Ah, I see. I’m new round these parts.

To avoid excessive state debt, ensure fair competition, and tackle the climate crisis, it becomes increasingly inevitable that subsidies will be questioned and adjusted.

Considering current global developments, it is reasonable to expect that governments worldwide will gradually implement stricter regulations to protect the environment, improve animal welfare, combat climate change, and limit antibiotics use in livestock.

If the animal industry fails to meet new regulations (as is often the case with existing rules), it could face additional penalties, legal costs, and further deterioration in its public perception.

Much of this feels hopelessly naive. Like, I understand that the market is moving, and that’s pretty nice, but this could just be the prelude to a reactionary storm. Similar to what happened in America, where companies were advertising their diverty friendly qualities, until the right-liberals and entrenched business interests intervened.

Experts predict that climate-related cost rises will push half of the world’s livestock giants to an operating loss in 2030.

Now this is something that can really change things. Although it is a very ominous sign.

Hell yeah mix me up!

Mixer goes bzzzzzzzzzt

I pop back out with conspicuously lower resolution cause the mixer couldn’t handle my bandwidth

oops, organ failure

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The third part, the radical climax of the book, is nothing less than a call for communist revolution. (Yes! You read that right.)

No way, the communist, advocates for communism?!?!

But there are differences. Rather than Indigenous movements, the authors of “Abundance” are spurred on by China’s extraordinary track record on things like infrastructure and manufacturing

Ok …

Both books have arrived at an awkward moment. Even more than “Abundance,” a book that might well have set the agenda for a Kamala Harris presidency,

No it wouldn’t have lmao. Kamala harris has a negative chance of implementing a Dengist revolution in America and creating a SWCC like system (which would also just be a communist revolution, and do more or less exactly what “What’s Left” suggests).

The sense of distance is not just dispiriting; it’s revealing. What kind of world supported such lightweight speculation about how “we” would fight environmental catastrophe?

You know what? I actually kind of agree, a little. The book (from what the review describes it as) might be putting the cart before the horse (or is the idiom the other way around? I have no fucking clue).

Whatever the world was in which it was possible to imagine American policy approaches to global problems — a world in which we debated the relative merits of Bidenomics versus Indigenous revolution — it is no longer ours.

Literally never was. Biden is just as much of an ultra-rightist who did everything in his power to move rightwards on literally everything.

this hopefully singular period

The hopefully singular period that keeps repeating itself every time capitalism has a general crisis.

Me after being decomposed into sine waves

The duopoli machination is a machination if they get pushed toward the lesser evil and still get fucked.

So the duopoly machination is a machination?

“Jasmine Crockett said she wants illegal immigrants to pick her cotton and NO ONE from the left is gonna check her?” women’s sports activist Riley Gaines asked. “Wild times we’re living in.”

Color me shocked! The “women’s sports activist” is actually an anti-trans hack. I swear these journalist scumbag trash think they can slip by anything from under our noses.

“I’m really trying to grasp her logic,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, added. “And yet .” President Donald Trump acknowledged Rep. Crockett during remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday. “The Democrats have taken a lot of beatings, they’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “They’ve gone crazy. How about this new one they have, their new star Crockett? Are they serious about that?” “If that’s their new star they’re in serious trouble,” he added.

Behold! The consequences of having 0 ideological discipline for even the mildest milquetoast progressivism (forget DiaMat)! SocDems getting repeated outflanked by fascists from the left.

Rep. Crockett last month also faced backlash for referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, as “Governor Hot Wheels.”

Appropriate last name for this person. She truly is fried. Someone should photoshop her head onto the standing croquette in this pciture. Hell, I’ll do it (tomorrow maybe).

Went out today wearing a sports bra. I am 90% sure that everyone could see a conspicuous roundness in my chest area, but nobody commented.

It’s a stark turnaround for a nation that once used its abundant food supplies as a tool of statecraft

I did not expect to see an acknowledgement of food-imperialism from this article, but you know what? Hats off to the ML-MZT third worldist comrades at the Bloomberg HQ.

Before then, the only other annual deficits were in 2019 and 2020, during President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, and several years prior to 1960.

Long Live the Butcher comedian Trump, who despite himself, hastens the world proletarian revolution.

“What we’re seeing is not reassuring when it comes to increasing our reliance on a small number of markets,”

If anyone wants to know the exact breakdown, here is a source. A slight majority of the imports come from just 5 countries, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Germany. I was wondering what the fuck kind of food Germany exports to America, and this source (for Germany’s food exports to all countries) show it is almost entirely just processed food and animal products that could be made anywhere. At least when it comes to value terms, I am guessing a huge portion of America’s food imports could be substituted by domestic food processing.

Farmers are also focusing more on value-added products like ethanol, as it gets “tougher and tougher to compete in a commodity world,” Ryan LeGrand, CEO of the US Grains Council, said at the forum.

This will be great for food prices and the environment /s

if they get pushed toward the lesser evil and still get fucked.

