I love this garbage

It's really cool that we burnt down a whole acre in the Amazon to see this beautiful image.

I wish it was unacceptable everywhere. All of my good friends know better, but I've definitely had to do some group projects with people who don't even give off bad vibes but don't know how to be funny without saying the r slur and some homophobic slurs too. It's far too common behind closed doors. Maybe it's because I'm a white passing cishet dude so people feel more comfortable saying that stuff around me.

I mean, did you hear the Matt Healy episode? And they only got in trouble for that one because Swifties heard about it. They were still definitely doing a lot of the same humor.

The IDF won't give him an army burial? Even after taking out a terrorist? Unbelievable.

I hope they finally let those freaks talk with real words.

You don't have to hand it to them but they did post a lot. That's the best most of us can hope for.

How come Iceland has a population below 400k but they have Bjork and Sigur Ros? Isn't that pretty cool?

That's actually so sick! Stay clear of Boeing

Look after their health so you can be a guynecologist.

I don't know anything about anything but I'm pretty sure it's not a good time to invest regardless. Hedge fund ghouls will know the bubble's bound to pop ahead of time so shorting this when AI hype starts to die down probably won't work, and actually investing in Microsoft or whatever hoping you can cash out before people realize it's nonsense is also incredibly risky for the same reason.

Not to mention the possibility that AI isn't like crypto and it actually is here to stay. Obviously another 4 trillion parameters aren't gonna get Chat GPT to stop telling people to replace pizza sauce with glue, but there's a legitimate chance that tech goes along and pretends this garbage works. That's just how it is now.

(Grifter guy in 2018 selling an old software development methodology with a new veneer voice)

Because I'm Agile, but I'm not that Agile

Ah wuld you lookken at die time! Quick, quick, get me die blackfacensten I must participaten in die time-honored Dutch not-racist festivelberg of blackface!

That's precisely the thing, anticommunism, homophobia and anti-Roma racism are core European values so they can't acknowledge the issue at all.

Marxism doesn't really encompass all the different aspects of ontology, at least not in any monolithic way that could provide an answer to this specific question. Some Marxists believe in determinism down to the level of individual people, while others believe that free will at the individual level exists but material conditions create soft determinism at the social level, where the material circumstances for large groups override any personal decision making. At the end, political economy doesn't really depend on which of the two is true, they're functionally the same.

It's a little like asking if Marxists are atheists or if they just think God doesn't do anything. Those possibilities are functionally the same thing and the ideology is principally concerned with the project of capturing political power, not answering the fundamental questions of the universe.

Addendum to 1, you might hate communism because you committed a lot of crimes that you know your victims will get justice for if communists take power.

That's what happens when you drink your own kool aid. Zionists honestly believe that they're the diametric opposite of Nazis because Nazis hated Jews, therefore it's just not an issue when they use Nazi rhetoric. "What, how could I be a Nazi? Hitler would've hated me! But I still can't deny he made the trains run on time."

Why is it so hard to imagine that other people just like China? It's not a big deal.

It's not a red/brown alliance if the reds are all dead, genius. Putin is not your savior, he's just in a position where he's doing anti-imperialism as a result of his country being ostracized and excluded from participating in imperialism. I can't exactly call him an opportunist because he's not even genuinely trying to sell his government as progressive anyway. He's calling queer people in Russia extremists, and yeah obviously NATO demons have an even worse track record, but don't act like there's no reason for me to be skeptical of his angle when he calls his war a crusade against the globalists.

Just to make my point clear: NATO is even worse than Russia at all the things Russia is accusing them of being good at. NATO is more racist, more queerphobic, more reactionary than Russia. But Putin has to bat for a base of nationalistic chuds in his own country, which is why he attacks the West for accepting immigrants, pinkwashing, and not respecting tradition or whatever. He's weirdly doing the right things while saying all the wrong things.

That's the part that's making you raise an eyebrow?