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I’m a Spanish speaker, I read the article and it checks out. Though “a good chunk” maybe an exaggeration, it appears true that at least one paragraph was basically lifted and paraphrased from the show. The article says that Milei’s communications director is a big fan of the west wing who has watched it between seven and nine times and that it isn’t the first time something in a Milei speech has caused west wing fans to get suspicious lol.
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Yeah exactly this. I basically have a habit of code switching and using more colloquial terms and definitions when I talk about capitalism and these things with people in the workplace or normie online spaces like Reddit, but I should have remembered where I was and that people on this forum tend to discuss things with more precise Marxist understanding. Thanks again for your efforts to explain it and helping me get those wires un-crossed in my head.
As I was driving home from work I listened to this video which helped me realize where I was going wrong. If you ever find yourself getting frustrated having to explain this to somebody in the future maybe you can link them to this, it is professor Wolff explaining essentially what you said in a succinct way.
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You are correct, sorry! I was at work when I replied earlier and didn’t read you properly or didn’t comprehend properly what you were saying, so yes, the confusion was on my end. I’ll delete my previous comment.
The use of the word “capital” to mean machinery etc is colloquial and non-Marxist. Marx uses the more specific term “constant capital” to refer to capitalist investment in these things, while “capital” itself is a broader term referring to the social relation of self expanding value of which these things are simply a part. Thank you for setting me straight, usually I’m pretty good at understanding when the word is being used in the colloquial sense vs the Marxist sense but again I was sloppy because I was replying while at work and not paying enough attention.
Now that I think we are on the same page let me try again with the point of my original comment, I was just trying to clear up where I think you were talking past the other user because they were using the word one way and you were using it in the more correct Marxist way. I think when the others were speaking of countries “recapitalizing”, they meant onshoring, or bringing the constant capital back into their own borders.
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I think you’re confused about what capital is to begin with (in BashfulBob’s comment at least). Capital is the means of production. It’s the machinery, the tools, etc. Capitalists are called that because they own those things. Under socialism, the workers will own it (directly or via the state), but the capital still exists. You definitely cannot have industry without it.
I was using it (and put it alongside the term in parentheses many times) as essentially- "financialization."
Financial capital is a thing but this is not what the person you replied to was talking about and it doesn’t make any sense to think the U.S. would need to “recapitalize” if it meant financialization. The U.S. is already a fully financialized economy. Recapitalization here refers to bringing industrial capital back.
You mention Saudi Arabia “swimming in capital” in response to Bob saying that they are trying to build it beyond their oil industry. That’s not accurate. They’re swimming in money, money isn’t the same thing as capital.
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You're mixing up "capitalism" and "production/industrialization." The two are not one and the same.
It sounds like rather, you’re confusing capitalization for capitalism. You don’t need to be capitalist to have capital, you do need capital to have industry/production.
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His hardened heart is mentioned before/during each of the ten plagues. For a few of them it’s as you say, a couple of them actually say he hardened his own heart, but for plagues 6,8,9, and 10 it’s explicitly God that did it. For me that combined with god saying clearly that he would do this, multiple times, before any of it even starts makes it clear that God is responsible for it as part of his plan. He wouldn’t want Pharaoh to just let the people go the first time they ask. What he wants is to make a big show for all of the Egyptians and Israelites that he is the biggest and baddest God and that their Egyptian gods can’t compete.
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If the two options to eat are arsenic and cyanide, choosing one of them to eat doesn’t improve your chances of survival.
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The reason (in the mythology as the story of exodus is mythological and not historical) for God to harden Pharoah’s heart was to have a reason to do the plagues and all of that, as a show of force to the people of Egypt (and the people of Israel who had been living in Egypt for 400 years and picked up polytheistic tendencies) that Yahweh is greater and more powerful than all of the Gods of Egypt and the Pharaoh.
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I just read Exodus recently. God tells Moses before he even goes to Pharoah, while giving him instructions that he will harden the Pharoah’s heart so that he does not let the people of Israel go.
