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This vote to delay comes amid ongoing concerns about antisemitism within the APA and reports from Jewish psychologists who have experienced harassment, exclusion, and hostility because of their Jewish identity or their views.

The Association of Jewish Psychologists (don’t laugh) is officially partnered on their website with

1. The Lone Soldier Project, an organization dedicated to showing how wholesome the IDF is

2. 5 other websites where the front page has something about how the handsome Israelis are being treated unfairly or some bullshit

These institutions masquerade as purely cultural, but are almost always deeply Zionist. (A good chunk of [being generous here] Jewish culture is deeply entwined with Zionism, but we won’t talk about that here

Also Greenblatt is quoted using the words “lived experience” in this article . Incredible.

Is it really controversial to say that Jewish people aren’t marginalized in American society?

I mean- if your Jewish identity is inseparable from Israel and Israel’s right to pillage I suppose you feel pretty annoyed right now and victimized. Instead of money going quietly with only those on the margins protesting it’s pretty much just common knowledge atp that Israel is monstrous

This is a really delicate issue, and I’ll be called an anti-Semite regardless, and even saying this makes me feel anti-Semitic, (even though it plainly isn’t) so I’ve got an analogy:

It’s like if AMENA publicly supported [and funded] (THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART) HHH or Iran

Anyway, this is anti-semitism but Elon Musk hitting the double Sieg is just him getting excited. It’s chill. It’s comical because the ADL are the first to go into hysterics over dog-whistles, like the upside down red triangle

I love the ADL. Ever since Elon Musk arc it has been peak.

Why are they morally grandstanding about this?

What?

Fork found in kitchen? Is this supposed to be surprising, or like, a moral negative, a stain on Iran? To spread awareness? Awareness they despise the countries that killed their political and spiritual leader along with the other stuff..?

ya can’t.. ya can’t have an ethnostate ..

Is it just me or is this like a cartoonish waste of money

Well, it’s related to AI, but it’s like

Wow

>The A.I. boom “doesn’t benefit ordinary people in China because this priority, the industrial focus on high tech and semiconductors, actually causes structural unemployment and underemployment,” said Dan Wang, the China director at Eurasia Group, a consulting firm.

>What’s more, Ms. Wang said, disposable income growth is now lower than economic growth. If that continues, she noted, “that means the national income is skewed in distribution toward government and companies, and not consumers.”

hilarious conclusion to the article, btw.

does anyone with knowledge of china, mayhaps someone living there, give their two cents ? on this article ?

Within a Marxist framework, the State is the vehicle one class uses to oppress another. The bourgeiosie and the proletariat in the current epoch, The nobility and the serfs during feudalism, freedmen and slaves in Ancient Greece, etc.

Minarchism is so much worse than Anarchism. By a mile.

I'm pulling from Wikipedia:

>A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state, minarchy or minarchism, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose functions depend on libertarian theory. Right-libertarians support it only as an enforcer of the non-aggression principle by providing citizens with the military, the police, and courts, thereby protecting them from aggression, theft, breach of contract, fraud, and enforcing property laws.

"what if we removed everything the state did that was good, actually, and kept the parts that primarily serve the bourgeiosie"

Is this not what Minarchism is at its core?

I'll give a few examples of what could possibly be wrong with this political philosophy. What human consequences could incur.

1. How do you have a police force, military, and the courts without a governmental body that creates and/or modifies those institutions in themselves? A lot of minarchists seem to just want to strip away the good parts of actually existing States and call what remains "Minarchism."

1A. How do you fund these institutions? Well, not "fund," but incentivize the people who work in these institutions to do the state's bidding? The answer, according to Minarchist political tradition?

Voluntary contributions and fees for government services rendered, like being granted a property deed.

