"He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection"
Ah yes. Domination of the soul is so much more humanitarian than domination of the body.
You're not making a bad point in any normal place, but we do have fire departments in the United States that you pay directly and if you don't pay, but your neighbor does, they will come make sure that your house doesn't catch your neighbors on fire as it goes.
So.... Some people in this country live somewhere that has (even if it's not actually for-profit) fire departments that discriminate based on payment status.
The biggest capital holiday of the year is coming: black Friday.
This capital holiday, this entire holiday season, has already been well and thoroughly fucked by this admin.
Normies denied treats are already screaming. People losing food benefits are screaming. Soon, the grocery stores will scream, the retailers will scream, and perhaps even wall street will scream. It's like if Rome had all the bread and circuses in the world, but executed the clowns (I know they were races, but bear with me) in the streets and pissed on all the bread, instead of distracting the public.
Honestly I keep thinking that if you're interested in dual power structures, you need to be building all of this yesterday because there is no better time to exploit demonstrable weakness and build class solidarity.
I wonder if they genuinely think they could put down unrest at that scale.
I just don't think they have the numbers or actual will for it.
Even if you aren't directly affected by this stuff you know people who are. It was one thing when they created a reality without facts for their followers, but it seems like they've eaten their own tail on this and now genuinely believe the reality they've made up.
There's a violent white supremacist group that claims only 3% of the population rising up resulted in the successful American revolution.
42 Million people are on the brink of starvation, by their government, at the behest of capital and the government isn't even trying to hide it. Seems like greater than 3% of the US population...
This was most of my life as a KC fan. It was always a family thing, watching or listening to games, it wasn't ever really about the score, even when it was.
This one's actually at least a little bit Obama's fault.
The cash for clunkers program devastated the secondary market for vehicles in the United States. Great for the auto companies short term, but long term it removed so much secondary inventory that the market was eviscerated, leaving regular ass Americans in the lurch without a pool of cheap, relatively reliable vehicles.
But hey, it generated net growth for the shareholders for at least a couple quarters, so ultimately it was worth it right?
I write software for a living. I hate this white collar/blue collar divide bullshit. We're all workers, none of us own shit. I've got muddy boots and greasy clothes too.
They're so wrapped up in stupid aesthetics because they can't address material conditions without pissing off the money.
In Nazi Germany they'd be talking about sourcing better boot polish instead of protecting those under direct attack.
At a certain point you just have to assume that they don't complain because they agree.
您好！您提供的句子“Hello, I am fleeing the century of American humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster energy drinks?” 可以翻译为：
“你好，我正在逃离‘美国耻辱的世纪’。你能告诉我在哪里可以买到白色怪物能量饮料吗？”
说明：
“fleeing the century of American humiliation”：这里译为“逃离‘美国耻辱的世纪’”。其中，“century of humiliation”是一个特定术语，在中文语境中常指中国近代的“百年国耻”。但根据您的描述，这里指的是美国的历史，因此加上引号并明确为“美国耻辱的世纪”以区分。
“White Monster energy drinks”：译为“白色怪物能量饮料”。根据搜索结果，“White Monster”是“Monster Energy Zero Ultra”的俗称，因其白色包装而得名。中文用户也常直接称其为“白魔”或“白色怪物”。
购买信息：
根据搜索结果，White Monster（即 Monster Energy Zero Ultra）是一种零糖、零卡路里的能量饮料，含有150毫克咖啡因，口味被描述为混合了西柚、柠檬和淡淡的水果味。您可以在以下地方购买：
· 大型超市：如沃尔玛、家乐福等。
· 便利店：如7-Eleven、全家等。
· 在线平台：如淘宝、京东、亚马逊等，搜索“Monster Zero Ultra”或“白色怪物能量饮料”。
· 进口食品店：许多专门销售进口商品的店铺也有售。
I just learned that "random dad lore" is a meme from my oldest son. He was talking about an iPod touch we had when he was very little: "oh yeah, that was a gift for placing 8th or something in a national trivia competition before you were born." He was like "whaaaat?"
Then he told me about it being a thing. Which, to be fair I think has always been a thing, it just wasn't codified as a "meme" before.
Now I find myself looking for opportunities to drop weird facts about mom and dad.
I always report those kinds of things as hate speech lol
Every time I get a pro-israel ad on YouTube etc, "this is hate speech Israel is committing a genocide" I haven't gotten an ad like that in awhile now. Perhaps "Hamas" is in my ad profile.
Ah yes. Domination of the soul is so much more humanitarian than domination of the body.