NIV Exodus 4:21 - The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. “
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They were given permission to admit it by the media after that debate. My Blue MAGA high school history teacher who recently blocked me on Facebook for commenting on his posts admitted it but acted like it was only since the debate that it was apparent. I was like no we could all see it and many of us were talking about it for years already. “Well I agree that he’s declined mentally but I disagree that it was evident before this”. Totally dishonest, they’ll toe the party line at all times and if the line changes they don’t miss a beat.
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Right I mean he’s also 83 and still working, a lot of people that age who just worked a normal job and retired have more money than him lol he’s definitely not whatever the chuds made him out to be.
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The big thing was “Bernie has 3 houses he’s a fancy millionaire” when he has just his home in Vermont, a townhouse in DC, and the “vacation house” which they either inherited from his wife’s mother or bought with the inheritance. It’s legit a very normal and mundane thing and his net worth of a couple million is honestly low for somebody who’s been in Congress for decades, he’s not Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell who have closer to 100 million dollars by being corrupt goons.
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Sounds like Israeli cope after the fact tbh, it’s totally embarrassing for them that they got caught with their pants down so it’s “no we totally knew about it we just let you do that”
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The U.S. recognizes One China, meaning that there is only one China which includes both the mainland and Taiwan.
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Definitely seem to have the best prices of any place around where I live, we go there on payday to get enough groceries to get us through to the next payday
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Actually the people of Crimea didn’t want to be a part of Ukraine anymore, idk what this nonsense about the elections not being “legit” is, are you trying to imply that they didn’t want this? Or are you just against their self determination? The people of Crimea should have to live under a regime of Nazis that hate them and want to do ethnic repression because darn that’s just how we drew the border a few years ago when the USSR was illegally dissolved, tough luck guys.
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It was self determination by the people of Crimea actually.
If you google this question, “where does fentanyl come from?” You get a results page filled with “China” and “Mexico”. I have a suspicion that the fentanyl “pouring over our southern border” narrative is mostly BS and that it’s coming from inside the house, but can anybody point me towards the facts? Thank you
On Jeopardy today, the final clue. Category: 20th Century History Clue: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979. None of the three contestants on Jeopardy got it right, how about the hexbears?
Thinking of starting a coin collection. Any coin collectors around here? Any tips?
I have some referral links where we can help each other get some cash. Chime - open an account and receive one direct deposit, we each get $100. SoFi - open checking/savings with $10 and get $25, I'll get $75. I can send send you $25 so that we each get $50. NO DIRECT DEPOSIT REQUIRED but you can also get up to $250 bonus and 4.6% interest if you do set up direct deposit. Comment or DM me if you want to do either of these, also, if anybody wants to use this thread to share other offers like this (I know there are a lot of apps and stuff that give referral bonus). If you somehow don’t already have CashApp or Venmo I can do referrals for those too (CashApp gives each person $5, Venmo $10).
Lol, owned. Link: https://x.com/foxnews/status/1719473902135463982?s=46&t=yvpswX1j2O--GMAbVtwIkQ
Lol, owned Link:https://x.com/foxnews/status/1719473902135463982?s=46&t=yvpswX1j2O--GMAbVtwIkQ Edit: Sorry, I thought I was posting this on hexbear
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This just came out on Netflix. It's a Chilean film about Augusto Pinochet, the general who couped Salvador Allende in 1973 and ruled Chile as dictator for two decades. In this film he's an immortal vampire who faked his death but now wants to die for real, his children worry about their inheritance (the ill gotten wealth Pinochet squirreled away in accounts around the world). Also features ::: spoiler spoiler Margaret Thatcher as narrator, also an immortal vampire and Pinochet's mother ::: Has anybody else watched this yet? It just hit Netflix yesterday. I thought it was pretty interesting but will probably watch it again later to analyze more deeply.
