Idk I feel technology will be the one thing to persist. Countries may be submerged, hospitals, food, clean water etc may all become fucked, but somewhere in the world technology will develop and persist.
Nuclear winter is the only thing threatening technology and even then it probably just stops for a while and once the ruling class gets out of their silos the same shit continues.
Yeah US is going to attack again bc they never agreed to stop attacking the ships
Google stock down today bc Apple says it's okay for them to keep paying us $20 billion bc searching is down I safari is an amazing reminder in how capital with always protect itself. Google could care less about stocks going down for a day, but Apple showing bourgeoisie solidarity publicly is something to always keep in mind. Their solidarity is strong, but if we had that same solidarity they can't stop us. Don't forget.
Thoughts and prayers to Mr. Hinton and his family
Can we stop talking about Duolingo? I know why all these online writers talk about, it because tech employees thought they found one of those cushy jobs for life and now the rug is being pulled out and it's example A. However, automation taking over jobs at ports is a much more large scale issue and is an example of how automation will infiltrate every sector not only programmers.
I disagree. He gives the western frame not as a point of agreement but the point of context and then walks through how western imperialism has gotten the mass public to agree to this frame and then takes apart the whole thing piece by piece. I guess he could just go in full scale and say they're wrong but running a 10 hour twitch stream the conversation would be over pretty quickly and not much learning would be done by the viewer. It would just be you agree or you don't.
Yes, the twitch streamer must be a brilliant academic and charismatic. I keep hearing this ceding tons of ground and I have no idea what that means.
He runs an all day talk show. He has to ramble at times to keep it going. And often times he does this because people listen to him for a long time are in his chat and willing to engage so it makes sense.
That Pier Morgan interview was one of the times I'm talking about. When he goes on other shows he has no problem openly shouting down fascists and calling them for what they are. He does this with chat all the time too.
We don't have many popular Marxists who are teaching media literacy effectively to the masses.
The only thing the empire will continue to spend more money on is weapons
Clothes are coming off. One day someone will notice
You not only have to have confidence, but also be witty and have a bit of bravado ideally. You also have to treat fascists as fucking fascists, don't be charitable whatsoever, initiate the name calling and openly mock them whilst being cool headed and above the situation itself. Many leftist instead engage in debates where they let the fascist speak, express his views etc. You need to call a spade a spade immediately, not fuck around for the sake of liberal civility.
So what Hasan does
I heard Vijay Prashad talking about leftists have to be more likable and do less of the infighting shit because it's unappealing to outsiders and I'm just not sure I agree that's the problem. It's usually the easiest thing to point to as if we just were more approachable more people would want to join a communist organization.
I think it comes down to power and material impact. Arguing and disagreeing over small shit is done by all parties and yet they still have power because they hold onto it and wield it with ease.
One thing he did say that struck a nerve is he was talking about China being a serious country. The imperial core is not serious, but that doesn't mean our effort to organize and build solidarity within the working class shouldn't be taken seriously. The Black Panthers are great example of this. They were serious about what they were doing and that is why when they built power and people trusted them.
This is also more of a self reflection in what I could work on as I'm organizing.