So now we've got a political ideology that wants to strip away all parts of government that aren't explicitly related to the monopoly on force and the protection of private property, and FURTHERMORE, what does remain, THE POLICE, MILITARY, AND COURTS, WILL BE FUNDED DIRECTLY BY THOSE WHO HAVE THE CAPITAL TO FUND THEM

What is going to happen? I wonder what will happen?

Example: Alan wants to do very bad things to Bob and Bob's family. Bob doesn't make as much as Alan. Before the Minarchist conversion, Alan was the Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft. Before the Minarchist conversion, Bob was a cashier at Walmart.

Bob's entire family is murdered or enslaved by Alan and/or people Alan has hired [how we have a guaranteed currency in a Minarchist society is a whole nother issue] Alan has bribed the local police department. What recourse does Bob have?

Anyway, here are some consequences:

Power and water are regulated monopolies in the United States for numerous reasons. First of all, power and water infrastructure are incredibly expensive and also take up physical space, so you could imagine how having multiple different companies' power lines and power generation facilities, along with water treatment plants, parallell pipes, everything, it would just become a massive mess

Secondly, parts of the country aren't profitable for these companies to provide to. Primarily rural areas. The monopoly agreements the gov't has with these companies is that they must provide service to everyone within the area they're given exclusivity.

I would foresee rural areas becoming home to exclusively the mega-rich and the mega-poor, even moreso than it already is. You would have people living in squalor without plumbing and huge plantation houses that had their own personal electric and plumbing services for just their property

Roads. The fucking roads. You can already see a rich/poor divide in the condition of roads due to the tax income the governments get, but now you'd just have places that either had roads, or didn't. No inbetween.

I've got a friend that lives in Western New York, the roads are quite literally dirt. It is 10 miles to the biggest urban area. What will happen to them? They will stop maintaining even the bare minimum, the dirt roads, foliage will grow in, cars will have to go slower, until they can't at all. I suppose all the rural people who are in a situation like that should just move. go where the free market demands them. Lmao. I swear, Minarchists either don't think, are the most vile class enemies to the proletariat, or just love human suffering

There are numerous governmental agencies related to regulating consumer goods and ensuring consumer safety. Those would be gone.

I'll start with the FDA. There is a famous book called "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair that illustrates the consequences of little-to-no regulation in the food industry, namely livestock. That of beef iirc. Sawdust mixed into wheat. Bread. Hell, anything. Better hope the production process isn't contaminated, you could be getting trace amounts of heavy metals and be on a fast-track to some insane cancer.

and let's say you do get sick or injured or dead from a bad product, contaminated product, what is your recourse? Nothing. You simply accept the bad choice you made in the free market. Choose a different product. This is what they unironically believe. I hope someone could dispute this because it is so dystopian but from my readings, Minarchists believe the free market would self-regulate. In their "minds," consumers would simply stop buying from companies that did dastardly shit like what I've described in the prior paragraph.

brings me to the next agency, the FTC. (Federal Trade Commission) handles false adverts and scams. Within a Minarchist state, you are going to be at the whims of false adverts and scams. False adverts and scams are just part of the free market. If you fall for a false advert or a scam, you simply should've voted with your money better. Again, this is what they seem to unironically believe. Cult of the free market.

There's the CFPB, which regulates the financial sector. basically protecting consumers from usury. credit card companies. banks. basically, enjoy your $74.99 overdraft fee, along with 275% interest on your CC

CPSC. The Consumer Product Safety Commission. This one makes sure non-consumables aren't going to hurt or kill you by accident. Surely a good thing to get rid of.

I could continue, but I've typed enough

TLDR; Minarchists want to abolish all state power besides those that benefit the bourgeiosie primarily. In fact, with the way they want the government to be funded, (by those with capital to 'donate') it would essentially be a minimal state that is used solely by the bourgeiosie, with police, military, and the courts being on their payroll!

petite-bourgeios philosophy to a T. Only people this philosophy makes sense for. The big bourgeiosie

I need to read more Libertarian theory, I read Ayn Rand and I'm addicted to this shit now. le non-Marxist anti-state action

Thoughts?

