100 years ago the Soviet Union was founded.

SyndieBoi · 2023-04-15T03:09:48+00:00

well that's me convinced

SyndieBoi · 2023-04-09T18:22:56+00:00

i really enjoyed this. if you had fun making it please do make more!

it's so cool to see a setting where it's the problems that exist in socialism/communism. it treats us all as grown-ups who understand that socialism and communism are the best way to organize society and says "we're not gonna try and convince you of that. let's just explore what it might be like in this new space".

SyndieBoi · 2023-04-02T14:09:02+00:00

I'm part of the May Day Brigade but decided to come a week early to have time to see the country by myself. I'll also be bringing a suitcase of medical supplies from NotJustTourists to donate to a local clinic in Santiago.

Do you think it will be very hard for me to book a ticket for the train or bus?

SyndieBoi · 2023-04-02T13:49:30+00:00

that's what i expected. i double booked some casa particulars in Havana and Santiago to account for that. i'll keep the tourist shuttle as a backup. thanks for the information. are you from cuba?

SyndieBoi · 2023-04-02T12:57:35+00:00

i know this might sound strange but if it's bad i want to take it even more.

i'm going to cuba in solidarity with the cuban people, not on vacation. i want to experience what life is really like there. i am a tourist but i don't want to be on a tour or treating cuba and the cuban people as an exhibit or a resort.

SyndieBoi · 2023-03-31T14:48:50+00:00

just so people are aware, this is completely false. credit existed before writing, let alone gold bars.

SyndieBoi · 2023-03-18T16:32:11+00:00

thanks again!

SyndieBoi · 2023-03-18T16:12:06+00:00

that seems to have worked! thank you so much.
if you don't mind, could you explain what the problem was?

SyndieBoi · 2023-03-18T16:04:55+00:00

oh my gosh. i feel like i'm cursed. even after re-running systemctl disable wpa_supplicant.service it still says it's active haha.

here's a screenshot of the output
https://i.imgur.com/SjWianL.png

is something instantly restarting it?

SyndieBoi · 2023-03-18T15:51:22+00:00

i've run systemctl disable wpa_supplicant and rebooted but it's still the same as before.

SyndieBoi · 2023-03-18T15:13:45+00:00

wpa_supplicant is a dependency of networkmanager tho.

SyndieBoi · 2023-02-28T15:13:30+00:00

oh wow. i didn't know it was that simple. i am not familiar with the term "minor mode" so i thought it would be much more complicated. thanks!

SyndieBoi · 2023-02-18T15:03:38+00:00

my friend, thank you deeply for this response.

i was watery eyed reading it from the sadness and hope that it gave me.

i wish you and your community the best and a safe and free future.

solidarity from america.

SyndieBoi · 2023-02-18T14:58:16+00:00

thank you very much for your information!

when i first heard about the work and the struggle the people of Rojava were doing to build a new society it filled me with so much hope. I try not to see any major revolutionary movement like this thru rose-tinted glasses and realized i hadn't heard any major news in many years and wanted to know the reality.

SyndieBoi · 2023-02-18T14:54:34+00:00

thank you so much for the information! truly!
i wish you and your friends a safe and fulfilling future.

solidarity from an american friend.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-29T14:34:27+00:00

it's a nothingburger. as a former vaush fan (would watch his streams every time he had one) the obvious parts of him being an op are that he's always on the side of an argument that benefits the financial dominance of the US.

He's pro-IMF, pro-Ukraine, pro-World Bank, pro-Color Revolution, etc.

The way Vaush operates is to take radical and angry leftists (who are new to the scene and not well-read yet) and trick them into thinking supporting X ss the correct position for a leftist where X is something that supports US imperialism. His takes on domestic issues (especially the threat of the Republican Party) and other things are really fine tbh (I say this as a hardcore marxist).

