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It's almost like that's one way of measuring economic output and not the only way.

GDP is meant to drive down variance by being a relatively simple thing to measure, and therefore provide a consistent means of tracking long term trends.

The assumption of capitalist-like structures is for a good reason. Because there is literally zero practical evidence that scarcity can exist without them in scalable economies. If you require scalability in the presence of scarcity, you will have markets, you will have currency, you will have competition, you will have investment, and so forth. At best these things can be mediated by centrally planned state capitalism. But pretending like this is not just another brand of harm reduction capitalism is rhetorically counterproductive.

The overwhelming consensus of the past century regarding Marxist economic theory is that it is incomplete at best because it takes a very naive view of scarcity. Where Marx requires revolution and then a bunch of hand waving, modern revisionism requires harm reduction and the gradual whittling down of scarcity over time. Historical materialism is certainly a pretty useful economic lens, but Marx really goes off the rails in the prescriptive conclusions he draws from that analytical framework.

I have literally never logged into Twitter.

I'm using motion controls!

This kind of event is precisely what drives things like social media adoption. If Harris and the DNC organized an actual messaging campaign and took advantage of this energy to promote Twitter alternatives, a lot of people would join.

I'll take two

Gobble gobble

The opiate situation is 100% because big pharma got people hooked.

I'm starting to think this JD Vance fellow might just be a liar. And a fiend.

There isn't one.

ME BOYS

It's sad they never tried to reboot this, it was such good TV. I assume there's a pretty good reason for it but I would watch the shot out of it.

Bare knuckle boxing

I think it really depends on your station. I noticed a pretty big whiplash effect sometime around 2018 where they started really pushing back on pro-Trump guests in a way which they hadn't done previously. Recently they seem to actually be pulling fewer punches, straight up calling Trump out for telling lies (rather than just "mistruths" or "dishonesty"). This morning they called out a Trump SEC appointee who was questioning if Harris could inherit Biden's money. They seem to go back and forth depending on what specifically is in the news cycle.

Surely you are aware that after 2016 the Sanders campaign worked with the DNC to overhaul the superdelegate system, right? Not that it actually made any difference in either primary.

Fifth place but won the nomination?

It's shocking that people don't see these users as the very obvious trolls they are. People like LoC (and several other usual suspects) literally contribute nothing to any community besides agitation. If you really need a "line" that's where it is. This "radical tolerance" for obvious propaganda and information warfare is honestly disgusting, and compromise safe spaces far more than it preserves them.

Look it rhymes ok

PThis kind of stuff still needs to be enumerated. There are tons of people on Lemmy (mostly the usual trolls) who will show up in every thread and do the "both sides" song and dance. Unfortunately, a nontrivial number of people actually buy into this messaging. Counter programming is a necessary evil, which is something conservatives and foreign actors have figured out, but liberals and progressives are still stubborn about.

Ok, so they will disable your power 5 hours before they rob you I guess.