>First, talk nonstop about how Israel embodies “whiteness.” I know, I know. Many Israelis are descendants of Holocaust survivors, whose ancestors were industrially genocided by Hitler for “not being white.” But we’ve decided they’re white now!

Keep in mind this woman had a very heavy influence on both past and current right-libertarianism in the United States, and the world as a whole. I doubt most Liberterians have read Liberterian "theory" but I got reminded of this book, so I am going to go through the excerpts I had marked down and laugh at them.

Here is what Wikipedia says about Objectivism, and don't worry, as I go into detail from this book, it gets worse:

>
Objectivism's main tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception (see direct and indirect realism), that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic,

I. Reality exists independently of consciousness and

II. Human beings have direct contact with reality, able to attain objective knowledge through concept fromation and inductive logic, are both foundations of her philosophy that stem from her Marxist education in the USSR.

>that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (see rational egoism), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.

III. The proper moral purpose of one's life - the pursuit of one's own happiness. Not so bad on the surface.

IV. The only social system consistent with this morality is laissez-faire capitalism (w/ strong individual rights tho)

V. The role of art in the world is just kind of added on there. Disregard.

It should be noted this book is a collection of lectures Rand gave at American universities in the 60s and 70s. Her other theory consists of fiction books. (ex: Atlas Shrugged)

Introduction

>"The Objectivist ethics holds that the actor must always be the beneficiary of his action and that them an must act for his own rational self interest.

Rand is making the claim here that in order to be moral to both others and oneself, your actions must always benefit yourself in some way. (also extends to those you care about) explains why she is against taxation in any form.

I: The Objectivist Ethics

yeah, this is where I really started to really see the Marxist influence

>If some men attempt to survive by means of brute force or fraud, by looting, robbing, cheating or enslaving the men who produce, it still remains true that their survival is made only possible by their victims, only by men who choose to think and produce the goods which they, the looters, are seizing.

so, she's referring to criminals. those who steal from reputable businesses. but in my mind, this is so close to a Marxist text. The bourgeiosie do essentially defraud the workers of all of their value, via the brute force of the state. But then again, maybe that's not what that is. Maybe it's just the free market.

>I will not attempt, in a brief lecture, to discuss the political theory of Objectivism. Those who are interested will find it presented in full detail in Atlas Shrugged.

me putting my take me seriously hat on

>When I say "capitalism," I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism-- with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of the state and church. A pure system of capitalism has never yet existed, not even in America; various degrees of government control have been undercutting and destroying it from the start. Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future- if mankind is to have a future.

any liberterians who have read this far: How will capitalism function without a state minting and guaranteeing currency? The state is what guarantees capitalism. Are we going back to barter? I could go into why this is further incoherent but I just.. we continue

i'm skipping over a bunch... i overestimated how much of this dreck i would want to go through again...

XIV: The Nature of Government

>A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment - a society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of the society's nature- is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. Such a society destroys all the values of human coexistence, has no possible justification and rperesents, not a source of benefits, but the deadliest threat to man's survival. Life ona desert island is safer than and incomparably preferable to existence in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany.

She views surplus value being extracted from the proleteriat as a valid way to attain wealth. I think that is the problem

there's also a ton of historical misconceptions...

anyway, Liberterianism is a meme ideology. They are liberals who essentially just want even less state guardrails. While socdems/demsocs want to add more state guardrails to capitalism in order to stabilize it, (Social Democracy does improve living conditions, precisely why it stabilizes capitalism politically) or try to achieve socialism through bourgeios electoralism (hah)

the libertarians want to start tearing away at the state. I don't want to flip through the book again but according to Rand, the only three things that a state should have are: (get ready, and don't laugh)

I. The police

II. The army

III. The courts, who govern according to a code of law based on Objectivist ethics.

Conceding the premise that this is the best way to organize society: like, what the fuck?

