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The biggest enemy to Marx is Darwin. Once humans can overcome human nature - and Nature - Marx can defeat Darwin. Until then the revolutions will continue.

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@JohnfKennedy608 We’re at war. We’ve been at war. Since Covid at least.

Holy Crap!

I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

@ConceptualJames When are we going to learn that the populist right is ALWAYS a response to retarded Leftism.

The funny part is that Franco is how Spain got this way. Turns out he pissed a lot of people off and turned the whole country retardedly Leftist for a few generations.

@ConceptualJames Sounds like damned if we do damned if we don’t.

@ConceptualJames @SethDillon Counter-hegemonic beliefs in an era where the hegemony has been destructively wrong and even suicidal is natural self-preservation. So is a mad search for someone, anyone, to be right/honest/trustworthy. This leads to bad faith leaders emerging.

@SethDillon Counter-hegemonic beliefs and knowledge production preference. That is, critical theory or Woke thinking.

If you want to know why ridiculous conspiracy theories are so popular, it's because the media, the government, and big tech all worked together to crush reasonable dissent. And they did it in defense of lies. Alternative theories, no matter how insane, are now treated as better explanations by default — and that fact is being exploited by shameless grifters for views and clicks.

I don’t want to get your hopes up, but it’s time to chill the champagne.

This is why war has always existed and always will. We’re in a weird, unnatural time where western men aren’t allowed to fight back because their rulers invited this situation. This time of castrated men won’t last. Nature finds a way.

Good time to mention that everything Trump has done to secure the US border, his largest success, has been done via executive order and can be reversed with the stroke of a pen… They will reopen the border if they can.

@BenShapiroShow Spot on.

Can I be honest with the Ella Fellas?

@ConceptualJames We are getting psyoped to death. They are going to drive us all insane.

There's no way that wasn't deliberately coordinated. By whom?

@GadSaad I believe blaming his actions on his self-grandiosity and narcissism is excusing some very inexcusable and possibly evil actions by him.

Anthony Fauci is the perfect exemplar of why pride is the root of all of the seven deadly sins. He is swimming in an infinity pool of grandiosity and narcissism. His need for validation from the cool kids (Hollywood celebrities) was greater than his responsibilities as a public health officials. It is a tragic tale of astounding self-love.

@sanchezcastejon History repeats.

El Gobierno de España está volcado en dar una respuesta inmediata a la situación en Ceuta. Estamos movilizando todos los recursos necesarios, trabajando con las autoridades marroquíes e internacionales, y preparando las medidas necesarias para recuperar la normalidad lo antes posible. Así se lo acabo de transmitir al presidente @JuanVivasLara. Es el momento de construir soluciones, con responsabilidad y cooperación.

This is what commies do. They mark their enemies, call them “fascists”, and that’s the bat signal: they know their deranged commie street animals will Luigi them. They never have to explicitly call for violence…violence is just the inherent reflex of the commie. Message received

@lookingglass401 @TheChiefNerd Too much Fog of War fallacy for my taste. Trumps position has been quite nuanced (as has the data). But go off.

I’ve implied this whole conversation I don’t blame him for the vaccine push during 2020 or his initial reactions to it. I blame him for his continued support for the vaccine now when anyone with functioning brain cells knows it was a complete disaster. Everyone lied to us about the severity of Covid for healthy individuals and children and he has still not come out and acknowledged that.

🚨 RFK JR: “[Fauci] got vaccinated at a very, very public press conference … and then five months later, he had a pulmonary infarction — which is one of the adverse events NIH, CDC and FDA said are expected from the vaccine. He never told anybody.”

@Cernovich And what is the plan exactly?

Losing the midterms is part of their plan.

@lookingglass401 @TheChiefNerd I don’t understand this argument. If you’re the president and every health expert in the country is telling you we must get vaccines out or millions will die you would do the same damn thing.

@TheChiefNerd Meanwhile, the president still touts operation warp speed and has given billions more to pfizer for more vaccines!

