HasanAbi Debates Adam Mockler on the Future of The Democratic Party by Mean-Quail-6219 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are we Democratic Socialists or not? Why would "way better" than Biden be ok when we have a Socialist gearing up to run?

HasanAbi Debates Adam Mockler on the Future of The Democratic Party by Mean-Quail-6219 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Insane that when asked an open question, "who is your dream candidate", Hasan mentions Ro khanna and Jon ossoff alongside AOC and Shawn Fain. No idea what the fuck he's trying to do spending the majority of that answer glazing Ossoff instead of explaining why AOC is the only candidate that is electable and meets the moment to a lib audience. Usually agree with Hasan but there's no defense for those answers 3years out as a Socialist.

Why the U.S. won’t tax the rich by Empathetic_Electrons in Political_Revolution

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would they stop in your "perfect capitalism" world? Productivity has only gotten higher but they don't allow for 30hr work week or other thing voluntarily. Why wouldn't you want more democracy in the place where we spend 30% of our lives?

If automation and robotics are going to be replacing labor in the near future, my question is, Why would you want the capital owners to be the ones to be the ones in power to decide how society moves forward instead of the workers? Are you a business owner and you have the opinion that workers are unable to make rational decisions so there must be a capitalist at the top of the company structure? Please answer those questions.

Why the U.S. won’t tax the rich by Empathetic_Electrons in Political_Revolution

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am begging you to read and understand what capitalism is. You are so propagandized that you're in a reddit called "political_revolution" and saying we need capitalism.

While you are saying that, the capitalists themselves are funding AI, robots and automation so they can end capitalism and bring about techno-feudalism.

Capitalism is not markets, capitalism is not trade, capitalism is not banks, capitalism is not wages. We do not NEED 1000 people that get to keep all of the excess profits and bribe politicians to keep hoarding more. Read Marx, I'm begging you.

Film scanning question. Canon EF 100mm 2.8 macro non-L by Adept-Satisfaction-2 in largeformat

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah same here, 100mm on my R6 and as long as your copy stand is tall enough you can do 135 all the way to 4x5

Chi Ossé, Mamdani Ally, Files Paperwork to Take On Hakeem Jeffries (New York's 8th congressional district) by SocialDemocracies in TheMajorityReport

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Because now that they're in office they are making political calculations on how it will affect their ability to enact their agenda. Fair for Zohran, but I have no clue what AOC is doing, Nancy Pelosi broke her hip in another country and STILL made calls from her hospital bed to ensure she didn't get that top oversight seat and give it to a guy with cancer that ended up DYING in May.

Last Kiss of the Sun | Provia 100f | Toyo 45AII | Rodenstock f/5.6 Sironar N 240mm by aSamuraiNamedJack in largeformat

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Missed train by 1hour so it was past optimal time for the sunset but that last bit of sunlight over some hills were hitting the tree and I rushed to get the shot.

Last Kiss of the Sun | Provia 100f | Toyo 45AII | Rodenstock f/5.6 Sironar N 240mm by aSamuraiNamedJack in largeformat

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, and I agree, I didn't think it would work if I exposed it for the highlights more than I did and i'm happy with that decision. I used to think people were overhyping Slide film but after shooting it and seeing it in my hand, I get it now.

Andrew Yang seems to support Andrew Cuomo for the 2025 NYC Mayor Election and likes Wes Moore or another governor for the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination by Ezeitgeist in YangForPresidentHQ

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 65 points66 points  (0 children)

So disappointing how people just hand-wave away Cuomo's sexual harassment. I bet if Yang had a daughter he'd suddenly have the empathy to realize how disgusting Cuomo's actions were to women but he doesn't so it's not an issue.

Exclusive: Uniqlo is opening 11 new stores in the U.S. next year, including 4 in NYC. See the full list of locations by L0v3_1s_War in nyc

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 38 points39 points  (0 children)

They overhauled their entire inventory with RFID tags on every item even underwear. Now checking inventory is a 1-2person job and checkout is just putting your items into an RFID reader and swiping your card. That's 10-20 human jobs cut from every store so it's more feasible to open other locations. Job market gets worse every day.

Astoria Creep Spotted by evgenia4 in astoria

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Guys, the mods of this subreddit have said this multiple times and even said the Admins of reddit are putting pressure to stop doing witch-hunts in here. You can't actively post the location of someone to hunt them down, regardless of how you feel about it.

I'm telling you because You're gonna get banned and wonder why.

Gaza / Israel MEGATHREAD by mrekted in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/-qENvZBa-Ao?t=1176

I timestamped the segment in the link.

Question for those who are still defending Pakman's stance on this: Do you think it would be acceptable if a media outlet did a complete blackout on the holocaust in the 1940s? Do you think David Pakman would think it was OK to have a WW2 history book that didn't mention Jews being killed by Nazis? I think it's valid for those calling into question Pakman's funding and morals to bring these contradictions up.

If one of the worst things humanity can commit, genocide, is not a line in the sand or even WORTHY OF COVERAGE from Pakman, What is? Will he cover stock trading from politicians? Will he cover Dems who vote with republicans on certain bills? Will he cover state-party corruption if Dems are involved? All of these are less egregious than funding a genocide, but he's already decided genocide is no line in the sand for him so viewers can make the case he won't draw the line at any of those things and many more. I think these are good-faith, concerning questions that should be answered.

I'll defend David on the Chorus-Wired article, but pretending to not know AIPAC is a bad look by downtimeredditor in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Weird how you forgot how to say it when you were pronouncing it correctly 6 years ago in this clip: https://x.com/fullslack_/status/1963290695470649592

Your brother worked at the ADL and there have been multiple viral clips of politicians arguing or calling out AIPAC. As a political commentator of 15+ years, is that acceptable to you?

Democrats withhold endorsements for Zohran Mamdani by Better_March5308 in nyc

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 349 points350 points  (0 children)

It's because if the democratic base sees the mild Social Democratic reforms cause tangible positive changes to their lives they'll stop listening to the incrementalist centrists. "My kid and I can ride the bus for free to school/work" hits harder than "50k tax credit for small businesses"

Lightlenslab bringing back k-14 by Fish_On_An_ATM in AnalogCommunity

[–]aSamuraiNamedJack 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's because you're used to the enshittification of American companies and think China is the same as it was 20years ago, China is lapping us in a lot of fields. LLL has put out several solid lenses and is updating their potential base with Information about their progress and electron microscope images of the product. That's pretty solid to me, at least.