First of all, how do you set up police, an army, and courts without other associated governmental institutions, like the legislature, for one, and... how do you fund this? Oh wait, I forgot, she talks about it.

Voluntary contributions. Voluntary contributions to the pseudo-state, along with state lotteries you can enter into.

I was going to keep typing, but I think this is a fine point to end on:

Ayn Rand, influential liberterian theorist, believes the ideal state is a Minarchist one; one that only has a police force, military, and the courts. Furthermore, how does she want this state to be funded?

Voluntary payments. What class is going to have the capital to make the bulk "Voluntary payments" needed to keep the state running?

What class will the hollowed-out state machinery be extra-incentivized to solely serve, as the bulk of the finances are coming from that class?

this is a short little blurb from the liberal rag I love pulling articles from, but it’s an example of their complete incoherence when trying to analyze class with a bourgeois lens

It’s simple: those who must labor in order to live, having their surplus value taken from them by the bourgeoisie, are proletarian. Those whom do not have to work to live, living off of the surplus value of others, are the bourgeoisie. There are sub-classes, arguably defined more in America, but all will ultimately end up those two as contradictions worsen.

I’m going to sleep

This is beyond comical

TLDR;

DJT decideS to paint the bottom of the pool a dark blue because reasons. Darker colors absorb more heat, and algae thrive in warmer environments, so algae return. To combat this unfortunate development they decide they will dump bleach , or , a variety of chemicals, in perpetuity into the memorial. Said chemicals are peeling off the paint and lining of the bottom.

14 million dollars

Here’s where I say something about cuckservatives being hypocritical with their financial austerity

Do any of the resident Zionists want to explain how this is wholesome chungus or like hezbollah’s fault or something

The Israeli state is now outright paying the lumpen that they utilize to expand their territory. Incredible.

This is normal

>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has come under fire from his political opponents after he appeared to abandon a threat to strike Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, under pressure from President Trump.

>Mr. Netanyahu said on Monday that he had ordered the Israeli military to target Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group, in the city. Hours later, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that he had spoken to the Israeli leader by phone, asking him not to conduct “a major raid of Beirut,” and that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop shooting at each other.

so uhh, Trump lifted a finger to stop a planned Israeli terror bombing of Beirut and now in Israeli politics there is talk of Israel being an American vassal.

You'd think they'd be grateful considering their country's existence is reliant on American support but no, gotta let them do whatever they want and pay them for doing it

Don’t worry, We’ve got a Western white woman here to tell you about how both sides are losing, actually

“For Iran, survival is not victory. At home, a battered economy and an untested leadership will eventually have to explain why endurance has not translated into relief. Inflation reached 77% in May, while the rial has fallen to 1.7m to the dollar. The memory of January’s protests and the brutal crackdown that reportedly left at least 7,000 dead still hangs over the political landscape. Repression, executions and a heavier military presence may succeed in containing dissent for now, but they cannot erase the grievances that brought people on to the streets.”

I guess the new cope that dropped is that both sides are losing, although I’m not sure that’s how a war works. Both sides have sets of goals and whichever one fulfills more of them is usually considered the winner. And this may be completely non evidence based but to tell you the truth I think the Iranian people can handle a lot more punishment than the American people can

Then again, it’s not like Americans are going to overthrow the government even when they’re boiling leather shoes for sustenance

the world economy seems to be reaching a catastrophic point and the entire media apparatus seems to be acting like nothing is wrong, everything is fine

>"We are ~9 million bbls away from hitting a storage level that's the equivalent of living paycheck to paycheck for gasoline and distillate...And we are going into peak summer demand season + hurricane...We are living on the edge now. Product pipeline + inventory needed to move products around. 2-3 weeks to exhaust the 9 million bbls, mid-June," analysts at HFI Research indicated.

In classic neoliberal hellhole fashion, prices have not changed to reflect the supply cliff the world is about to hit

the line keeps going up and up and up and up and up and up, yeah?