like half of them are Deepak Chopra lol

Depends, it’s a pretty common take that a lot of the US’s infrastructural woes are due to not being able to build things effectively anymore, which is downstream of de-industrialization.

aka moving further up the value chain like US did when it de-industrialized, moving lower-value fundamental manufacturing to Vietnam

If you don’t believe me then I can ping somebody for you, because, quite honestly, I would be very surprised if you were in regular contact with any Jews.

I don’t personally believe the examples I gave. This is another reason the hypothetical-contradiction argument style is annoying, because you invite people to play in an imaginary world and then are horrified when they play in that imaginary world. We are talking about alternative explanations that a person you are making this argument to would find compelling. That being said, thank you for the in depth reply.

So the structure of your argument is argument by contradiction:

1. Imagine a world where Jewish people are the ruling class
2. In this imaginary world where Jewish people are the ruling class, education would feature their religious beliefs very prominently
3. Education in this world does not feature Jewish religious beliefs very prominently, therefore by contradiction we do not live in the imaginary world where Jewish people are the ruling class

My criticism is that the implication in step (2) is very weak. In this imaginary world there are many, many possible explanations for why education does not feature Jewish religious beliefs very prominently. It could be that the Jewish people who control the world are only ethnically Jewish and largely atheist, thus they care only whether their non-religious values are propagated. It could be that they view Jewish beliefs as hidden knowledge not fit to share with non-Jews. Fundamentally, arguing such a direct causality that you can derive a contradiction is hard to do in an alternate possible world.

Agree Jewish people are not a ruling class but this is poorly argued. In particular, the point about Judaism not being covered in education is easily explained by Judaism being an insular non-proselytizing religion, which in the antisemite’s conception is because they are a secretive society that keeps hidden world-shaping knowledge.

I think those labour seats can go lower. There is room to wipe out the party completely. Do it.

TNO is basically Half Life 3. It is an excellent and surprisingly tender-hearted game. The Old Blood is meh; it’s like meme Halloween DLC. The New Colossus is oddly different tonally from the first game in a way that is hard to describe, but just not as compelling for some reason.

OI! OI! YOU GOT A LOICANSE FOUH USING THAT WEURD??

Very much cribbing from Hanoi Hannah

I don’t generally throw around the word dialectic but “be normal” seems like one, and this same thing comes up again and again in mass-based politics. The end goal is to build a world that is - among a lot of other things - inclusive of people with all sorts of non-hegemonic sexual & gender identities. The people who most desire that world are specifically those people who are shut out of the current one. However, getting to the better world requires getting normies on board (questionable premise?). And many normies will be put off by things too far from their worldview. This is changeable (here’s where the democrats lose the plot, they don’t believe this)! But the process of change can only be started by meeting normies where they are & presenting yourself as near where they are, hence “be normal”. But being normal requires a movement to be outwardly less inclusive of the people that are its most dedicated supporters. So it’s a contradiction, but as we know here contradictions don’t just make things disappear in a puff of logic. Things lurch forward unevenly in a way that is propelled by the contradiction. Running too far ahead or trailing too far behind the people, etc. People take you more seriously if you are conventionally attractive, successful, competent, articulate, calm, well-liked by others, and so on. Achieving these requires conforming to hegemonic norms while ultimately desiring to replace them. So it goes when you Live in a Society.

I feel like anti-furry stuff specifically in this post is pretty passe. Like maybe don’t show up in your fursuit to the rally (or do? idk I’m not the ultimate authority) but it isn’t the mid-2010s anymore, furry stuff is moderately mainstream at least in large coastal cities.

is… AI & automation & robotics all just a plan to get PoC to serve them without having to physically be near PoC

I have lived in the US for like 15 years (including the South) and never once run into one of these people. Met a lot of zionists though.

I think the ad is fine. Conversion of disgust at Israel’s actions to dislike of Jewish people generally is inevitable as every western Jewish organization leader is like “no seriously I support all that genocide” and normie Jewish liberal zionists shrug their shoulders. At a certain point the obvious question becomes why bother carefully separating Jewish people from zionism if all the Jewish people you see & know don’t seem to want the separation. Add in extremely overt TikTok censorship and Epstein being a weird Jewish supremacist and this really will become a phenomenon. So in conclusion yeah, basic “don’t be racist” ads about Jewish people that doesn’t link it Palestine is good.

idk, all I know about it is whatever Timnit Gebru posts. I don’t think I would have heard about it otherwise.

lol understandable, I did finish it & was glad to have done so but thought it was a slog that was carried by its amazing themes & setting much more than its gameplay. Also, why did they have northern cardinal birdsong in the middle of europe

I am not sure exactly what you are referring to here. Maoists in the Philippines?

Recently played the game Pentiment, which is excellent in bringing this time period to life - albeit very boring as a game. Part of the plot involves peasants revolting and demanding the twelve articles. These came out of the German Peasants’ War of 1525, which was put down brutally as the nobility slaughtered 100-300k peasants.

In the modern context I think this is interesting to think about. Probably 1 person in 1000 has ever heard of the 1525 German Peasants’ War. 300k people being killed during a revolt in the modern day US, achieving none of their demands, would be a cataclysm. But generations endured that period and the ones before & after it. To me this is an antidote to some of the eschatological thinking I often encounter on the left that is like “this can’t go on for much longer”; it will indeed go on for longer. Much longer than you think.

One thing I’ll give GoT (spoilers for first season/book to follow but whatever): I love the scene where ned stark shows up in the throne room to lever king joffrey off the throne by appealing to the RULES and then is promptly arrested by the person controlling all the people with weapons. A lesson there, perhaps!

never forget this banger by the cruelty squad dev:

Cruelty Squad uses Godot by the way. It’s good. Play it!