Clearly there is a dog girl gap and I won't stand for it.

Gains a lot of comedic value when you remember what the Dems were before FDR.

It's a great show. Really felt like the ultimate slap in the face to Jeff Bezos that his money was being used to fund the production of a show where a character just directly faces the audience, breaks the fourth wall, and starts explaining Marx to them.

Bonus credit is just a flat bonus to your grade, they just bump up your grade.

Lol, gonna start doing this on all my exams. Can you distribute all the points I get above a passing grade to everyone who didn't pass?

Right, but when they go to the IMF for assistance, the IMF usually asks them to start privatizing these things if they want any help. In my own country, the Americans' financial supervision board, that functions as a personalized IMF, twisted our government into privatizing our electric grid. They sold it off to an American energy company because we're literally an American colony. This case is not too hard to figure out, that's just plain old corruption.

Yet there's similar cases all over the Global South, where the institution that gets privatized is not sold off to a multinational, and instead remains in local hands (but private). The IMF's privatization programs aim to privatize just about anything the state owns; extraction companies, manufacturing, finance, etc.

Yeah, I suppose you're right. In the same interview I linked Hudson throws his hands up and exclaims basically the same thing, his job as an economist is impossible because the ruling class has blinded itself about its own interests and has now repeatedly failed to act in its own basic material interest. But it just seems like a critical failure of materialism as an analytic framework that you have to just accept that these people care more about ideas than facts.

How does foreign capital benefit from private healthcare? I can see why they obviously want private ownership of productive industries, but what interest do they have in privatizing reproduction?

1. But this explicitly just leads to less profit for the multinationals. The private healthcare insurers, utilities, etc that can profit off the privatization are generally local companies that belong to the national bourgeoisies of the colonized countries.
2. Monopoly capitalism is definitionally the most centralized capital has ever been. The IMF and World Bank are single, centralized institutions that (from my perspective right now) are making an unforced error.
3. True
4. The safety net in question still results in more productive labor as a whole, though? This point is just a rejection of materialism. Private monopolies increase socially necessary labor, it's additional economic rent and it just holds back productivity. How is a materialist to dismiss that fact just because the safety net makes people lose hope?
5. and 6 see point 4

Then the institutions that are supposed to do the fact checking for you, to solve this problem, are blatantly lying and will tell you that inflation hasn't been that bad when it's essentially impossible for the majority of non-homeowners to ever own a home. So there's no one to trust, and these people perceive the liberals as smarmy condescending douches, so it's not a difficult logical leap to see why they end up voting Trump.

I just don't see why it should be prison at all at that point. Why not make it a vocational training facility at this point? Actually have the people learn skills that they could use to find employment instead of continuing to live off crime?

I mean, I get that the core has deindustrialized so there really isn't much more space for the reserve army of labor to just find jobs, but at least train them on using Excel and working at a fake job!

Or Adam Friedland?

This happened to me for like the first 2 years of engineering classes then Calc 2 sat me down. Then I continued smooth sailing through Calc 3, linalg, and differential equations. Sometimes you just have the mandate of heaven

I'm not 100% convinced on the abolish prison stuff but if you got to the point that you need people to exert their own discipline and voluntarily turn themselves over to go to prison every evening I think you gotta think of another system.

Which is entirely reasonable when consensus reality has collapsed and the skills necessary to fact check dubious claims are completely absent from any American curriculum.

There's like 15 comms with fewer than 20 posts and between the megathreads and the struggle sessions there have been several threads with hundreds of comments.

2 mistakes is wild, I made like 5 just with the islands.

62 attempts 0 skips first try

I am the GOAT.

FWIW a pretty big number of power posters were tempbanned.

It was, Serbia was committing war crimes. You can probably guess how much NATO cared about the war crimes, and how much NATO was simply trying to position itself to expand its hegemony and use the issue as a wedge in the Balkans that would reinforce the smaller countries' need for itself.