I really think we need more people just making the practical and moral cases for profit. I'm not talking about profiteering or whatever, or the abuses of monopoly, but profit itself. The profit motive is a rather amazing incentive. I'd say it's one of the most important innovations of human history except that it's also literally the law of all ecosystems (and humanity and society are actually ecosystems made of human beings, not some kind of single human meta-organism, which is a common but very wrong belief). In nature, flowers produce costly sugar water (nectar) and plants produce costly fruits primarily to lure in pollinators and animals that will eat the fruits. The plant is expending resources to produce something it actually doesn't need so that insects, birds, and other animals will solve certain problems related to plant reproduction and dispersal, given that plants can't really move. The plant is "motivated" to do these things because it profits from the interactions; that is, it gets more out of the exchanges than it puts into them relative to its underlying goals. The animals involved do these things because they, too, profit from the interactions; that is, they get more out of the exchanges (food) than they put into them relative to their underlying goals. Both do what they do because they have a net gain, profit, and both sides profit due to the exchange. This is how it works, so it's how it works in human societies too. Profit solves a crucial problem in ecosystems: it allows entities that don't care about each other to do things that satisfy the others' needs, and it does so by incentivizing an exchange that leaves both better off. It is in the plant's reproductive self-interest to produce nectar in flowers and fruits around their seeds. It is in the animals' self-interest to gather food in this way. The plant does not care about the animals; it just wants to reproduce. The animals do not care about the plants or their strange sexual behaviors; they just want a full belly. These exchanges happen constantly, everywhere you look because both sides benefit from the other without having to care about the other at all. Societies are like this. They're made of lots of individual people who extend beyond the family unit or clan or even friends-network who simply don't care about each other except in the most abstract sense. They aren't motivated to work for others in the abstract, but they are motivated to work for themselves and their kin/network. This is human nature. It will not change by any amount of force or socialization. Profit performs the not-at-all-magical (see the ecosystem of birds and bees, flowers and trees above) magic trick of turning working to produce solutions to other people's problems into self-interest. This is literally the glue that holds societies together. That is, once you get beyond very small, very tight networks built on other kinds of affective bonds, profit is what makes society work (as is the case in all ecosystems ever anywhere always). So, profit is the glue that holds society together because it incentivizes people to come up with solutions to other people's problems, even if they don't know or care about those other people. This in turn promotes peace because people want to live and work in a stable situation where everyone can do this for themselves. It also holds society together even more effectively than politics and identity can, and more broadly. It also incentivizes solving problems, especially scalable problem-solving. If you want a successful, productive society worth living in, it's held together and incentivized by profit. This is profoundly moral and practical. Profit actually does more, though. It seems magical because it's unplanned, but it's actually not magical and just fundamental common sense that even birds, bees, flowers, and trees follow without any real planning capabilities. For example, profit encourages abundance but without waste. Flowers don't make more nectar than will attract pollinators because it would be a waste of energy that could be used for other purposes (including developing their fruits, growth, etc.). Nature does not reward waste. The same cuts the other way. This fact is even more obvious with profit, guided by human reason, though. If you can make something for $5 and sell that thing for $10, you have a $5 incentive per unit to make more than you personally need. If you can sell 1000 units, you're incentivized to produce 1000 extra units beyond your needs because you'll pocket $5000. That's called surplus. It's called abundance. It is the only thing that generates and spreads wealth. You're not incentivized to make 1000 surplus items at a cost of $5000 to you to make them just to make them. No one (except lunatics) would be. You're incentivized to make 1000 extra things at a cost of $5000 to you because you can reliably sell them for $10000 and pocket the extra $5000, which you can then use however you like to meet your other needs and wants. So, you're incentivized to make a surplus by profit, but there's more. For one thing, you're only actually incentivized to produce a surplus of useful things (useful to other people who will buy them at a price that gives you a greater return on your investment). That's pretty "magical." Flowers don't exude poisons to attract pollinators. They exude nectar, something pollinators want and will exchange effort that results in pollination to obtain. Profit doesn't just encourage surplus; it actually encourages abundance: the production of surplus of things people actually want. For another, because there's more, profit discourages excess. If you can sell 1000 units, you won't make 2000 units just to make them. If you do, you'll pay a price. The price is your costs to make them. If we use the numbers above, it would cost you $10000 to make 2000 units, and when you sell all 1000 you can sell, you're stuck with 1000 units in inventory and broke even by bringing in $10000 in cash. Your incentive isn't good here. You wouldn't do it (twice). That is, profit also encourages producing the right amounts of useful things and not more. Do you have any idea how valuable and important that information is? Profit does it without ANY planning whatsoever because societies and their economies work on the logic of ecosystems. People see needs (including wants), which are "ecological niches," and fill them usefully, abundantly, and not in excess all because the incentives direct them to do this and not differently or more or less. And it's not magic. But wait, there's more! Ecosystems do not operate on a model of cooperation. Sure, some things are symbiotic with one another, but overall, the law is actually competition. This is because nature is ruthless and individuals are