SoyViking [he/him]

Because then we would cram all sorts of ungodly things up there. We’re no better as a species than that.

Don’t tell me what to boil! What is this, communist Russia?

There is a test suite. It tests that three lines are logged to the console. The tests all fail.

Terrorism has very little to do with the actual label and much more to do with who carries out the act and who they do it to.

Terrorism is nothing but a shorthand for violence (in the widest possible sense) that the ruling class dislikes.

It seems like a combination of racism (I bet they wouldn’t get worked up over two Norwegians communicating in their native language) and petty managerial tyranny.

Who could have thought that saying “fuck you and by the way my opponent is right” to voters would not be a winning electoral strategy

Pelle Dragsted is at it again, penning another love letter to the social democratic welfare state. His fantasy of reforming our way to socialism is a cozy mirage for conflict-averse Scandinavians, promoting a socialism where class analysis and class struggle has been replaced by the fairy tales about democracy we were told in social studies class in school.

First order of business: There is no such thing as Nordic socialism in the real world. The Nordic countries are all bourgeois capitalist states in which a class compromise gives workers some comforts without challenging the fundamental ownership of the means of production.

He ignores that the Nordic model’s comforts were won through struggle that was only possible because the October Revolution had put the fear of Jesus in the hearts of the corridor and that the relatively high standard of living is funded by imperialist superprofits extracted from the periphery. His myopic focus on the national realm refuses to confront this parasitic relationship.

Worse, his premise is naively idealist. It assumes the bourgeoisie, upon seeing his “shards of socialism,” will simply surrender their power. History screams otherwise. What happened to Allende? What happened to the Indonesian communists? The moment capital feels threatened, it abandons democratic pretense for violent reaction. The bourgeois state is not a neutral tool; it is structurally designed to protect the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

But Dragsted would never get far enough to become a Nordic Allende. At best he would be another Corbyn and get destroyed by the character assassination of the reactionary press.

Dragsted’s gradualist plan of sovereign wealth funds and co-ops is dependent on maintaining electoral success for decades and is useless as a realistic response to a capital strike. Also, it offers no answer to the physical violence any socialist project will face from the bourgeoisie.

The old syndicalist Christian Christensen once wrote:

Parliament is like the wastebin at a slaughterhouse, full of rotten chunks of meat. Do you think they go fresh again by throwing a piece of good meat in there, or do you think it is them who poison the fresh?

Dragsted used to punch Nazis when he was younger. Back then he understood that some enemies can’t be appeased but must be defeated. But now, after having been pickled in the wastebin for decades, he has turned into a completely harmless round, fluffy social democrat.

Protecting and serving, keeping the people safe from a dangerous cartoon

A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.

This is just adding insult to injury “yeah we invaded a foreign country who has never done any harm to us and gunned down a group of random bystanders but you can’t get mad at us because we wrote a piece of paper saying that we’re allowed to do it”

Academics hate eachother

Nephrologists love donor cycles though

the white guy making the USA a police state

Which one of them?

Please provide a real-world example of polite peaceful protest convincing the ruling class to do something it didn’t want to do.

You don’t change their minds by appealing to their conscience or humanity, you do it by making it less attractive for them to give you what you want than for them not to give it to you. Every single scrap of progress has been won by threatening disruption, economic damage or physical violence.

We didn’t get weekends and eight hour workdays because capitalists thought it was the morally right thing to do, we did it because denying these demands came with a realistic risk of angry workers going to their mansions and beating them to death.

Bonus question: Can you define authoritarianism?

I reckon it might work with more people than you’d like to think. Generations of predatory for-profit health insurance is going to leave its mark and I fully expect the morals of many Americans to be so degraded that it is seen, maybe not as good, but as an inevitable fact of life that sick people has to get murdered.

I’m diagnosed ADHD and avoidant personality disorder. It’s a really fun combo where you want to form meaningful relations to people but you are too terrified of being rejected to do anything about it and also you have this constant lingering sense of inferiority that is being fed by all daily stream of executive dysfunction-related fuckups.

They determine a lot through pricing and decision on availability.

People don’t like getting ripped off or paying more than they have to so people, myself included, buy more of whatever they happen to have on sale this week. At our house a lot of decisions on what to have for dinner start by looking through the weekly offers page on the supermarket’s app which influences our diet. For instance we eat a lot more chicken than we would do if it wasn’t constantly on sale.

Decisions to jack up prices also affect diet. For instance we used to eat a lot of ground beef and sour cream but now it has become so expensive that it is no longer worth what they’re charging so we almost never have it anymore.

Availability is also a huge part of the way they determine what we eat. It don’t even have to be a food desert to have a huge influence, the convenience of not having to go to more than one shop alone has a huge influence. For instance I like beefsteak tomatoes a lot more for everything where you cut up the tomatoes and don’t want the watery seeds. But I eat a lot more plum tomatoes because that’s what they have at ordinary supermarkets and I would have to go to the Arab store to get the other ones which would mean I would have to spend 20 minutes more shopping.

Some of these have non-female partners but I don’t think it is unreasonable to think that loneliness is on the rise. It is one of the ways capitalism is degrading society.

How do you say twink in ancient Greek and Latin?

I was in my late thirties when I finally had my diagnosis. It gave me a surprising amount of peace knowing that all of those things I’ve struggled with all my life was in fact a condition/a disability and not just me not trying hard enough. Having a professional say it was not all my own fault did mean a lot.

Getting diagnosed also meant I could get drugs. Those helped a lot too. They’re not miracle cures that makes it all go away but they have really made a difference.

“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” - Georgy Zhukov