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I think this is a great rule. I'm glad to see more active moderation happening.

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Yall are not going to believe this. I looked up who Crack Amico is and he's a right-wing white guy rapper. His shitty music is on youtube. The context of this tweet is that he thinks these 2 people are the same but in a good way. This tweet is replying to a guy named "9mmsmg", who has "anti-marxist in the bio. 9mmsmg had reposted a video of the woman on the left which had been uploaded by an account called "Women being awful". Twitter has gone to shit.

Please give your eyes and your capital to Hasan

The funniest thing about this kind of troll posting is that they always try to substitute in Marxist terminology in place of regular words in ways that don't make any sense. It would be so much easier for you to just say that you haven't read any Marx and that you don't like Hasan without having to create a post with 17 layers of irony. You are embarrassing. You post as if you are a superior leftist but don't understand even basic Marxist concepts.

Money and Capital are not interchangeable terms. Capital is a specific type of money. Money is only Capital if it is used for the purpose of buying commodities which increase in value and then are sold for a profit. If you spend money on a candybar and then you eat that candybar, then it is not capital. If you watch a stream and give money to a streamer, it is just money, not capital. Most people don't have capital or at least in a significant way.

The simplest form of the circulation of commodities is C—M—C, the transformation of commodities into money, and the change of the money back again into commodities; or selling in order to buy. But alongside of this form we find another specifically different form: M—C—M, the transformation of money into commodities, and the change of commodities back again into money; or buying in order to sell. Money that circulates in the latter manner is thereby transformed into, becomes capital, and is already potentially capital.

Now let us examine the circuit M—C—M a little closer. It consists, like the other, of two antithetical phases. In the first phase, M—C, or the purchase, the money is changed into a commodity. In the second phase, C—M, or the sale, the commodity is changed back again into money. The combination of these two phases constitutes the single movement whereby money is exchanged for a commodity, and the same commodity is again exchanged for money; whereby a commodity is bought in order to be sold, or, neglecting the distinction in form between buying and selling, whereby a commodity is bought with money, and then money is bought with a commodity. [2] The result, in which the phases of the process vanish, is the exchange of money for money, M—M. If I purchase 2,000 lbs. of cotton for £100, and resell the 2,000 lbs. of cotton for £110, I have, in fact, exchanged £100 for £110, money for money.

What, however, first and foremost distinguishes the circuit C—M—C from the circuit M—C—M, is the inverted order of succession of the two phases. The simple circulation of commodities begins with a sale and ends with a purchase, while the circulation of money as capital begins with a purchase and ends with a sale. In the one case both the starting-point and the goal are commodities, in the other they are money. In the first form the movement is brought about by the intervention of money, in the second by that of a commodity.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch04.htm
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm#capital

The DailyMail article claims a number of myths about DPRK including that blue jeans are censored/banned, citizens are required to have government approved haircuts, women aren't allowed to wear shorts, dogs banned as pets. The article cites Radio Free Asia and DailyNK, both US government funded. Exactly what you would expect, US funded misinformation.

Since people are commenting on dogs, I found this article from KCNA, news website hosted by DPRK. This article was published October 27, 2023. The national dog breed of DPRK is Phungsan. The article says that it is common for people to raise Phungsan dogs at workplaces, villages, and houses.

Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The interest in Phungsan dog is growing among the Korean people, and the number of people raising Phungsan dogs is increasing in different parts of the DPRK, to say nothing of the place of origin.

Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province, in particular, is a well-known place in the country as the Phungsan dog show is held there every year. It is a common practice in Sariwon City to raise Phungsan dogs at workplaces, villages and houses.

The show is now under way in the city amid the interest of many fans and experts. This year's show is the tenth of its kind since the first show was held in 2014.

The Phungsan dog is loved by the Korean people as one of the national symbols reflecting the excellent character of the Korean nation, thanks to the noble patriotic intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The purebred Phungsan dog has been widely spread in Sariwon City and other parts of North Hwanghae Province with the show as an occasion.

