Dimmer06

It only took my 22 years to beat Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga for GB. The only other interesting things were the Forest and Civ 6.

The emergence of the bourgeois and the proletariat is pretty straightforward. The proletarii were a class designated in the Roman census. Basically they were legally free (not slaves) but owned very little wealth. They were by no means the majority of people in Rome.

Fast forward 1700 years. There's precious metals and unfinished goods flooding europe and this emergent class of small merchants that want to make stuff to sell now that people have the gold to buy it. They're pretty ingenuitive so they create new machines and processes to produce, but they need a ton of labor-power. Serfs don't really make the cut and slaves are too expensive so they turn to the free labor, the proletariat. Hired out just for the cost of their labor and totally severable. A few centuries later, capitalism and technology have overtaken basically every aspect of our society, displaced all the serfs, freed most of the slaves, and those merchants are basically hiring everyone as a worker and there are very few people left of the other old classes.

It's almost as if the massive expansion of the means of production is good for humanity and our mode of production based on private property and market exchange inhibits that development. I wonder if anyone has written anything about this?

It's really disgusting how many people just roll over for him. Dude almost certainly has committed heinous war crimes and all these lumpen petty bourgeois media personality "socialists" completely forget their supposed internationalist positions over him.

Only polling above Vance by 2% in the popular vote should be extremely embarrassing.

I think I cashed out the $100 of Bitcoin I had to help pay for a PS3. Today it would be worth like $15k

Maybe we should just turn the DSA into the US version of the International or whatever that USSR organization of different socialist parties was lol.

Functionally this is how DSA actually works. Most members are uncaucused but the caucuses run things and are quite rigid with their discipline, functioning like small parties in their own right in much the same way there were multiple factions of the RSDLP.

Iirc Megan is Red Star the ML caucus and Ashik is (was?) from the Groundwork caucus, the extreme opportunist pseudo-Marxists who really only care about attaching DSA's name to electoral victories. Let that color any interpretation of this interview.

I did not watch the interview but the answer is absolutely not. NYC DSA specifically and the organization more broadly do this all the time where they endorse candidates with little to no relationship to the organization to attach their name to an up and coming social democrat. Then, because the DSA lacks any actual proletarian power, the candidate is pressured or caves into bourgeois interests and burns DSA.

I have noticed an interesting dynamic with Platner's campaign, that his core base are middle aged people who have been political hacks most of their lives and young people who are going to forget who he is before the election. Younger people who are actually plugged in don't seem to like him all that much. I think that's why DSA hasn't come out for him as of yet.

Idk why anyone pretends that every Democrat over sixty (which is probably a majority of Dems in this ancient state) isn't going to vote for Collins anyways. They've supported her for the last 25 years and they will continue to do so until she has ascended as the lich queen.

Maine primaries are next spring I think. Maybe next June? The general election is in 11 months

HR was 40 minutes late to the anti-union meeting they were hosting lmao.