Chapotraphouse

So yeah, my girlfriend took me to visit the ВДНХ (look it up, libs) and it was honestly amazing. I got Gagarin to pat my head in the monument to the Kosmonauts!!

The monument was dedicated to all the people of the Soviet Union because they made it possible, almost cried reading that.

Comrade Lenin says hi to all Hexbears, I'll try and meet him in person in a few days, though I heard he's been real quiet recently.

The Azerbaijan pavillion contained, among others, a memorial to some important Azerbaijani personalities. This is a picture of Leila Mamedbekova Russian Wikipedia link, first female Azerbaijani pilot, went on to train more than 4000 pilots in her life.

Finally, got to see the Rabochii and Kolkhoznitsa statue right outside the ВДНХ, it's huge, stunning, and my girlfriend told me today that it was designed in 1937 by a female architect called Vera Mukhina.

Thanks for the patience, I'm just stoked AF

President Trump attends bill signing to recognize the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team - YouTube

lol

lmao, even

by Lišo

Around the fire, we try to keep warm in the harsh cold. Our family actually does not have our own tent; we live with another family in their tent and only sleep there, while the rest of the day we spend outside.

Every moment in the cold and rain reflects the hardship we are going through, and we hope to find a small shelter for our family.

Any help or donation would be a true treasure for us, enabling us to buy a tent to protect us from the cold and rain. From the heart, thank you to everyone who extends a helping hand🙏🏽🙏🏽💔

https://www.gofundme.com/f/surviving-an-onslaught/cl/s?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_GB

Some experts said it couldn’t be done. WRONG! Only Trump could do this - not Sleepy, not Crooked, not anyone!!! Tremendous numbers!!! #TruthWins

Social media is mostly bots, most people hate the government

Liberals are at a point where they hate the Dems and the GOP

The right wing coalition is falling apart with Candace owens, Tucker carlson, and Nick Fuentes separating the Nazis from the evangelical Christians.

Material conditions are getting worse, but we haven't had the ai bubble pop or war with Venezuela. Either will make life way worse for the west and we're gonna see chaos.

Idk what's gonna happen, but I think trump 2.0 has kinda turned a lot of people away from the right by both making material conditions worse and being mean and annoying.

Look at any news sub on reddit and it's filled with pro Israel bots and shit. But the amount of obvious pro Israel propaganda from the state and by bots and shit was so obvious it's now turning every right winger under the age of 40 into a Nazi.

I don't think the mass botting campaigns work. They only make people more upset at the right and make the right look like extremely annoying assholes.

The right won a lot of ground by going "Le woke is trying to put politics into everything"

But now every fucking social media thread about sports or video games or movies gets brigaded by obvious right wing bots, even the most stupid liberals I know hate it.

People hate this it makes it seem like right wingers are now the annoying sjw that makes everything about politics (they always have been) and since most people under 40 get their news from tiktok and shit the bots and MSM manufacturing consent campaigns don't work.

My mother is 60 and gets her news from tiktok. She doesn't want the US to invade Venezuela, literally nobody does only bots do.

It's backfiring but I think the admin is super on twitter and think it's working. I think they legit do not understand that they're getting everyone to hate them and theyre making material conditions worse. I think they also believe more in the polymarket shit than polls because they're that stupid.

What happens next? Trump's polling is the worst it's ever been. The right wing coalition has collapsed and now maga is basically only the white evangelical boomers.

If material conditions get worse we're gonna see more Luigis and Tyler Robinsons in a country with way to many guns.

I boot up my Windows partition to be met with fucking Adobe Acrobat trying to sell me a paid plan. I need to dismiss that pop-up within Acrobat before I can close the whole thing and it looks like Adobe are pumping their content marketing into Acrobat itself.

Who is going to open a PDF then be like, "Okay, I guess I'll see what Hasan Minhaj has to say about fucking PDFs." I would need to be super bored at work to do that.

