Whatever, lib

Well that saying was coined by some neo nazi and the clear intention of it was anti-semitic

Hell yeah

I was under the impression that China hasn’t had an economic recession since the founding of the PRC, including during the Mao years. Could have to do with how people define recessions though.

I had to send an updated resume for a job interview which I whipped up real quick and after sending it I realized that I left the boilerplate in the first section so it said like “Profile: click here to change the text and add some information about yourself” lmao.

I noticed immediately and sent a second email with the fixed one, and I got the job offer anyway!

I’m a Spanish speaker, I read the article and it checks out. Though “a good chunk” maybe an exaggeration, it appears true that at least one paragraph was basically lifted and paraphrased from the show. The article says that Milei’s communications director is a big fan of the west wing who has watched it between seven and nine times and that it isn’t the first time something in a Milei speech has caused west wing fans to get suspicious lol.

speaking the wrong language effectively

Yeah exactly this. I basically have a habit of code switching and using more colloquial terms and definitions when I talk about capitalism and these things with people in the workplace or normie online spaces like Reddit, but I should have remembered where I was and that people on this forum tend to discuss things with more precise Marxist understanding. Thanks again for your efforts to explain it and helping me get those wires un-crossed in my head.

As I was driving home from work I listened to this video which helped me realize where I was going wrong. If you ever find yourself getting frustrated having to explain this to somebody in the future maybe you can link them to this, it is professor Wolff explaining essentially what you said in a succinct way.

https://youtu.be/6fOtDtAjtdY

You are correct, sorry! I was at work when I replied earlier and didn’t read you properly or didn’t comprehend properly what you were saying, so yes, the confusion was on my end. I’ll delete my previous comment.

The use of the word “capital” to mean machinery etc is colloquial and non-Marxist. Marx uses the more specific term “constant capital” to refer to capitalist investment in these things, while “capital” itself is a broader term referring to the social relation of self expanding value of which these things are simply a part. Thank you for setting me straight, usually I’m pretty good at understanding when the word is being used in the colloquial sense vs the Marxist sense but again I was sloppy because I was replying while at work and not paying enough attention.

Now that I think we are on the same page let me try again with the point of my original comment, I was just trying to clear up where I think you were talking past the other user because they were using the word one way and you were using it in the more correct Marxist way. I think when the others were speaking of countries “recapitalizing”, they meant onshoring, or bringing the constant capital back into their own borders.

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I think you’re confused about what capital is to begin with (in BashfulBob’s comment at least). Capital is the means of production. It’s the machinery, the tools, etc. Capitalists are called that because they own those things. Under socialism, the workers will own it (directly or via the state), but the capital still exists. You definitely cannot have industry without it.

I was using it (and put it alongside the term in parentheses many times) as essentially- “financialization.”

Financial capital is a thing but this is not what the person you replied to was talking about and it doesn’t make any sense to think the U.S. would need to “recapitalize” if it meant financialization. The U.S. is already a fully financialized economy. Recapitalization here refers to bringing industrial capital back.

You mention Saudi Arabia “swimming in capital” in response to Bob saying that they are trying to build it beyond their oil industry. That’s not accurate. They’re swimming in money, money isn’t the same thing as capital.

You’re mixing up “capitalism” and “production/industrialization.” The two are not one and the same.

It sounds like rather, you’re confusing capitalization for capitalism. You don’t need to be capitalist to have capital, you do need capital to have industry/production.

His hardened heart is mentioned before/during each of the ten plagues. For a few of them it’s as you say, a couple of them actually say he hardened his own heart, but for plagues 6,8,9, and 10 it’s explicitly God that did it. For me that combined with god saying clearly that he would do this, multiple times, before any of it even starts makes it clear that God is responsible for it as part of his plan. He wouldn’t want Pharaoh to just let the people go the first time they ask. What he wants is to make a big show for all of the Egyptians and Israelites that he is the biggest and baddest God and that their Egyptian gods can’t compete.

If the two options to eat are arsenic and cyanide, choosing one of them to eat doesn’t improve your chances of survival.

For example?

The reason (in the mythology as the story of exodus is mythological and not historical) for God to harden Pharoah’s heart was to have a reason to do the plagues and all of that, as a show of force to the people of Egypt (and the people of Israel who had been living in Egypt for 400 years and picked up polytheistic tendencies) that Yahweh is greater and more powerful than all of the Gods of Egypt and the Pharaoh.

I just read Exodus recently. God tells Moses before he even goes to Pharoah, while giving him instructions that he will harden the Pharoah’s heart so that he does not let the people of Israel go.

NIV Exodus 4:21 - The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. “

They were given permission to admit it by the media after that debate. My Blue MAGA high school history teacher who recently blocked me on Facebook for commenting on his posts admitted it but acted like it was only since the debate that it was apparent. I was like no we could all see it and many of us were talking about it for years already. “Well I agree that he’s declined mentally but I disagree that it was evident before this”. Totally dishonest, they’ll toe the party line at all times and if the line changes they don’t miss a beat.

Right I mean he’s also 83 and still working, a lot of people that age who just worked a normal job and retired have more money than him lol he’s definitely not whatever the chuds made him out to be.

The big thing was “Bernie has 3 houses he’s a fancy millionaire” when he has just his home in Vermont, a townhouse in DC, and the “vacation house” which they either inherited from his wife’s mother or bought with the inheritance. It’s legit a very normal and mundane thing and his net worth of a couple million is honestly low for somebody who’s been in Congress for decades, he’s not Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell who have closer to 100 million dollars by being corrupt goons.

Sounds like Israeli cope after the fact tbh, it’s totally embarrassing for them that they got caught with their pants down so it’s “no we totally knew about it we just let you do that”