Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Eric Cartman]

Between the Moscow concert hall terror attack thread, the Kate Middleton picture thread, and the Boeing whistleblower thread I think the staff really needs to crack down on the conspiracy theories.  It's not a good look for the community.

It helps if people send in reports on this stuff instead of coming in here to complain we haven't banned stuff. The Kate Middleton threads, for example, have generated a grand total of 3 reports from what I can see. One of which was some boys clubs nonsense we smacked.

Bitchdubs: "Not my fault if people don't report things."
Also Bitchdubs: "Why, yes, of course we ban people for 'abusing' the report system based on undisclosed discretionary criteria"

[Eric Cartman]

Royalan thinking he’s being all brave and showing what an ally he is bragging about “breaking bread” with HIV positive people. Get fucked you performative cunt

by "breaking bread" he means "furiously masturbating to stories of their sexual conquests"

[Eric Cartman]

It's not even "somewhat" related. What in the world does TQIA2S+ have to do with LGB?

If you were born a male, and then 30-40 years later decide you're actually a woman, and still want to fuck women, then you are a lesbian is the rationale.
Best not look at the stats of proportional lesbianism amongst the self identifying mtf population being vastly closer to the stats of straight men being heterosexual though.

[Eric Cartman]

the post that will prevent office yada yada yada

[Eric Cartman]

Is this IrishNinja?

Yes. Posted it himself saying it's a picture of him in Japan and that he totally dominated with this giant controller.

I don't want to push back on your fact checking too hard, but are you absolutely sure he's not just a manlet?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/old-people-make-great-neighbors-because-they-are-quiet-and-friendly.830229/?post=120831273#post-120831273

Mine is kind of an asshole who yells at me for any noise yet he parties all night with loud music and that's A ok. Im moving out tomorrow i cant wait to leave the apartment life behind me.

[Propagandhim]

Capitalism absolutely is the core reason, yes.

For one, the idea that capitalism encapsulates some innate, universal human desire just doesn't have much actual physical evidence backing it up, as much as is true for any other economic system we've had before. Even feudalism wasn't practiced the same exact way in the same exact times across countries like Egypt, Japan, and England back when these systems were in place. Why? Because the physical environment of these countries was different, which in turn meant that the resulting conditions people had to deal with were different, which inevitably leads to different cultural evolutions. Human development is inevitable, but the outcome of the development is not; subsequently, the establishment of capitalism is loaded with such a shitload of chance that you get wildly different historical outcomes if certain events go a different way.

Seriously, tweak a few numbers and events here and there and you might get a timeline where Europeans aren't literally kidnapping so many Africans that the population didn't actually grow for centuries. However, we live in the timeline where Europe was able to establish significant military dominance, particularly at sea, in the run up to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but what is important to note here is not only did capitalism lead directly to a slave trade on an unprecedented scale, but, like with feudalism, cultural conditions follow the economic conditions.

So it is with capitalism that you start seeing the establishment of not just white supremacy- all of the social, religious, and pseudo-scientific justifications for the economic reality of Africans being capital in and of themselves- but first the establishment of "whiteness" as a political class all on its own in the first place, mainly to help confused and sympathetic European indentured servants figure out which side they were supposed to be on. Literally, without capitalism, you don't even reach the concept of some unified "white people" in the first place.

Now, I don't think necessarily socialism would be immune from the racial ills we see today from a legacy of colonialism, because I don't think socialism on its own inherently fixes the fact that Africans are currently dealing with the outcome of a massive wealth, labor, and body transfer across centuries that amounts to trillions of dollars stolen, millions of lives and an immeasurable amount of culture lost forever, and the psychological trappings of the cultural conditioning that needed to be established for that to work for as long as it did. I feel for that to happen, you need actual violent revolution, and for Africans to take back what is rightfully theirs. You would also need conscious efforts at establishing African soft power and dismantling whatever white supremacist infrastructure existed in order to counteract centuries' old notions of our supposed inferiority.

