If Puerto Rico were independent it could start doing deals with China which the US doesn’t want, I read a whole book about that once which I can’t remember the details of super well but maybe the book would interest you.
America’s Last Fortress: Puerto Rico’s sovereignty, China’s Caribbean Belt and Road, and America’s National Security
By Alexander Odishelidze
Well she has no chance of winning, so it’d be sort of weird if she did care about that or was talking like it was a real possibility. It’s still good that there are anti-genocide candidates like her and the PSL candidate on the ballot. I don’t think people who vote for them are expecting them to win, they’re signaling their disapproval of the two candidates who might win.
Did you mean to say Harris?
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check that out!
I just wish the iPhone podcast app would display the episodes in the proper order
Probably Israel warned to evacuate that building prior to bombing it or something.
Can somebody interpret his hint? How did they blow up those tankers?
That was a wild ride
Well that saying was coined by some neo nazi and the clear intention of it was anti-semitic
Hell yeah
I was under the impression that China hasn’t had an economic recession since the founding of the PRC, including during the Mao years. Could have to do with how people define recessions though.
I had to send an updated resume for a job interview which I whipped up real quick and after sending it I realized that I left the boilerplate in the first section so it said like “Profile: click here to change the text and add some information about yourself” lmao.
I noticed immediately and sent a second email with the fixed one, and I got the job offer anyway!
I’m a Spanish speaker, I read the article and it checks out. Though “a good chunk” maybe an exaggeration, it appears true that at least one paragraph was basically lifted and paraphrased from the show. The article says that Milei’s communications director is a big fan of the west wing who has watched it between seven and nine times and that it isn’t the first time something in a Milei speech has caused west wing fans to get suspicious lol.
speaking the wrong language effectively
Yeah exactly this. I basically have a habit of code switching and using more colloquial terms and definitions when I talk about capitalism and these things with people in the workplace or normie online spaces like Reddit, but I should have remembered where I was and that people on this forum tend to discuss things with more precise Marxist understanding. Thanks again for your efforts to explain it and helping me get those wires un-crossed in my head.
As I was driving home from work I listened to this video which helped me realize where I was going wrong. If you ever find yourself getting frustrated having to explain this to somebody in the future maybe you can link them to this, it is professor Wolff explaining essentially what you said in a succinct way.
You are correct, sorry! I was at work when I replied earlier and didn’t read you properly or didn’t comprehend properly what you were saying, so yes, the confusion was on my end. I’ll delete my previous comment.
The use of the word “capital” to mean machinery etc is colloquial and non-Marxist. Marx uses the more specific term “constant capital” to refer to capitalist investment in these things, while “capital” itself is a broader term referring to the social relation of self expanding value of which these things are simply a part. Thank you for setting me straight, usually I’m pretty good at understanding when the word is being used in the colloquial sense vs the Marxist sense but again I was sloppy because I was replying while at work and not paying enough attention.
Now that I think we are on the same page let me try again with the point of my original comment, I was just trying to clear up where I think you were talking past the other user because they were using the word one way and you were using it in the more correct Marxist way. I think when the others were speaking of countries “recapitalizing”, they meant onshoring, or bringing the constant capital back into their own borders.
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I think you’re confused about what capital is to begin with (in BashfulBob’s comment at least). Capital is the means of production. It’s the machinery, the tools, etc. Capitalists are called that because they own those things. Under socialism, the workers will own it (directly or via the state), but the capital still exists. You definitely cannot have industry without it.
I was using it (and put it alongside the term in parentheses many times) as essentially- “financialization.”
Financial capital is a thing but this is not what the person you replied to was talking about and it doesn’t make any sense to think the U.S. would need to “recapitalize” if it meant financialization. The U.S. is already a fully financialized economy. Recapitalization here refers to bringing industrial capital back.
You mention Saudi Arabia “swimming in capital” in response to Bob saying that they are trying to build it beyond their oil industry. That’s not accurate. They’re swimming in money, money isn’t the same thing as capital.
You’re mixing up “capitalism” and “production/industrialization.” The two are not one and the same.
It sounds like rather, you’re confusing capitalization for capitalism. You don’t need to be capitalist to have capital, you do need capital to have industry/production.
His hardened heart is mentioned before/during each of the ten plagues. For a few of them it’s as you say, a couple of them actually say he hardened his own heart, but for plagues 6,8,9, and 10 it’s explicitly God that did it. For me that combined with god saying clearly that he would do this, multiple times, before any of it even starts makes it clear that God is responsible for it as part of his plan. He wouldn’t want Pharaoh to just let the people go the first time they ask. What he wants is to make a big show for all of the Egyptians and Israelites that he is the biggest and baddest God and that their Egyptian gods can’t compete.
No problem. The author is definitely a lib who wrote it from a pro-US perspective as a warning basically, like “if you don’t stop treating Puerto Rico like shit they’re going to leave you for China” but if you can look past the ideology I think it’s got some good info.