MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]

I once got on the wrong plane entirely that’s how loose shit was. As a kid I remember we would be waving goodbye to people on the tarmac at smaller airports.

It’s “9/11” as a brand just like “7-11”

I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.

BAKE UP WEEDPLE

I’m not supposed to laugh at 9/11 but I’m allowed to hijack a jet in GTA who is the real monster

Jet memes don’t smelt 9/11 dreams

The people who died didn’t deserve to die but America deserved 9/11 does this make sense?

Can we please stop celebrating on this awful day, the diada of Catalonia when they lost their independence and became part of Spain you awful fucks

Term limits are a mistake.

It seems appealing to be able to force corruptible goons like Pelosi out but the problem is the supply of corruptible goons is endless so you’ll just be replacing her with someone equally ghoulish and beholden to the ruling class.

And the supply of good leaders who represent the people is very small so the effect of term limits is to replace the good with the bad far more often than the bad with the good.

By rotating politicians on a short term basis you are forcing public politics to operate with short term vision, meaning long term planning is left in the hands of the opaque think tanks and the donor class.

Now, in the USA obviously that’s a moot point because all politicians are already beholden to the bourgeoisie but think about for example Xi in China. The neoliberal faction in China had imposed term limits precisely because they wanted to hobble the ability of any Chinese leader to effect change by limiting their term of power, which was in actual fact a transfer of power to “institutional” power (such as banking) and the long term planning of private power centers such as corporations.

Or look at the introduction of term limits in the USA. FDR was a lib but he was a social welfare lib and even that was too much for the piggy class of the USA to bare. The popularity of sharing at least some of the wealth in the USA made FDR enormously popular and so the bourgeoisie demanded term limits to prevent any future populist from doing that again.

Term limits serve the interests of private capital and not the interests of the people because corrupt goons are highly replaceable meaning it doesn’t matter if you rotate them rapidly but principled populists are rare and so should be preserved in power.

It’s not about the money. It’s about the adrenochrome. They would have died 20 years ago if they didn’t have access to the spice.

Edit: not an important argument

your comment reduces to “it was of minor scientific value but a propaganda win” which is exactly what I’m saying.

And if it was important why did we stop?

Like it’s cool in a “I’d like to take a submarine to visit the titanic” dare devil sense but why was it important?

How did it improve the world?

Yeah people were “psyched” about it but when they stopped being psyched and stopped watching - when they lost the tv ratings - the Apolo mission was canned.

How is what you said even vaguely a rebuttal of the idea it was showy propaganda with minimal scientific value?

Playing golf on the moon actually wasn’t an important thing to do. It’s cool, I’d like to do it… but it’s really pretty superficial. It’s a vanity propaganda piece and nothing else that’s why we didn’t go back because it doesn’t matter.

Why?

Why even is getting a man on the moon important?

And if it was important why did we stop?

The value of manned missions was propaganda which is why the Apolo mission was cancelled when it stopped getting TV ratings. Because getting humans on the moon didn’t actually deliver anything of much importance except those TV ratings.

“First game of golf on the moon” good job USA you did it meanwhile the USSR landed on Venus.

I wrote a longer rely to op but I think it’s when the rights and liberties of the individual are made supreme to the point of overriding the rights of the community, that’s when it’s just crypto-libertarianism masquerading as anarchism.

I think it’s strident individualism masquerading as anarchism.

Both anarchism and socialism heavily center community. They put slightly different emphasis on different parts of community and anarchism is more decentralized but anarchism still places community and a persons place and rights vis a vis their community as well as the expectations a community can have of its members at the center.

It’s less obvious with anarchism since anarchism is less proscriptive about what form community should take and usually it’s some vision of a decentralized variety of voluntarist communes or something like that, but it always has the idea of a person as a part of their community at the center.

Strident individualism, the idea that the individual is more important than the collective, is antithetical to both anarchism and socialism and this is what really separates right-libertarianism from anarchism.

So you accept it just because you like being socially inferior to some inbreds who were born rich?

I simply recognise the futility of wishing the world was not as it is: a primitive system of elites and peasants, filled with squalor and death.

You said “you’re confused” then said you viewed the world exactly as I said you did

No you’re wrong. The USSR was a truly more equal society, dramatically more equal, provable in the empirical sense by the Gini coefficient.

It also achieved greater long term average growth, also provable empirically by measuring the size of the economy from the revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Even if you include the destruction of the apocalyptic world war 2, a vicious revolution and counter revolutionary civil war, Hitler murdering tens of millions, the Cold War which saw insane spending on military, and the poor economic performance of the 1980s following the oil shocks of the late 70s…. All of that and still it was the greatest economic growth story of the 20th century when averaged over its lifetime.

Equality is good and a choice that can be made. You are eating the propaganda of your masters when you tell yourself that it’s somehow the natural state of man. Some inevitability that must be accepted for the greater good.

It’s not inevitable and it doesn’t lead to a greater good.