So I’m relying on more knowledgeable bears here, but this is basically a manifestation of unions without theory right?

Without state support unions will be assaulted by capitalistic mentalities and turn into gangs?

The poorest Americans are constantly fighting with the bureaucracy to get assistance, this is by design to make them hate it.

Any addition to the expansion of the state will be met with hostility.

Self immolation in the Imperial Core is an expression of profound helplessness, and speaks to the utter inability of the left to provide those people with a comprehensive ideological framework.

The U.S. State has done such an effective job of destroying revolutionary movements that those who could be drawn to a clear-headed Marxist perspective cannot find purchase; there are no revolutionary organizations that are not captured.

Blame Trotsky and the New Left I suppose (after you blame the State for the murder of the Black Panthers and the original BLM leaders).

TL;DR - Imperial Core collapse in slow motion

Absolutely - I honestly think Dune and Dune Messiah should be sold as one book.

Well aside from the time it totally bricked my system, it pretty good.

Uhhh, excuse me? My takes are totally original. T’Pol told me so.

Okaaaay, just because you’ve brought it up…

Transporters in Star Trek are shown to definitely not be duplication machines. “Our Man Bashir” (DS9) is probably the most definitive proof of that.

Personally, I think transporter technology explains the staunch atheist (but still open-minded and sometimes spiritualist) Federation mindset: they know that their entire being can be reduced to a matter/energy stream. The transporter makes a devastating philosophical challenge to the idea of a “soul.” Which is, ironically, why so many Federation officers refuse to accept anything that challenges that assumption (VOY “Sacred Ground”).

Uhh just play Outer Worlds you nerds

Yeah dawg that’s … the entire point of the Engels piece - “authoritarianism” is a meaningless buzzword.

CHINA COLLAPSING ANY DAY NOW

Tom Paris literally broke spacetime and did direct action to save a water planet.

Is there any question?

En clo sure of he commens duh