davel

davel , 1 month ago to asklemmy in Those with a side/second job in this economy, what is it that you do and how did you get into it?

I admin lemmy.ml for 0 Biden/Putler/Xi bux per month. I got into it by doing a little posting, until the admins asked me if I wanted to waste even more of my free time, which I foolishly did.

davel , 1 month ago to memes in Watch out, guns. You're next.

MKULTRA: Hold my mimosa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

The super-profits stopped going to working class boomers a long time ago now, except for some who are still on fat pensions or who didn’t get fucked by the 2008 crash and continued to manage their investment portfolio well and didn’t get wrecked by medical costs.

The profits are going to fewer & fewer as companies get more & more consolidated, and as our neocolonialism begins to falter along with our global hegemony. Even the lower end of the petit bourgeois are feeling economic precarity nowadays: The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

Working class boomers lived in a unique moment in world history, which will almost certainly never recur, but they didn’t know it and still don’t. That unique moment was post-WWII America, when the rest of the industrial world was destroyed by war, the New Deal/Keynesianism/US labor militancy had not been completely crushed yet, and the socialist alternative to capitalism in the Soviet Union was looking like a viable alternative to capitalism still. These factors, combined with US colonialism/neocolonialism allowed the US working class to have super-profits never seen before or since, but the Boomers assumed that this was and would always be the new normal.

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

I’m not sure which bootlickers you mean—the politicians? Many of them are wealthy in their own right, and almost all of them rely on wealthy donors to get into office and to hold it. It’s one big club, and we ain’t in it. [Princeton] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

This isn’t a recent development; it has ever been so. “Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in Philippines decides against invoking mutual defense treaty with US amid South China Sea dispute

I’ll never really know how much the US’ complicity in genocide factored in to the decision.

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

Our capitalist class and their bought politicians are sitting with our profits in their Scrooge McDuck swimming pools.

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davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

I’m not optimistic that that will happen under the next Biden or Trump administration. US corporate media avoid mentioning China’s HSR, but they can’t keep things under the rug forever.

davel , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to worldnews in Barcelona will eliminate ALL tourist apartments in 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire in huge blow for platforms like Airbnb

Did you think I wouldn’t notice you creating alt account [email protected] today for the express purpose of following me around and downvoting? I guess I really hit a nerve. How embarrassingly petty.

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules

Community rules against the laws of thermodynamics 😂

davel , 1 month ago to asklemmy in (Meta) So many questions here are not open ended. Does anyone care?

Good question; it’s not my place to answer. @ada, @tmpod, @Cloak?

davel , 1 month ago to linux in How to install Libreboot in 2024?

How to install Libreboot in 2024?

That’s an oddly specific question. When else but now? Did you arrive by time machine?

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in Barcelona will eliminate ALL tourist apartments in 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire in huge blow for platforms like Airbnb

Barcelona is a diverse economic engine; it’s not a tourism monocrop town. It doesn’t need your patronage.

davel , 1 month ago to worldnews in Russians behead Ukrainian soldier in Donetsk Oblast

And now you’re pointing us to CIApedia. This imperial core LIB bingo card will get filled up in no time. What’s next, Bell¿ngcat?

davel , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to memes in The Smartest Zionist

Both have historically not been cared about by whom? The BDS movement is almost twenty years old. The UN General Assembly has been continually reaffirming the Palestinian people’s right to armed struggle against their oppressors over 50 years. Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish American son of two Holocaust survivors, has been writing about this ever since his doctoral thesis in 1988.