Zompist Bboard Again

This is going to be blunt, but I think it's the best way to put it: far-right voters are stupid and racist. There are no deeper sociological explanations. Of course left-wing parties should enact programs that improve peoples' life... but it's not likely to help with the far-right problem. I agree ...

In summary, neoliberalism has worsened the lives of many/most ordinary people. They have rebelled by voting for non-neoliberal parties. Neoliberals box out the left to keep the left from winning, but this only continues the neoliberalism that continues to worsen ordinary people's lives, which just ...

jcb wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 1:46 am Now even the common man can speedrun his descent into having schizophrenic hallucinations! Thanks AI!

Is it better to find out sooner if it's going to happen anyway?

malloc wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 9:51 pm Weird article about chatGPT leading people to quasi-religious delirium.

Also, I feel like I'm losing my mind just from the news.

With the pressure the bankers will be under to give out loans, I can imagine the justification doesn't necessarily have to be a good one. However, banks are still infamous for refusing to offer loans even after being bailed out by the government. PS. Debt by Graeber comes with no extra charge as an...

Operatic arias with AI images: https://youtu.be/8TslVGAhZ-I

malloc wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 9:51 pm Weird article about chatGPT leading people to quasi-religious delirium.

Jorjani's Erosophia is a hyper-intellectual version of basically that IIRC.

Just to get this out of the way, please do not get too ornamental with your language, I am trying to understand and life is too short to sift thru a lot of fanciful text. Quoting it from other people i understand, but they shouldn't have been writing in masturbatory registers either English is not ...

I myself believe that human rights are completely essential, and a major failing of Marxism, especially in its incarnation as Marxism-Leninism, has been a lack of human rights, which regardless of Marx's rhetoric has resulted in the excusing of many crimes committed in the names of Marxism and Marx...

Clarifications: Are you kidding? 82% of US adults have credit cards, for a total debt of $1.2 trillion. (Another way money is created.) Consumer debt is probably why plutocracy has kept working even though it stopped raising wages. Your banker would be fired if he stopped handing them out. With the ...

Of course states under capitalism will not give workers a right to possession ─ but that does not mean that socialism would have to be rights-free, and indeed a right to possession would give socialism a very fundamental basis and would effectively forbid capitalism. Note that petty bourgeoisie wou...

That calculation changes once the capitalists have lost their property, however. I think I have reached the limits of my ability to summarize Marx's blathering. For deeper criticism, please quote his article directly: https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm I feel like ...

One thing to remember is one can formulate rights that support the position of the workers, of the vast majority, that do not serve the interests of the bourgeoisie, such as a right to possession where 'possession' is defined by use rather than title. E.g. houses would be possessed by their occupan...

Are you kidding? 82% of US adults have credit cards, for a total debt of $1.2 trillion. (Another way money is created.) Consumer debt is probably why plutocracy has kept working even though it stopped raising wages. Your banker would be fired if he stopped handing them out. Are you referring to the...

Well, I'm in favor of a version of rights that can't really be used to help people make more profits, because it doesn't include the right to own a lot of stuff. How does that fit into those theories? Did you see the second part? Earlier in the article, he says that traditionally, all the rights en...

To get really deep into pedantic philosophical nitpicking, I don't believe in inherent rights. But I do believe in rights where it's generally good if a place is run in such a way that people there can usually rely on having those rights. I'm very fond of my right to take part in a discussion like ...

When i said (human) rights, I meant as in "shoulds", ideals on what is the right way to do things; a prescription. I wasn't referring to encoded rights, or "mays", what people are formally allowed to do; a description I am not wholly against laws and legalism, what i am against ...

I believe this is what I was thinking of: https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm Whether it says what I summarized, I'm not sure. I only remember reading somewhere that this is the publication where Marx stopped being a radical liberal and became "Marxist" fo...

a societal structure composed of workers' councils or a syndicalist union is effectively a new state of sorts even if it is more democratic than the states that came before it. (This is a large part of why I now consider myself a democratic socialist rather than an anarchist.) Like I said before, y...

How would that happen? Don't ask. Be flexible, and respond to the moment. Like I said, crazy. I guess the best excuse I can come up with for Marxist polemics is that it's some form of ominous positivity therapy: https://youtube.com/shorts/7m5gpWtPX4k Edit: I suppose that, since Marxism is a theory ...