As an ultimate goal, I’d agree. But that’s not something you can just do without incredible investment in alternate forms of transit, which is not happening. The road the US is going down, cars will not be banned, they’ll just be unaffordable and only for the rich. We’ll keep the shitty transit and jaywalking laws though.
The question is, have the bourgeoisie any capacity left for self discipline? Once a shooting war starts with a peer power, will they be able to forgo these juicy profits to ensure their own survival? Their response to the climate crisis says no, but that’s still a rather abstract problem to most people. The COVID response also say no. Will the fear of dying in a Chinese prison camp finally do it?
black sheep
Isn’t this also about the literal color of wool? Black wool is caused be recessive genes and shepherds didn’t really like them because it can’t be dyed and isn’t very marketable. At least that’s been my understanding of the term.
Toecutter > Humungus
This is upstate erasure. Suburban/rural upstate is full of psychos.
I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might
Anyway, good luck on that three front war
I got really into ants for a while, and sometimes I think that capitalism is our species’ equivalent.
Which isn’t what happened at all. Intel is going down the tubes and can’t afford new infrastructure projects in such an unstable country. BDS did next to nothing here. Most of the blame can be put on Intel itself for being such a poorly run company, the instability of the war + Hezbollah and Ansar Allah wrecking Israel’s economy. BDS is important and good for putting pressure on Israel, but it has not reached such a critical mass to start affecting non-consumer facing products. Most of want Intel sells is to other businesses who, I guarantee you are not factoring BDS into their calculations at all. They are factoring in the fact that Intel chips suck.
Intel didn’t scuttle their new Israeli fab because of BDS. Intel does not give a single shit about BDS!
Buddy, then investors in health care companies would have to realize some of that “risk” they keep blabbering about. It would make them sad!
Yeah, the new US plaything is ISIS-K
Aren’t the Chinese right here? Their property market is operating under capitalism, and if you bail out capitalists it does create a moral hazard for them to keep re-creating the conditions for more bail-outs. It would also send the signal that capital is actually in charge, and not the CPC.
My understanding is that the CPC wants to use this opportunity to increase the share of social housing, but as you said is attempting a controlled demolition of the market; trying to thread the needle between saving “regular” people who invested in real-estate and allowing the whole thing to collapse. It seems like a daunting task, but China might be the only country that could pull it off. Plus there’s the added benefit of greatly reducing the power of any real-estate ghouls left in government after the anti-corruption campaigns.
Because Boston is the biggest, shittiest, college town in the country.
Can’t get more obvious than the Haitian revolution