Alaskaball

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Classic trot nonsense. Relying on second-hand sources, in this case a British historian who specializes in German history and is explicitly an expert only on ww2 German history, then presenting unverified and united hear-say as the truth.

 
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago (16 children)

America was an English colony and England has historically engaged in literal cannibalism, which is why mummies are a rarity as well as quite a few graves being emptied when the supply of mummies ran dry, it is a very reasonable deduction to say that Americans engaging in cannibalism.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

People get mad at me when I do stuff like that

Edit: I also promised carcosa I wouldn't do it anymore

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

If he's not on the run from the CIA, he's still CIA

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Problem is that they're tools of the reactionary feudal aristocracy who want to roll back the encroaching capitalist system that's threatening their socio-economic system. With giant mech suits lol.

It is absolutely infuriating to me that the rebel faction is the damn aristocracy

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wait until you play the trails series, cold steel will give you a aneurysm from how krauty it is

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So there's a Slur filter regex box in the admin section of the site where the past admins spent a lot of time filling it with all the slurs, and all their variations, to ensure any dweeb trying to have a gamer moment gets their gamer words zapped instantly

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Imagine the negative reaction there could be had if mods had the technical ability to edit comments. I can barely fathom it and it makes me want to quit at the very thought

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

The Democrats

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Left unity against the distorters of socialism.

Quoting Lenin, but we can replace 'Marxism' with 'socialism' in this case.

Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!).

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago

Paraphrasing baby-matt From turning his state into the tax evasion paradise for finance capital to supporting every war for the military-industrial complexes profit margins, he isn't a greedy opportunist looking to enrich himself by enriching others then skimming off the top, he's purely in it for the love of the game.

Same goes for being a creeper I guess

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

not officially a member, unless thats changed in the past year or so, but a member of some sort of regional cringe-named larp group. he is, however, closely linked with the anti-communist party and personally is acquainted with quite a few of its west coast members - namely the maupinite schismists that tried to dissolve his cult org after his lurid secrets came out, went on to join other communist parties in order to embed themselves deeply in their structures, then split from those parties and pillage as much of their assets and people as they could persuade to follow the nazbol cult ideology straight into the pisspot the ACP emerged from. Simply put he's an orbiter that does nothing but try to make trotsky look like an illiterate philistine in comparison to how many articles of speculative slop he can put out month to month. A human weathervane who's loyal to nothing but himself.

 

https://archive.is/QfphH

Workers have been falling behind dramatically in the tug of war between capital and labor, stoking serious concern about the trust holding the economy and society together.

What trust?

Diane Swonk, chief economist and managing director at KPMG, highlighted troubling data on corporate versus workers’ earnings that were included in a report she recently authored.

Western economist finally figures out the obvious, shocks the rest of the financial elite, more at 11.

It showed corporate profits as a share of U.S. GDP have soared to 15.85% from 8% in 1982. By contrast, employee compensation as a share of GDP has tumbled to 61.9% from 66.6% in 1982.

While labor’s slice of the economy has previously been lower than it is today, the overall trend line has pointed down, and the gap compared with corporate earnings is now at a post–World War II record high.

That record high was when the profits to pay was inverted, as in people were actually being paid well under the post-war social-democratic system to the point corporation profit margins were slim as oil on a
dipstick. Obviously Capital really didn't like that.

“This chart from my recent Economic Compass still haunts me,” Swonk said in a social media post last week. “A friend refers to it as the ‘revolution chart,’ which [is] disturbing but telling. Inequality fuels social and economic instability.”

Don't believe for a second all the priests of Capital that is the neo-liberal economist are all high off their own hogs. There are enough among them who actually know capitalist economics to analyze and comprehend the critical flaws of capitalism leading to its own ruptures

She added the divergence helps explain how the economy looks on paper versus how it’s experienced by most Americans.

What I said above. They're not all tools.

Indeed, while aggregate data show cooler inflation, steady income gains, and resilient consumer spending, the details reveal a sharp divide. For example, the richest 20% of households account for nearly all U.S. spending growth since the pandemic, while the bottom 80% have merely kept up with inflation.

Today, Americans grapple with an affordability crisis that has stretched across a range of basic expenses, including food, electricity, insurance, health care, childcare, and housing.

Observe carefully the key wording used, the acknowledgment that "food, electricity, insurance, health care, childcare, and housing." are all basic, as in first line, expenses. That the overwhelming majority of Americans are walking a razors edge from financial ruin. That the economic numbers being put out by the lying capitalist press are only representing the 20% of financially stable Americans with surplus wealth - and of course not counting all the bullshit moneybag passes that are done to artificially create the image of financial growth - and reality is growing starker and darker by the day for the working class. The enemy is aware.

“It gets to the multi-decade erosion in trust—there is an undercurrent of betrayal,” Swonk warned. “Something in our economic narrative is broken.”

In her report, she explained this loss of trust extends globally and across multiple decades, but especially in developing economies over the past year.

At the same time, the generative AI revolution and President Donald Trump’s tariffs have stirred more economic anxiety about job safety.

“CEOs are citing AI as a reason for hiring freezes and layoffs, before the productivity associated with AI is realized,” Swonk wrote. “That could prove penny-wise and pound-foolish; it stokes public backlash to AI, which is intensifying.”

To be sure, there are still some tailwinds that should benefit workers and the overall economy. Trump’s tax cuts will deliver a temporary lift; the World Cup will help ease a tourism downturn; inflation will continue to gradually cool; and massive AI capital expenditures will keep propping up GDP growth.

On the other hand, investors are nervous; uncertainty still hangs over the direction of economic policy; and the housing market remains in the doldrums, she said.

“The result is an economy that appears resilient but feels increasingly fragile,” Swonk concluded. “Growth has held up, yet the connective tissue that supports labor markets, investment, and global cooperation is fraying. Workers are more anxious, investors more herdlike, and markets … more vulnerable to shocks than headlines suggest.”

Her warnings echo what Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu has been saying for years about the origins of economic and political decay.

In a recent interview with Fortune’s Jake Angelo, he said the U.S. is headed for a grim future and outlined two shifts relative to AI development he sees as critical to avoiding deeper decline: cracking down on economic inequality and tempering job destruction.

“If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive,” Acemoglu said.

 
 
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Folks how would you answer the question?

Clip here

Genuinely a good gut-buster of a sorta podcast-styled stream if you want to have some funny background noise. (Watch it, it's great)

Full stream here

 

Also stretching. Or massaging my feet instead of putting on socks

 
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