Keeponstalin
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- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 days ago:
Money paid to Google also goes to supporting Project Nimbus, which is why Google is on the BDS list.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 3 days ago:
Check for any local organizations such as DSA. Their mailing lists can keep you posted on protests near you
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 3 days ago:
The No Thanks app let’s you can barcodes to quickly check if a product is on the BDS list. You can also search. Either way it only takes a few seconds to check if unsure about a brand
- Comment on Deep Space Nine characters 1 week ago:
Do not fret, Rom. You have nothing to lose but your chains
- Comment on History Channel 1 week ago:
ScienceDirect is ‘an independent socialist magazine’? Lmao, that’s hilarious. That’s where those latest quotes were from. Monthly Review publishes articles from many credited economists, sociologists, and historians. You’re reactionary (lack of) understanding of what socialism is doesn’t change that reality. You’re responses make you seem incapable of reading more than a single sentence, missing the rest of the entire paragraph, let alone paper.
Dylan Sullivan is an Adjunct Fellow and PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, where he teaches politics, sociology, and anthropology.
Jason Hickel is an author and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also a Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rodney Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, and the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health.
Richard Wolff, another economist, explains socialism in a very clear and comprehensive way. If you’re not intellectually curious to entertain Richard Wolff, I’m done responding. On the other hand, I’m happy to engage with someone interested in learning and discussion.
- Comment on History Channel 1 week ago:
Given these issues, it is clear that the standard public narrative about the history of extreme poverty needs reassessment. In this paper we assess this narrative against three indicators of welfare (real wages, human height, and mortality) for five world regions (Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and China) from roughly the 16th century onward. These datasets point to three conclusions:
First, it is unlikely that 90% of the global population lived in extreme poverty prior to the rise of capitalism. Historically, unskilled urban labourers in all regions tended to have wages high enough to support a family of four above the poverty line by working 250 days or 12 months a year. Extreme poverty seems to arise predominantly in periods of severe social and economic distress, like famines, wars and institutionalized dispossession, particularly under colonialism. Rather than being the natural condition of humanity, extreme poverty is a symptom of social dislocation and displacement. It is important to emphasize that the data here focuses on extreme poverty, as it is defined in the relevant literature, not the higher consumption thresholds that are required to achieve “decent living” today (e.g., Edward, 2006, Kikstra et al., 2021).
The second conclusion is that the rise of capitalism coincided with a deterioration in human welfare. In every region studied here, incorporation into the capitalist world-system was associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and a marked upturn in premature mortality. In parts of Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia, key welfare metrics have still not recovered.
Our third conclusion is that in those regions where progress has occurred (as opposed to recovery from an earlier period of immiseration), it began much later than the Ravallion/Pinker graph suggests. In the core regions of Northwest Europe, welfare standards began to improve in the 1880s, four centuries after the emergence of capitalism. In the periphery and semi-periphery, progress began in the mid-20th century. Further research is needed to establish the causal drivers of these improvements, but existing data indicates that progress was achieved with the rise of organized labour, the anti-colonial movement, and other progressive social movements, which organized production around meeting human needs, redistributed wealth, and invested in public provisioning systems
- Comment on History Channel 1 week ago:
If one starts from the assumption that extreme poverty is the natural state of humanity, then it may appear as good news that only a fraction of the global population lives in extreme poverty today. However, if extreme poverty is a sign of severe social dislocation, relatively rare under normal conditions, then it should concern us that - despite many instances of progress since the middle of the 20th century - such dislocation remains so prevalent under contemporary capitalism. Depending on the subsistence basket one uses to measure poverty, as of 2008, between 200 million and 1.21 billion people live in extreme poverty (Moatsos, 2017, Moatsos, 2021; see also our discussion in Appendix VI).18 While direct comparisons with the wage data are difficult because of the variety of baskets used, this suggests that under contemporary capitalism hundreds of millions of people currently live in conditions comparable to Europe during the Black Death (Figure 4, Figure 5), the catastrophes induced by the American genocides (Figure 7) and the slave trade (Figure 9), or famine-ravaged British India (Figure 11). To the extent there has been progress against extreme poverty in recent decades, it has generally been slow and shallow.
