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Carl [he/him]

@ Carl @hexbear.net

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  • If fascism is capitalism in decay, what was feudalism in decay? Is the extreme reactionary response to the birth of the new mode of production a necessary feature of the process of revolution?

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  • I think we don't have a proper name for it, since we just think of it all as fuedalism. Maybe marcantilism can be thought of that way as the other poster said but I don't think that's a 1:1 comparison. When I think "late stage fuedalism", I think the late Ancien Regime in France, where the fuedal institutions had become so calcified that they were simply incapable of responding to the rise of liberalism and the eventual French Revolution.

    In this analogy, the remaining fuedal regimes reestablishing the Bourbons maps to Capital restoration in the Soviet Union.

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  • In China the stereotype of the average cop is that they're somewhat useless, which sounds like a much more pleasant place to live than the one where we are patrolled by militarized murderers.

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  • What has Kim ever done to us? Exist!?

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  • ate something that did NOT agree with me a couple days ago, driving to my job sites for the day clenching the entire way lmao

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  • unsafe { std::mem::transmute::<f32, i32>(y) }

  • The American police state is becoming more violent as the system breaks down

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  • a steady rise since 08

    spike during biden admin

    cant even blame this on

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  • Putting every single Rust module I make inside of unsafe blocks and disabling all warnings because I don't let stupid compilers tell me what to do.

  • Mr Evrart is helping me find my cat

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  • i can't tell if this is real or a joke and reading the Twitter page that this was posted on didn't help

    if real i'd play it though

  • Learning on youtube

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  • video essay slop for toddlers that's brilliant i need to start plagiarizing documentaries (like the itsy bitsy spider) immediately there's money to be made

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    Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of "Stalin: Court of the red tsar" (the sole source of Lavrentiy Beria's supposed debauchery) emailing Ghislaine Maxwell. He was also found in the flight logs.

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  • okay based on my further reading it seems that they were "opened" in 91 but even then a lot of records remained closed, and getting a permit to search them yourself in the current geopolitical climate is apparently very difficult if you're from a western country.

  • SLavA uKrAiNI

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  • A few years back there was a news cycle where a bunch of western outlets reported on this image of Xi Jinping being served two cups of tea at a Communist Party meeting, generally casting it as some kind of power move, "look at me and how much more important I am than all of you", type thing. Very similar to the reporting around Donald Trump getting two scoops of ice cream at a White House dinner while demanding that everyone else get one.

    Further investigation revealed that this image was taken at the start of a very long Party meeting, which likely explains why Xi felt the need for two drinks, and that furthermore that it has been expected for Party members in China to pay for their own drinks at these meetings since the days of Mao, so the story was a fairly ridiculous mix of projection, Orientalism, sinophobia, and anti-Chinese propaganda, which the OP is invoking for comedic purposes by comparing it with an image of Zelenskyy with two glasses of water in front of him.

  • Chiropractic medicine is bullshit, right?

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  • There is definitely something to be learned about where our medical system falls short. Granted, it falls short first and foremost in terms of being delivered to people who need it, but if we solved that problem the next one we might think about looking at is the percieved impersonality of doctors and the alienating nature of the whole medical system.

  • China bans all new investments in Israel

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  • A sea change in Chinese policy towards actually doing good shit would be great, but they'd need to commit to it for a while to make up for the decades of not doing that.

    edit: to be clear I agree that I don't think this indicates a sea change, I'm just saying it would be great if one happened

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    Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of "Stalin: Court of the red tsar" (the sole source of Lavrentiy Beria's supposed debauchery) emailing Ghislaine Maxwell. He was also found in the flight logs.

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  • He alleges that Russia gave him access to the "Soviet archives" in the early 2000's for his book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, despite the fact that Russia denies it and they've never let anyone do it since.

    Aren't the Soviet archives open? Wasn't that the whole point of glasnost?

  • Xi's Sheer Existence Crushes Epstein/Bannon Racist Gossip Email Correspondence

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  • This is why executives and CEOs love ai email writing so much. It frees them from having to do it and they never cared about the output anyway.

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  • Simply learn assembly and you'll never have to worry about ownership or data types again.

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  • you can't use that function on a string, you have to convert to a vector!

    you can't use that function on a vector, you have to convert to a string!

    I HATE STRING OPERATIONS IN RUST I HATE STRING OPERATIONS IN RUST

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  • he says primaries and midterms, and to make sure you have registered to be able to vote in both. i don't remember if he says who you should vote for in the primaries.

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  • lift kit? no, I'll be making a lowering kit and a hatchback-style roof.