michael the syndicalist 🏴

My style is nuanced, my support for socialism isn’t

@Dang_Kuo @Eurofedmonarch The conditions of democracy improve via democracy, and not any other way

@Eurofedmonarch Besides, his modernization and improvement of living standards during his rule in ROC(Taiwan) eventually paved the way to democracy due to further reforms by later presidents Chiang Ching-Kuo & Lee Teng-hui.

He did not do democracy tho

@tommygun19173 @MartinDTurner @AmericaElige How so?

@MartinDTurner @AmericaElige It's complicated

Bolivia, La Paz mayoral election results: Preliminary quick count, 98.2% counted Dockweiler (IH, indigenous): 23.4% Arias (SPBC, centre-right): 13.9% ... César Dockweiler, a former member of MAS (left), is elected mayor of Bolvia's administrative capital. #Bolivia

@TherynDArnold @DavidpStein He was an old professor of mine. Snapped at me lol. Very good professor and book, though!

billions must read.

@reasonisred Movie?

TO WHOM, THE VICTORY? TO US!

@romlib_ right-socialist

Interaction bait - how would you (yes, YOU, the reader) describe my personal politics.

@LinkofSunshine No it wasn’t because wages also grew. It’s just a matter of making that known and felt

Ultimately the failure of Bidenomics was simply betting against this

@LinkofSunshine Pete can’t win

How I’m going to feel voting for Pete in the 2028 primary 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

@actsmaniac @souljagoyteller Based

@souljagoyteller sociology departments these days are basically full of Marxists who spend their whole day advocating for communism so it makes sense

It’s always ridiculous when even Marx’s opponents act like he’s irrelevant; as famous liberal critic of Marxism, Isaiah Berlin, himself said: “Marx is the true father of modern sociology, in so far as anyone can claim the title”

@animegfz Sci hub, anna’s archive, free online pdfs, or email the authors. Only one or two times have I been unable to access a paper after exhausting these methods

academia is a joke

@JihadalHaqq Consumption isn’t the problem, but it is a problem

I agree that consumption is not the problem, industry is, but there is no way to maintain contemporary meat intake without industry, period. The meat industry is substantially responsible for emissions, and that's a matter of fact, not a matter of who's indigenous or not

@WiredPyromaniac @rafal_blaszak @BarbedBeggar Okay, that is accurate. I looked into the numbers. You are right. My apologies.

@changingstar0 @rafal_blaszak @BarbedBeggar because you arent using the equivalent calculations. You're taking the systemic aspects of farming to arrive at the number, you aren't using the systemic aspects of AI

Guys (vegans), you don't have to defend ai when people bring up water consumption. Two things can be bad at the same time. It's so easy to compare them without saying some parts of generative ai are fun or useful just use your brain please i beg of you

@GhostCoase Conservatives have nobody but themselves to blame for this

"90 percent of politically relevant social science articles leaned left 1960–2024, and the mean political stance of every social science discipline was left-of-center every year during the period. Second, all disciplines showed leftward movement between 1990 and 2024...".

@WiredPyromaniac @rafal_blaszak @BarbedBeggar How is it harming the argument to show that when one eats a single hamburger, it actually took hundreds of more gallons of water than if they queried chatgpt hundreds of times?

@changingstar0 @rafal_blaszak @BarbedBeggar Then don't compare it to things that aren't comparable, you're only harming your own argument

@bloodstreamrunz @LIgfried @2kewl4sk0ol @nixonlover4 @justMizuyuki That’s what I thought

@bloodstreamrunz @LIgfried @2kewl4sk0ol @nixonlover4 @justMizuyuki If there is such an obvious way to meaningfully reduce costs lower than life imprisonment, somebody should be able to explain it. What is the benefit of getting rid of them?

the median american voter is actually hitler what the fuck is this

@WiredPyromaniac @rafal_blaszak @BarbedBeggar It’s just trying to show people that when they eat a burger how much water went into it. It’s for people to rationalize themselves

@changingstar0 @rafal_blaszak @BarbedBeggar The graph is fucking stupid because it compares two years of water use to an hour of television. It's a biased graph

@TAMMYSZN This is such an embarrassing response; hopefully not emblematic of the rest of his work

'Friedman's response was devastating' lol?

@hecubian_devil The proxy that most people are wrong about things is right but we should not let that translate into the heuristic that being disliked in and of itself is a moral good, which it often is

Sure, when *necessary* you need to be able to bear being disliked. but a bigger problem for the Left at this point is we’ve developed a vulgar belief in the converse: many of us think that being disliked is strong evidence that you’re courageous and moral, so we seek it out

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@wifibun I actually liked unity, although I didn’t play it at launch

WEIRDEST GAME TO EVER GET HIT BY THE NOSTALGIA CYCLE. LITERALLY EVERYONE HATED THIS GAME LIKE IT KINDA KILLED THIS ERA OF ASSASSINS CREED SO BAD THEY HAD TO REBOOT. I DINT THINK ANYONE GAVE IT MORE THAN A 4/10

@nmilesof @justMizuyuki If you disallow appeals, you will increase the amount of innocents killed. Are you willing to bite the bullet on this?

@changingstar0 @justMizuyuki Yes, not permitting 10 years of appeals in more extreme situations would certainly reduce cost. And again, much of the cost is allocation of fixed costs, not incremental