ultimately the units. The same is true of societies, which are mostly made of people who don't know or care about each other except in the weird abstract sense that doesn't motivate a lot of behavior, especially sensible behavior. The profit motive also encourages competition. Let's look at the numbers from above. You can make the thing for $5 (including the worth of your own time and effort) and want to sell them for $10. I can make them for $5 too and am willing to sell them for $8, taking just $3 per unit. You're about to experience a lot of pressure to lower your prices or make your product better to justify the greater cost. Now we have lower costs and product improvement being incentivized by competition for profit. (Just like faster bees get more nectar or whatever.) The profit motive actually encourages, again, with no central planning, finding the ideal cost of goods and services while also encouraging people to differentiate, innovate, and improve their products. If you can make a fundamentally better product than I can for $6 a unit instead of my $5, I can sell my cheaper one for $8 at $3 profit per unit and you can sell yours for $10 at $4 per unit, and we are now competing in a differentiated market instead of directly. This increases the total abundance of the entire society by offering more choices to more people. It arises because the profit motive offers more than one (prosocial) way to deal with market competition. So then there's even more. Profit unlocks a law of economic efficiency called "the law of comparative advantage," which is just the claim that people will fill the economic niches most suited to their talents, abilities, and temperaments given the opportunity to do so. In essence, the law says that people in free economic situations will gravitate toward where they have the greatest relative advantage over their peers in producing or serving. That is, people will do what they're good at (and fill different niches as a result). Think about it: you're not going to be inclined to do something you're bad at if you can figure out how to serve others and make a profit from something you're good at. Why? First, your own personal interests and happiness, I suppose, which is only first because you're not that hungry. Second, which is first when you are that hungry, because you can make a larger profit per unit effort when you do things you're good at (that people want). Profit therefore incentivizes a natural sorting in the economy that moves people to the places where they are most valuable. It isn't perfect, and not everyone is the most happy there, but the incentive structure constructed by profit is toward getting everyone in their most useful role, subject to some logistical constraints like locality. Moving everyone toward their most valuable role is a huge benefit of the profit motive. But profit incentivizes the other end of the deal too. It moves other people to where they're willing to fill niches that need to be filled (sometimes because it's their most useful option): work like cleanup, janitorial, hard and dangerous jobs, etc. It's the same exact force based on the same exact foundation: profit. Profit is not just the glue that holds society together, then, it's the lubricant that keeps it moving and the fuel that drives its activity. It's pretty amazing. This can go on and on and on and on talking about all of the generally beneficial, moral, practical, and good reasons to support the profit motive, which is little more than the securing of private property, the right to set the terms of your own exchange (but I repeat myself), and facilitating means of exchange (like money). It's literally just the logic of the ecosystem, and the logic of the ecosystem is the logic of society, no matter how much people want to change that with dumb ideological programs. (No, human beings will not evolve beyond the logic of the ecosystem. In fact, that's not just wrong but a category error. Society IS an ecosystem, and that's not based on human nature itself.) Profit, when you actually understand what it is, is more than just an incentive structure and the glue that holds "extended society" (per Hayek's terminology) together. Profit is evidence of service. One of the things socialists tend not to understand about profit is that it's the excess price people will pay to obtain a good or service without having to provide it directly for themselves (subsistence). Profit is the amount over the raw value of a thing people will willingly and gladly part with from their own as a showing of a kind of gratitude for what they're receiving through someone else's effort. Smart people are glad to pay toward reasonable profit, too, because they want good producers to feel incentivized to keep producing. The flower that produces the best nectar will attract the most bees and hummingbirds. Finally, as I've already stated, profit actually is the only way wealth can be created and distributed. Wealth is the accumulation of problem solving capacity, essentially, and it is therefore the accumulation of surplus value obtained in every exchange of production, goods, or services. People pay for products at the price they're offered because they are convinced, frequently rightly, that they will have more value by buying the product than by leaving it. People sell products because they are convinced, frequently rightly, that they will have more value by selling the product (exchanging it for money or other stuff) than by keeping it. Both parties do the exchange because they believe they'll have more after the exchange. That surplus value that is created in the act of mutually profitable exchange is... wealth. Wealth is both created and distributed by this process, and the engine of the process is profit. So, like I said, this could go on and on, and I hope it does. I think we need a lot more people a lot more of the time preaching about the practical and moral good of profit because our society desperately needs to hear it right now. In the end, there are two kinds of mindsets: the profit mindset and the welfare mindset. The profit mindset is the logic of the ecosystem, and we live in an ecosystem. The welfare mindset is a poison that denies the reality of the ecosystem mindset in favor of something wrong where they get a handout, which is mostly a downward spiral. In nature, there's no free energy, and the same is true in human ecosystems, which we call society. We need to preach the good news of profit.

@SJ_Murray He who controls the past controls the future.

I can’t even. Why are we shredding and pulping books? Often rare ones? In the name of AI. Are you kidding me? If the alarm bells haven’t sounded yet, they should now. And this coming from me, someone who is tech-forward. Good grief!