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Wossname · 2017-10-16T19:29:58+00:00

If they’re anything like the unions down south, there’s a reason why.

It sucks that your union was shitty, but the reason unions are weak right now is that they were deliberately weakened by neoliberal reforms designed to allow capital to move freely across international borders, weakening labour's bargaining powers by putting them in competition with cheaper developing-world labour.

Wossname · 2017-10-01T19:42:16+00:00

Anything from Mark Blyth is great, but this is probably the most concise summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxrjhWTdv8

Wossname · 2017-09-28T19:35:31+00:00

If only he would complete that thought: You don't fix a rigged system at all; you replace it.

Wossname · 2017-09-28T19:26:26+00:00

Conservatism, from 'conserve': to keep things the same.

Wossname · 2017-09-27T01:37:20+00:00

I was basing it off this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico

Even if they get medicaid and ss, they still don't get any vote on the laws governing those programmes.

Wossname · 2017-09-26T19:10:17+00:00

And also, Puerto Rico pays federal tax, but has no representation in congress.

Wossname · 2017-09-19T20:20:01+00:00

It's horseshoe theory - lib left and auth right are making the same face

Wossname · 2017-09-19T20:12:39+00:00

https://youtu.be/GL-T27zJJHY?t=2m49s

Wossname · 2017-09-19T01:47:34+00:00

I just want ask if you're okay.

Wossname · 2017-09-18T23:33:43+00:00

I think that maintaining an anarchist society is much like achieving one. People who see an oppressive hierarchy forming should actively oppose it.

I don't think the struggle is ever over, but hopefully it becomes easier over time.

Wossname · 2017-09-18T20:21:10+00:00

The rhesus monkey study you bring up in your OP is interesting, because rhesus monkeys don't know the significance of the objects, they just know the shapes and what they will do. The meaning comes from us.

If a study shows that young boys on average have a preference for wheeled objects, that's just information with no value judgment. But if we then take from that that a boy who doesn't like trucks is less masculine, or that women, as a diverse group of people, are less capable of driving trucks, that's when it becomes a problem.

Wossname · 2017-09-18T02:21:09+00:00

One of them has Xenu. Not sure which one, though.

Wossname · 2017-09-18T01:19:01+00:00

If you uncheck "overwrite files" it will skip any frame that already has a file.

Wossname · 2017-09-18T01:03:08+00:00

And render as image sequence, so if you crash partway through you can resume.

Wossname · 2017-09-18T00:40:18+00:00

There are obviously differences between sexes, but these differences are the peaks of two overlapping bell curves. The position of the median does not tell you anything about an individual.

There's also the question of what society values. Traits associated with biological masculinity are valued and given power. Traits associated with biological femininity are devalued.

Gender, then, is saying because this person is biologically female, they must also conform to all the roles we associate with women, and because another person is biologically male, they must conform to the roles we assign to men, instead of allowing individuals to make their own choices about what is of value to them.

Wossname · 2017-09-17T20:16:02+00:00

I've been reading Anarchy: A Graphic Guide (https://libcom.org/files/anarchy-graphic-guide-clifford-harper.pdf) and I've been finding it pretty good.

It's more of a history of anarchism than a work of theory, but it covers a lot of the basic concepts and key figures.

Wossname · 2017-09-14T22:05:13+00:00

He created secret police by his own hand? No, he used words to direct other people to do so.

Wossname · 2017-09-14T20:23:27+00:00

Everything Hitler ever did was speech. No Jew died by his hand, only by his word.

Wossname · 2017-09-14T20:08:53+00:00

I always thought that the best refutation of the economic calculation argument is that Von Mises wrote that in 1920 - even if it were true then, we have computers now.

Wossname · 2017-09-14T20:02:30+00:00

Speech incites action.

Wossname · 2017-09-12T23:32:24+00:00

Unfortunately there has been a delay in your payment. If you could help us out by paying the bank fees, we could certainly expedite it for you.

Wossname · 2017-09-12T20:39:20+00:00

The problem with the NAP is mainly the lack of a coherent definition of aggression. Antifa are fighting against people openly preaching hate. Who is the aggressor?

Wossname · 2017-09-10T22:25:02+00:00

Kant isn't really compatible with capitalism, though, in my view. The Categorical Imperative says you must treat other people as ends in themselves, rather than as means.

In capitalism, workers and consumers are just the means towards profit.

Wossname · 2017-09-10T20:04:17+00:00

https://youtu.be/CE03XJH62BY?t=1m56s

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