Wow that was a wild ride

Bro is periodically trolling every 2 months, lets see how long he can keep it up!

Ah I remember when this one came out, I think it was posted in some comm here before. It is just think-tank level of slop.

Novara has always been extremely liberal. It’s primary function is to make sure any leftism in the UK cannot escape liberalism.

Yea this is a common stereotype. Obviously I can only speak from my own experience in STEM, but the best teachers have generally been the professors who knew the material best, i.e. the most respected experts in their field.

The worst teachers were the professors who had to give a topic/course in a field or sub-field which werent their primary interest.

This seems a bit too generalized to draw any conclusions. Of all the teachers I’ve had issues with, there has been no clear category of subjects they taught. On the contrary, I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue with a STEM teacher.

Having also worked as a teacher for 12-15 year olds and I can tell you that of all the reasons teenagers “hated” STEM subjects, I don’t think me or my colleagues were the primary ones.

it’s very diverse.

Tell me about it. When I visit my wife’s family on Java I have to bring dictionaries on 4 different languages to make conversation.

I have turned many liberals through persistant shitposting in groupchats.

As Mao said: “Political power grows out of the pixels of a meme”

My little brother just moved to Rotterdam for a year with his dutch girlfriend, 1850 euro for rent – albeit it was a nice large apartment in the city center. That’s 3 times the rent I pay here in Sweden! Although with how much my rent is rising maybe I’m there soon enough, at least if we count per m².

Yes, in the minds of some liberals (probably many actually) a country with a black/woman or both leader cannot be evil or imperialist. Just like my parents scuffed at Biden but had no issue with either Obama or Hillary for no other reason that “well he’s black” or “omg a democratically elected woman”. Truly insane people. I wonder what will happen if Kim Jung Ae takes an official role in DPRK, their heads will probably explode.

The State guaranteeing employment is still not enough, because the Keynesian systems post ww2 tried just that and began to creak and break in the 1970s leading to the neoliberal counter-reform faction winning power.

Oh totally, a welfare state cannot function within capitalism long term regardless. I kind of clumsily tried to make the point that it is at least manageable during periods of industrialization and growth, because there are jobs. Obviously under capitalism this will never happen long term.

It /should/ be easy to refute but whether or not we have the right conditions to have our ideas take hold is another thing entirely.

Most people think only of the spectrum represented in the parliament. So when they think “communists” or “leftists” they think of whatever succdem party the media is currently calling “far-left”, and then nothing else. So we are already set back enormously because they keep making things worse (and moving to the right). In the minds of most people, they have to choose between eroding welfare services + higher taxes vs eroding welfare services + lower taxes, and obviously most are gonna choose the latter.

Why would workers trust you if you are actively trying to make their lives worse and take away their hard won rights and social safety nets?

I don’t know, seems to work just fine for the bourgeois in the Nordics. Write a book about how you think “the welfare state = apartheid” and say that it is your life’s mission to dismantle it, and you’ll become prime minister with a majority government (Sweden).

To me it seems the issues of the welfare state stem from de-industrialisation and the ever so common economic crises arising from capitalism. A welfare state cannot function in capitalism unless there is also continuous job creation. It makes no sense that an ever decreasing portion of the working population needs to fund the income of others who want to work but cannot, because the jobs don’t exist. The state should handout “welfare” insofar that it guarantees you a right to work. Otherwise it will just spiral as it does now in the Nordics: no jobs --> more people utilizing the social safety net --> more strain on the welfare state --> higher taxes for the workers --> etc.

A lot of it has to do with Google dropping the ball a little with regards to the newer Pixel models as well. Not only are they sacrificing some of the hardware security features to reduce costs, they are also making it increasingly hard for GOS to properly patch and maintain the security architecture. Essentially they need another manufacturer, otherwise things are not looking good long term.

According to the report (p. 85): https://www.justiceinitiative.org/publications/globalizing-torture-cia-secret-detention-and-extraordinary-rendition

Full disclaimer: Open Society is real shady neolib foundation, I’ve just had this report and picture in my digital library for ages since I used it as source for some work in high school. I do still think the report does good job of listing victims and how they ended up in CIA custody as well as which countries and governments participated. High school me was little aware of how entrenched European militaries were with the US until I read this and saw that there were CIA blacksites in multiple European countries where held and tortured people.

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45 euro a month is criminally expensive anyway. Try to look into working out outdoors.