Biden also increased tariffs on China. You can point to pretty much any policy that Trump is doing/planning on doing and you will find one of 4 outcomes

1. Biden’s admin started the discussion
2. Biden’s admin started the implementation
3. Trump’s admin started it in his first term, then Biden’s admin did little to nothing to reverse course
4. Trump’s admin started it in the first term, then Biden’s admin went further

The case of tariffs is option 4.

There’s a lot of cultural stereotypes that go into the idea of “exploitation” in liberal ideology. Even many people who literally cannot afford necessities may not think of themselves as exploited, because liberal ideology teaches us that the markets give us what we deserve.

In some situations, such as factories in 19th century England or sweatshops, the brutality of wage labor can reach a level where liberals think “nobody deserves to be treated like this” and “the market is a force of goodness, but it should be regulated”.

However, the thing that makes these ideas liberal is that like all ideologies of class societies, they are blind to the reality of what makes the market system perpetuate across the generations. Instead, ideologies make us go round and round in circles talking about morality and who should get what.

The simple physical reality on the other hand is that exploitation of humans is the lifeblood of every class society that has every existed and ever will exist. Every country in which an exploitable working class cannot be reproduced over time simply dies. This applies to societies as varied as the roman empire (which had to constantly conquer slaves to fuel itself) to modern south Korea (which is on track to ageing itself out of existence).

In my experience, everybody who has learns about this dynamic about class societies becomes 10 times more class conscious.

You wouldn’t be hired by companies if they couldn’t exploit you. Exploitation is the difference between what you could make and what you do make, the former in the case of where you fully own the means of production that you use. Without exploitation, there simply cannot be profits.

Notably, exploitation is not just performed by business owners. Rent, interest and taxes are also paid from surplus value. This is both the rent, interest and taxes that you are paying personally out of your wages, and also the stuff that your employer is paying (since your employer pays it out of the surplus they got from you).

Another way to look at it is that exploitation falls out naturally from a theory in which the labor theory of value is true. In a capitalist economy, everything roughly sells around its value Wages are the value of workers, aka the labor/money it takes to reproduce the working class. For a society that has the ability to produce more stuff than the bare minimum, any excess production (which is called surplus) is naturally appropriated by the ruling class.

In modern capitalism, many people have the illusion that they are not exploited, because their ideas of exploitation and alienation are deeply liberal (the hegemonic ideology). They see themselves as different than the 19th century English factory man, or the child sweatshop workers that produce shoes/garments. “How can I be exploited when I can afford consumer goods and luxuries?”. “How can I produce surplus value when my labor involves typing on spreadsheets?”.

The problem with such thinking is that exploitation and alienation are not moral categories that exist for the purpose of drawing sympathy or divide the working class into productives and unproductives. That’s the liberal/fascist goal. Exploitation in Marx’s theory is that bit of energy being extracted from you to power the present order. It is a numerically quantifiable number (that stands in the range of 40-50% for most western economies).

Just as a car engine might produce net 150 horsepower but doesn’t get to decide what is done with that power, your net power output is surplus. You do not control it. Your boss who has rented you decides what happens, and his job is to whip you into working hard and working for his ends. That is exploitation.

Ah my favorite genre of article. The “much ado about nothing” where the author talks about vague concepts such as “consumerism”, “anti-consumerism” and tries to say why they are good or bad.

There can only be something concrete about your article if it can be invalidated by a logical flaw or empirical information. The only part of the article that this applies to is “free trade makes people’s lives overseas better”, which happens to be false.

Even mediocre sex is better than masturbation for most Cis-Men. (Talking mostly Cis-Men here) Id go as far as to say the sex would have to be actively bad to be a worse experience than masturbation.

I wish I could relate T_T. I’ve literally never orgasmed during sex, but I can do it just fine by myself. Even the foot fetish guy finished, tried to jack me off for like 10 minutes before giving up in embarrassment. Idk if this is a psychology thing or what.

foot-phobia

I know phobias aren’t rational, but feet phobia? You learn something new everyday.

I would be honored

The ideological forefathers of modern Communism (Karl Marx, Engels, Max stirner, freurbach) were German materialists would would be considered too radical on social issues by 90% of western “socialists”. Some of these Mfs straight up didn’t believe that morality was real.

Marx would probably look at people injecting hormones and ask for some samples to experiment. Engels would be excited to study advancements in gender theory (my goat practically founded the field). Stirner would try to open an only fans, and somehow end up going into debt.

Posting takes from 196 isn’t picking the low hanging fruit, it’s digging out root vegetables.

short-term (1 day) consumer pain, strategic sacrifice

The types of information processed includes names, dates of birth, gender and ethnicity

A section marked: “type of personal data to be shared” by police with the government includes various types of criminal convictions, but also listed is the age a person first appeared as a victim, including for domestic violence, and the age a person was when they first had contact with police.

Also to be shared – and listed under “special categories of personal data” - are “health markers which are expected to have significant predictive power”, such as data relating to mental health, addiction, suicide and vulnerability, and self-harm, as well as disability.

I didn’t think it was possible for me to hate a country this much. On the bright side, this will reduce trust in the police as people begin to catch on that literally having contact with the police could have you marked for life.