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These guys don’t really deal with who you’re talking about…but here’s a great podcast worth boosting…

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

Not sure what you mean.

I’m saying it not at all clear Maduro is illegitimate. Trump certainly has no high ground to unilaterally decide who is and who isn’t.

It’s unclear that they’re illegitimate.

Yes, they certainly manipulated an election.

…but “the west” was manipulating the same election.

There’s also a massive fraud behind the fraud: there was a huge fake polling and disinformation campaign designed to make it look like there’s more support for the capitalists and right wingers than there is. Like…yes…the election was fake…but where the fuck are these 80% support for his opponent numbers coming from? None of these numbers match what’s on the street.

If you dig through the bullshit…elections would be close…far from the landslides either side promise.

All that we’ve learned here is that in Latin America the USA really really doesn’t like losing its investments. A lesson we already learned 20 times. Soon most of it will just be Puero Rico with less influence.

Pretty far afield from the topic.

Not the topic. I never claimed illustrated erotica for women didn’t exist. Please.

Comic book women are for straight men, and comic book men are for gay men (and the gayness within us all).

If comics were written for women they wouldn’t resemble any of this bullshit.

Umm…no. Sounds like you went to the Jordan Peterson school of anthropology.

Suck it up? No thanks. I live in society that sexualizes teenaged girls and I’ll never accept it…glad you feel like it’s ok to be a bully again.

First off…there’s various iterations of Superwoman. Whether she’s wearing a short skirt or barely covering her nipples…the difference is a little more obvious than some weird generic hero.

But having tight clothes showing off ideal muscles isn’t the same level of sexualization as having tight clothes showing off a models body and skin.

Yes, it’s clearly a prong of a breach of the public trust…late stage capitalism stuff.

In the context of a supermarket (but applies to most other sectors), the major players have functionally agreed to split territory rather than compete for existing ones. So, in lieu of competition, basically what we see is forced loyalty where they attempt to capture each consumer entirely in their networks. It’s the answer to the “Wal-Martification” of the west: there’s still a skeleton of anti-trust so we’re not seeing 3 Wal-Marts split up the world…we’re seeing alliances of mega-corporations from different sectors work together.

What this looks like is your grocery store soft forcing you to use their preferred bank, gas station, sporting good store, etc, in exchange for what used to be normal prices. The only way you can avoid it is by having more money so you can join a more elite network that gives you a different illusion of selection and deals.

The horse has almost entirely left the barn. Long ago we allowed retailers to envelop too many sectors, retailers to own their manufacturers, retailers to forge monopolies. It was, of course, all promised to bring savings to the consumer…but all it does is bring profits to the few.

Maybe rephrase? That didn’t help.

I don’t get care whether or not you like a word, it’s the appropriate one.

I said South Korea is a model for depopulation. Respond to what I say instead of what you want to be angry about, please.

They have low birth rates because they’re a wealthy country. Wealth is the most simple indicator of birth rate. Projecting your weird Asian stereotypes onto South Korea is…odd.

No, Sourh Korea isn’t “dying”. That’s the neoliberal framing. It remains to be seen how they deal with a low birth rate…and we should be watching because the phenomenon is going to happen in more and more places. My country, Canada, contracted in the last quarter, for example.

Neoliberals are scrambling everywhere because they used to love immigration, legal or otherwise, but they brought in so many immigrants to ensure growth that they created a fascist black lash and are now fighting over “preferred” immigrants (which will result in population loss).

The fuck are you talking about?

It’s not just one reason…I’m speaking broadly.

…but you can basically graph birth rates inversely with wealth.

No there won’t. The reason their birth rates are low is because they are so wealthy.

Low birth rates are sold to us as bad by neoliberals/capitalists because they believe that growth is the only way out of every problem. Unlimited growth is a terrible blunt instrument that’s basically created the unsustainable and unequal monster we live in today in the west.

Fact is that depopulation is the reality of the future and we should keep and eye on South Korea so we can learn from what they do.

It’s a neoliberal myth that your society needs to constantly be growing…ie there need to be more younger people than older people.

Be careful you’re not thinking like a neoliberal (endless growth) when you look at South Korea. In my opinion they’re a model, and we should be looking at depopulation everywhere.

That’s what I said.

Was it a crass joke?

You’re the one trying to be funny on this thread. I’m not funny, and I don’t try to be.

The episode came out like 20 years ago.