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It's also funny because he also denounced Hamas' attack even though resisting a military occupation/blockade is allowed by international law.

I have to think Bernie is smart enough to understand this, but American politics requires countless of these sorts of genuflections from those who want to be taken "seriously" by it. Can't talk about the Cubann blockade without being all "of course their highly popular democratically elected government is evil, but", etc etc.

I read the article and my main contention is that it doesn't establish why we must treat the performance of sex as morally different to any other form of service work. As I said in the other comment I believe that the way we are compelled to treat sex as "different" is a manifestation of patriarchal thinking - there is nothing fundamentally different between a woman who is coerced by poverty into prostitution and a man who is coerced by poverty into agricultural work, and the ways to solve the exploitation in both cases is the same: organization of the workers against the bosses, the abolition of bosses altogether and shifting control of that industry to the workers in it, and ultimately the abolition of the capitalist mode of production that incentivizes maximum exploitation of all who participate in it.

Why do you think it is okay to have an uneven allocation of money in a society so that those on the top can do with those on the bottom as they want?

Of course I don't think that's okay, don't put words in my mouth.

My contention is that sex is morally equivalent to any other form of labor, and I believe that the pedestal we put sex on as a society is a manifestation of patriarchy. It's no coincidence that for most of human history, sex work has been one of the few labor markets where women have an advantage over men, and thus controlling sex work has been one of the major tools at the patriarchy's disposal for controlling women's bodies. The impulse to control sex work is the same as the impulse to force them to wear specific clothing, the only difference is that in Western societies one of those forms of control has had a massive philosophical edifice built around it and the other hasn't.

Sex work is only inherently built around debasing and dehumanizing yourself if you consider sex itself to be debased and dehumanizing. It's a service profession like literally any other.

I say we go the other way and allow left on red. If there's nobody in your path you shouldn't have to wait for a stupid light to tell you what to do.

I don't think a guide is really needed to install Linux

I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell they're installing Linux without a guide unless they can double click an exe and have an install wizard do it for them.

He wasn't the only prominent figure in the Indian Independence movement, but there's a few reasons why he's the most romanticized in western historiography.

The maintenance manual for your vehicle.

Do the cutscenes in any given MMORPG count? It's a similar amount of text to a book, but nobody fukken reads that shit.

5 cents per round is actually really good. It would be at a minimum $30 per ten rounds, or after Pentagon contract fuckery $100.

Crackle is owned by Sony and ad-supported, I assume that the bot just saw the word "free" all over the website and assumed that made it "relatede enough to piracy to place on the list.

Twist: a red shirt is watching the video trying to use it as a tutorial, and can't replicate lockpickinglawyer's results.

Watching a billionaire plead for their life before the Central Park People's Court

The Ultima series, especially U4, 5, and 6. To this day they are some of the best stories told in gaming history, but their appeal is limited by the fact that they came out in the DOS era - remake them with Baldur's Gate 3 levels of production value and some QOL updates but otherwise don't change a thing and they would contend for the best RPGs of all time.

Neither North Korea nor Qatar are fascist. The former is communist and the latter is an absolute monarchy.

Unless you're saying FIFA is fascist which might be true idk.

Mine did, granted I went to a pretty nice school and was in "Honors" English and Social Studies (which meant that you did the normal English homework during summer, did a grade higher during the school year, and then did college level in junior/senior year). Pretty much every one of my teachers forced us to cite an actual book from an actual library every time we wrote an essay.

I love my Krait! I had a bigger ship for a while but something about the medium-class just feels right in E:D. I did a lot of low-temperature diamond mining back in the day, but I loved how I could load out for bounty hunting or cargo runs or whatever else I felt like doing.

I think social structures can be thought of in terms of consciousness, and whether or not they are a "higher" level of human consciousness is mostly a question of your definition of what that means.

From our perspective we are all making individual decisions, but that's similar to how a given cell is just managing its own individual chemical reactions. What initially made humanity unique in the animal kingdom was how complex our social animal is able to be - human clans were more complex than other mammals' packs in the same way that a vertebrate is more complex than an invertebrate. Our social animal is the one that reached the tipping point of adding technology into the mix, which allowed us to add phenomenally more complexity that what evolution on its own is able to create.

In the modern day, in the western world, people principally think of themselves as individual subjects, and as Marxists we recognize that this is one of the most critical self-defense mechanisms of liberalism, since it prevents class consciousness (and allows false consciousness to form). This is akin to how our cells are programmed by dna not to become cancerous - and when this mechanism fails and a cancer/revolutionary group forms the white blood cells/police usually stamp it out to protect the organism/capitalist society.

The big difference between society and an organism when viewed through this lense is that when an organism dies its cells all die too, but when society "dies" all the people who were part of it will naturally form a new one atop the corpse of the old. Imagine if when you died your cells all hit a reset button and your corpse formed into a new person - that might disqualify society from being thought of as a consciousness, or perhaps it's evidence that "consciousness" is independent of life and death.

Maybe astroturfing, but most likely just people trying to be morally superior to one another.