It’s been a while since I felt like that, though I know what you’re talking about. I think I’ve come to terms with it and have a really healthy outlook now. I don’t want to die or anything, there’s a lot more I want to do and see and learn, but I also don’t fear death whenever it comes. In some ways it will be a relief.

Let me know if you find something like that, I’m also interested.

Ukraine wasn’t present for the vote apparently that’s why it’s black and not green

No problem. The author is definitely a lib who wrote it from a pro-US perspective as a warning basically, like “if you don’t stop treating Puerto Rico like shit they’re going to leave you for China” but if you can look past the ideology I think it’s got some good info.

If Puerto Rico were independent it could start doing deals with China which the US doesn’t want, I read a whole book about that once which I can’t remember the details of super well but maybe the book would interest you.

America’s Last Fortress: Puerto Rico’s sovereignty, China’s Caribbean Belt and Road, and America’s National Security

By Alexander Odishelidze

Well she has no chance of winning, so it’d be sort of weird if she did care about that or was talking like it was a real possibility. It’s still good that there are anti-genocide candidates like her and the PSL candidate on the ballot. I don’t think people who vote for them are expecting them to win, they’re signaling their disapproval of the two candidates who might win.

Did you mean to say Harris?

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check that out!

I just wish the iPhone podcast app would display the episodes in the proper order

Probably Israel warned to evacuate that building prior to bombing it or something.

Can somebody interpret his hint? How did they blow up those tankers?

That was a wild ride

Independent voter or non-partisan I guess.

Your terminology is fine in the narrow context of talking to other American libs about mainstream American politics but you’re commenting on a forum full of communists so to us you’re a lib and calling yourself a moderate is meaningless hair-splitting.

In the narrow, U.S. centric sense that you think those are categorically different things when in reality conservatives and moderates are also liberals ideologically.

Liberals, conservatives and moderates in the narrow sense that you are using those terms are just mildly different flavors of liberal ideology, in the original sense of the word.

Whatever, lib

Well that saying was coined by some neo nazi and the clear intention of it was anti-semitic

I’m a Spanish speaker, I read the article and it checks out. Though “a good chunk” maybe an exaggeration, it appears true that at least one paragraph was basically lifted and paraphrased from the show. The article says that Milei’s communications director is a big fan of the west wing who has watched it between seven and nine times and that it isn’t the first time something in a Milei speech has caused west wing fans to get suspicious lol.

speaking the wrong language effectively

Yeah exactly this. I basically have a habit of code switching and using more colloquial terms and definitions when I talk about capitalism and these things with people in the workplace or normie online spaces like Reddit, but I should have remembered where I was and that people on this forum tend to discuss things with more precise Marxist understanding. Thanks again for your efforts to explain it and helping me get those wires un-crossed in my head.

As I was driving home from work I listened to this video which helped me realize where I was going wrong. If you ever find yourself getting frustrated having to explain this to somebody in the future maybe you can link them to this, it is professor Wolff explaining essentially what you said in a succinct way.

https://youtu.be/6fOtDtAjtdY

You are correct, sorry! I was at work when I replied earlier and didn’t read you properly or didn’t comprehend properly what you were saying, so yes, the confusion was on my end. I’ll delete my previous comment.

The use of the word “capital” to mean machinery etc is colloquial and non-Marxist. Marx uses the more specific term “constant capital” to refer to capitalist investment in these things, while “capital” itself is a broader term referring to the social relation of self expanding value of which these things are simply a part. Thank you for setting me straight, usually I’m pretty good at understanding when the word is being used in the colloquial sense vs the Marxist sense but again I was sloppy because I was replying while at work and not paying enough attention.

Now that I think we are on the same page let me try again with the point of my original comment, I was just trying to clear up where I think you were talking past the other user because they were using the word one way and you were using it in the more correct Marxist way. I think when the others were speaking of countries “recapitalizing”, they meant onshoring, or bringing the constant capital back into their own borders.