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Next war is on China
Since you seem to be a conservative misanthrope, maybe you should learn about prosocial behavior in humans. It's kind of the main evolutionary advantage humans have. It is what provides our ability to coordinate large groups. I don't think the status quo is inherently "the way things are" because history shows there have been various forms of society with differing levels of exploitation and prosocial and antisocial tendencies. Your ideology claims that the status quo is due to 'human nature'. Mine does not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology
Here's just a few of many examples of prosocial behaviors being inherent to humans, as we are highly social beings.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786781/
The Social Origins of Human Prosociality
From early in life, children help, comfort, and share with others. Recent research has deepened scientific understanding of the development of prosociality – efforts to promote the welfare of others. This article discusses two key insights about the emergence and early development of prosocial behavior, focusing on the development of helping. First, children’s motivations and capabilities for helping change in quality as well as quantity over the opening years of life. Specifically, helping begins in participatory activities without prosocial intent in the first year of life, becoming increasingly autonomous and motivated by prosocial intent over the second year. Second, helping emerges through bidirectional social interactions, starting at birth, in which caregivers and others support the development of helping in a variety of ways and young children play active roles, often influencing caregiver behavior. The question now is not whether, but how social interactions contribute to the development of prosocial behavior. Recent methodological and theoretical advances provide exciting avenues for future research on the social and emotional origins of human prosociality.
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/uploads/Wilson-EvolutionProsociality.pdf
Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: variation and correlations at a city-wide scale
**Prosociality is a fundamental theme in all branches of the human behavioral sciences. Evolutionary theory sets an even broader stage by examining prosociality in all species, including the distinctive human capacity to cooperate in large groups of unrelated individuals. **We use evolutionary theory to investigate human prosociality at the scale of a small city (Binghamton, NY), based on survey data and a direct measure of prosocial behavior. In a survey of public school students (Grades 6–12), individual prosociality correlates strongly with social support, which is a basic requirement for prosociality to succeed as a behavioral strategy in Darwinian terms. The most prosocial individuals receive social support from multiple sources (e.g., family, school, neighborhood, religion and extracurricular activities). Neighborhood social support is significant as a group-level variable in addition to an individual-level variable. The median income of a neighborhood does not directly influence individual prosociality, but only indirectly through forms of social support. Variation in neighborhood quality, as measured by the survey, corresponds to the likelihood that a stamped addressed letter dropped on the sidewalk of a given neighborhood will be mailed. We discuss the results in relation to evolutionary theory, the experimental economics literature and the social capital literature in an effort to integrate the study of human prosociality across disciplines.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01241-2
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations
Human societies include diverse social relationships. Friends, family, business colleagues and online contacts can all contribute to one’s social life. Individuals may behave differently in different domains, but success in one domain may engender success in another. Here, we study this problem using multilayer networks to model multiple domains of social interactions, in which individuals experience different environments and may express different behaviours. We provide a mathematical analysis and find that coupling between layers tends to promote prosocial behaviour. Even if prosociality is disfavoured in each layer alone, multilayer coupling can promote its proliferation in all layers simultaneously. We apply this analysis to six real-world multilayer networks, ranging from the socio-emotional and professional relationships in a Zambian community, to the online and offline relationships within an academic university. We discuss the implications of our results, which suggest that small modifications to interactions in one domain may catalyse prosociality in a different domain.
So not sure what your point is.
"These days, at least in the West, there seems to be a consensus that capitalism is just "the way things are." Everyone from capitalist economists to your dentist to your weird uncle is firmly convinced that humans are just hard-wired for capitalism. Let's explore that idea. Hope you enjoy!"
Is Capitalism Really Human Nature? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkMDb1jJCw
So are fellow labourers.
This isn't "capital", this is just humans.
"Muh Human Nature" is a classic debunked liberal argument against socialism/communism. If you think you are 'left' then you really should maybe read some theory or watch some youtube videos or something. Second Thought has a lot of good intro to political economy explainer videos.
The larger point is that the workers that lack solidarity (as you claim), are specifically incentivized to think in this way by their boss under capitalism. "Crabs in a bucket" mentality is a good shorthand description of what I am talking about. The capitalists and bosses want workers to be in competition with each other, not in solidarity (think union organizing). This is why I called out your 'class traitor' thinking espoused by your comment. Brain worms refers to this. You have bad ideology in your brain due to living in the world of neoliberal capitalism, it has instructed you on how to understand the world. And you seem just fine with following those instructions to the letter.
I guess you just abide the status quo like a good :LIB: then
keep feeding your
and enjoy the ride I guessoh, so how much capital do you own then?
that would explain your deflection as being entirely self-serving if you are not of the working class
otherwise you're just another temporarily embarrassed millionaire, any day now you will bootstrap yourself to the ruling class certainly
good job class traitor, you're getting a pizza party!
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TIL Malala is a Communist.
Jump
I had known she was a leftist, but I did not know she was attacked while attending a Marxist Summer School! I wonder why no one mentioned that in any of the mainstream media coverage at the time.
Reminds me of how Helen Keller was a devout socialist in her life, but that hardly ever gets mentioned when recounting her inspirational story.
relevant quotes from the link:
10 March 2013 : Malala Yousafzai, the young sympathiser of the Marxist Tendency famous for her part in the struggle for the right to education for girls in Pakistan. She had taken part in the national Marxist Summer School in July of last year in Swat. She was tragically shot in the head in a barbaric attack by fundamentalists, and made headlines worldwide. She is now thankfully recovering in the UK.
message from Malala:
“First of all I’d like to thank The Struggle and the IMT for giving me a chance to speak last year at their Summer Marxist School in Swat and also for introducing me to Marxism and Socialism. I just want to say that in terms of education, as well as other problems in Pakistan, it is high time that we did something to tackle them ourselves. It’s important to take the initiative. We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it. Why are we waiting for someone else to come and fix things? Why aren’t we doing it ourselves?
“I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to the congress. I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.”
This is deeper dive into the reality of Ukraine being an international hub of white supremacy:
20 seconds to find this on youtube, maybe try looking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy910FG46C4
Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine
TIME Correspondent, Simon Shuster, travels to Ukraine in the summer of 2019 to investigate white supremacists militias that are recruiting people to join their fight.
also has a link to this article: https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/
16 yo acct, barely touched it after joining hexbear (chapo.chat at that time) in late 2020
they probably keep an archive at the NSA anyway
The researchers stress it would be unethical, illegal and actually impossible to achieve a pregnancy using these embryo models - assembling the 120 cells together goes beyond the point an embryo could successfully implant into the lining of the womb.
Less than 30 minute commute, if it's less than that the price of housing goes up ~20% for each 5 minutes you would save.
maybe there is a modicum of progress?
it's basically an anti-capitalist project
mostly just folks very resistant to learn some quite simple things due to their overly propagandized worldview
I'm talking about people that have trouble with basic understandings of political economy like:
leftism : anti-capitalist :: liberal : anti-communist
I can only imagine the shock they are experiencing
we're mostly pretty chill if people can be chill with each other, unfortunately some folks are just uncomfortable with understanding the complexity of the world I guess
What do you mean we're about to wreck? Don't you see the water extending off into the distance.
Heat mirage? What are you talking about? I've never heard of such nonsense.
Ukraine 2: Taiwan Boogaloo coming soon in Spring 2024