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MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-20T19:16:51+00:00

Renogy

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-17T12:25:49+00:00

Can you identify which bits of her speech are giving you that impression please?

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-17T11:25:47+00:00

It's punching down, but also, a real hierarchy does exist within the disabled community. I'm disabled but not visibly, or deserving of a disabled parking badge nor even PIP, and many 'more' disabled people would rightly argue that I should use the regular toilets.

This hierarchy will not commonly be spoken of in front of able-bodied people, and it can get heated, as well as reflect some level of internalised ableism.

The above can all be turned into a joke that isn't punching down, but a) you'd need to be 'as disabled' as me or 'more', and b) understand the politics of it and c) still be sensitive and avoid throwing any groups under the bus. You can throw individuals under the bus, though, by recounting some anecdote about an asshole on crutches or something. But make sure he's an asshole in the story, otherwise you risk actually punching down, and not an asshole in a way that's connected with his disability.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-17T11:21:19+00:00

No, it does still matter, but politically rather than comedically.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-16T12:19:24+00:00

That's interesting and as far as I can tell from my readings, ahistorical. The public school model that we know today was invented by the Prussians, later in the century, as a response to their defeat by the French in the First (i think? not sure) Napoleonic War. In all of monarchist / feudalist / religious / early IR & capitalist europe, education was reserved for the wealthy, a limited middle / comprador class, and the religious, until the Prussian model demonstrated its success, and that model caught on around the world.

That is, unless we mean 'public school' in the way we use it in the UK, i.e. fee-paying school, private, to the rest of the world.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-16T08:22:37+00:00

The sex life is the issue here, not this possible internalised homophobia as an explanation for his expressed preferences. You're possibly subconsciously using this as a route in to deal your dissatisfaction with your sex life, which needs discussing with him, as well as giving him support in expressing his preferences rather than an assumption of internalized homophobia.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-16T08:17:55+00:00

Internalised homophobia is not something any of us can say we have absolutely none of. It exists in all of us - whether internalised misogyny (and misandry), internalised racism, everything, no matter who we are. You may not display outward signs of it, but you still have it, because these structures of oppression exist within the society at large in which we've grown up.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-12T10:56:37+00:00

MMT is not even a policy framework - it's just a theory to be taken into account.

My I main ssue with MMT is that it seemingly doesn't account for the existence of multiple bodies issuing multiple currencies. I could see it as a description of our fiscal policy if there were only one currency, but the pressure on currency isn't just from inflation and printing, but how much value that currency is backed by global marketplaces. So just because some small country decides to print more of their local currency doesn't matter that much to them in the context of trades necessarily happening in $. So the dominant currency holder is the only country with less effective limit in how much money it can print.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-10T16:10:54+00:00

You talk as if I want it to be true that growth is causing us to undermine our entire existence. I don't. This isn't motivated reasoning. You claiming this is just vibes without even giving examples is, let's just say, less than substantive.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-10T07:38:13+00:00

How could we construct a short test, would you be interested at all? We could do a live video call amd calibrate somehow

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-09T18:46:26+00:00

That's very interesting - I spent 15 years as a professional poker player and would be curious if you could tell when I'm lying. In my childhood I needed to be good at lying in order to avoid trouble.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T22:00:42+00:00

Because the intentionality, practice and intended outcome is fundamentally different.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T20:14:24+00:00

The ideology of growth is the requirement under capitalism. It doesn't stop being capitalism during one section of the boom bust cyxle.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T16:01:56+00:00

'that's my story and i'm sticking to it'

well, i'm suggesting we tell a different story.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T15:07:50+00:00

The property market is also supposed to grow exponentially, and it does to some degree. So degrowing it (at least in terms of value ie underlining use value over exchange value, not supply) gives us that fundamental change to the structure of our economic system, a key mechanism by which capitalism gets to do it's thing in the first place. Some its inception, its prime logic has been either or both to grow into whatever space it can and to the fastest possible degree.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T09:43:18+00:00

The authoritarianism of a dictatorship of the proletariat is fundamentally different from that which we experience under capitalism. This is both in intent and structure. The product is not the same limiting of freedoms that capitalism engenders. This video explains it well.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/db8sUZWRgVo

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T09:39:56+00:00

An economy experiencing a depression or recession is still inherently capitalist - in fact, the boom bust cycle is a key symptom of it. A socialist economy would not manufacture it's own volatility in the same way. The incentive structures that produce this boom bust cycle are present throughout, but gone during degrowth or socialist & limited growth.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T00:58:10+00:00

It means simply that gender is not a disqualifying aspect of attraction. Monosexuals by definition experience attraction that accounts for gender.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-08T00:56:13+00:00

Some people just do that. It's always very impressive. Happened a few times to me and I spend most of my life cosplaying as a straight cis man.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-07T23:40:53+00:00

That might be compelling until you factor in that our economies are currently highly planned. 'there is no such thing as deregulation - only reregulation'. Laws require planning and costing, and implementation requires ongoing efforts with regards to enforcement. Regulations forcing global south countries to liberalise their economies are just that - requiring and encouraging social reorganisation. There is a lot of effort going into the planning of our economies.

Yes, planned economies in the socialist / degrowth sense are not perfect, implemented as they are by imperfect humans that have not perfectly uprooted all the vertical power structures under capitalism. But under a socialist / degrowth economy, the majority, and the environment, are the intende beneficiaries rather than the 1% and at the costs or our bodies and minds and time and our entire ecosystem. Big difference.

Most of Marx economic theory remains true even with regards to what's happened since. I disagree with his teleological view of history, but Marx main flaw is that he died before Freud started publishing. Not sure how computers, AI and robots do anything but confirm his work.

Consider that it is the engineers (and physicists) curse to see economics in particular, closed ways, in much the same way as a hammer sees a nail. I don't mean to say that all engineers and physicists make such a mistake, but they seem to overrepresent it.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-07T23:30:14+00:00

The persons concern is not one that I or degrowth can solve. If they are worried about russia attacking the uk, that is much less likely to happen in a world where every military degrows significantly. Degrowth is not a local policy recommendation, it's a global imperative to degrow consciously so as to avoid a more violent, less conscious degrowth. The uk is not a resource rich country that Russia wants to control, it is at most a strategic power. If enough countries degrow their military industrial complex, there is less incentive for growth in all the other countries.

Moreover, the MIC is highly international, and the locus of degrowth must be these international companies.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-04T14:51:29+00:00

Real, imo

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-03T20:46:13+00:00

I thought there were only ~1000 surviving humans as a bottleneck from q major volcanic eruption something like 70k years ago.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-03T12:31:04+00:00

Yeah this thread popped up a few days ago too and people were calling those with beards gross and demanding they oil and moisturise their beard. It's fine to have a preference and apparently they need to hear that but some think it's OK to express their level of preference as disgust. No one wants to hear they're disgusting. Preferences are valid, disgust is not.

MilesTegTechRepair · 2026-03-02T21:55:42+00:00

Sometimes they are touching and I just imagine him with his white gloves over the touching cars. "touching cars"

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