However, ultimately the aim of socialism is inherently to disperse power over the material conditions of our economic systems- the ownership of land, factories, companies, etc.- across a generalized mass of workers. So, at the very least, it simply moves in the direction of fixing the condition of all Africans by stripping power away from the class of capitalists who ultimately owe all of their power specifically to African oppression. Socialism is more communal, cooperative, and less hierarchical in nature than capitalism is, meaning it is going to trend towards more egalitarian outcomes by default. That doesn't mean socialists can't be racist, of course, and it certainly doesn't mean capitalist racists wouldn't be able to try to infiltrate socialist movements specifically to sabotage them. They did it all throughout the civil rights movement of the 50s and they're still doing it today.

But ultimately if you're asking me whether or not I think capitalism or socialism would be better for Africans, it is socialism, no question. It's not just that capitalism inherently incentivizes greed, although it does do that. It's that the historical reality is that America and Western Europe are the wealthy power players they are specifically because they fucked over Africans and Indigenous groups for centuries. "Reforming" capitalism is not going to solve that problem, no more than an abusive partner is salvageable after the 30th time they've slammed your head into the wall.

 

Slavery predates capitalism by thousands of years, existing in ancient societies like Egypt, Greece, Rome, China and the Islamic world long before the emergence of modern capitalist economies in the 17th-18th centuries. Chattel slavery, human exploitation and subjugation have much deeper roots than you living in a system that rewards being useful to other people, which you refuse to figure out how to do.

I can't think of a single prominent capitalist thinker or movements, like Adam Smith to Richard Cobden to John Stuart Mill and dozens of others who weren't strongly anti-slavery.  Even Frederick Douglas spoke about free trade being antithetical to slavery. The philosophical underpinnings of free markets, individual liberty and human rights were often used to argue against slavery. Capitalism and abolitionism grew up together.

Non-capitalist societies also practiced slavery on a massive scale. The Soviet gulag system enslaved millions under communist rule. Slavery was widely practiced in pre-capitalist African kingdoms. Economic systems alone don't cause or prevent slavery. The core drivers of slavery are political (the state sanctioning human bondage), cultural (seeing certain ethnicities as subhuman), and human nature-based (the desire to exploit others for gain).  Capitalism and democratic institutions provide economic incentives and justifications *against* slavery, they're a protectant against the disease of human exploitation and enslavement and you were born in the best time in the world in the best place in the world to live within that protectant.  And yet you still refuse to make yourself better because you're obsessed with being a victim or a revolutionary or whatever else that makes you feel bigger than you are.

Ending "capitalist exploitation" or whatever you call it, will not end racism. Socialism won't end racism.  Taking economic power from one class and putting it into another doesn't automatically lead to racial justice.  Unless what you mean is you want more racial oppression, but in the favor of your own direction?  Okay, just say you want the tides of oppression to turn in your favor, and you're exactly the same as your enemies.  That you have no qualms with the actual rationale of human exploitation, you just want you and "your people" to have that favor.  Why is this so hard for you to admit to?  Of course, that will only instigate tribalism and a racial consciousness for your enemies, but that's what you want anyway, right?  You don't care about a cohesive society that has a universal set of values, you want to live out an identitarian war so you can feel like a revolutionary instead of mopping the floors of Duane Reade because you refuse to find something to be good at and valuable for others.

Most black people aren't you, Nepenthe.  They're not actually "Your people".  They see the path forward in a regulated market system coupled with a strong social safety net, constitutional human rights protections, and reasonable efforts to redress historical injustices that may empower marginalized communities.  They don't want to tear the system down.  They don't want ethnic warfare.  They don't want the wealthiest country in the world to cannibalize itself with an economic system that doesn't make use of human talent and incentives.  You want true equality and shared prosperity, but you live with your parents in your 30s and don't have a non-dead end career.  So, what is even happening here?  What do you want?  Other people to pick up the slack for your mistakes?  I'll never understand the rationale of these failure social revolutionaries...if I truly believed what they believed, I'd work to get as much money and power as possible within the system because I know that's how the system rewards you, then I'd use that power to do whatever I can according to my idealogy.  I wouldn't sit at home in my parents house, broke, drawing furry porn as a grown adult.  What the fuck is wrong with you?

