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I want my daughter to grow up knowing women can rain fiery death on the occupiers

Without the instance tag they are unable to distinguish between Our Noble Liberalism and Their Wicked Authoritarianism

Another fun fact that neither of us mentioned yet is that the regolith is electrically charged so it sticks to everything like evil packing peanuts.

Pretty accessible rundown from NASA

It’s true, it is quite quite surprising and counterintuitive that a nation could just “forget” how to build something.

One lesson seems to be that once you shut down the production line (especially for aerospace tech?) it will never be restarted

They do have the ISS EVA suits, but:

• they are based on 1980s technology that can no longer be reproduced. They’re already experiencing shortages (and life-threatening mechanical failures!) that affect station operations
• they are not made for the lunar environment, just for floating in space. I believe they have really poor range of motion in the legs and hips for example, I also think they would be poorly protected against the very nefarious lunar regolith

I have noticed this!

Once you drink from the well of the mega, all mainstream news is bullshit or old

I agree that AI would be unimaginable for Marx, but on the other hand I think the labor theory of value is still holding up. Has any AI actually generated value for anyone?

On the brink of a sovereign debt crisis?

Try tearing open decades of historical wounds!

You definitely will not regret tearing open decades of historical wounds

Not the first time the posting power of the hexbears has brought down servers

I love your telling of the story but there is one very inconvenient detail.

They definitely weren’t alone on the ISS, there was a full complement of crew from both Dragon and Soyuz in the station with them

Liberalism is a political tradition that dates at least to the enlightenment era. One of the defining characteristics of liberalism is the emphasis on the individual. This makes it highly compatible with capitalism, in fact, I would call Liberalism the state religion of Capital.

As the dominant political and intellectual tradition in the west for centuries, it can be difficult to even imagine a politics not built around fighting over different flavors of liberalism.

In my opinion, there’s a huge gap between the values liberalism espouses in theory (individual liberty, human rights, self-determination) and what we actually see in practice (slavery, fascism, imperialism, ecocide, genocide, world war).

Of course, committed liberals view fascism as outside of their tradition, whereas their ideological opponents generally regard fascism as an extension of liberal ideology. This quickly devolves into a No True Scotsman debate.

I’m pretty sure they are referring to imperialism as defined by Lenin, as an evolution and natural consequence of capitalism itself.

I think these paragraphs from ProleWiki: Imperialism give a good introduction:

Imperialism is the most recent evolution of the capitalist mode of production that began in the late 1800s to early 1900s, in which monopolies and cartels become the dominant economic force of society

It is a global system of economic, political, and military domination, with the imperialist powers using a variety of means, including economic sanctions, military interventions, and cultural influence to maintain their dominance over other nations.

I have to agree with you about the substance.

All three of those in the top-level comment are very much “look at the mysterious cabal that controls us using magic technology” vs “look at the obvious and well-documented cabal that controls us in the open” (using money, media and state power)

I do think it’s probably time to retire “conspiracy theorist” though. There are conspiracies out there and they generally get away with it. The aforementioned media control uses the wacky conspiracies to discredit the real ones right in front of our faces, I don’t think we should play into that

If I suspect a bot I just report. Fedi mods don’t like bots unlike commercial platforms that look the other way

Sinclair:

Conditions were so brutal that workers fingers were routinely severed by the machinery

WASPs:

Oh dear me! Having to eat human flesh unintentionally!? THIS IS A GREAT INJUSTICE THAT NOW AFFECTS ME PERSONALLY. ACTIVATE THE STATE TO PROTECT BORGER

Yes, the media is reporting basically what Trump threatened whereas CENTCOM and Lloyd’s announced the more specific definition you described

Of course!

They will completely misread the room and triple down on nominating natsec ghouls

Derivatives is a blanket term that refers to a variety of complex financial “bets” that are available to “sophisticated investors”. It’s worth knowing that the derivatives market is over ten times larger than the value of all the stocks in the US stock market, at ~$850 trillion with a T. This definitely won’t cause any systemic issues like it did last time

Wow, the neolib is (saying he will) keep the based sovreigntist policies?