Juice [none/use name]

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Cake day: May 27th, 2022

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  • Sorry I still don’t get it. Cops embody the violent coercion that is needed to enforce contracts and laws. Laws determine how contracts are made and what penalties for breaking them. Contracts are a legal confabulation that serve several functions, probably most relevant is they are the mechanisms that makes property ownership possible, such as land. Landlords have the personal property “rights” as outlined in property law and defined by the contract. Cops enforce the laws and contracts with violence.

    Cops can only be landlords if they own property and collect rents. Landlords don’t have the ability to use violence to enforce their property rights, they have to call the cops. They both occupy this weird class middle zone that is neither bourgeoisie nor worker: collecting rents doesn’t necessarily make one a capitalist, land isn’t really strictly capital; cops aren’t proletarian workers though at one time they may have been working class with nothing to sell but their labor. Both are crucial to underwriting liberal private property relations which is the basis for capitalist exploitation and the class rule that emanates from it. But landlords have a completely different relation to production than cops, so they don’t occupy the same class position.

    I’m not debating and I’ll read or watch anything recommended to me. I’m also mostly interested in specific and correct formulations of class, I study a lot and have high standards. If this is one of those things that is more agitational than strictly correct, I can live with that but if there is a critical formulation that I’m missing, or if this is a paradigm that other leftists are using to help formulate their views then I would very much like to understand



  • This is a discussion about an article, which is chock full of examples. What kind of evidence do you need? You don’t need to be convinced, but you also don’t need to jump to the defense of inflating housing and rent costs.

    You also don’t cite any resources to back up your claims, Translation anecdotal evidence is still evidence, especially when compared to your baseless skepticism. Have you ever wondered why such research might not exist, or that not everyone has access to most academic research? Why might researchers who depend on grants to do research, avoid doing research that implicates commercial and real estate developers? large colleges and hospitals often work hand-in-glove with developers, along with city councils. Turns out you don’t always need evidence to infer a truth, we have this thing called abstraction that allows us to make predictions based on analytical methodology. Imagine if physicists required evidence with which to even begin a line of inquiry, we wouldn’t have 1/10 of the knowledge we have now.

    However, skepticism isn’t critique. You can be as skeptical as you want, and I have a right to disagree with you even without evidence. I can find a mountain of evidence that supports just about any claim I might make. Its called an epistemological crisis, and it’s fairly basic as far as logical contradictions go. Asking for evidence can be just as fallacious especially when it doesn’t deal with anything in the article.

    From your tone it sounds like you are insecure (or a landlord/real estate goon), Instead of trying to compete intellectually with strangers on the internet, show some humanity and solidarity with the vast majority of people who are stuck in awful situations, such as the ones described in the article.

    I’m sorry to hear about your experience with abuse. I’ve experienced abuse and trauma, and some of the worst trauma came from the systems of punishment and neglect that “impartially” decide who in society receives the pain and privilege of living in it. So the tone you are picking up is related to the fact that you are defending an abusive system, for which the evidence is undeniable.


  • Definitely one of the takes of all time. Have you ever been divorced? I’ve watched my friends who were functionally separated from their partners but still live together slide into deep depression, drug abuse, alcoholism. I lived with my ex wife for a while after we separated and it was extremely confusing and traumatic. At the time I was “just trying to keep it together” but both me and my ex made terrible decisions while stuck together. We didn’t even know how toxic our relationship had become, we didn’t realize how much we were hurting each other. I’ve known a lot of people in a lot of situations and these separated but living together arrangements are just awful for everyone involved.

    Life is complicated and everyone is different but i would never advise someone stay living with their ex. If people can’t leave their partner (some of which may be stuck with an abuser or bully, or someone who just ignores them) because of financial reasons, that’s a form of systematic abuse and trauma. Regardless of what people say or think, a very small percentage of couples would be okay with an arrangement like this. If you or anyone ever find yourself in a similar situation, get out of the house and sign the friggin papers ASAP. Don’t do apologism for a broken ass system, help us fix it, or at least show some humanity (“correlative,” jfc.)



  • It is the absolute interest of every capitalist to press a given quantity of labour out of a smaller, rather than a greater number of labourers, if the cost is about the same. In the latter case, the outlay of constant capital increases in proportion to the mass of labour set in action; in the former that increase is much smaller. The more extended the scale of production, the stronger this motive. Its force increases with the accumulation of capital

    – Karl Marx, Das Kapital

    Basically if your boss is paying you and your coworkers overtime, then they’re just not paying another employee. You make a little more money but your boss makes a lot more, and has no incentive to hire another person. In fact as long as he can get people to work overtime, its actually against their interest to hire more people. The whole time they’re crying how none wants to work, but really they’re not willing to hire anyone unless it is for less than half of your salary. If they do they lose money.

    Get organized



  • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.nettome_irl@lemmy.mlI feel it in my soul
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    First, the fact that labor is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He feels at home when he is not working, and when he is working he does not feel at home. His labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need; it is merely a means to satisfy needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that as soon as no physical or other compulsion exists, labor is shunned like the plague. External labor, labor in which man alienates himself, is a labor of self-sacrifice, of mortification. Lastly, the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that it is not his own, but someone else’s, that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself, but to another. Just as in religion the spontaneous activity of the human imagination, of the human brain and the human heart, operates on the individual independently of him – that is, operates as an alien, divine or diabolical activity – so is the worker’s activity not his spontaneous activity. It belongs to another; it is the loss of his self.

    – KM, Economic Manuscripts



  • So I’m not sure what other people’s experience with Bedbugs are, but i just wanted to put this out, there’s this biopesticide called Aprehend that actually works. It has to be put on with a special sprayer that costs like $500 but ya boy juice knows everything about paint sprayers, and found a $60 airbrush to put it on with.

    I couldn’t get completely rid of them for years. I can’t tell you how many steam treatments, and treatments with temprid (which is good) I had done over the years…but they always came back. I threw out all the furniture, I bought new beds, everything. My house is only like 2 years old and they were in the fucking walls.

    One treatment of Aprehend and a week later they were done. The product was expensive but for like $300 I was done with bedbugs and had enough product to treat 5 houses. They are a trauma. If anyone is struggling with them DM me and I’ll tell you what I’ve learned