RFK and wife Cheryl.

Hace we considered that perhaps certain socially normative messages such as these also reinforce a Capitalist agenda: eg. Keeping leftists from becoming interesting in, and owning/running their own businesses?

I feel plenty of leftists have probably stayed out of business in order to avoid being exploiters… But I’m not entirely sure that’s how things work, or the best outcome possible.

What I’m saying is; culture under Capitalism gets us to recreate messages that reinforce the status quo of base superstructure relations… We do so without knowing, and often without questioning it.

So not to be that guy (but in this case I’m totally being that guy); I’m just asking questions bro!

70,000 BC Soyjacks.

I’ve never had a positive interaction with Lemmy.ml. For me it serves as a quarantine space, and a set of pre-tagged users I don’t personally enjoy dealing with.

…and I’m not particularly averse to Marxists sentiments either, but they’re certainly not good sales people, diplomats, or representative of their cause.

Which is just part of their reputation now. Having a bad experience with a .ml user seems to be part of the lemmy experience. It’s kind of comical how consistent it seems.

That said, I’m sure there’s good people on .ml.

El void.

I get the feeling the BlueSky vs Threads thing will take a while to resolve.

Turns out teachers and lecturers really are important for guiding learning to the right lessons…

Most of Israel is rightwing mostly because of conspiracy theories around the assassination of Yitzhak Rabbin.

They’re a post-culture war society, and they lost. It would be like of the views of the Trump administration just kept getting more and more popular until the country was 85% Trump supporters.

i think the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition might be too principled and honourable for these guys.

Not all heros wear pants

Dr. Frankenstein’s car, Dr. Frankenstein’s money, Dr. Frankenstein’s custom tailored suit.

The pterror!

These are the people who vote on vibes and emotions, it’s important candidates and politics don’t discount them because they’re the main voter block.

They’ve been reacting to the perceived moralist shaming of WOKE since 2014, and the right have kept that perception around whilst mocking it, being unPC, and joking around to show they’re “cool guys”.

So when Kamala makes a face when Trump says something about eating cats, the left think he’s an idiot whilst emotional voters think he’s play a game, joking and she’s being rude/shaming.

Or when he dresses like a garbage man, and the left calls them stupid for enjoying it, that pushes emotional voters towards voting for him, and away from voting for her/them.

Dems lost sight of the emotional game/narrative being played. So he played the fun guy, they played the shaming upright moralists who can’t take jokes and want to be serious or angry all the time (often bejng baited into this role).

Made for an easy choice for emotional voters. It was not rational (hence the regret). But it’s what got the Republicans into office.

If you want to know the actual reason is that Roddenberry planned for his wife (Marjel Barrett) to be Number 1 in TOS and basically have the ship deeply dependent on her. The Studio canned the idea, and she was relegated to playing nurse Chapel.

So TNG was a chance to revive the idea with Counsellor Troi looking after the whole ship via her job, but this too was downgraded so she was just another character on the show rather than the center of the crew’s lives.

Probably be a mix of the two for a bit, then get worse.

Relevance?

You really are stuck on this idea that I said something about the American election… I didn’t.

Why would it offend me? I’m not Professor John Mearshiemer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPA1orNv6SQ

‘The Blob’ is his concept, what he calls it… And it has nothing to do with constraining votes in elections. It has to do with constraining the actions and choices of an American President when they’re in power.

I think you just don’t understand the concept (for whatever reason), and have mistaken these real world organizations (that make up The Blob) as the fanciful stuff of conspiracy theories…

…no, they all actually exist, and have stated purposes and membersship lists, mission statement, budgets, ect.

P.S The EU controls companies through their legislative and legal bodies, which have sanctions, and market influence. They’re why apple can no longer have their own changing jacks - because although you’re not aware of it, they do hold sway over companies.

https://www.dw.com/en/apple-unveils-iphone-with-usb-c-charger-in-line-with-eu-law/a-66794089

You not being aware of this, is not the same as them being “teenage fantasies” or folklore.

The other option is that things don’t change because there’s an invisible set of organizations and agreements that force the status quo to be reproduced.

This set of organizations is what John Miershiemer calls “The Blob”. It includes all sorts of thing tanks, the world bank, the council on foreign relations, NATO, this melding of big money corporations and political interests that control enough money and influence over how society is run, that not even Trump will truly be able to change the fundamentals in any substantial or lasting way.

The level of change stops when it risks their money and the stability of The Blob. We do not know what life would be like without The Blob - because we’ve never had it.

People don’t understand, they both speak the same language. They’re both natural grifters… What’s more Musk is probably better at it than Trump was. Trump needed lessons from Roy Cohn, who was a ruthless, damaged, low empathy, closet homosexual and self-hater.

Musk didn’t need that kind of mentor, he’s a natural grifter, and my bet is that Trump is fascinated by him. They do similar things in different ways.

Only in certain scenarios would this blow up, and Musk has already bent the knee to Trump, so those scenarios are unlikely.

Musk is a friendly fellow grifter Trump can use, and has power over, which is what Trump likes.

At best we’ll see Musk become a fall guy for Trump’s shortcomings. But seeing as Trump may later die in office, Musk might also avoid such a fate. Only time will tell.