 

"Now, I don't think necessarily socialism would be immune from the racial ills we see today from a legacy of colonialism, because I don't think socialism on its own inherently fixes the fact that Africans are currently dealing with the outcome of a massive wealth, labor, and body transfer across centuries that amounts to trillions of dollars stolen, millions of lives and an immeasurable amount of culture lost forever, and the psychological trappings of the cultural conditioning that needed to be established for that to work for as long as it did. I feel for that to happen, you need actual violent revolution, and for Africans to take back what is rightfully theirs. You would also need conscious efforts at establishing African soft power and dismantling whatever white supremacist infrastructure existed in order to counteract centuries' old notions of our supposed inferiority."

There she goes again with this political violence shit.  Violent revolution only works when an entire population is aligned against an oppressor.  You have a belief system that is so niche and marginal and crazy, and you want to burden everyone else in society with it by pushing it on them.  And if they don't accept it through reason and discussion, you'll just get violent.  Fuck you.   Nevermind that history shows that violent uprisings often lead to further bloodshed, instability, and setbacks for human rights. Nevermind that violent tactics undermine public support for even righteous causes.  Nevermind reforming institutions, economic empowerment of marginalized communities, and winning hearts and minds through moral persuasion.  No, Nepenthe wants to go from furry pictures in her mom's basement to political violence in one fell swoop. 
Africa doesn't need soft power, they need massive changes to be major players in a global capitalist system.  South Korea was a "third world" country in the 70s before Park Chun Hee's reforms.  The UAE, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brazil, Singapore, and India all experienced rapid non-linear growth in the past 30 years thanks to focusing on a comparative advantage.   What does it mean to "take back what's rightfully theirs".  Take back what?    African countries in general have political instability and economic problems that reasonable investors are not going to prefer to other emerging markets.  The infrastructure for rapid industrialization is not there.  The skill gap between Africans and other developing economies is still large.  Their dependence on natural resources instead of value-added processing industries doesn't support broad-based economic development.  Generally speaking, African countries main exports are so little in value that the developed countries often have subsidies to keep their domestic markets flowing with those goods.   They are unreliable parties to international property rights agreements so they aren't seen as stable.  All of this takes time, effort, and ingenuity, but there's no reason why things can't improve for Africans in the global economic system without violent uprisings and opting for a system that is worthless for economic development.    But efforts have been made to address these issues through multilateral trade negotiations, aid-for-trade programs, and initiatives such as the African Continental Free Trade Area.  There have been huge improvements in some Africa's nations development - Kenya, Botwsana, Mauritius, Ghana average large gdp growth rates per year.  Nigeria is actually producing semiconductors now.  There are some African countries that have higher gdp/capita than eastern european countries.  You have a fucking inferiority complex with black people and it's obvious.  Deep down you think they can't participate in the global economic system because they're too stupid to be competitive.  It has nothing to do with "taking back what's theirs".  You just don't think they can have a competitive edge unless they manipulate everyone else into believing they're owed something for free.  Which is why you did nothing with your life - you try to understand how unsuccessful you are in the lens of other African nations and black people at large and project your inferiority complex, guilt, hate, and envy onto the world.  There's no way you wouldn't focus on productive ways to be competitive if you believe it was possible. You don't speak for black people, you speak for your shitty self.   

 Who am I talking to?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/isw-economic-military-indicators-suggest-russia-is-preparing-for-large-scale-war-with-nato.829740/page-3?post=120773895#post-120773895

User banned (1 month): pushing conspiracy theories over a series of posts

I don't think Putin had hand in starting the war in Gaza but I'm sure he's very happy about it and he's always been an opportunitist that can leverage instability to his gain.

He literally met with Hamas leaders last year and then suddenly Hamas has enough rockets to overload the Iron Dome defenses? That's not a goddamned coincidence. And let's not ignore all the ties Putin has to Netanyahu.