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A group of senior military officers has gone on national television in Gabon saying they have seized power because elections held over the weekend were not credible. The officers, appearing on Gabon 24 in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said they had cancelled the elections, dissolved all state institutions and closed the country’s borders. They said they represented all security and defence forces of Gabon. The announcement came shortly after the state election body said President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third term in office in Saturday’s disputed elections. “In the name of the Gabonese people … we have decided to defend the peace by putting an end to the current regime,” the officers said. The Gabonese Election Centre said Bongo had secured 64.27 percent of the vote compared with 30.77 percent for his main challenger Albert Ondo Ossa, after a process beset by delays. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, reporting from Kenya, said that “there are lots of uncertainties” surrounding the military action. “There is a lot of tension as well. They [military leaders] are claiming that the government has not been respecting the will of the Gabonese people for so many years and they say that has to change,” said Soi. On Saturday, the opposition camp said the election was a “fraud orchestrated by Ali Bongo and his supporters” after the internet was cut and a curfew imposed. French media outlets France 24, RFI and TV5 Monde were also banned, accused of “a lack of objectivity and balance … in connection with the current general elections”, the government said. “We also know that the internet is still shut down. It was shut down over the weekend and curfew was imposed,” Soi said. “So, people are very afraid.” “It is very hard for people in Gabon to access the information that they need to know what is happening,” she added. Bongo was the candidate for the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), the party founded by his father, Omar Bongo, who led Gabon from 1967 to 2009. After his death, his son, then the defence minister, took his place as president and has been in power ever since. “We have no idea where President Bongo is. The military did not say where the president is. Things are moving very fast,” reported Soi. Tensions had been running high amid Saturday’s vote with the opposition pushing for change and an end to the Bongo family’s dominance of Gabon.
I use the site through my phone's browser, which is how I've always used it. Recently I'm being logged out almost every time I refresh or go to a new page either by clicking a link or using the back button. Is this a known issue that's being worked out?
So right now, I’m working on breaking into the career field I want but in the meantime just working a full time job. I was hoping to get more overtime but they’ve basically told me that the factory is slow and not to expect overtime until like September. I get bombarded with this clickbait things that are like “8 ways to earn extra money this month!” and then it tells you to like play bingo on your phone for money. If those lists were meant to be real instead of ads, what kinds of things would be on them? What can a working person do to say make $500 a month apart from just getting a second job?
Edit: we have been helped and so grateful for the generosity of the users who helped us. Thank you comrades, I love you all, and I hope to be back on my feet soon to be able to help others here the way I've been helped today. I hate asking, but I'm just starting new job tomorrow which I'm happy to have but I won't get my first paycheck for two weeks, and I need help to get food and some things my son will need for school between now and then. If anybody can spare anything, even a little bit we would be so grateful. Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
I've just recently done an interview for a potential first job in the software industry and it went really well but they sent me a quick project to do at home to see what I can do and it uses a couple of technologies I'm not the most familiar with (it's a crypto related company, which I'm not keen on but I'd mostly be working with React and stuff on front end for their website I think). I don't want anybody to *do* the project for me I'm just a bit stuck and could maybe use some pointers from anybody who's been in the industry for longer. After turning this in I'll likely have to do a last interview where I actually do a little coding in front on them but I'd like to at least get something I can turn in here, whether they end up moving forward with me or not, since I got the interview via a recruiter who has been really good about working with me and I don't want to disappoint and get this recruiter to write me off. Anybody willing to take a look and help me out, PM me and I'll send details. Thanks in advance!
Any topic, what are some great and interesting documentaries to watch?
I have a degree in Computer Science and recently finished a 9 month software development Boot Camp. Been sending out resume and applications to quite a few postings off of LinkedIn but so far getting very little response. I have an interview tomorrow but not sure how legit it is, outside of that I haven’t been called up for any interviews yet. Comrades in the software industry please help me out with any advice you can. I’m willing to relocate to pretty much anywhere as long as I can get employment in this field that will lead to good experience and development.
"Speaking with a candor he would soon be unable to afford, Mr. Obama directed his fire across the entire political spectrum. He denounced a broken status quo in which cynical Republicans outmaneuvered feckless Democrats in a racialized culture war, leaving most Americans trapped in a system that gave them no real control over their lives. Although his sympathies were clearly with the left, Mr. Obama chided liberals for making do with a “rudderless pragmatism,” and he flayed activists — with the civil rights establishment as his chief example — for asking the judiciary to hand out victories they couldn’t win at the polls. Progressives talked a good game about democracy, but they didn’t really seem to believe in it."
I'm outside of the US and want to watch some games for free, idk where to find this stuff, seems like google, reddit etc are useless for finding it nowadays. Edit: nvm I found one off of reddit after all
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