Absolutely, and the info looks solid but it’s all just stated, couldn’t find one mention of the sources, the editor is a peculiar figure, that some claim to be a USSR spy(shocker) and crazily enough is the father Ghislaine Maxwell one of the main accomplices of Jeffrey fucking Epstein, researching this book has been a trip and a half

Thank you so much, I’ve seen this too, I’m trying to get some information on the editor and the people who wrote this, to try to fend off some criticism when I show it to other people, but not being that successful at it

From which book is that table, I’ve seen this book mentioned before but I forgot the name

Nothing says freedom like unaffordable housing

Yeah furthermore it’s wholly unnecessary, the health benefits and all make a better argument to that point, but still many places specially in the US are designed in a way to make cars all but a necessity, so if you live in a place where the distances you need to travel are reasonable and cycling is safe sure, but that’s in no way a broad generalization

Claming that car owners have less intelligence strikes me as a bit elitist, people are taken by many lies of the system but that does not mean they are unintelligent or inferior in some way, they are for the most part victims of a misinformation campaign of colossal scale. That is not to mean that it’s not an achievement for you to have changed, but it’s important to not have to undermine others in order to celebrate our achievements

No comrade the time of monsters is dying, this is time of humanity

It’s kinda pointless to debate a map with no source or metodolgy attached to it, it’s literally propaganda.

I don’t know about the no good cops thing, but I get the institution pressuring people, but I still think that good people in sufficient numbers can make the gears start grinding a little and making it less oppressive. I am fully aware that the police institution is the boot and cannot be reformed from the inside, but having good people there can be a way to diminish some harm, at least I believe that.

And about soldiers, if you look into the history of Venezuela when soldiers where sent to oppress some neighborhoods many soldiers including Hugo Chavez defected and started to defend the neighborhood, so I think that there is material evidence that things are not that cut and dried as you suggest.

As for being a cop, I think there is not much problem with it, it is important to separate the institution of the people on it, and furthermore, if everyone with left leaning thinking goes away from cops/army, the corps get more and more entrenched in liberal right wing thought. The average cop is a workforce person, there is value on going into those spaces and trying to make a change, even if slowly, I don’t see it as a problem. As far as the 3 letter agencies, those are rougher, because there is no pretense there, you will be actually charged of fucking everybody for the sake of the state, so yeah, I can see very little opportunity to do good on those agencies, but being a cop and/or soldier I see the value. I do think that good people being cops are a good thing, it is a corrupt organization that serves to uphold the exploitation of the proletariat, sure, but can be a slightly less bad corrupt organization, with the right people occupying the right spots.

As I said on my other comment I think that the issue is on the phrasing, cause when you say “unpopular opinion I don’t like public transit” it seems like you don’t like the idea of making public transit the norm, if you said I don’t like my local public transit it would be clearer and not even be considered an unpopular opinion my public transit sucks as well, bur I think the solution is a better one rather then individual transport. That said it is not in the least unreasonable to invest in personal transport while it still sucks, it’s you making your life easier there’s nothing wrong with that, but I still would recommend to advocate pro a better one when and where it would be appropriate

RISC-V rises

As I see it they are workforce, they work for Google and the sponsors, they have no way of turning their workforce into money without those, even when patreon or something of the source is involved without the YouTube platform (which might as well be a factory floor of the internet) they have nothing but their work, if YouTube says I don’t like you, they can be fired, so I think they are workforce, once they have a team working for them it is a weird situation because they end up employing people but they don’t own a mean of production properly but in some ways it seems like it so its strange, like Mr beast seems closer to a Petit bourgeois then a random small channel around, but overall I think it’s mostly workforce

As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day

Right on comrade

Correction, you don’t like the current state of your public transit, which often are bad by design to make cars more appealing, especially if you’re in the US since that nation kinda built a lot of wealth on top of the car industry. Public transit can be good but it has to be made a priority, which I think in your local region it is not. If it is possible and something that you have a previous interest of doing, traveling to a place with a more robust public transit infrastructure could maybe give you a broader perspective

Couldn’t agree more

Honest inquiry, why the downvotes?

Just to finish my thought, just look back at the Vietnam war, was not politicians that stopped it, was civil unrest, and it only got to that level of unrest because American soldiers were dying, so they figure out that proxy wars are leas likely to cause that level of backlash, so if you want peace fight for it, because neither side will fight against profit for the good of mankind, if you think they will do something like that voluntarily, comrade you need to study the history of capitalism.

Sure but the reality is that in US elections there are two candidates, and they are decided internally, the bourgeois democracy is a game of marked cards from the beginning, and will always stand with the capitalist interest, and right now genocide is profitable for the US somehow, and therefore they will not stand down, I’m not saying that it wouldnt be better to have it another way, but with what we have there is little that is up to us. This opinion of mine is based on state and revolution by Lenin, the bourgeois democracy is an illusion, its always just about the lesser evil, very little good can be expected of the guard dogs of capitalism.