All of my children are hardcore Maoists who have pledged their lives to the destruction of the Great Satan

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I can’t say I’ve ever heard that definition of value of labor power. I was under the impression that “value of labor power” meant the total value that a worker produces, part of which is appropriated by the capitalist as surplus value.

Why would capitalists pay these workers as much as, or more than, the value of their labor? That means you’re getting zero or negative surplus value from them - in other words, the capitalist is either not making money or is actively losing money by employing them.

In Divided World Divided Class Zak Cope maintains that there’s no legally (illegally, yes, but if one is paid min wage and working legal hours, no) exploited workers in the global north. He is using the marxist definition of exploitation i.e. “being paid less than the value of the products of your labour”, so he isn’t arguing it doesn’t suck to work a min wage job, but he is arguing that anyone paid the legal minimum wage is paid over and above the value of the products of their labour (if they are even a productive labourer).

If that’s the case, then why can minimum wage workers in the Global North not afford homes or healthcare, when people in non-imperialist socialist states like China, Cuba, and Vietnam tend to have both of these?

Arguing with them doesn’t accomplish anything either. Wishing them a very takes less time, is more satisfying, and is about as likely to change their minds.

They waste our time with their bullshit. We’re just paying them back in kind.

The Taliban is of course well known for supporting trans people

This is your brain on idealism

You could not come up with a better encapsulation of the difference between Democrats and Republicans if you tried.

Literally the entire server was against me except one fence-sitter (who happened to be the admin, which is probably the only reason I’m not banned).

They’re having an incredibly normal one

Hell yeah, PM me the invite

I may be biased because computer science and engineering are some of my deepest passions, and this Dunning Kruger dipshit has managed to gain an entirely unwarranted degree of trust to speak about the subjects. I also personally know people who got suckered into his cult.

This is totally unrelated but I keep mistaking the guy in your avatar for MD Geist

Nope. Different server.

Those in the imperial core have always been willing to sacrifice brown people overseas to save themselves.

P.s.And they are voting for one genocide instead of zero, so they have roughly 0.0005 (round 10 days I think) of palestinian life on their hands, if we do moralistic arguments

According to their own calculus, every option supports genocide, so they’re taking the best option by supporting one instead of two. Which sounds an awful lot like the argument of someone who wants to rationalize the fact that they’re choosing to support a genocide.

Are they completely ignorant of the trans genocode happening under Biden?

One of them linked me something called “President Biden’s pro-LGBTQ timeline”

It’s her turn