If we are talking about an industrialized country, then absolutely, farmers need to be taxed just like everybody else. Farmer subsidies leads to overproduction of food, much of which is then intentionally destroyed (by the farmers, or supermarkets) to keep prices high. If you think that the elimination of farmer subsidies will lead to higher food prices and thus hunger, do note that it is possible to redirect subsidies into food allowances for the poor. For instance, the US spends about $14 billion per year in agriculture subsidies (barring covid, during which subsidies jumped to above $40 billion). On the other hand, for the entire world, the cost of eliminating (or drastically reducing) hunger can be as low as $7 billion per year depending on the approach.

And this isn’t even the radical solution. The actually radical solution for eliminating the food problem entirely would be to nationalize the agriculture industry and switch the whole country to a vegetarian diet. If we do this in the entire industrialized world, and fund aggressive hunger elimination programs, then the question of food instability, even taking climate change into account is solved.

to influence countries around you in a way that is beneficial to you, and may be either beneficial, inconsequential or detrimental to them

What an amazing definition. Hand crafted to be as all encompassing as possible so you can label anyone as an imperialist.

It’s an edited meme (as can be seen), the original text was “let’s talk housing policy” for kamala.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember the source. I found the original in my folder and thought it was hilarious.

By the chronology of the show, no. It would have been infinitely easier for Walt to have swallowed his pride and taken money from gretchen, or even borrowed from hank.

Him becoming a drug lord was always about his own personal pride and sense of worth. It made him feel alive and powerful.

Yeah, Walt is fully responsible. The bourgeois couple are revealed to not even be that bad. The idea that they stole from him is walt’s delusion. He left because of his inferiority complex (which he developed at a very young age).

Honestly, the show is closer to being a Greek tragedy. Many people take it to be a critique of capitalism because of the background context and world models we as an audience bring to the show.

In fact, the show goes out of its way to show that every moment in time, Walt has an out that he refuses to use because of pride. The show itself also analyses the role of the state or big business in the crime or poverty happening only tangentially and gives very little screen time to it.

Nato is as much a “mutual defense” pact as sea lions are lions. These guys bombed Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq and countless other nations. The members of Nato have repeatedly cooperated with each other, using the military networks built through the alliance to wage proxy wars, perform coups, destabilise regions of the world at a scale never before seen in human history.

You might as well call the axis a mutual defense alliance lmao.

I mean America is a fascist country though. After all, it still has legalised slavery and killed millions of innocent people in this century alone. It’s only natural for such a country to elect fine specimens just as Trump or Biden.

I mean, if you get into any real depth with math, you are going to reach a point where you can’t use conveniently use words to describe the symbols being manipulated.

As an example for the math I am doing literally right now, I very much prefer using C⁺_R compared to “semi circular arc in the upper half of the complex plane with radius R”, or M⁺(f(z)) which means “Maximum of the magnitude of the function f(z) over C⁺_R”, which if I were to write out in full, would just become a clusterfuck.

Also you still wouldn’t be able to get rid of symbols because some symbols are placeholders and straight up don’t have any meaning in natural language. This occurs often in physics as well, not just pure maths. For example, the laplace transform of any function is written as a variable of “s”, but “s” doesn’t have a clear meaning (at least as far as I know).

I personally lost all interest in math because there are way too many opinionated or non-standard symbol definitions

That seems like a strange reason to quit math since most symbols are pretty well agreed upon, and maths has little to do with the actual notation either way.

I would have quit math if I had to do algebra with names instead of letters.

high horse to look down on the unwashed masses and tell them “you just don’t understand”

The “unwashed masses” don’t vote. Even in the 2020 election, if “didn’t vote” was a candidate, he would have won with an overwhelming landslide.

I’ve read Marx

Then why are you having so much trouble understanding that the American empire’s access to vast amounts of labor across the world breaks the American working class’s bargaining power? So long as you guys don’t fight against the expansion of the empire, things will continue to get worse for you at home. Yet still, you think that voting for this or that imperialist bastard is going to win you concessions.

Not only that, but your welfare state pretty much only exists because your ancestors fought for it (Literally, with violence), and the threat of the ussr scared your bourgeoise. The modern “left” america has nothing to stand on, or stand for. It has no real ability to bring about change because it cannot even discipline a genocider.

What does not-voting do to change anything?

As part of a coordinated campaign like the uncommitted movement? It could have forced the Democrats to alter their strategies. Voting third party would have also been great. As long as you liberals would actually be willing to follow through, which you never are.

Would be based if it happened, but it could never happen under the UN as it exists

Complain more on the same internet invented mostly by the country you hate?

Says the guy from the country which is by far the bigger drain of Industrial products in human history (you owe the planet something on the order of $50 trillion from the trade imbalance alone iirc). And that’s not counting for hundreds of millions killed from pollution, poverty, wars, co2 emissions and so on.

No, they’re not the same. None of us are buying it.

The American empire is the American empire regardless of who is in charge. Let’s get off our great-man theory high horse and actually analyze material conditions

What I don’t understand is how the vote blue demographic still doesn’t understand what the arguments of the non-voters actually even are.

OP is a member of the CPUSA.

Pffftt hahaha that’s hilarious. This has the energy of that guy accidentally tweeting “as a black man…” on his main account where his pfp was a white guy.

I’m ootl. Could you explain?

I’m sorry if I am being wierd, but why the hell is aoc drawn like a cliche Latina mom? I thought it might just be the artstyle, but given how the “tankie” is drawn like a child, it seems to me like the artist is trying to make a point about “the adults in the room” or some shit.

I don’t know anything about daoism (or taoism, are they similar?). Got any books to recommend?

his “B.S. in chemical engineering” came out of a hollow program for politically favored people, and his 1998-2002 “doctorate in Marxism” was written by his staff.

Sounds like a bunch of unsubstantiated rumours

he is widely disliked within the party

What.

he controls the levers that keep him in place.

I hate it when liberals try to talk about other country’s political systems. The fuck are “levers of power”? Are there a set of levers in the NPC that if you control you can change the weather in china or something? Joking aside, there is no explanation of what the fuck mechanism there is by which xi can be chair of the party despite being disliked by it.

Its utter emptiness is evident when you set it side-by-side with his parallel claim to inherit Confucius

This is the closest the article comes to making a valid critique of xi’s grasp on Marxism. While I am skeptical of the value of confusian thinking myself, it is ironically anti-materialist to assume that a pure Marxism untainted by the values and traditions of a person can exist.

I would much rather chinese communists openly proclaim the influence of their culture on their thinking than for them to assume that they have surpassed the flow of time. As althusser puts it, the distinguishing mark of ideology is that it proclaims itself to have no history. As such, Xi’s view is far closer to the scientific practice of Marxism than to ideology (in the marxist sense).