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Because capitalism meant we moved much of our manufacturing offshore for cheaper prices to take advantage of slave labor in the Global South. We would have to democratize resource production if we wanted to move supply chain production back to the US, and that will not happen with oligarchs who...

I *think* you're being serious in asking if the vape world is exempt from trade wars, so I will answer as if you are being serious. No, there is no reason vapes will be exempt from tariffs. Tariffs will only hurt consumers in the United States because we have outsourced our entire supply chain...

This also works as a potential solution to VAS! Channel your own energy into providing things for other people, and you still get the dopamine hit but you don't have to have nearly as much random crap!! I've bought about half a dozen vapcaps for others and given away about a third of the total...

@emily is right on!! Humans in Western cultures in particular are currently expected to spend more money in order to solve their problems, and they are expected to create problem that can be solved by spending money. We are taught that products like vaporizers can be refined to perfection and...

The more that the working class sees that being a class traitor only leads to more pain, the quicker we develop class solidarity. I feel terrible for this person who just was hoping for a way to care for herself and her family, and I feel rage for the NYPD and entire criminal justice system for...

I didn't vote for Trump. I'm perfectly capable of criticizing anyone who votes for anyone. Whether that criticism is worth listening to or not depends completely on what the audience of the critique believes. It doesn't have to be so all in. Shades of gray, friend, shades of gray. Also, I...

There's a wonderful book called "Everything for Everyone" that describes a near-future world in which billionaires and trillionaires escape to Mars starting in the early 2030's as global capitalist power structures are pushed to collapse by climate change and greed. In the novel, the revolution...

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars, comrades. Focusing exclusively on the future means we forget our agency in the here-and-now. However, focusing exclusively on the here-and-now means we are purely reactionary, and we do not then shape the future into something...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08404-x I'm not a huge proponent of "the" Singularity as I don't tend to regard history as materialistic, so take this with a grain of salt here: this is really freaking cool! One concern that seems to be overcome again and again is that humans will...

"Instead of answering your question, let me make up absurd hypotheticals that don't apply to show things about imaginary principals rather than debating the material conditions in front of me. Oh, and every consumer should be investigating every product they purchase to see if it costs $13 less...

Reminder that an annual membership to the Socialist Rifle Association is $36, there are tons of chapters all over the country, and they do all kinds of emergency preparedness training for things like de-escalation and stemming bleeding and first aid, plus my chapter does monthly food...

What IS your favorite ball vape?

He's trying to create a techno-Christofascist state and will likely succeed for a period of time. It is time for all of us to start learning how to resist like the French in the 40s. Then, we can do our own revolution.

My expectation for the past few years has been that climate change will continue to ravage more and more countries as a bunch of governments collapse, and in that collapse, massive instability will cause industry to basically shut down. As people rebuild, industry will begin but democratically...

@florduh--the market bloodbath was frankly surprising to me, as speculation based on magic beans has been the driving force for market prices for about a hundred years. I'm very happy right now to have sold NVDA at 140 and cashed out of my individual stock and ETF positions in my IRAs, and I am...

In some ways, I am finding prostration to authorities we don't understand to be inherent in Christianity. I'm starting seminary and taking a course first on pastoral care, and the books were fascinatingly *almost* revolutionary, and belied a deep sense of actualization but very little...

*psssssst to everyone "debating" the Nazi apologists on the forum, I remind you of this absolute banger: “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves...

Mike Tyson saying that Donald Trump is a man of his word is not something I am likely to take very seriously :lol:

We don't live in a just world right now. And until we decide to start taking action, we will continue to live in this ridiculous, topsy-turvy world where the people least suited to rule--the Mayfair kings and queens who thought themselves powerful beyond the end of the festival--are dehumanizing...

This one infuriated me when I first saw it. Seeing kids who were reasonably concerned about the climate in California of all places and telling them their concerns were utterly invalid was wild. These kids were already seeing wildfires and water shortages and heat waves back in the mid-2010's...