really makes u think...

newscientist.com/article/2301260-why-wont-the-west-embrace-russias-highly-effective-covid-19-vaccine

I don't completely disagree with you and I think there's room to criticize mandates or discuss policy nuance, but the reason i was pointed in the above re: the podcast is because there concerns were literally that the vaccines are a conspiracy mass killing people + mandates violate body autonomy + muh freedom to choose, etc., it wasn't in any way or form a nuanced disagreement or discussion, it was a paranoid shouting match not grounded in reality. There's a mass psychosis of vaccine paranoia.

The problem you're pointing to though is a non-policy problem, it's a cultural one - like the issue clearly isn't the mandate itself intrinsically, it's a problem with the relationship between institutions and individuals. This is a very western-centric problem and is related more to the complex relationship and hyper-individualistic corporate liberalism that's developed here. I would guarantee in a place like Singapore there would not be nearly as much controversy or discourse over this type of suggestion.

I agree like in principle with you but in honesty if you look at the US specifically, these "private companies" are essentially just arms of the state on a functional level (or maybe rather that simply the government is an arm of the private companies ). While I think there's room for an argument on exploitation of these situations by said companies, that's kind of detached from the main argument because most of the vaccines specifically in this context aren't just random private solutions thrown into the public sphere, they're essentially the result of multi-national governmental policy and subsidies funneled through a company with non-elected board members, the only real difference is profit incentive, but the same could be said about virtually any medical solution in the west (i.e. surgery, medication, etc.); the conspiracy isn't necessarily in the intrinsic medication/solution itself but rather in its monetization and subsidization. Most of these vaccines receive cross-national affirmation; i.e. China recognizes western vaccines. I agree with you though in your other post that the west not wanting to recognize Russian or Chinese vaccines is more sinister but that's clearly a separate issue rather than a public health one

is it not widely agreed upon that pre-neolithic humans were hunter gatherers?

I understand that there is a great deal of debate over how their societies were organized i.e. that new david graeber (RIP) book

but I'm not aware of anything beyond that, if you have links or reccs you can send them my way

the red scare girls really don’t stand for anything besides getting attention.

i think they’re funny/entertaining when they’re talking about media/culture but when it comes to politics you will hear some of the most braindead s*** ever. (in particular anna)

yeah i basically said the same thing a few pages back. they're entertaining when they talk about films and art or fashion or whatever. when they say anything political i want to shoot myself.

But hunter & gatherer was the first economic mode of production doe

They were, IDK what that guy is talking about. Later on of course not but like that's the most basic form of economy, one that even animals have

Yall too smart for these podcasts do better

I think about my time as a chapo user in 2018 and cringe intensely. good riddance that place is shut down. the forum they moved to is even worse lmao.

There's some good ones still like citation needed or revolutionary left radio

It had some good leftists in there especially on the CTH2 sub but of course a lot of weirdos and radlibs

If we're talking about red scare, everyone here agrees their a bunch of dumbasses, I just use em as a way to record time like I want to draw for this period of time.

If your talking about podcast in generals, im not a fan of paying attention to em or as a primary point of attention, I use em for background noise time to time, but if you do like at best they could be secondary material to learn from.

you talking about hexbear

I get what u mean. I can appreciate it for like literally introducing what leftism was to me when I was a bit younger but then there was a bunch of other s*** like this lmfao

I support vaccine-stalinism, every brutal measure you can think of, I support it I'm with Zizek on this on. F*** your bodily rights if it means harming the common. You gotta do it short and brutal like China did. Like taking off a band-aid.

yes lmfaoo

whats so bad about it? I lurk time to time just seems like ur normal ML community

This is actually insanely authoritarian. This is infringing on my free speech and Lockean-individuality given to me under the great constitution of the United States of America. What happened to habeas corpus?

i don't really listen to any, i just find the subreddits and proximity drama funny

right I was wondering what I was missing here

habeas corpus? speak English u immigrant

i have never listened to a podcast

idk if this is what he's talking about, but there's some level of historical evidence and research that before humans emerged as hunter-gatherers from the usage of tools that they were scavengers. However what's more controversial is at what timeline to place divergence of other species and human and also the relative timeline of tools. (one such study: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062174 just to show im not bullshitting - also jstor.org/stable/25801183 on the general debate). i guess he could also be talking about questioning evolution linearity or something?