This would be perfect for the Capital bookclub I run here, I love the idea of making Capital easier to misunderstand.

Wow, 51st state and a new US Territory of Greenland all in one go.

Found a new type of anti-semite on Twitter: guy that believes Hitler was a Jewish puppet, and that that’s why Nazi’s are bad.

Didn’t America stop railgun development?

I know in at least some of those states you list you can do it for free online, so it’s not a huge burden.

and I’m sure you’d agree employee healthcare isn’t really anything like single payer universal healthcare. A state might technically be able to give healthcare to every resident, but it’s still a pale imitation of national federal universal healthcare. And I’m not sure that state healthcare would lead to that true single payer universal healthcare.

Either healthcare in the state needs to still worry about other peoples private healthcare, somewhat defeating much of the benefits, or they give it to everyone, destroying the state financially. A lot of employers also have a lot of money in the bank, and profits, a state would require people actually paying money to the state to fund that healthcare, directly or through taxes, which is very unpopular. I just don’t think state universal healthcare is a very good idea, and if it fails would delay true universal healthcare even further.

Ofc universal healthcare seems fairly unlikely in the nearterm future, and if we have a revolution it’ll be a bit of a non-issue.

States don’t have monetary sovereignty, it’s not the same as federal universal healthcare.

They’re kinda like America First people in that respect, they don’t believe the governments foreign policy goals are actually something that benefits white people Americans.

Expanding NATO is a neocon, like America First people they are explicitly anti-neocon.

I mean, I turned it into a parts kit that I installed in a 3d printed frame before using, so my perspective might be a little distorted. I had around 3-400 rounds through it before the last round hold open stopped working. The little spring got sorta broken, but it worked when I replaced it. Then I put like another 200 rounds through it. It wears out externally pretty quick too, it’s just powder coated on the metal so it comes off really easily, but that’s just aesthetic.

Used + 3d printed exaggerates any issues. Previous guy said he put 1,000 rounds through it, idk if I believe him.

Surprised that there were police ever using a C9. I’ve got one too, and tbh it’s a rather terrible gun. When prospective gun owners ask me, I usually recommend waiting until a Glock-alike (polymer frame striker fired semi-automatic) goes on sale somewhere for a good price.

It goes bang, but it’s not pleasant or accurate. The main shooting operation is quite reliable, it’s just simple blowback (unpleasant and bad, but less complicated then fancy glock blowback), but the other bits can go awry.

I don’t know if the prices have jumped recently, but even accounting for inflation I was seeing C9’s being sold for a good 20 bucks less than that.

It’s basically the cheapest semi-automatic, period. Really anything is more expensive, even single shot .22 guns.

Remember to engage with the Capital book club I’m running. You can gain a lot from even just a little reading Engels/Marx

Very cool that Scott Adams of Dilbert and racism fame died. Didn’t Trump promise top quality medical care then do nothing? Also a little funny that he described his just before death Christian conversion as a gamble.

Wow theres an ACP member that supports Ukraine, nix. They manage to be just as ignorant and wrong, in general and in specific to Russia-Ukraine. With that classic ACP blind uncritical support of not so nice capitalists.

don’tremoved

Wow, don’t do the thing they didn’t do, but Israel accused them of? That Israel refuses any kind of external investigation on? That Israel refuses to name names, except like one woman that said Hamas removedd me with their eyes"?

don’t carry out terrorism on innocent civilians

What, like Israel does? Like Israel literally did when they killed their own innocent civilians during October 7th and covered it up poorly? Hamas doesn’t have the tech to make the highway of death that was found at the music festival. Israeli’s admitted to massacring their own innocent civilians on mainstream Hebrew media (but didn’t generally publish English versions of lol).

It sounds like Hamas was mostly doing what he wanted. And that it was really Israel doing all the things he doesn’t like.

The right way was using the internet and global attention, which Palestine was doing

And when they did that, like the massive peaceful march, they got shot and killed. Western sympathy has, so far, accomplished literally nothing. Even Western aid doesn’t matter too much, since Israel has restricted the input of aid. Maybe BDS has done something, but Ansar Allah’s “boycott” has done way, way more. Can BDS point to any company they’ve bankrupted, or forced out of Israel? I don’t really think so.

encourage foreigners to come and stay

So they can die too? Like Rachel Corrie, who’s actions were completely non-violent? Like, Palestinians have done exactly the things he mentions, and it failed 100% of the time.

They should’ve adopted more Western ideals, or maybe liberalism

Like what has happened with the Palestinian Authority, and the West Bank? That hasn’t gone well for them at all, Israel basically controls them, actual Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed into a very small amount of Palestinian controlled cities. The Hamas-run Gaza Strip at least has Palestinian control of a long contiguous area, even over the course of Israel’s invasion real Palestinians had a lot of control.

The West Bank and Gaza near Rafah were also doing decently well in terms of growth, labelling itself as a trendy tourist destination.

If you look at the political map of the West Bank, you’ll see that Israel controls basically everywhere. It’s growth has barely benefited the Palestinians that live there, the Israeli settlers are a dominant force. The people living in the West Bank are at best under apartheid, and so they have a right to violence there too. Not being completely genocided doesn’t mean they are doing good, and violence is probably the only solution to their miserable situation. Ethnic cleansing is still regularly happening, and no amount of liberalism, collaboration, or appealing to the West has stopped it.

Israel previously attacked US forces and regularly threatens US personnel

And the US literally doesn’t care, and basically covered it up, and still covers for Israel.

Yeah, it’s interesting how many people on both sides of moderator drama aren’t here any more. Probably for the best really, moderator drama has really slowed down since they left.

You can still get a lot out of Das Kapital even if you just read a little bit. It’s very dense, despite being so long.

They were smashing his windows, the police had to protect him, and no one was hospitalized, so really it just sounds like self-defense.

It’s annoying when people discount studies I cite with vague second-hand anecdotal experience and inflammatory language

Hey everyone, it’s time to come discuss Capital again!