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Oh wow just switch employers, is that all

Beyond that, you missed my point. Even if I were being paid more, I still wouldn’t have any incentive to make myself dispensable. Unless I’m vested in the company profits, then the profits don’t matter to me.

Lmao fuck integrity I’m trying to make rent

It’s not like the company has any integrity in their dealings, like when they lay off entire departments with no notice. One of my current coworkers worked for Dell for 17 years before being laid off. According to you, if she were confident in her abilities, she shouldn’t have worried.

Companies don’t care about integrity. They don’t care about people. All companies would replace you with someone cheaper if they could. Why should we care about them?

Then they should pay me based on that—giving me partial ownership, for example, would incentivize me to do better for the company. As it stands, I get paid the same no matter how the company is doing. I only have an incentive not to get fired… which is easier if I’m indispensable.

Capitalism offers a perverse incentive in this regard. I have no motive to keep the company healthy, only to get paid. Ensuring I can be replaced benefits the company while harming me.

Fair enough: it was wrong of me to use ‘citing Furr’ as a per se negative thing. The rest, I think, stands.

I haven’t read any of his books, though I have read everything he’s posted online (that I’m aware of). My issue isn’t necessarily with his methodology so much as his motivated reasoning—though you’re completely right that liberal historians don’t do any better, so maybe I should be more charitable.

I usually like ProleWiki but I’m not sure I can get behind this article. They leave out that Soviet calibers were found in the bodies, don’t mention the testimony of Dmitry Tokarev, and cite Grover Furr, who is a meme for obvious reasons. It comes off as grasping at straws.

I find it deeply funny that you’re using the Marxist conception of the stages of history while pretending not to know what Marxism is

Software engineering as a discipline is pretty much a series of trick questions.

You realize that claiming he was ‘violently executed’ is complete supposition on your part, right? There’s no non-circumstantial evidence to support that claim.

Every tenth line, this would evaluate to False, while on lines that aren’t multiples of ten, it would evaluate to True.

It’s an imperialist stance to support Hamas against Israel? Do you understand what critical support means?

I am a leftist. Hamas is not leftist. I cannot unconditionally support them based on that by definition. Hamas opposes women’s rights, for example—do you? If you do not, then your support is critical.

I’m a communist. I support state atheism and women’s rights, neither of which Hamas support. As I have stated several times, I hope Hamas is victorious in their battle against Israel, but I also hope that a different faction is successful against Hamas after the fighting ends and Israel is destroyed.

Unless you are opposed to women’s rights and secularization, I don’t see how your support for Hamas can ever pass beyond critical.

It’s a fair distinction. I’ll make a note of it.

Fair enough and I’ll make a note of it.

I think (or perhaps just hope) that after Israel’s targeted assassinations of the PLO end, they’ll be able to regain some of the support that was artificially decreased by Israel.

I don’t support Fatah, and I acknowledge that Fatah is the largest portion of the PLO, but the PFLP is second largest and they have the only correct opinion on the process towards peace.

Apologies, my phone autocorrected that. I have to fix it every single time. Guess this one snuck by me.

I’m not sure what you want. We have Israel admitting to it on tape.

Are you aware that the Muslim Brotherhood, which later became Hamas, supported the Black September massacre of Palestinians in opposition to the Jordanian monarchy? That they attacked opposition politicians, most of whom were leftists? Are you aware they campaigned on a platform of anti-communism and the restriction of women’s rights?

Again, I’m all for Hamas in their struggle against Israel, but I’m confused at your uncritical support. They’re not our friends. We are not Islamists, and obviously we are not anticommunists.

The PLO is a coalition of several parties, not all of which have given up on the one-state solution. The PFLP, for example, maintains its stance.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/