That is exactly the feeling of seeing capitalism collapse… It means we workers will be screwed first.

This is just sad. Some people saying that they had 20 years on the company and the only warning they received was an email. This is something that is hard to think when you are a liberal and believe the fairy tail about the company caring about their people. No, they don’t. You are nothing but a number and the only reason you are there is to lend your labor power for the reproduction of capital.

I would like to add that Russia transitioned to drone warfare after partnership with Iran. At first they were at disadvantage against Ukraine in this regard, but now this disadvantage is gone.

I see the contradictions within the US are going to inevitably lead to revolutionary period. However I don’t share your optimism. The revolution can only win or resist if there’s an organized class councious proletarian organization. If the reactionaries win but there’s no such org still fighting clandestinely, what we can hope is the repetition of Germans in the WWII… A fascist imperialist regime with no opposition. So, while I am hopeful, I am not optimistic about what is going on.

I don’t know, but I smell a revolutionary period brewing… If orgs are able to take advantage of it. But even if it’s bad for the US, the global south would really benefit from a civil war in the US. A temporary benefit, though, as if the reactionary side wins, we can expect the US doubling on war and imperialism, as they wouldn’t have an opposition.

Interesting. But it seems it could be a cover up story to avoid saying that Yemen’s defense system was able to shoot US’ jets.

This gambling effect of financial capitalism is really impressive. Right now, there’s no lack of evidence in different news vehicles that there’s an asset bubble. However, people are still buying stocks like there’s no tomorrow, irrationally inflating a price when people all know it’s going to crash.

Yup, AOC always appeared to me as an imperialist. Same with Bernie Sanders. I think Parenti broke with Sanders in the 90s when Sanders voted in favor of Yugoslavia’s bombing campaign.

Calling American soldiers “Professional” for shitting their diapers in Iraq and Afghanistan is a stretch. Underground militas blew the American soldiers out of the water multiple times.

I meant professional because that’s what they do for a living. They spend their day staying fit, drilling, maintaining weapons, and shooting. It does not mean they are better than an organization of trained people in asymmetrical warfare. Many people in Iraq and Afghanistan “militias” received training as professional soldiers once but then acted in irregular armies.

It’s not “ultra-leftism” to want the ghouls of the American empire to be tried and to not repeat the historical mistakes of America trying officials of Nazi Germany. Despite my hardline stance, I’ve had one combat-experienced veteran and another veteran actually show appeals to leftist ideologue. The thing is, they’re retired. If you want to be “a good veteran” then the correct stance to take is to immediately do whatever is in your immediate possibility to minimize the damage already done while you’re in service. Otherwise, most soldiers in service already have a sense of camaraderie and generally have the issues of alienation causes by capitalism alleviated only by a slight degree of collective service. You’re appealing to someone who took an oath, is junked up on propaganda and has likely had or serviced the “machine” that acted in violence towards people like us, foreign-born comrades and women/children. My experience is absolutely anecdotal, but what I said about who you’re appealing to isn’t.

I completely agree that the armed forces of any imperialist country is one of the most reactionary institutions. However, even so, there should be propaganda and agitation directed to them. If we think we cannot break their entrancement from ideology then we better lose hope of a revolution, because almost everyone in capitalist society is entranced with the dominant ideology. Let’s not forget that many working class leaders came from a military background. Luis Carlos Prestes, Carlos Lamarca, Hugo Chavez, Thomas Sankara, Ibrahim Traoré, Josip Broz Tito, among others.

Further more, there are plenty of us who have had horrible, abusive relationships with soldiers in family, etc. Beyond that, there are those of us on here who are direct victims of America and Isn’treals genocide? It is ultra-leftism and emotional to question recruiting the wolves to the flock? To question why we target these people in the first place when there’s way more valuable targets? To understand why some have a hesitancy or a disgust to the very idea?

Trust me, we have plenty of shitty Jarhead fathers in Brazil. I knew a guy who was embarrassed of taking his shirt off because it would reveal the scars from all the beatings he received from his soldier father. My grandfather was also one of them. Although he thankfully didn’t serve the army during the military dictatorship, he raised all his children like they were in a barrack. However, Marxist theory is not about workers being the most pure hearted and good people, it’s about convincing them that they are oppressed by a system. And fighting it is a necessity because of that opression, and not about any kind of moral superiority.

We should stop the ultra leftism of condemning individuals for the role of the corporation. In all socialist revolutions of the past there were a fractioning of the military and police forces, with many of them (mostly soldiers, not exactly officers) joining the revolutionary side. Without this fractioning, revolution will never be possible, and no underground militia would ever be able to match professional soldiers if confrontation was needed.

Instead of simply treating all individuals as a single whole, we should do political and politicization work to bring out that fractioning.

People are seeing this effect with soaring prices, fewer job opportunities, and soaring cost of living. It’s probable there will be a stagflation scenario, with rise in prices coupled with economic stagnation.

But the worst part of the bubble is when the market realizes their money is gone. When they try to liquidate their assets, there won’t be any liquidity.

The most critical part of this story is that this AI bubble is now masking a severe weakness in the real economy. The overall GDP growth number for 2025 looks okay, but a deeper look paints a different picture. One analysis found that investment in AI and information processing, a sector that is only 4% of the economy, accounted for a staggering 92% of all GDP growth in the first half of the year. Without the sugar rush of AI spending, the rest of the US economy grew at a near flat rate of just 0.1%. The real economy for most Americans is already on life support, and the AI bubble is the ventilator…

If those numbers are true, the bubble is already popping. The economy is insolvent. They cannot raise that much money for infrastructure which cannot be paid by raising prices of AI services, or spending in ads. OpenAI don’t make any money and never will, since the economy cannot pay for the service if the AI price rises.

Yes, when I saw SharePoint being mentioned, my immediate thought was “you got what you f… deserved for using this”.

Women and gay men get horny all the time as well. So why not forbid men from taking off their shirts in hot weather?

So they are just screwing medium and small sized stock investors? So only a privileged minority have access to information? What a great idea!

That’s the same thing that came into my mind. He was probably a young guy with a lot of personal issues. Probably thought the whole deed as an act of rebellion against the system. He is nothing but a tragic symptom of the whole US decadence.

Yes, and it shows how these conflicts happening everywhere have nothing to do with religion, terrorism or anything. It’s just imperialism. Most Arab countries nowadays are complicit of US and Israel imperialist adventures.

It’s impressive how Tunisian government could lie so blatantly about the incident.

It’s not a simple matter of choice. Most people aren’t invested into open source, they just want to get by and do their mundane things. Most people aren’t even aware of all the privacy stuff or abusive practices of big business, it’s usually some more outspoken tech savvy person that decides to expose what the big corps are doing. So using open source is not a choice, like you would be just choosing your preferred cereal brand, but both a technical and political act. And most people are just into the system, they aren’t aware of all malicious things around them.

Not only that, but also when companies feel threatened, they start imposing new technical and legal restrictions to make using OSS harder. Since they have more control over the whole production supply chain of devices, they have more cost effective options and even partnership with hardware vendors to make using OSS very hard or impossible.

Putin is a conservative, a right winger, a nationalist, a capitalist pig, you name it. I won’t deny it. But calling him a fascist is not knowing what fascist is about.

Also, I have no problem in saying Russia is not democratic. As long as you don’t use it as an argument to justify any attack against Russia or Russians, since no place in the world is actually democratic.