van Daemon

@ddebow Can’t really do much unless the foundation of the system is redesigned x.com/juliusruechel/…

we need to imagine much bigger, bolder futures.

@semi_const @wokal_distance The rich countries have adopted highly regulated zoning that restricts supply, mass migration, and run the money printer in recent years. One of the few jurisdictions that created an environment favorable to builders ended up seeing affordability improve

@wokal_distance Yet, for some reason people in these "rich" countries nowadays have worse access to housing than USSR had when it was falling apart. And of course anyone who dares to point out that something is not right with this is a communist and the enemy of the nation.

Communists think poverty is created when rich people hoard resources that they stole and refuse to share, so they keep trying to make socialism work, with predictable results: the capitalist countires get rich, the socialist countries become poor.

@chloeikennedy Starting to think socialism is just girl math at society level 😂

expensive clothing can’t be reduced to antisocialism when the cheaper alternative (fast fashion) is pro-exploited labor. when the mission of capitalism is to withhold as much profit from the laborer, people of means should buy from these brands w/ transparent supply chains.

@suchnerve Gender roles have no place in the capitalist machine which demands interchangeable androgynous worker units

@Diegotrip1 Wanting clean safe communal spaces makes someone hitler now?

it's always some hitlerite asshole running these accounts

@Wilson84KS @fedfigca @jacobin “Hoarded in various ways” 😂

@van_Daemon @fedfigca @jacobin Hoarded in various ways. You should educate yourself before going into debates.

In Karl Marx’s analysis, even capitalists who might want to pay their workers well are forced by the market from doing so because they’ll be put out of business. jacobin.com/2024/12/marx-c…

@Wilson84KS @fedfigca @jacobin This doesn’t make any sense on so many levels. Where does the money go if they’re constantly pulling it out of circulation? You make it sound like they’re stuffing it under their bed (which if they did would increase purchasing power of everyone else through currency deflation)

@fedfigca @jacobin That's why capitalism doesn't even work within itself, like some kind of super-cancer it is destroying itself by pulling money out of circulation through cost efficiency/profit until the cancer ideology is collapsing from a lack of purchasing power and market saturation.

@fatfabfeminist This is a great tweet because everyone will read it and nod while thinking they’re on the good team

crazy that there’s an entire section of the country that just lives in an alternate reality not rooted in facts & if we don’t try & “find a middle ground” with their delusions then we’re the bad guys?? the same group that says “facts don’t care about ur feelings” is never factual

@nathanderejewc @FinalTelegraph @MartinSkold2 This hypothetical farmer might feel differently if he spent his blood sweat and tears building a farm that supports his family within a community where he trusts his neighbors and then it’s taken away from him.

@FinalTelegraph @MartinSkold2 its so funny how nationalists view life.. empire attitude. ask a rural farmer from nairobi his view on the world state and he will tell you none of it matters.. you die and you are in the soil. your only purpose is to simply live your life that is given to you. its all noise

If you had to explain why the Roman Empire declined and fell, this sentence would just about sum it up.

@kiyahwillis All I know is don’t do the Canadian healthcare model. Big gap between perception and reality.

We essentially have a free market for coffee creamer- lots of businesses competing means lots of options If we want the same options for healthcare we need the same free market policies

@patdennis No it’s leak over from Canada where there’s been a huge influx of badly behaving Indians from rural areas

One of my crazier-sounding beliefs (or totally self-evident beliefs) is that the seeding of the American right with active/vocal anti-Indian bigotry (replacing more nonspecific anti-foreigner attitudes) represents the first truly successful Chinese information operation in the US

@sentientist This is how I imagine marriage in Japan

@URANVS121240 @dystopiangf 😂 Professor Gooner, PhD over here with the scholarly insights

Cool! Well I should say that I dislike most porn, because what they're doing just isn't up to my aesthetic standard, and isn't specific enough to my fetishes. So I source my porn very carefully - and now, with the advent of AI, I make most of it myself, the better to dial in on what specific part of my fetishes have the most charge. Sometimes it's surprising! Sometimes the details change! I'll stop there to check in with you.

Sexual fetishes involve extremely potent symbols. This has always been my issue with porn: it seems like blatant semiotic programming that can corrupt your personal mythos on the most fundamental level. The fact that no one is comfortable talking about it makes it even creepier

@SopranosFan12 @cbernaut @cafreiman ?? But workers aren’t blocked from getting capital. They access it via cooperation. Labor is also typically the biggest capital cost for startups so they even have some advantages.

@cbernaut @cafreiman How about the fact that you need capital to start a business and banks are much less likely to lend to capital and the whole system is built for capital dominance?

Workers are of course free to pool their resources together and start their own democratic cooperatives under capitalism. That they rarely do so suggests that they don’t particularly want socialist workplaces

@bayeslord Typical tech autist take

at this point humans should simply not be driving cars. may take several trillion of spend to get most of the way there, but we’ll get there

@uncledoomer The fastest way to turbo run the youth socialist uprising arc is to eliminate property taxes

i remember some guys on here thought this retard was gonna be president

@iiwasinthee212 Because the liberals dominate media and culture and throw shit fits when they’re not in power. It will always feel more peaceful when they’re in power

I fear the liberals are sweeping 2028 by a landslide and honestly, things were so much simpler and easy and less anger filled with liberals running shit

Yikes the tea has been fully clocked

@jmrphy The full interview is worse than the screenshots

Now that everyone's had their fun, it must be said that Katherine Stoeffel has been unfairly maligned by a mob that cannot read faces. The science of facial expressions has mapped every inch of the face and linked every contortion to its emotional meaning, and the two screenshots most widely shared from her recent interview with Sydney Sweeney clearly show affiliative expressions. The first image shows an affiliative amused smile with raised brows—lip corners pull upward (action unit 12), inner and outer brows lift (action units 1 and 2), head tilts forward in a classic affiliative cue. The second image is called a sympathy wince or sorry smile—inner brows lift with a slight draw together (action units 1 and 4), creating oblique grief brows, while lip corners pull up slightly. It's saying "I can't believe that happened to you, they are so crazy..." Stoeffel says: "The criticism of the content was basically that, maybe specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority." This is objectively a kind and generous way to ask about what was a massive public controversy. She's basically just saying "there was this criticism, what did you make of it?" It's a softball. After Sweeney delivers her pointed response—"I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear"—the interviewer nods warmly and vigorously in a clear sign of sympathy and respect (the video only shows this from behind Stoeffel's head but it's clear). I thought Stoeffel's speech and body language were impressively flexible, mature, thoughtful, and well-calibrated for such a fraught topic. She deserves a lot of credit for enabling Sweeney to produce her mic-drop soundbite. I see you, Miss Stoeffel. Even if nobody else does.

@karbonbased @SCHIZO_FREQ Leeches making a comeback open.spotify.com/episode/3eg6vs…

@SCHIZO_FREQ Pretentious quacks. Same people who would be prescribing you leeches, blood letting, and lobotomies in a different century with 100% confidence they are right and know best. I hate doctors so much.

Wife says I need to go to the doctor, get some referrals to go see some specialists bc I haven't been well lately but my plan is to wait until it becomes a medical emergency and let them figure it out in the ER I'm a man, we don't go to doctors. "Eh it'll pass, whatever it is"

@feministevee We need gender segregated workplaces to fix this

It’s funny how “women ruined the workplace” always translates to men finding it hard to behave like decent human beings once women show up. The problem was never women working, it’s that too many men can’t handle professionalism without mistaking it for oppression