the i dont care about politics anymore thread

[HalflingSpergand]

Its hard to hate when you are successful rich handsomillionaire

[Cassawary]

Gravydoodoo knock it off

[magnetaress]

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[zodium]

Originally Posted by Fictitious Capital

In high-income countries, fictitious capital has ceased to be a dynamic factor in accumulation, instead becoming a dead weight on the social reproduction process as a whole. The regulation of financial projections has become chaotic. It proceeds by way of financial and macroeconomic shocks that call for powerful political interventions. The insufficient profits from the molecular process of accumulation-through-production thus make the sovereign state responsible for resolving an ever more acute conflict over distribution, both domestically and abroad. This return of the political is thus paradoxical. The hegemony of finance – the most fetishised form of wealth – is only maintained through the public authorities’ unconditional support. Left to itself, fictitious capital would collapse; and yet that would also pull down the whole of our economies in its wake. In truth, finance is a master blackmailer. Financial hegemony dresses up in the liberal trappings of the market, yet captures the old sovereignty of the state all the better to squeeze the social body to feed its own profits. Is this still capitalism? This system’s death-agony has been heralded a thousand times. But now it may well have begun – almost as if by accident. Alas, we cannot see any sign of the tomorrows bearing the song of emancipation. Since the plutocrats cannot settle for stagnation, they now resort to a strategy of crushing the rest of us. Capital stole people’s hopes. The dead weight of fictitious capital deprives them of what they thought they had won for good.

[Kaveh]

Why can’t communists build a wind turbine without resorting to theft?

[Shourty]

I'm burned out. No more poli ticks for a few more months please.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Kaveh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That’s what a mistake we made. There wasn’t the necessity to admit China into the fold. If we had a necessary demand for cheap labor (we don’t), we could’ve simply gone to Mexico, Indonesia, etc

Nixon and Kissinger will go down as the biggest boneheads in american history

wasnt nafta a clinton/democrat thing?

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by HalflingSpergand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its hard to hate when you are successful rich handsomillionaire

This but unironically me

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Shourty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm burned out. No more poli ticks for a few more months please.

[Kaveh]

Political BS really does get old. Anyone own an electric car? I have a Tesla and I hate it. Nothing wrong with it, but it sounds like I’m driving around in a toaster. In contrast, when I fire up my V8 tundra, I feel like the world is full of possibility