ARCADE GOON

4y

Which degrees are antithetical to capitalism? Lol

Synopsis

4y

just an incoherent post tbh. like, i can buy marxist literature on amazon. point of capitalism is it will commodify anything and everything

ARCADE GOON

4y

And allowing selected pressure vaults within capitalism further legitimizes the system ("At least in MURICA we can say s*** about the president! Yee haw!")

Furthermore capitalism did not originally develop from imperialism, even if imperialism is an important way capitalism reproduces itself

Synopsis

4y

speaking of imperialism

last two purchases. reading capitalism and education next but then these

Synopsis

4y

Yeah. Outright banning that s*** would be completely antithetical to how capitalism operates in the first place lol.

Yup he got the chronology backwards. It was ofc the need for constant growth inherent to capitalism that brought about imperialism

ARCADE GOON

4y

Zak COPE

Synopsis

4y

speaking of imperialism

last two purchases. reading capitalism and education next but then these

krishna bound

4y

this is just a random off note but i continually see discussions on this topic all over twitter/reddit/this forum/general internet, and i think there needs to be a serious discussion on how the US is not as competent as it was in the 60-80s and why it can no longer be considered some type of omnipotent "great satan"-esque hydra; the remainder of the US "empire" is honestly more symbolic of the damages and influences of this than it is actually actively an entity in that direction.
every time anything happens virtually anywhere (domestic or international), the default assumption of virtually everyone from all ideological backgrounds is to go "oh its the feds again". the theoretical status of US intelligence agencies has been elevated to a literal omnipotent all-powerful mythological status in the eyes of virtually all US detractors.
i'm not saying the US still doesn't universally f*** around (like yeah of course they do) and that fed ops aren't real (fed entrapment is obviously still real), that's obviously not the case or anything, but i think it should be acknowledged just how weak, quasi-symbolic, and honestly laughable the actual internal operations of the US are these days; the only thing the US intelligence/military has going for it is money - it literally has almost nothing else. It's a completely fractured, incompetent, self-serving system.
Now don't get me wrong, sometimes wielding enough money is itself a powerful tool - especially if you look at sanctions or rebel arms funneling (i.e. Syria, Iran), but these scenarios are far more out in the open and follow simplistic international relations rather than really covert secret operations - and moreso, these operations usually suck. Assad is still in power despite everything the US has done. And while people like to (myself included, and rightfully so) point to Libya as an example of the US still possessing despicable regime change power, and while that's true, I think it should be acknowledged a lot of the fault there also really lies on Libya themselves for essentially trusting the US in any way shape or form and then allowing the US to shank them in the back. When countries basically tell the US to piss off (remember Juan Guaido lmao), the most the US can do is cripple them economically (which is still bad + influential to be clear) - the US's covert ops and wider "hard power" is increasingly decrepit outside of controlling banking basically - which ironically is at odds with the desires of many corporations; look at Coca-Cola for example, which is against US sanctions of Iran because they lose money not importing to that market and have to cheat sanctions. Even large domestic corporations (more powerful than the "real" government) basically are often at odds with the will of the "old guard" military complex, which by now has been quasi-compressed into "military/intelligence having the ability to manipulate banking diplomacy"; actual US military/intelligence power can barely work even in countries that literally do not even have centralized government antagonists.
the status of US intelligence and also the power of the US military in terms of global influence isn't what it used to be in the 60s, but everyone still basically talks about them as if they are; in reality, i think it probably needs to be acknowledged how much of the US soft power exported comes not from the government but basically from the influence of media & larger conglomerate corporations (which serve themselves are international conglomerates essentially rather than the US as a central entity) as a far more omnipotent branch of authority. Like the media/corporate-industrial complex arguably wields far more power and international (and domestic) influence than the military/intelligence-industrial complex these days, and the factors that go into that are very distinct from the old, heavily simplistic and narrow pro-western bloc goals. everyone still seems to talk about US as if it's the 60s and the context is still the same as the cold war.