Fuck this shitty company and their bullshit bloated program. Sumatra all the way, the only reason I keep Acrobat around is to sign the occasional PDF

By Slammer

Alhamdulillah, Allah blessed me with a baby, still at the beginning. Please pray for a safe journey. ❤️ Grateful to all my friends for your support. For anyone who wants to help my family, the link is here. In Gaza. https://gofund.me/1222af19

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZt_Je-F70

This is how our tent looks in Gaza. Everything got wet. Everything was flooded with water. We became homeless once again.

Please, help me buy a new tent to replace the one that was torn apart by the wind and rain. Help my family buy blankets, as we suffer every day from the severe cold.

The bombing never stops. The sound of homes being destroyed is still ongoing. Gunfire continues, but media attention has faded.

We live with fear, cold, and exhaustion every single day. Please, any small amount can make a difference and help us survive. Your support can give us shelter, warmth, and hope again. https://gofund.me/00439328

The article is dated: October 14, 2025. The photo is not from the article. I found it in the following Bluesky post from today. As far as I know - the garbage MSM haven't managed to put out a photo.

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”

And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3m7qeqmr2oc2a

There was a little aha moment when reading Kali Akuno et al, specifically this part:

Marx demonstrated that as capitalist production develops and advances, competition and the need to secure greater productivity from workers drives the adoption of more productive, labor-saving technology and techniques that replace workers with machines. When labor-saving techniques are introduced, more of each dollar of capital expended in production is invested in machinery and other tools of production, while less is used to hire workers. But the increase in productivity does not cause new value to be created. According to Marx it is workers’ living labor that adds all value to commodities (whether goods or services), and the exchange value of a commodity in the marketplace is determined by the socially necessary (average) labor time required to produce it. Every average hour of labor required to produce a specific commodity yields the same amount of value, independent of any variations in productivity from technological advances.

Since technological innovation decreases the socially necessary (average) labor time required, it decreases the value of the commodity. The same amount of value is spread out among more items, so the increase in productivity causes the values of individual items to decline. As things can be produced more cheaply, and because they can be produced more cheaply, their prices tend to fall. Due to competition, companies must lower their prices when production costs decline. If they don’t, they risk a significant loss of market share or even bankruptcy when competitors cut their prices in response to reduced production costs. As a result, the amount of surplus value (profit) created per dollar of capital invested, the rate of profit, necessarily falls as well. The reality is that productivity increases under capitalism produce a tendency for the general rate of profit to fall.

Since the 1960s and more intensely since the 1990’s, we have witnessed capital’s steady incorporation of automation, computerization, and digitization into the commodities production process. The mass introduction of containerization, computer numeric control (CNC) production, and digitization have displaced millions of workers from the global labor market. And with the introduction of the internet and cell phone technology, etc., there are hardly any people left on Earth who aren’t being directly impacted by this rapid technological change

But capital’s ability to reproduce itself and expand, depends on the accumulation of surplus value, a portion of which must be reinvested in means of production and labor. In more stable periods of capital accumulation, the crisis of realizing profits which is endemic to capitalism is moderated. But the general tendency of decline in the rate of profit, or accumulation of surplus value, forces efforts to bridge the gap between needed and actual rate of profit through extreme measures. Some of the extreme measures capital employs to reproduce itself include the deployment of vicious social control strategies like neoliberalism, which call for austerity and the privatization of social goods, or fascism which calls for political terror. Both of these strategies are designed to discipline labor and make it more compliant, drive down wages, and enable the plunder of natural resources more intensely and efficiently in order to restore profitability.

and even more specifically, the part where he wrote "Since technological innovation decreases the socially necessary (average) labor time required, it decreases the value of the commodity. The same amount of value is spread out among more items, so the increase in productivity causes the values of individual items to decline."

Amazing! It feels good when it a concept clicks.

The part I was missing was the direct and non-negotiable link between labor and value, which I suppose is pretty important concept in Marxism.