TIL about attendance based school funding in the US.

The thing with the bike must have been long before graduation, right? So there were probably consequences already. Seems kind of petty to deny him the stage.

Definitely not Feynman. He developed his whole public clown persona only to distract from his guilt over participating in mass murder. Curie was literally to radioactive to safely get anywhere near to. Her remains are sealed in lead. Which of the other ones had least toxic masculinity?

Technology transfer was critical, and it lowers the barrier to constant capital heavy industries, but doesn’t remove it completely. You still have to get the physical machines. Also not all technology serves capital heavy industry. A lot of it is also needed for labor intensive industries just to keep up with the overall development of technology and demand. It’s hard to quantify how much of the technology transfer served to break out of the trap and how much just kept it going.

No one mentioned the economic law behind this yet.

The fact that “everything is made in China” is often framed like a China win, because China managed to turn it that way, but that’s a recent development. Historically it’s a consequence of decades of unequal exchange to the benefit of the imperial core. China lost unimaginable amounts of value because of this. But let’s start from the beginning.

Marx discovered the tendency of the rate of profit to equalize across industries with differing organic compositions of capital. All value comes from human labor, so capital flows first into labor intensive industries. This increases supply and lowers prices of goods produced with lots of labor below their value (think clothing from sweat shops). In turn, capital is slow to flow into industries with lots of constant capital (machines etc.). The initial investment is a barrier and machines don’t produce value, only humans do. The prices of goods from industries with lots of constant capital rise above their value. In the end, profits equalize by means of prices. Otherwise, if one industry were more profitable, capital would flow there, until it’s equal again. But for profits to remain equal, value has to flow constantly in the direction of high concentrations of constant capital.

In the context of globalization, the same thing as for different industries, also goes for countries. Countries with high concentrations of constant capital, like the imperial core countries, sell commodities above their value. Countries in the so called global South with labor intensive industries sell commodities below their true value. In this way, the poor countries subsidize the rich. This is unequal exchange.

China was the “workbench of the world” for a long time and lost enormous amounts of value to the US and Europe by selling commodities produced in labor intensive industries below their true value (which is their socially necessary labor time). In turn for this period of servitude, they got left alone. The cold war focused on the Soviet Union and China mostly stayed out of it. They were little more than useful vassals of the empire and toiled away to fill the shelves of Walmart and the homes in the suburbs with cheap goods. But at least they had peace and time to develop. Now they have developed and they rightfully want out of this disadvantageous deal.

That’s why US relations to China deteriorated the moment China started building up capital intensive industries like for semiconductors. It wasn’t just about wanting China to do “cheap labor”, but about restricting China to labor intensive industries and keep the unequal exchange via the equalization of the rate of profit going.

Yes, they’ll have it until we defeat patriarchy and establish communism. But rejecting it now helps on the way.

Yes, patriarchy hurts men too, despite their immense material privilege compared to other genders. Giving detailed descriptions of this hurt is valuable and I think certainly welcome. Searching for ways to address it is valid. But no, pushing the term “misandry” is not an effective way to organize against patriarchy.

Materially, patriarchy grows out of the divide between paid productive labor und unpaid reproductive labor(reproducing the ability to work). Can you see how those are not equal? How there is an inherent divide in power? Ultimately, this division alienates all of us and only serves to divide the working class. So of course the capitalist class is the only class that has an interest in holding up patriarchy.

But men are offered a bribe: endure the exploitation at work, bury your emotions, renounce your claim to be beautiful and unconditionally valuable in order to be only useful forevermore. Until your not anymore. Useful for generating profit. And in turn you’re king at home. You earn and you own. You command other genders and “lower” men and enjoy countless little benefits in turn for committing daily violence against everyone but the ruling class, including violence against yourself. It’s not that men exist independently and then are offered such a deal, but rather by being offered this deal, they are created and defined as men. Other genders are not defined materially by being offered a deal to become essentially class traitors.

And yes, even though men commit most of the violence necessary to uphold and enforce this structure, women and others can use it too to advance in the hierarchy. But men must face and acknowledge and reject their privilege first in order to allow vulnerability and begin to heal. This is an essential part of class consciousness. Organizing our struggle around “Misandry” as a term obfuscates the brutal reality of patriarchy. It falsely implies a structural bias against men that’s independent of and contrary to misogyny and the larger patriarchal structure.

Use “patriarchal violence” as a term instead. Feminism will liberate all genders (and non-genders) in the end. Fighting patriarchy united is what class solidarity looks like.

Obligatory link to “The Will to Change” by Bell Hooks

Crazy to think they used blockade runners to deliver stuff all the way to Germany.

Thanks! I quickly found a PDF.

Which keywords can I search for to find out more about all those things? I tried “gdr poison attempt” for example, but couldn’t find anything. Links would be great too, but don’t want to trouble anyone.

That was just a metaphor. An event horizon is different from the Hubble radius in several ways.

Actually you wouldn’t notice anything special crossing the event horizon. You’d just continue to fall.

Makes you wonder why only one beetle does this. Were the adaptions necessary to survive the digestive acid really complex or really unlikely, maybe?

The whites need the others to do all the hard work. Can’t have a fascist settler colonial project without exploiting the natives. The ones that haven’t been murdered in the genocide yet, of course.

When war comes to Europe/the West, it’s coming home. Racists who react like that are only able to feel empathy with other white people

using Kühne’s funding to build the new opera house did not sit well with Germany’s culture of Holocaust remembrance.

Germany’s culture of Holocaust remembrance isn’t worth shit. Germany is actively supporting an ongoing genocide right now. The German chancellor pledged to continue selling weapons to Israel no matter what. How could the failure of Germans historians and educators be any more complete?

Why is it yellow though?

China, however, has taken a more cautious, nuanced approach. Beijing sees little advantage in supporting one presidential candidate over the other, intelligence analysts say. Instead, China’s disinformation efforts focus on campaign issues particularly important to Beijing

Oh no if we can trust unnamed “intelligence analysts”, you know, probably the same people who manufactured russiagate, spend billions on foreign desinformation campaigns and are famous for toppling democratically elected officials around the world, then China is accused of meddling in the elections! Allegedly, they do it by providing, well… impartial and relevant information without favoring any candidate. But they cunningly limit their evil public relations campaign to issues pertaining to their own country, which is… bad for some reason.

And even more wicked: by pretending to be Americans, they evade the natural American defense mechanism against r̶e̶a̶s̶o̶n̶ outside influence: racism. How will we know to ignore their logic and their pleas for peace and cooperation, if we don’t know their skin color?! Heavens! If this is allowed to continue, the rampant preparations for a nuclear apocalypse inducing war against China might continue to accelerate in a somewhat less feverish frenzy! Better crank internet cencorship up to eleven stat, that’s the only way to protect democracy. /s

Seems like a boring rerun of russiagate which was just declassified as an op.

Okay I’ll start. I did a quick search and found this one:

To criticize the people’s shortcomings is necessary, . . . but in doing so we must truly take the stand of the people and speak out of whole-hearted eagerness to protect and educate them. To treat comrades like enemies is to go over to the stand of the enemy.