Right, once you have a global alliance that includes every nation there’s no reason for that alliance to exist. Or standing armies. Or nuclear submarines. You can’t ever let people get to the point where they start to question the need for mindless death instruments and the psychopaths who wield them.

On 21 December 1991, Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, sent a letter to NATO asking it to consider accepting Russia as a member of the alliance sometime in the future. In the letter to NATO, Yeltsin stated, “This would contribute to an atmosphere of mutual understanding and trust and would strengthen stability and cooperation on the European continent. We regard this relationship as serious and wish to develop this dialog on all fronts, both on the political and military levels. Today we raise the issue of Russia’s membership in NATO, however, we see this as a long-term political goal”.

Then, a bunch of stuff happened and both sides realized it was advantageous to not have Russia in NATO. Turns out it’s easier to win elections when there’s a cold war going on. You can read about it here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–NATO_relations

Realizing I have better rights in an Eastern European country with a fascist prime minister is pretty wild

😂 😂 😂 never heard this one before

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Artificial general intelligence built by people who don’t have any. Sounds great, give them half a trillion dollars!

It’s weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don’t expect the same from Xi.

So the first sentence says TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial… Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?

There’s a whole section in The Art of the Deal devoted to how a Saudi guy had a nicer apartment than him and how he built a whole apartment building so he could have a nicer $50 million penthouse.

The fake reason he gives for this suicidal policy is aesthetics, right? So he prefers the sight of a coal fired power plant to wind turbines? Or should I just give up trying to understand?

The senate is lost to corporate interests. The corporate interest is currently (as it was with Mussolini) with authoritarian rule. There is more hope in the house but the same factors are at play. The military is also extremely powerful. You’re going to have to seize power at the point of production.

Competition is just as innate in humans as cooperation is. We don’t need to venerate one over the other, let alone embrace an economic ideology that doesn’t even acknowledge the other.

Take sport as a case study. There are both elements at play and nobody questions the need for both.

Or take a less friendly example like academia, where competition is nothing but a hindrance.

Markets should be an obvious case too.

Happy to expound if you need me to.

Also it requires cooperation way more than competition.

The article was talking about how Mamdani will have to handle the rich if he is elected. For the rest of us it suggests revolution.

Let me add just how awful the park is. You have to drive there obviously, and the approach is laden with kitschy cowboy and old west themed tourist traps and overpriced hotels. Then you pay $20 for a parking space and get to gaze at the thing from a mile away. Exit through the gift shop where you can buy a plastic replica made in Shenzhen. Quintessentially American.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard the Republicans are imploding, or the Democrats are imploding…

Yeah I think I get it, betrayal is a strong emotion. But now instead of realizing who their real enemies are (their class antagonists), they’re doubling down on fighting about election results.

This is such a tired narrative. You guys really want to focus on the leftists when half the country voted for an authoritarian?

Every movement has its radical fringe. Virtue signaling either your ideological purity or your solidarity with the only viable opposition are equally feeble attempts at clinging to a notion of victory in the face of total defeat.

People have been saying the Republican Party is collapsing for decades. It’s kind of like how capitalism was supposed to collapse under the weight of its contradictions. Doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon.