politics explainer videos, however the vast majority land to somewhere on the progressive to socdem side of things. I’ve gotten into a habit of cataloguing them and kinda hate-watching them as their overall quality has gotten worse.

Unfortunately, I know plenty of gen z who do not know how to do basic excel functions properly.

Idk, why do bread tubers keep waxing poetic about USAID, despite not pausing for a second when most of the highest recipients of aid are countries that we have either invaded or at least conducted numerous military operations in. Libs are gonna be libs.

I mean, it’s kinda missing the point. I wear my punk ass shit in the fall and winter, and my colorful t-shirts and shorts in the spring and summer.

Pivot to Iran?

Ukraine was a relief to most libs I knew because it finally allowed them to be the mask off jingoistic war hawks they always wanted to be, but couldn’t because its a bad look. Which is why stuff like Trump being fully extortionist really makes them mad, because then it is giving up the game of it actually being about influence and material resources and not ‘protecting democracy’. Basically, they are always looking to fall for this stuff.

Maybe it is better to spread the wealth rather than just concentrate it at the complete top. It’s not as if those people are contributing more to the production than those who are bussing the tables.

There are differences though. Libs can’t tell anything from anything because their ideology is completely and absolutely vibes based on whatever article they last read in the NYT and some half remembered aphorism.

Socialists see fascists as the bootboys of liberals that most of the time run the roost because historically that is what they are, and every now and then they get to the point where they eat all the chickens and that makes the liberals very sad, but only when they are told they should be sad.

Fascists see liberals as secret communists because their entire ideology requires them to always be the aggrieved and persecuted majority, even when they are winning, because then they are starving after having killed and eaten all the chickens.

But National Socialists and Communists are part of the same totalitarian ideology!

Factories do exist. We still make a lot of shit, we just don’t make a lot of shit that other people want to (or can afford to) buy from us.

With the current LLM or LIM stuff? Unlikely.

LIMs are only used for high quantity quality assurance in factories rn. Mixing the stuff with automation in a way that will actually impact the factory floor is likely a decade off or more, at least in the U.S. Idk how LLMs will ever be able to get into the mix, given how specialized most factory processes actually are. Hell we can’t even get CAM programs to automate themselves properly without correction and that shit has been in the work since CAD software was designed.

Most firms that are turning towards automation are not looking to remove workers (if they are competent) just up production quality and quantity and not have to raise wages by lowering basic manual vocational expertise. They are trying to make factory jobs, which had become more specialized with deindustrialization, into more general entry level jobs like the service industry again, where you can more easily plug and play less skilled workers rather than having to have a skilled operator, machinist, welder, etc on a machine for efficiency. Of course, all of this will also require semi-competent manufacturing engineers, which is a very slowly growing field in the U.S, despite being one of the O.G. engineering fields, so it will add white collar jobs.

Not to tout YouTubers, but Micheal Reeves literally had a goldfish do his trading and it made him more money than the average hedgefund manager.

It is absolutely true in spirit, Asia has always been at the forefront of quality engineering and lean manufacturing.

You’ll still hear it in the Midwest where the cope is stronger than the brandy.