[Uncle]

Capitalism absolutely is the core reason, yes.

For one, the idea that capitalism encapsulates some innate, universal human desire just doesn't have much actual physical evidence backing it up, as much as is true for any other economic system we've had before. Even feudalism wasn't practiced the same exact way in the same exact times across countries like Egypt, Japan, and England back when these systems were in place. Why? Because the physical environment of these countries was different, which in turn meant that the resulting conditions people had to deal with were different, which inevitably leads to different cultural evolutions. Human development is inevitable, but the outcome of the development is not; subsequently, the establishment of capitalism is loaded with such a shitload of chance that you get wildly different historical outcomes if certain events go a different way.

Seriously, tweak a few numbers and events here and there and you might get a timeline where Europeans aren't literally kidnapping so many Africans that the population didn't actually grow for centuries. However, we live in the timeline where Europe was able to establish significant military dominance, particularly at sea, in the run up to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but what is important to note here is not only did capitalism lead directly to a slave trade on an unprecedented scale, but, like with feudalism, cultural conditions follow the economic conditions.

So it is with capitalism that you start seeing the establishment of not just white supremacy- all of the social, religious, and pseudo-scientific justifications for the economic reality of Africans being capital in and of themselves- but first the establishment of "whiteness" as a political class all on its own in the first place, mainly to help confused and sympathetic European indentured servants figure out which side they were supposed to be on. Literally, without capitalism, you don't even reach the concept of some unified "white people" in the first place.

Now, I don't think necessarily socialism would be immune from the racial ills we see today from a legacy of colonialism, because I don't think socialism on its own inherently fixes the fact that Africans are currently dealing with the outcome of a massive wealth, labor, and body transfer across centuries that amounts to trillions of dollars stolen, millions of lives and an immeasurable amount of culture lost forever, and the psychological trappings of the cultural conditioning that needed to be established for that to work for as long as it did. I feel for that to happen, you need actual violent revolution, and for Africans to take back what is rightfully theirs. You would also need conscious efforts at establishing African soft power and dismantling whatever white supremacist infrastructure existed in order to counteract centuries' old notions of our supposed inferiority.

However, ultimately the aim of socialism is inherently to disperse power over the material conditions of our economic systems- the ownership of land, factories, companies, etc.- across a generalized mass of workers. So, at the very least, it simply moves in the direction of fixing the condition of all Africans by stripping power away from the class of capitalists who ultimately owe all of their power specifically to African oppression. Socialism is more communal, cooperative, and less hierarchical in nature than capitalism is, meaning it is going to trend towards more egalitarian outcomes by default. That doesn't mean socialists can't be racist, of course, and it certainly doesn't mean capitalist racists wouldn't be able to try to infiltrate socialist movements specifically to sabotage them. They did it all throughout the civil rights movement of the 50s and they're still doing it today.

But ultimately if you're asking me whether or not I think capitalism or socialism would be better for Africans, it is socialism, no question. It's not just that capitalism inherently incentivizes greed, although it does do that. It's that the historical reality is that America and Western Europe are the wealthy power players they are specifically because they fucked over Africans and Indigenous groups for centuries. "Reforming" capitalism is not going to solve that problem, no more than an abusive partner is salvageable after the 30th time they've slammed your head into the wall.

 

Slavery predates capitalism by thousands of years, existing in ancient societies like Egypt, Greece, Rome, China and the Islamic world long before the emergence of modern capitalist economies in the 17th-18th centuries. Chattel slavery, human exploitation and subjugation have much deeper roots than you living in a system that rewards being useful to other people, which you refuse to figure out how to do.

I can't think of a single prominent capitalist thinker or movements, like Adam Smith to Richard Cobden to John Stuart Mill and dozens of others who weren't strongly anti-slavery.  Even Frederick Douglas spoke about free trade being antithetical to slavery. The philosophical underpinnings of free markets, individual liberty and human rights were often used to argue against slavery. Capitalism and abolitionism grew up together.

