RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]

They 100% are doing it. It seems a bit crazy and I’m sure there will be virtual environments at launch, but they are breaking compatibility.

Wait are you serious? I thought this was a bit.

no

I doubt ARM’s designs have backdoors in them, too many people can look at them. It is better to just put the backdoors in a level lower, especially because those companies, Qualcomm and Apple are American but ARM isn’t.

There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.

Not true. LLMs are quite new and have all had slightly ‘woke’ tendencies. Previous things weren’t trained on large internet data.

Genocide is always bad, this isn’t difficult. Also, the Haitians didn’t commit a genocide.

Plantations and slavery aren’t 1 to 1.

A plebiscite is not an election.

One of the fundamental problems of Trotskyists. When they are called Stalinist they fold like wet tissue paper.

I’m not sure the Ben Shapiro strategy is really the best one…

“balanced budgets” are recessionary. lots of government debt is generally preferable because it means the government is spending more money than taking in. that money eventually goes to citizens and fuels growth.

This is completely wrong, both empirically and theoretically and shows the liberal ideology deeply embedded in MMT theory.

The stuff above is largely correct but better stated in the Marxist way. There are two kinds of government appropriation, real and symbolic. Real appropriation is spending, the government ordering people to do something, build a road, teach some students, etc. Symbolic appropriation is taxation, it doesn’t actually matter that the government takes some bits of paper (or gold), but it justifies the real appropriation and sort of determines how the burden of government action is distributed.

None of this is to say that getting rid of taxation is a good idea, indeed, it is impossible to get rid of government appropriation without getting rid of government entirely. It is worse to have a hidden appropriation that has distorting effects as in the case of the Soviet Union and better to have transparent taxation which doesn’t punish certain kinds of enterprises (namely the state owned ones, by requiring them to fund the whole government).

The reason citizens paid little tax was because the government got most of its funding from SOE profit. It has nothing to do with MMT.

do you want all your youtube habits to be in the hands of the government?

They already are

They literally are unique achievements though.

Peasant uprisings were much less common than labor unrest today, though granted that isn’t exactly the same.

Additionally, exploitation in peasant economies was not always as transparent as you indicate. Often, it was at least slightly hidden. For example, a peasant might be required to give sacks of grain to the lord who owns the mill, and instead of being allowed to keep some for seeds, they must buy the seeds from the lord, inequalities here can hold the exploitation. Further, debt was a constant of feudal relations and gives a veneer of legitimacy to exploitation, just as it does today. Further, surplus value extraction can be seen as acceptable to the peasant if they believe it is justified. The lord can claim that his cut is in exchange for protection, insurance, and other services. This applies to taxation today.

That is the only example in the last 10 years and they only ‘succeeded’ because bytedance was willing to burn tens of billions of dollars.

I don’t think this is actually true, feudal relations were very stable and persisted for millennia in some places. It feels that way because the propaganda machine isn’t justifying feudal social relations currently. Company housing for example is slowly becoming more popular, even in the west.

None of those videos show torture or even civilian targeting beyond taking hostages which no one denies anyways. What exactly is the point of linking things you haven’t even looked at.

Just for the sake of clarity, what exactly do you think will happen?