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Until the society we live under no longer reflects capitalist values, copyright is a good and necessary force. The day that that changes is when people may give credence to your view.

Literally the entire first sentence.

Sauce?

One time my mom took one of my edibles when I wasn't around and was literally high for 2 days straight... she takes a 2.5mg normally whereas mine were 100mgs

It can be but you should Tay away from stuff that isn't just ground root powder as the "supplements" people sell that contain it can lead to liver damage over time, however the only cases of liver damage with ashwaghanda afaik are from extracts and gummies and shit.

Nor is pot. This guy is abusing drugs and asking why he's depressed.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1232923

That's not the implication tho. The implication is that, similar to nazi Germany, a significant portion of their population has wanton care about the carrying-out of genocide. It doesn't really matter that "not every" German was a nazi when the society still carried out the genocide of almost 12 million people, more than half of which were jews.

It's also that their monetization scheme begets piracy. A game and the dlc for it should never cost more than $100

Yeah until it gets shot by A/B testing again lol. I love newpipe, but for somebody with a family it's hard to justify, especially bc the non-techies of the fam are gonna want something that 'just works'.

What do you mean by human nature changing with Mode of Production? We have quantitative psychological data for a reason, and many of the fundamentals haven't changed since long before the industrial revolution, with many people still ascribing to classical Greek and Roman philosophies or philosophies first found in the Vedic Texts or Dead Sea Scrolls. Clearly then, if these philosophies are still so valuable to modern man, man's psyche cannot have changed significantly, even over such a vast amount of time and even vaster amounts of lifestyle change. I understand that when there is less competition for resources that people tend to be more generous, but that is always true regardless of the mode of production. A surplus is a surplus is a surplus, but when a large portion of the population becomes poor/impoverished, regardless of the state of the elite, that is when tribalistic tendencies most arise. I often see ideas that the elite somehow controls the narrative, which may very well be true today, but was much less so true in the early-mid 20th century.

What we had in Germany was a portion of the population that was predispositioned towards hatred/tribalism/xenophobia/whatever. These are the people that supported and voted for Hitler. Without them, Hitler doesn't have any chance of coming to power. By and large, these people were not bourgeois nor petit-bourgeois, but proletariat, often poor and uneducated. This is the most vulnerable psychological state to the type of culture war that Hitler waged, just as Trump does now, or Netanyahu. These ideas aren't simply implanted into people, but come as a result of hardships. When people are doing poorly, they are more likely to form small groups and turn on the whole. That is a constant throughout history, as it is generally more sustainable to be in a small group, even if it forgoes other luxuries.

To be sure there is often class collaborationism, but to say that is always how fascism arises is ridiculous. For example, Toussaint and Dessalines would return the freed slaves to forced plantation labor. Plantations the generals (and later king for Dessalines) now owned as a result of the war. Another example would be Modhi in India, where there's no real threat of class consciousness because of the historical prevalence of racism/casteism. Similarly, there's no communist threat to Netanyahu's government currently genociding Gazan Palestinians.

If we're taking a more historical definition of fascism rather than my more casual usage that's fine, but I'm gonna need to brush up on specific examples bc this is not entirely my area of expertise.

Please provide some form of example or evidence for any of your points rather than fancy sounding words :)

I never said anything about human nature. If you're interested in reading more I replied to another comment on this thread.

You're strawmanning my argument. I never said anything about human nature. I said that tribalism, as a psychological principle, is inherent to humanity.

Here is an article which details some studies supporting this concept from a pop-sci website:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-reboot/202307/the-neuroscience-of-tribalism

Also, for somebody apparently on the side of historical evidence you seem to be ignoring the mountains of genocides and racially-based conflicts throughout our species' history.

I'm not saying racism is good. I'm saying that every time we see fascists come to power they have roughly a third of the population that supports them... is that just a coincidence or could there be a reason that the data is the same every time? I posit the reason that the data is the same every time is due, at least in large part, to human psychology.

Besides that, let's take this outside the concept of liberalism and capitalism, as race-based conflicts and genocides have occurred long before the creation of capitalist or liberal systems, which are truly an advent of the modern era.

There's also just the issue of the fact that there's significantly more books, articles, etc. written in standard english vs AAVE so that's gonna be a huuuge barrier to overcome regardless of diversity of development and training teams. Not to say diversity isn't important, but also that there's just certain challenges surrounding finding adequate amounts of high quality training data, especially for less mainstream concepts. It's the same reason an AI couldn't give a summary of a book that has almost no info abt it on the internet.

Dude.... what? China is very much a belligerent superpower. Your whataboutism abt the US has literally nothing to do with the topic of discussion as it has no bearing on this geopolitical situation, whereas China DIRECTLY NEIGHBORS the nation in question, is routinely aggresive towards western-allied nations like the Phillipines (or momgolia), and tends to side with Russia over western institutions. Are you being purposely obtuse, or are you just that dense?

You're very good at strawmanning arguments. I think most libs would just say that racism and xenophobia are inherent to tribalism, which is inherent to the human mind as an evolutionary trait. It can and should be overcome, but that doesn't change its innateness in our psyche.

Maybe Peugeot? Or Renault? Idk if they have EVs or affordable EVs tho.

Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep

Everybody is forgetting Chrysler/Dodge for some reason.

"The national breakdown as determined by the data is 55.55 percent for domestic makes and 44.45 percent for foreign makes."

https://www.kilgorenewsherald.com/home-is-where-the-car-is-top-10-states-for-domestic-and-foreign-car-brands/article_0027c354-4a92-58b5-bc7f-9cea645a4272.html