Conclusions
In sum, the narrative that the rise of capitalism drove progress against extreme poverty is not supported by empirical evidence. On the contrary, the rise of capitalism was associated with a notable decline in human welfare, a trend that was only reversed around the twentieth century, when radical and progressive social movements sought to gain some control over production and organize it more around meeting human needs. As for the condition of extreme poverty, it cannot legitimately be used as a benchmark for measuring progress. Extreme poverty is not a natural condition, but an effect of dispossession, enclosure, and exploitation. It need not exist anywhere, and certainly should not exist in any just and humane society. It can and must be abolished immediately. If our goal is to achieve substantive improvements in human welfare, progress should be measured against decent living standards and access to modern amenities. Capitalism currently shows no signs of ever meeting this objective, and imperialist dynamics in the world economy seem actively to prevent it. As we have seen, the historical record is clear that public planning and socialist policy can be effective at delivering rapid economic, technological, and social development. Rediscovering the power of this approach will be essential if Global South governments are to increase their economic sovereignty and mobilize production to ensure decent lives for all.48 Achieving this objective requires building political movements of the Southern working classes and peasantries powerful enough to replace governments that currently are captured by political factions aligned with national or international capital; reducing reliance on core creditors, currencies, and imports; and establishing South-South alliances capable of withstanding any retaliation. Progressive formations in the core should be prepared to support and defend these movements.
- Comment on Usuzumi no Hate (The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse) Volume 4 Cover 1 week ago:
Reminds me a little of BLAME with the way the landscapes are drawn and even the enemies a little bit. Much more chill of course.
It’ll be interesting to see how the story develops
- Comment on Pro-Israel Group Asks Pam Bondi to Investigate YouTube Star Ms. Rachel - The far right thinks Ms. Rachel should be under investigation for caring about kids in Gaza. 5 weeks ago:
Of course they have, that’s where they got their playbook. Like with the ‘enhances interrogation techniques’ under Bush
- Comment on What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within] 5 weeks ago:
I think addiction is a key aspect. Like with gambling there is of course that aspect of responsibility, but regulation to minimize harm is also important.
All the major social media apps being designed to exploit that dopamine response is kind of like junk foods being the most common due to being subsidized; of course people just shouldn’t eat junk food, but we should make healthy options the most prevalent and common instead.
Of course that would require a government that would actually force corporations to implement harm reductive measures, instead of one bought by and working for corporations…
FOSS alternatives like Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Loops should be much healthier due to no algorithm working to maximize engagement. I also think social isolation is a big part of the addiction aspect, at least in America
- Comment on Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible 1 month ago:
Quotes
> The White House and Pentagon boast that the targeted killing program is precise and that civilian deaths are minimal. However, documents detailing a special operations campaign in northeastern Afghanistan, Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse. > The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA — “enemy killed in action” — even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless evidence posthumously emerged to prove the males killed were not terrorists or “unlawful enemy combatants,” EKIA remained their designation, according to the source. That process, he said, “is insane. But we’ve made ourselves comfortable with that. The intelligence community, JSOC, the CIA, and everybody that helps support and prop up these programs, they’re comfortable with that idea.” > The source described official U.S. government statements minimizing the number of civilian casualties inflicted by drone strikes as “exaggerating at best, if not outright lies.”
- Comment on Lazarus - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
For real? Fuck yes, can’t wait now
- Comment on Israeli settlers seen on camera assaulting a Palestinian village. Police arrest only Palestinians 1 month ago:
Zionist Settlers revel in terrorizing and forcibly displacing Palestinians
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 month ago:
No deportations under Biden, but he was also implementing Project Esther
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 month ago:
DataForProgress has good data on that
2024 Post-Election ReportA retrospective and longitudinal dataanalysis on why Trump beat Harris.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 month ago:
YouGov has good data
I don’t see any drastic changes on Trump’s approval, but there’s unfavorablity across the board otherwise
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 month ago:
No, they didn’t apply any genuine pressure, just empty rhetoric while continuing to provide billions worth of weapons unconditionally while Netanyahu ignored every “red line” with zero consequences. Biden is a self-proclamed Zionist, he had no issue with the genocide. All the empty rhetoric was just theater
The rhetoric coming out of the White House, when it has been focused on peace or restraint, rather than continuous war, has been undercut at every turn by its actions. The constant supply of weapons — $17.9 billion of bullets, bombs, shells, and other military aid in the past year — has allowed Israel to keep waging its war on Gaza, and in recent weeks, expand that war to Lebanon and threaten to escalate its conflict with Iran. Despite documentation of U.S. weapons being used in probable war crimes, and credible allegations that Israel is committing genocide in its war on Gaza, the bombs have continued to flow.
Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 month ago:
Right, I don’t disagree, my point is that the Democratic Party intentionally threw away that chance
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 month ago:
If the Democratic Party was willing to ignore the demands and protests of their own voter base, at the cost of their votes, during the most critical election against overt Fascism, why would they be willing to listen after? They had the opportunity to listen to the protests and demands of their constituents and act accordingly, an opportunity that would have vastly improved their chances of winning the election, but chose not too.
