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Comment Why do Leftists always lose? (Score 1) 70

Damien Walters has argued they don't play to win, they are too wimpy, too intellectual, fail to engage effectively with the existing "map of power"; the structures of institutional politics. To change the system, one must first learn the rules, master the position, material, and initiative, and defeat the opponent at their own game before being able to dismantle it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Well this Red Army Faction certainly was not too wimpy and kudos to the reporter, such a good deed, about as good a deed as the McDonalds guy who found Luigi Mangione.
BTW there is also an ad for a new game "Raid:Socialist Legends" a game that allow you to seize the means of production, jump straight to it here: https://youtu.be/BXoRVAEwLqU?s...

Submission + - Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries (responsiblestatecraft.org)

oumuamua writes: U.S House has added a section to the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ,titled "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative" under Section 224. It lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.

One goal of the bill may be to give unlimited aid to Israel and make it harder to track as pointed out by Steven Simon:

The shift will strip away the political and diplomatic oversight mechanisms that make the relationship publicly accountable, moving it from a visible annual aid vote into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal. The result would be a defense relationship that is simultaneously deeper and less transparent.

Another motive could be to make US jobs a factor in US-Israel relations:

It would give the Israeli government the opportunity to greatly expand one of the most powerful levers of influence in U.S. politics: jobs in the U.S. By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi and Arkansas, the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on U.S. soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie.


Submission + - Yale Reinstates Mandatory Standardized Testing Admissions Policy (dailycaller.com)

schwit1 writes: Yale University is mandating standardized testing (SAT/ACT) scores for all first-year and transfer students after a 6-year test-optional hiatus, the university announced Wednesday.

Beginning in the fall admissions cycle, all undergraduate applicants must submit standardized testing scores from either the SAT or the ACT.

The office of undergraduate admissions dropped its mandatory requirement of scores in 2020 following the COVID-19 school shutdowns. Over a thousand other American universities did the same. (RELATED: Vast Majority Of Americans Say 4-Year College Just Not Worth It, Poll Shows)

Yale moved to a test-flexible admissions policy in 2024, allowing applicants to submit scores from either the SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement (AP), or International Baccalaureate. The university's reinstated policy marks a return to its pre-2020 requirements.

Comment US would love to use Taiwan in proxy war (Score 1) 47

But the Taiwanese are just too smart: All 24 KMT lawmakers survive recall votes to maintain opposition control of Taiwan’s legislature,

It was a major defeat for the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and civic groups pushing the recall votes, which had hoped to remove lawmakers they had argued were pro-China and obstructing the government’s policies.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/Ne... This vote was completely ignored by Western press, if that vote had gone the other way there would have been war

Comment UBI was proposed in 1968 (Score 5, Interesting) 240

Alan Watts thinking outside the box:

If, if we get our heads straight about money, I predict that by ad 2000, or sooner, no one will pay taxes, no one will carry cash, utilities will be free, and everyone will carry a general credit card. This card will be valid up to each individual’s share in a guaranteed basic income or national dividend, issued free, beyond which he may still earn anything more that he desires by an art or craft, profession or trade that has not been displaced by automation. (For detailed information on the mechanics of such an economy, the reader should refer to Robert Theobald’s Challenge of Abundance and Free Men and Free Markets, and also to a series of essays that he has edited, The Guaranteed Income. Theobald is an avant–garde economist on the faculty of Columbia University.)

read the whole thing here in Playboy of all places: https://galacticjourney.org/st...

Comment What about MARS??? (Score 1) 120

Musk had claimed SpaceX could never go public because a big goal of SpaceX/Musk going to Mars which is NOT profitable. Good news the goal is built into Musk's pay package. Still, you have to wonder how that squares with investors who only want PROFIT

The SpaceX board granted Musk one billion restricted shares of Class B common stock on top of his existing stake of roughly 5 billion shares, worth roughly $700 billion at the expected IPO valuation of $1.75 trillion. The new shares, potentially worth an additional $600 billion or more, only vest if SpaceX hits two conditions: its top market capitalization milestone of $7.5 trillion, and the creation of a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/20...
holy WTF, 1 million people, that is quite the milestone to achieve

Comment Re:Maybe Cuba can help again (Score 1) 160

All you will hear in a capitalist country about a communist/socialist country is pure propaganda. The US actually doesn't give a shit about the wellbeing of Cuban doctors, it is just using the 'slavery' slur as an excuse to cut off a source of income. Consider that Cuban doctors got educated for FREE and certainly do not live in poverty. Consider that capitalism aims to keep wages low, just enough for people to survive but not thrive: https://www.genolve.com/design... With AI replacing jobs everyone will soon be socialist anyway

Comment Maybe Cuba can help again (Score 1) 160

They helped fight an outbreak in 2014

In spite of not being among the wealthiest countries, Cuba is one of the most committed when it comes to deploying doctors to crisis zones. It has offered more than 460 Cuban doctors and nurses to West Africa, and currently, 165 are working there under the direction of the World Health Organization (WHO). More than 50,000 health care workers from Cuba are working in 66 countries around the world.

https://time.com/3556670/ebola...

Not this time thanks to Rubio & Trump: The US is blocking the employment of Cuban doctors around the world – and the poorest will suffer the costs https://www.theguardian.com/ne...

Comment Re:Enough already (Score 1) 68

Come on this is Hollywood, a few plot adjustments will still make it work, how about: Bond falls into an alternate universe where robots have put the bulk of humanity out of work to languish on sidewalks while the evil oligarch Bezelimuszuck rakes in all money. In this universe Bond used to work for the oligarchs but now Bond~ works against them, sabotaging missions of imperial conquest against poor and socialist countries like Robinhood of old.

Comment uh, golden shower went down toilet (Score 0, Troll) 6

If US missiles could not defend tiny areas in Gulf States .... how is it going to protect the entire US: Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Also let's look at the real motivating reason to make it; so the USA can do wars of aggression against other nuclear powers without fear of being nuked in return

Comment You guys need to level up! (Score 2) 53

We are now in the robot age and simple 'Bigfoot' don't cut it anymore - we are not entertained - bring us Bionic Bigfoot or go home https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bionics also appeals to logic. Why have no bigfoot fossils ever been found? Bionics explains that easily, they never break down or get scavenged for parts by the other bigfoots.

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