krishna bound

4y

this is just a random off note but i continually see discussions on this topic all over twitter/reddit/this forum/general internet, and i think there needs to be a serious discussion on how the US is not as competent as it was in the 60-80s and why it can no longer be considered some type of omnipotent "great satan"-esque hydra; the remainder of the US "empire" is honestly more symbolic of the damages and influences of this than it is actually actively an entity in that direction.
every time anything happens virtually anywhere (domestic or international), the default assumption of virtually everyone from all ideological backgrounds is to go "oh its the feds again". the theoretical status of US intelligence agencies has been elevated to a literal omnipotent all-powerful mythological status in the eyes of virtually all US detractors.
i'm not saying the US still doesn't universally f*** around (like yeah of course they do) and that fed ops aren't real (fed entrapment is obviously still real), that's obviously not the case or anything, but i think it should be acknowledged just how weak, quasi-symbolic, and honestly laughable the actual internal operations of the US are these days; the only thing the US intelligence/military has going for it is money - it literally has almost nothing else. It's a completely fractured, incompetent, self-serving system.
Now don't get me wrong, sometimes wielding enough money is itself a powerful tool - especially if you look at sanctions or rebel arms funneling (i.e. Syria, Iran), but these scenarios are far more out in the open and follow simplistic international relations rather than really covert secret operations - and moreso, these operations usually suck. Assad is still in power despite everything the US has done. And while people like to (myself included, and rightfully so) point to Libya as an example of the US still possessing despicable regime change power, and while that's true, I think it should be acknowledged a lot of the fault there also really lies on Libya themselves for essentially trusting the US in any way shape or form and then allowing the US to shank them in the back. When countries basically tell the US to piss off (remember Juan Guaido lmao), the most the US can do is cripple them economically (which is still bad + influential to be clear) - the US's covert ops and wider "hard power" is increasingly decrepit outside of controlling banking basically - which ironically is at odds with the desires of many corporations; look at Coca-Cola for example, which is against US sanctions of Iran because they lose money not importing to that market and have to cheat sanctions. Even large domestic corporations (more powerful than the "real" government) basically are often at odds with the will of the "old guard" military complex, which by now has been quasi-compressed into "military/intelligence having the ability to manipulate banking diplomacy"; actual US military/intelligence power can barely work even in countries that literally do not even have centralized government antagonists.
the status of US intelligence and also the power of the US military in terms of global influence isn't what it used to be in the 60s, but everyone still basically talks about them as if they are; in reality, i think it probably needs to be acknowledged how much of the US soft power exported comes not from the government but basically from the influence of media & larger conglomerate corporations (which serve themselves are international conglomerates essentially rather than the US as a central entity) as a far more omnipotent branch of authority. Like the media/corporate-industrial complex arguably wields far more power and international (and domestic) influence than the military/intelligence-industrial complex these days, and the factors that go into that are very distinct from the old, heavily simplistic and narrow pro-western bloc goals. everyone still seems to talk about US as if it's the 60s and the context is still the same as the cold war.

ARCADE GOON

4y

Which degrees are antithetical to capitalism? Lol

mythic

4y

Reducing it to simply ‘capitalism’ is counterproductive, if it reproduced capitalism only then why would people go to university and achieve their “degrees” in studies supposedly antithetical to capitalism? The root of capitalism is imperialism and it’s a dogmatised imperialist ‘view’ of the world that is taught in mass education that corrodes all intellectual capacity.

krishna bound

4y

https://www.businessinsider.com/thedacare-asks-judge-block-workers-leaving-higher-pay-competitor-2022-1

a judge literally ruled that a healthcare employer is allowed to restrict its employees from leaving to work elsewhere and that certain employees are forcibly bound to this one employer and cannot legally go to competitors with betters benefits or rates. probably one of the most insane stories to come out in recent times.

spongebob

4y

you could def write for a political publication if you don't already

krishna bound

4y

https://www.businessinsider.com/thedacare-asks-judge-block-workers-leaving-higher-pay-competitor-2022-1

a judge literally ruled that a healthcare employer is allowed to restrict its employees from leaving to work elsewhere and that certain employees are forcibly bound to this one employer and cannot legally go to competitors with betters benefits or rates. probably one of the most insane stories to come out in recent times.

slyTendencies

4y

Can someone give me a socialist perspective on NFT’s?

Level 5 Goblin

4y

They're just a new form of fictitious capital for people to gain or lose money speculating on.