Non-capitalist societies also practiced slavery on a massive scale. The Soviet gulag system enslaved millions under communist rule. Slavery was widely practiced in pre-capitalist African kingdoms. Economic systems alone don't cause or prevent slavery. The core drivers of slavery are political (the state sanctioning human bondage), cultural (seeing certain ethnicities as subhuman), and human nature-based (the desire to exploit others for gain).  Capitalism and democratic institutions provide economic incentives and justifications *against* slavery, they're a protectant against the disease of human exploitation and enslavement and you were born in the best time in the world in the best place in the world to live within that protectant.  And yet you still refuse to make yourself better because you're obsessed with being a victim or a revolutionary or whatever else that makes you feel bigger than you are.

Ending "capitalist exploitation" or whatever you call it, will not end racism. Socialism won't end racism.  Taking economic power from one class and putting it into another doesn't automatically lead to racial justice.  Unless what you mean is you want more racial oppression, but in the favor of your own direction?  Okay, just say you want the tides of oppression to turn in your favor, and you're exactly the same as your enemies.  That you have no qualms with the actual rationale of human exploitation, you just want you and "your people" to have that favor.  Why is this so hard for you to admit to?  Of course, that will only instigate tribalism and a racial consciousness for your enemies, but that's what you want anyway, right?  You don't care about a cohesive society that has a universal set of values, you want to live out an identitarian war so you can feel like a revolutionary instead of mopping the floors of Duane Reade because you refuse to find something to be good at and valuable for others.

Most black people aren't you, Nepenthe.  They're not actually "Your people".  They see the path forward in a regulated market system coupled with a strong social safety net, constitutional human rights protections, and reasonable efforts to redress historical injustices that may empower marginalized communities.  They don't want to tear the system down.  They don't want ethnic warfare.  They don't want the wealthiest country in the world to cannibalize itself with an economic system that doesn't make use of human talent and incentives.  You want true equality and shared prosperity, but you live with your parents in your 30s and don't have a non-dead end career.  So, what is even happening here?  What do you want?  Other people to pick up the slack for your mistakes?  I'll never understand the rationale of these failure social revolutionaries...if I truly believed what they believed, I'd work to get as much money and power as possible within the system because I know that's how the system rewards you, then I'd use that power to do whatever I can according to my idealogy.  I wouldn't sit at home in my parents house, broke, drawing furry porn as a grown adult.  What the fuck is wrong with you?

 

"Now, I don't think necessarily socialism would be immune from the racial ills we see today from a legacy of colonialism, because I don't think socialism on its own inherently fixes the fact that Africans are currently dealing with the outcome of a massive wealth, labor, and body transfer across centuries that amounts to trillions of dollars stolen, millions of lives and an immeasurable amount of culture lost forever, and the psychological trappings of the cultural conditioning that needed to be established for that to work for as long as it did. I feel for that to happen, you need actual violent revolution, and for Africans to take back what is rightfully theirs. You would also need conscious efforts at establishing African soft power and dismantling whatever white supremacist infrastructure existed in order to counteract centuries' old notions of our supposed inferiority."