Thousands of pro-palestinian protestors were arrested under Biden. Let’s not pretend Trump is of course worse in both of these aspects, but we don’t have to ignore how Biden set the stage. The bills to legally brand pro-palestinian protestors as anti-semitic and pull tax exempt status for organizations like JVP for being “pro-terrorism” without evidence were also started under and supported by Biden. The Democratic Campaign was by no means a genuine opposition. I still voted for them for the same reasons I’m sure you did, but still.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 2 months ago:
I highly recommend Leeja Miller to understand what needs to be done and how much of that the Democrats are doing currently
- Comment on Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives? 2 months ago:
Learning for 25 minutes is hard huh?
Do you even know what fascism is?
- Comment on Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Israel kills 13 year old girl. TheGuardian: 2 months ago:
What a pathetic attempt at journalism
- Comment on Nature is healing 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nature is healing 2 months ago:
If you’re happy about mass deportations, you’re genuinely a fascist
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 2 months ago:
Nice
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 3 months ago:
It’s a genocide.
Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine
Image - De-Gaza: A Year of Israel’s Genocide and the Collapse of World Order - Euro-Med Monitor Report see Chapter 2 and 3 > Our first-hand observations of the medical and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted on Gaza are consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza. - Doctors Without Borders: Life in the death trap that is Gaza > It examines the killing of civilians, damage to and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcible displacement, the obstruction or denial of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, and the restriction of power supplies. It analyses Israel’s intent through this pattern of conduct and statements by Israeli decision-makers. It concludes that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. - Amnesty: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis Video and Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Report > On 26 January 2024, the ICJ said that it was plausible that Israel had breached the Genocide Convention. As an emergency measure, it ordered Israel ensure that its army refrained from genocidal acts against Palestinians. > The ICJ reported, as part of its decisions in March and May, that the situation in Gaza had deteriorated and that Israel had failed to abide by its order in January. - Israel’s war on Gaza: What the international courts have said > So, when we look at the actions taken, the dropping of thousands and thousands of bombs in a couple of days, including phosphorus bombs, as we heard, on one of the most densely populated areas around the world, together with these proclamations of intent, this indeed constitutes genocidal killing, which is the first act, according to the convention, of genocide. And Israel, I must say, is also perpetrating act number two and three — that is, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and creating condition designed to bring about the destruction of the group by cutting off water, food, supply of energy, bombing hospitals, ordering the fast evictions of hospitals, which the World Health Organization has declared to be, quote, “a death sentence.” So, we’re seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide. - “A Textbook Case of Genocide”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Decries Israel’s Assault on Gaza > More than 800 scholars of international law and genocide have signed a public statement arguing that the Israeli military may be committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as the total siege and relentless airstrikes continue to inflict devastation on the occupied territory. - 800+ Legal Scholars Say Israel May Be Perpetrating ‘Crime of Genocide’ in Gaza > An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole” as Western governments, corporations, and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. - UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as ‘Genocidal Violence’ Spreads to West Bank > Our documentation encompasses over 500 incitements of violence and genocidal incitement, appearing in the forms of social media posts, television interviews, and official statements from Israeli politicians, army personnel, journalists, and other influential personalities. - Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide – Continuously Updated > I, Lee Mordechai, a historian by profession and an Israeli citizen, bear witness in this document to the situation in Gaza as events are unfolding. The enormous amount of evidence I have seen, much of it referenced later in this document, has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. I explain why I chose to use the term below. Israel’s campaign is ostensibly its reaction to the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, in which war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed within the context of the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that can be dated back to 1917 or 1948 (or other dates). In all cases, historical grievances and atrocities do not justify additional atrocities in the present. Therefore, I consider Israel’s response to Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 utterly disproportionate and criminal. - Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War by Lee Mordechai Others: AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
Not really when your mentioning conservative values as a counter balance to progressivism. I’m glad you clarified but it certainly didn’t come off that way
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
You mentioned conservative values multiple times, so I took that at face value
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
When you mentioned conservative values of not relying on outside sources, that’s what I thought of due to the historical context of individualism that the video goes over. Didn’t mean to imply you were personally against those things.
I’m talking about like, not participating in the economy as much. Growing your own food, relying on yourself as much as possible
I’m guessing you’re referencing reducing personal consumption? I’m supportive of that, the idea is rooted in anti-capitalist sentiment. Growing your own food is just a fun hobby, I don’t think that has any real political leaning. Food Cooperatives with local communities, such as a neighborhood garden, are left-leaning tho.
Conservatives have historically used the rhetoric of “relying on yourself, not others” to justify gutting social services and replacing them with private businesses as a way to accelerate profit seeking.
No, community driven is great. I want to do more myself