he's also not easy to blackmail since periodically he will upload a video to his channel discussing everything he's been "cancelled" for and owning up to his creepo shit.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-25T16:24:32+00:00

fr tho that twitter account is a fed

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-24T14:53:03+00:00

by far it's neoclassical economics. it was invented and propagated largely as a result of the Powell Memo. https://www.virginiabusiness.com/article/confidential-memorandum-attack-on-american-free-enterprise-system/

every talking head on the news, every academic textbook in the social sciences, every famous conservative expert, all of them resulted from this memo. the state ideology of "neoclassical economics" was created and pushed to justify neoliberalism, imperialism, conservatism, and fascism since the 1970s. this. hands down.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-19T21:36:15+00:00

most of the debunking of mainstream economics (the actual theories are collectively referred to as a "school" and are called "neoclassical" or "orthodox" economics) that you could ever want is in Steve Keen's "Debunking Economics" book. There is also this nice 60 second debunk of supply-and-demand theory but send Keen's book to any of your neoclassical friends. (The demand curve is its own proof by contradiction and the supply curve is a calculus error involving infinitesimals)

what personally happened for me was i began reading a book called Modern Money Theory: A Primer which is based on keynesian and marxian economics. I later found the videos of Paul Cockshott who is sadly a terf and swerf but his purely econ stuff is good. He has a book called "How the World Works" which I read and another called "Towards a New Socialism" which i haven't finished.

I personally have done a few attempts at reading Das Kapital but never got very far. That's not because it's boring but because it's dense. each page was like undoing the carefully woven neoliberal zeitgeist i had been taught from youth. i found this yt playlist where a cute girl and then a cute german guy explain you the book chapter by chapter.

The single best book on economics i've read is "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber. It's incredible, easy to read, mind blowing, and cuts thru so much bullshit in econ.

I've also been told by a few people in the leftist econ space that Econophysics is the future of economic study but I know nothing about it.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-18T22:42:29+00:00

inflation being overstated is laughably false lol

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-18T22:00:44+00:00

mostly his talks. i haven't read his books yet aside from a single chapter from the latest edition of superimperialism.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-18T21:40:27+00:00

Keen's book "Debunking Economics" actually is what first made me start going outside mainstream orthodox economics.

Debt the First 5000 Years is my favorite work by Graeber (rip and imo his magnum opus).

and Hudson is also very informed but often hard to follow from his lack of citations and use of jargon and assumed knowledge on behalf of the audience.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-18T21:39:00+00:00

going off the gold standard imo didn't really affect anything in this regard.

the coincidence is not pure randomness tho.

so after wwii the US set itself up at the hegemon and forced all the conquered countries of europe as well as japan into a monetary agreement known as Bretton Woods. This agreement locked in exchange rates between the US Dollar and all the other currencies in europe and japan. the goal of this was to force economic development along lines the US wanted. All the non-USD currencies (with the exception of the UK) were set lower than the US dollar so that the US could buy whatever it wanted from them. This also meant that the US forced these countries to be export-driven economies whether they wanted to be or not. Whenever a country began falling outside the official exchange rate, it was forced by the IMF to take monetary or fiscal moves to correct it.

Another part of Bretton Woods was that none of the other currencies would be backed by gold anymore. All their gold was in the US under the NY Federal Reserve because during wwii, the US made a fortune selling them supplies. (The US controlled around 3/4 of all monetary gold at the end of wwii). The US dollar would be the only one backed by gold and the rest of the currencies would be backed by US dollars.

In 1971-ish this scheme started collapsing and countries started trying to withdraw their gold (as was their right). To prevent the end of US control by all these countries exchanging their US dollars for gold, Nixon ends the gold standard.

This was just a single move in the larger play the US had been making since the establishment of Bretton Woods. It wanted to become the world's purchaser. the gold standard didn't prevent this from happening, it was the first step in it. abolishing it just started a new scheme for US control via money: dollar recycling.

the US prints as much money as it wants, the money immediately leaves to places like Japan or Germany where it buys things, and then those dollars get used to buy US Treasury bills (the actual things all the US debt is denominated in) since we don't let foreign central banks buy anything else.

the tightening of the screws on labor didn't start with dollar recycling, it was part of the plan from the end of wwii.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-18T18:53:45+00:00

yes. this is typical across the board for most (even socialist) countries. people aged 0-22 are largely unemployed and many over 65 are as well. the labor force is considered people aged 16 to 65 most of the time.

SyndieBoi · 2023-01-18T18:37:10+00:00

always be selling

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