There she goes again with this political violence shit.  Violent revolution only works when an entire population is aligned against an oppressor.  You have a belief system that is so niche and marginal and crazy, and you want to burden everyone else in society with it by pushing it on them.  And if they don't accept it through reason and discussion, you'll just get violent.  Fuck you.   Nevermind that history shows that violent uprisings often lead to further bloodshed, instability, and setbacks for human rights. Nevermind that violent tactics undermine public support for even righteous causes.  Nevermind reforming institutions, economic empowerment of marginalized communities, and winning hearts and minds through moral persuasion.  No, Nepenthe wants to go from furry pictures in her mom's basement to political violence in one fell swoop. 
Africa doesn't need soft power, they need to massive changes to be major plays in a global capitalist system.  South Korea was a "third world" country in the 70s before Park Chun Hee's reforms.  The UAE, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brazil, Singapore, and India all experienced rapid non-linear growth in the past 30 years thanks to focusing on a comparative advantage.   What does it mean to "take back what's rightfully theres".  Take back what?    African countries in general have political instability and economic problems that reasonable investors are not going to prefer to other emerging markets.  The infrastructure for rapid industrialization is not there.  The skill gap between Africans and other developing economies is still large.  Their dependence on natural resources instead of value-added processing industries doesn't support broad-based economic development.  Generally speaking, African countries main exports are so little in value that the developed countries often have subsidies to keep their domestic markets flowing with those goods.   They are unreliable parties to international property rights agreements so they aren't seen as stable.  All of this takes time, effort, and ingenuity, but there's no reason why things can't improve for Africans in the global economic system without violent uprisings and opting for a system that is worthless for economic development.    But efforts have been made to address these issues through multilateral trade negotiations, aid-for-trade programs, and initiatives such as the African Continental Free Trade Area.  There have been huge improvements in some Africa's nations development - Kenya, Botwsana, Mauritius, Ghana average large gdp growth rates per year.  Nigeria is actually producing semiconductors now.  There are some African countries that have higher gdp/capita than eastern european countries.  You have a fucking inferiority complex with black people and it's obvious.  Deep down you think they can't participate in the global economic system because they're too stupid to be competitive.  It has nothing to do with "taking back what's there's".  You just don't think they can have a competitive edge unless they manipulate everyone else into believing they're owed something for free.  Which is why you did nothing with your life - you try to understand how unsuccessful you are in the lens of other African nations and black people at large and project your inferiority complex, guilt, hate, and envy onto the world.  There's no way you wouldn't focus on productive ways to be competitive if you believe it was possible. You don't speak for black people, you speak for your shitty self.   

 Who am I talking to?

[Propagandhim]

literally take up arms
we're literally gonna need cis people to take up arms

[Uncle]

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe loves slave traders when they aren't white 

Remember her essay on Mansa Musa?

[Propagandhim]

And colonizers of Iberia, Sicily, and temporarily in France when they're from Africa.  They're good people that need to be represented in games about Europe.

[Propagandhim]

"u guys, we need to literally take up farms" -- Joseph Stalin, 1928

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-neurodiversity-celebration-week-so-lets-talk-about-cloud-strife.830241/

[benji]

For one, the idea that capitalism encapsulates some innate, universal human desire just doesn't have much actual physical evidence backing it up

All of modern society.  

Now, I don't think necessarily socialism would be immune from the racial ills we see today from a legacy of colonialism, because I don't think socialism on its own inherently fixes the fact that Africans are currently dealing with the outcome of a massive wealth, labor, and body transfer across centuries that amounts to trillions of dollars stolen, millions of lives and an immeasurable amount of culture lost forever, and the psychological trappings of the cultural conditioning that needed to be established for that to work for as long as it did. I feel for that to happen, you need actual violent revolution, and for Africans to take back what is rightfully theirs. You would also need conscious efforts at establishing African soft power and dismantling whatever white supremacist infrastructure existed in order to counteract centuries' old notions of our supposed inferiority.

However, ultimately the aim of socialism is inherently to disperse power over the material conditions of our economic systems- the ownership of land, factories, companies, etc.- across a generalized mass of workers. So, at the very least, it simply moves in the direction of fixing the condition of all Africans by stripping power away from the class of capitalists who ultimately owe all of their power specifically to African oppression.

Who am I talking to?

She seems to be suggesting that Africa should somehow unify (does this include the states in the north?) and conquer the rest of the planet and force an extractive socialism on them for a few centuries until African imperialism has impoverished the Americas, Europe and possibly Asia enough for psychological/cultural well being of well, Nepenthe, who would be long dead.

However, ultimately the aim of socialism is inherently to disperse power over the material conditions of our economic systems- the ownership of land, factories, companies, etc.- across a generalized mass of workers.

Or more accurately to concentrate power in a single monopoly corporation with no alternatives allowed.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/you%E2%80%99ve-been-murdered-who-do-you-want-on-the-case.830196/page-3?post=120834171#post-120834171

The trans community

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-288?post=120834945#post-120834945

Biden is next level evil. I wish people here would stop defending him saying things like "he doesn't actually support genocide against Palestinians". He does. Stop fucking denying by being so naive. He is a monster. Period.