According to examiners of the Phungsan dog show who are making tour of various places for the examination, the number of Phungsan dogs participating in the show is on the increase every year.

The dog, highly appreciated at the show, is used to propagate its species drawing the attention of many fans and experts.

Meanwhile, Sariwon Kye Ung Sang University of Agriculture is conducting a brisk research for preserving and propagating the purebred Phungsan dog

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/59ff167348aa7bab60621a1741c8f65dd04690624a66d9e700a256eba886aebe.kcmsf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungsan_dog

That's not why home distillation is illegal. Home distillation was made illegal during prohibition and continued to be illegal because the US government decided to tax all distillation.

Distillation does not add methanol to alcohol. Methanol can occur naturally during the fermentation of some fruits. Some wines and beers naturally have small amounts of methanol in them. Making wine or beer is already legal in most states. Distillation only removes water from fermented alcohol. Distillation is not really any more dangerous than making your own beer or wine, which is legal in most states already.

If you click on the links in the google search link that you posted, you can read that all the cases listed were instances were shitty bootleggers had intentionally added poisons to the alcohol. In other words, methanol poisoning occurs when people added methanol to the alcohol after distillation.

this was one of the top results on the page https://time.com/3665643/deadly-drinking/

This Time article is about how the US has a history of intentionally adding methanol to untaxed alcohol so that people would die if they drank it. So called "Denatured alcohol".

So not only does the US not care about people dying from methanol, the US intentionally tried to kill people with methanol for trying to avoid paying taxes.

:kelly: deep state

It looks like it's going to be an item crafting focused league. In the new league mechanic, every player has a graveyard, you can put corpses in the graves. Each corpse has different abilities. Once you place the corpses, you can do an exorcism on the graves which crafts different items.

https://beastunleashed.com/faqs/

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Okay it was 12 days ago that his surgery was successful. It's very difficult to browse twitter with the api disabled. I hate the bird site.

https://twitter.com/ambercrollo/status/1766179084986683647
https://twitter.com/ambercrollo/status/1766255224010977596

I'm not sure the original source of the image. It is posted by the mod of blackwolffeed, so I believe it to be truthful.

Just as at first the capitalist is relieved from actual labour so soon as his capital has reached that minimum amount with which capitalist production, as such, begins, so now, he hands over the work of direct and constant supervision of the individual workmen, and groups of workmen, to a special kind of wage-labourer. An industrial army of workmen, under the command of a capitalist, requires, like a real army, officers (managers), and sergeants (foremen, overlookers), who, while the work is being done, command in the name of the capitalist. The work of supervision becomes their established and exclusive function.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch13.htm

In Chapter 13 of Capital, Marx compares the functions of a security guard to being "like a real army". While the quote gives managers, foremen, and overlookers as examples, a security guard also fits. A security guard is also someone who is under the command of the capitalist and supervises the capitalist mode of production as their "established and exclusive function".

In 2004, the Department of Economic at the University of Massachusetts published an essay which coined the term "Guard Labor", written by Professor Samuel Bowles and Assistant Professor Arjun Jayadev. The essay is written in reference to the prior quote from Chapter 13 of Capital.

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/63/

We will see that a significant portion of an economy‘s productive potential may be devoted to the exercise of power and to the perpetuation of social relationships of domination and subordination. We then measure these resources in labor units using the concept of guard labor, finding it to be a significant fraction of the U.S. labor force. Turning to evidence from other economies, we document substantial country-differences in the extent of guard labor and a strong statistical association between the extent of income inequality and the fraction of the labor force that is constituted by guard labor.

Nonetheless it may be of interest to count the fraction of the labor force occupying the roles of guard labor identified in the model: supervisory labor, private guards, police, judicial and prison employees, military and civilian employees of the department of defense (and those producing military equipment), the unemployed, and prisoners.

The essay makes the point that security guards and police are both part of the larger group, guard labor, which serves to "sustaining the status quo distribution of property rights". The essay also finds that economies with higher percentages of guard labor are also associated with higher levels of economic inequality.