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Capitalism is *ideologically* predicated on the idea that it consists of nothing more than free individuals voluntarily engaging in production and exchange using their private property.
The sleight of hand is that “private property” is a property mode that has only ever existed, and can only exist, as a product of state violence. Landlords can only extract rent from their tenants because that landlord can call up sheriff’s deputies to evict those tenants into homelessness, and all of the harms that entails, at gunpoint.
So we end up with constant, massive state intervention in the economy on behalf of capital owners—police who protect private property, registrars who survey and record ownership rights, courts that adjudicate those rights, copyrights and patents and trademarks, banks deputized to monopolize money production, direct state subsidies and indirect tax subsidies, zoning laws and licensing regimes that create barriers to market entry, enclosure of commons, debtors prisons, etc etc forever—which all becomes invisible as “state involvement” or “central planning.” So when we debate “state intervention,” we end up debating only those instances where the state intervenes to temper the worst excesses of the capital class.
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“Placing HEPA air filters into classrooms in the Bradford area of the UK reduced the number of covid-19-related absences among students by more than 20 per cent”
Clean air works. Why are we not doing this more?
@VulpineAmethyst I was kind of burying the lede into my next post https://mastodon.hellsite.net/@bobbyd0g/111278930612379513
@VulpineAmethyst That is certainly my understanding, but I am thoroughly interrogating literally anything else as a matter of integrity. I'm probably missing direct information as well, but as a materialist socialist I will always demand better than simply following the money for my heuristics, you know?
Characterizations by analysts seem accurate that the whole process appears specifically designed to incite the present ground invasion. There never would have been any hope for resistance. There's no way they could anticipate some broad coalition of spontaneous defense given the opening event. The best case for their motives is that they're accelerationist terrorists; it's just nothing short of insane. Am I missing something here?
Or have we in fact seen Netanyahu's direct investments mature?
I just can't figure out why Hamas would make this kind of horrifying, instantly galvanizing provocation at a time when their ostensible adversaries were losing support and resistance was growing amid institutional destruction. You would think anybody who intended to preserve Gaza would let Netanyahu fall on his domestic-political sword. I would call the decision suicidal if it wasn't for Hamas leadership situated comfortably offsite free to tender instead the suffering of Gazans to their agenda.
the only problem is that as far as I know, anyone who possesses your genetic material in or on some object handled in the course of business, without a specific disclaimer, is often perfectly free to do forensic analysis on it. And in some US states like Texas, last I checked, police are often able to draw blood during detention without alcoholic probable cause, etc. Genetic data is not easily kept secret but people deserve the privacy of many impracticalities of extracting it.
And don't let me sound like I minimize the event; there is no question that Hamas decided to open this war with an unthinkably brutal civilian slaughter and capture, and this time on the scale of the deliberately "10x" death toll the apartheid state typically wreaks upon Palestinian civilians, as well as opening a major territory conflict beyond 1949 borders. That is an undeniable provocation Netanyahu & co. are openly salivating to be forced to respond to.
Clearly, when you want to make a final colonial usurpation of a population under your complete control, the most efficient method is to force them into a corner with the worst representation and power dynamics possible, place them under mortal strain indefinitely, wait for somebody to crack, then exercise collective punishment.
I should remind you that Bibi said right out loud that Israel was funding Hamas in order to guarantee there would *never* be a unified, effective Palestine.
The kind of deep cringe like when I haven't produced k8s fedi admin docs yet and then hear about instances wiped out by simple mistakes I'd have amply cautioned against
And because afaik the United States does not actually regard Palestine as a state, and its embattled status and existence, as well as the notable void of any recognized legal military defense power, there is no method to provide material aid the way western powers did for Ukraine. Public understanding is so poor that even after openly describing their final solution, I fear the neocolonial fascists could be validated in their brazen decision that they can pull it off.
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