[Nintex]

So, they put the blame on the wrong person, don't bother actually looking for any evidence and spam J.K. Rowling on X because she was somehow involved?  

The Trans community is literally the worst fucking community to investigate any murder.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/you%E2%80%99ve-been-murdered-who-do-you-want-on-the-case.830196/page-3?post=120834171#post-120834171

The trans community

Proper Authorities "claim" the deceased was found hanging in their attic.

The trans community corrects them. "No" they proclaim "Rowling did this."

[Nintex]

Capitalism absolutely is the core reason, yes.
For one, the idea that capitalism encapsulates some innate, universal human desire just doesn't have much actual physical evidence backing it up, as much as is true for any other economic system we've had before. Even feudalism wasn't practiced the same exact way in the same exact times across countries like Egypt, Japan, and England back when these systems were in place. Why? Because the physical environment of these countries was different, which in turn meant that the resulting conditions people had to deal with were different, which inevitably leads to different cultural evolutions. Human development is inevitable, but the outcome of the development is not; subsequently, the establishment of capitalism is loaded with such a shitload of chance that you get wildly different historical outcomes if certain events go a different way.

Seriously, tweak a few numbers and events here and there and you might get a timeline where Europeans aren't literally kidnapping so many Africans that the population didn't actually grow for centuries. However, we live in the timeline where Europe was able to establish significant military dominance, particularly at sea, in the run up to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but what is important to note here is not only did capitalism lead directly to a slave trade on an unprecedented scale, but, like with feudalism, cultural conditions follow the economic conditions.

So it is with capitalism that you start seeing the establishment of not just white supremacy- all of the social, religious, and pseudo-scientific justifications for the economic reality of Africans being capital in and of themselves- but first the establishment of "whiteness" as a political class all on its own in the first place, mainly to help confused and sympathetic European indentured servants figure out which side they were supposed to be on. Literally, without capitalism, you don't even reach the concept of some unified "white people" in the first place.

[Propagandhim]

Nepenthe thinks she's so smart reciting word-for-word Kendi schlock without any critical thought.  Just a complete husk of a human.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall-update-130-dead.829983/page-6?post=120827643#post-120827643

Putin is already using this to warmonger against Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine gives anyone who is reasonable plenty of reason to think Russia is bad. That doesn't mean that regular civilians going to a concert deserve this.
It's a shame civilians were killed and also a shame they have a government more interested in commiting genocide in Ukraine than heeding warnings.

See, but what pisses me off is that someone can take this EXACT stance about Israel and their current actions in Palestine, and a majority of the western world would defame them for having such a stance

Meanwhile, that same Western society will turn around and use this EXACT logic to speak on Russia, just a terrible terrible world understanding in 2024. It's team sport rather than being anti harm across the globe

As long as the "right people" are the ones succumbing to violence. Just a sad state of geo politics right now

[clockwork5]

Good thing video games aren’t completely dependent on capitalism.

[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-modest-proposal-no-smartphones-for-kids.830274/

ClickyCal’

Hard disagree

Hmmm. Doesn’t seem like they’re getting a lot of support about this one. Let the brigades begin.

Can’t wait for the mafia to show up and start demanding their right to groom kids.

[Switters]

Feel really stupid for wondering why a black guy would call himself IrishNinja. Dude, is a total Rob Bob and is getting away with it. 

[kaleidoscopium]

“I wouldn’t be trans without access to social media!! And it is NOT a social contagion!!”

[Polident]

What compels an adult aged person, presumably childless, to form a strong opinion about kids having unfiltered access to smartphones and social media?

[Nintex]

No smartphones for kids 

 Give them a Nintendo Switch OLED Model instead

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall-update-130-dead.829983/page-6?post=120827643#post-120827643

As long as the "right people" are the ones succumbing to violence. Just a sad state of geo politics right now

There was a time when this was different?