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  • Fuck Reagan indeed, but the propaganda runs much deeper. I post this every time people start the clock at Reagan:

    People act like Reagan invented the mess we’re in, but Carter helped open the door. He deregulated major industries, embraced austerity politics, empowered Paul Volcker, and helped shift the Democratic Party away from New Deal economics toward market discipline, weakened labor, and “responsible” technocratic cruelty.

    That’s the world we still live in: wages crushed, unions weakened, public goods privatized, housing treated like an investment vehicle, and both parties pretending the market is a law of nature.

    And abroad, his “human rights” branding didn’t stop him from backing dictators, arming reactionaries, and helping set the stage for decades of intervention and blowback. Reagan didn’t create that machinery from scratch, he inherited and escalated it.

    Carter was the polite beginning of the catastrophe. Reagan made it louder. Clinton made it bipartisan. Bush made it apocalyptic. Obama made it sophisticated. Biden made it normal again. Trump is now making it permanent.








  • The fact that you compared “AI powered sex doll” to Linus using an LLM to generate code he reviewed and accepted (as if he’s reviewing any of the many contributions he reviews and constantly rejects for the simplest mistakes) shows that you know nothing about the different applications of “AI”.

    Yes, the “AI powered” sex toy is an example of an idiotic scam, the AI powered assistant that hallucinates in a conversation isn’t very useful, but code that literally does what it should do, reviewed by a competent engineer, is no different from reviewing code from any of your coworkers. It’s code, if it’s garbage you reject it, is it isn’t then the tool was useful.


  • What Marxists are talking about UBI as proposed by yang and others?

    If by UBI you mean everyone has access to housing, food, water, electricity, internet, education, and healthcare, you’re talking about two different things.

    UBI proposed assumes corporations replace workers with automations and aims to provide a crutch for those capitalism eats alive, except it doesn’t guarantee any of the things I listed that people need. It just gives them money to spend on corporations.


  • They would deny it’s mass murder if that was the big accusation.

    There’s no real debate, all genocide and even Israeli Holocaust historians have called it a genocide, all legal experts on genocide have called it a genocide, and of course your own lying eyeballs have shown you the intent they displayed. We’re not debating facts, it’s all the experts on one side and all the guilty parties and their AI and their captured media on the other side.

    You can have Raz Segal describe it as a textbook case of genocide a few days into it, and you still have disgusting reporters shutting people down on air to claim factually there’s only a genocide against Jews today.






  • What’s wrong with your reading comprehension?

    I never said I supported Assad, I’m glad he’s gone.

    What we have now is not significant better, and has every indication that it’s going in the same direction, except instead of siding with Russia they’re siding with US.

    If history is worth any lessons, we can expect the average Syrian’s living conditions to be significantly worse than under Assad, Sadnaya may be closed, but Julani’s gangs murdering minorities in public is not exactly better…

    The Syria we grew up with is gone, ripped apart by foreign fighters, and colonial powers are grabbing what’s left over. Assad was bad, that doesn’t make Julani good.

    What I said is that Syria had a formidable army under Assad, an army that engaged in wars and won, an army that fought Israel before, an army that was organized and equipped. That simply doesn’t exist anymore, the civil war erased it.

    That’s not a compliment of Assad, it’s just a statement of fact.