Woah, condensing it down to 3–4 hours sounds ambitious, but it’s TriCon so 👀

US Cannot Control Israel

Utter bullshit, but message received loud & clear.

Do you think anyone ought ask or expect anything of him ever again? Because I don’t think so.

It’s some bullshit, the Five Eyes governments definitely got the global journalistic/speech suppression they wanted out of it, and Biden can have this off his back before election day, as if I’m going to forgive him (or Trump or Obama) for it now.

Last I heard, which was years ago now, they digitally scan/photograph every single envelope, and I assume they keep them all, so they’ve had the capability to do this for a long time.

To be fair, the establishment dictionary definitions of those words are about as useless as the urbandictionary definitions.

Even the Wikipedia definitions have their issues, because they’re written in the register of liberal/bourgeois hegemony. Just look at “totalitarianism”: it’s Arendtian horsepoo theory. Hannah Arendt came from a wealthy family and so unsurprisingly was anticommunist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.

I mean, it’s just an aphorism. And as @EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net rightly said, laziness has driven much invention, as has boredom, and curiosity, and the profit motive, and probably several other things.

These questions kinda get on my nerves.

Yes, production growth/shrinkage is another factor. In the case of SOEs, this is another case where the state has enormous control compared to in capitalist states, especially neoliberal ones that avoid SOEs like the plague.

I’ll preface this with IANAE either, but I have been following Michael Hudson for the last few years.

I don’t think it’s strictly necessary for the profitable SOEs to prop up the unprofitable ones. In principle anyway (and if one ignores international trade), all of the SOEs could be run at a loss. The state creates Yuan out of thin air to pay for things. The prices they set for SOE goods & services don’t necessarily have to reflect the costs at all. This allows them great flexibility in using prices to influence the consumption of each good & service. The only real limit is to not print too much money too quickly without destroying some of it through pricing/taxation.

Edit to add: In practice you can’t completely unmoor prices from costs. For instance, if you do that without also imposing rationing, you’ll get gray market arbitrage.

there is also capitalism in state industries when they are run for profit

Are any of the state run industries actually run for profit? Because if so, I wonder why, because I can think of no reason why they’d need to make a profit. The Chinese state can and does print as much of its sovereign fiat money as it pleases. They might run some things “for profit” as a form of taxation. The purpose of taxation at the sovereign state level is not to accumulate money but to destroy money, removing it from the economy.

I never really thought about what if any foreign currency-denominated profits the Chinese state might be trying to make. I guess I just assumed that all state industry is for domestic use.

it went from a […] democratic ML state to a capitalist state

China is not a capitalist state, because the capitalists have not gotten control of the state, though the possibility of them getting control should not be ignored.

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Wisconcom

This guy again, or rather still?

I wonder why he stopped posting to his Substack; maybe to focus on wrecking other people’s sites.

Edit to add that it looks like he’s active on Blogger: https://wisconsincommunist.blogspot.com/

Let us be happy we have an occupation to fill. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.

ok but i would throw a much wider net than wasps

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Yes, I mean Patreon and Substack. I won’t be surprised if payment processors stop processing certain channels some day, because they’ve done it before. PayPal, GoFundMe, And Patreon Banned A Bunch Of People Associated With The Alt-Right. Here’s Why.

Katie Halper got fired from there about a year and a half ago for the same reason, at which point Briahna considered quitting in solidarity. This is What Got Katie Halper Censored & Canceled By The Hill: Israel Is An Apartheid State.

Last month Max Alvarez fired Chris Hedges from the Real News Network over his interview with Dennis Kucinich. The interview with Congressional candidate Dennis Kucinich that was removed from The Real News site and led to the termination of my show.

All these folks work off my & others’ Patreon & Substack donations now. And how long before those corporations drop them?

Edit to add: Greenwald interviews BJG over her firing.

No worries. Being an admin on a certain Lemmy instance, I’ve seen what you’ve gone through in the last couple of days.

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