Botond173
11hr ago
Never in a million years would I have expected the word 'evangelion' to be brought up in such a context here or any other place. It's Old Greek supposedly?
Botond173
12hr ago
I’m just a layman regarding these matters. I’m assuming that military command gets recon carried out of targets it is to target with missiles. Satellite photos, maybe aerial recon, SIGINT and so on. I guess that’s supposed to be evident to a layman like me? So if there’s an enemy military base which had its perimeter changed years before, and as a result there is a building that used to be barracks but is now a school, recon should confirm that in time. There’s no need for a separate unit to be set up under a fancy name with the specific task of preventing collateral damage.
Botond173
1d ago
Do you specifically mean alcohol sales at bars and clubs? I'd also like to know what exactly 'a few years ago' means here.
Botond173
1d ago
We work remotely
Not new hires in their first corporate job ever though. Also, kids still attend public schools and college, don't they? That hasn't changed. I imagine economic stagnation may have reached such levels that only few college students can afford to go on summer vacations.
Botond173
1d ago
Indeed. Society only functions properly if people form meaningful friendships.
Botond173
1d ago
Unfortunately I think there are units with even more woke people in them.
Botond173
1d ago
like a small unit in a bloated imperial military that tries to reduce collateral damage by fucking checking whether a building marked 10 years ago as barracks is clearly something else now".
This seems to be a standard job for military recon units, doesn't it? Before you fire on a target, confirm where it is and what it is. Shouldn't that be evident? What's the point in creating a separate unit responsible for reducing collateral damage? And then naming it 'Civilian Protection Center of Excellence' to boot?
Botond173
1d ago
The Pentagon chief last year slashed offices that didn’t contribute to his goal of “lethality,” including the group that assists in limiting risk to civilians, known as the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.
Seriously??
Botond173
1d ago
This is the consequence of the Great Awokening. Welcome to the current year.
Botond173
2d ago
Fair enough. My point is that the "neo-" part has a more concrete and agreed-upon definition than the "late-" part.
Botond173
2d ago
Adding this for further context:
The development of capitalism is divided into three stages.[6] The first volume of Der moderne Kapitalismus published in 1902, deals with proto-capitalism, the origins and transition to capitalism from feudalism,[7] and the period he called early capitalism – Frühkapitalismus – which ended before the Industrial Revolution.[8] In his second volume, which he published in 1916, he described the period that began c. 1760, as high capitalism – Hochkapitalismus.[9] The last book, published in 1927, treats conditions in the 20th century. He called this stage late capitalism – Spätkapitalismus, which began with World War I.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart#Middle_career_and_sociology
In somewhat comical fashion, Wikipedia authors examined Sombart himself and drew similar biographical conclusions:
As a young man, Sombart was a socialist who associated with Marxist intellectuals and the German Social Democratic Party. Friedrich Engels praised Sombart's review of the first edition of Marx's Das Kapital Vol. 3 in 1894, and sent him a letter.[9] As a mature academic who became well known for his own sociological writings, Sombart had a sympathetically critical attitude to the ideas of Karl Marx — seeking to criticize, modify and elaborate Marx's insights, while disavowing Marxist doctrinairism and dogmatism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Initial_use_of_the_term
Botond173
2d ago
True. Historians also differentiate Early and Late Antiquity or Early and Late Feudalism. I guess one can also speak of Mature/Peak Antiquity/Feudalism if we want to divide eras even further. The existence of any economic system is conditional and conditions are necessarily subject to change, which means no system can continue indefinitely, and nor can cancer.
Botond173
2d ago
According to Wikiquote this seems to be the quote you are looking for:
The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co-operate together, knowing no rivalry but the rivalry of endeavour toward an end beneficial to all. For, as we have said elsewhere, socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only Human. We of the socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all.
These are actually the closing words of a pamphlet he wrote in 1910 as a response to the anti-socialist lectures of some Priest. Well...technically speaking we cannot say if he was correct or incorrect. Four years later the entire world had an opportunity to learn what the firebrand of capitalist warfare is in its true form, and he argued that only a globally united working class can possibly prevent that disaster. I guess that may be true in retrospect.
Botond173
2d ago
I think it's obvious that the phrase "neoliberalism" was invented in order to differentiate the liberal economic policies as they existed before and after the emergence and implementation of Keynesianism.
Botond173
2d ago
I'll not ask you to doxx yourself but I just wonder where all your friends live then. Is it some suburb in the Rust Belt? Some stagnant town in Central Valley, CA? What is going on here?
Botond173
2d ago
That means it's likely a 30+ minute car ride to meet with a friend. 60 minutes all in just for commute to meet with someone.
This implies that you don't have any friends in the suburb you're living in. Is that considered usual in the US?
Botond173
2d ago
I’d prefer not to start discussing something here that is only tangentially related to this miniseries, nor am I an economist or a redditor for that matter, but if you wish to discuss late-stage capitalism in general on this site, I’ll be happy to take part. To keep this comment concise I’d make the following argument.
In early-stage capitalism: the concentration of capital is yet of a low level, some natural resources are still untapped and not depleted, some markets are still unclaimed and unexplored, the low-hanging fruit is generally yet not picked, market forces did not yet eat away at social norms and cultural traditions (fertility rates and family formation rates are still high, and labor is plentiful), the environment is not yet poisoned and contaminated all over. In late-stage capitalism, none of that is true anymore.
I think it’s obvious. Of the three recorded deaths at Woodstock, one was a simple accident (you shouldn’t fall asleep on a hayfield where tractors move around) and two were drug overdoses. Compared to this, there were 742 recorded nonlethal overdoses according to Wikipedia. I imagine any jurisdiction in the US affected by the opioid epidemic (more or less all of them?) would be rather happy to produce such a ratio in their police reports. There was not one recorded murder or rape. Compared to this, hired security stabbed a man to death in Altamont, which is a significant difference. (The other three recorded cases of death were due to mundane accidents.)
I present to you a true crime story from Miami from last year – I’m assuming it wasn’t discussed here yet.
"This fella is a really bad guy. He is the epitome of evil. He hunts his prey. He’s patient with his prey, and then he kills them," Miami Beach Police Chief Wayne A. Jones said at a news conference last month. “There’s no doubt in my mind, had he not been caught, he would’ve done this again and again and again."
According to detectives, Zsolyomi is a Hungarian national listed as an illegal overstay by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He wore an ankle monitor after he was released from custody from a robbery arrest in Miami Beach in July of 2024.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/man-accused-of-murdering-elderly-victims-in-miami-miami-beach-pleads-not-guilty/3565482/
The Hungarian man who police said was responsible for two brutal murders in Miami-Dade County is now believed to have been targeting members of the LGBTQ+ community.[…] Zsolyomi is facing two counts of second-degree murder from the cases dating back to November and January, in which police said he had befriended both men before strangling them to death. Zsolyomi is currently being held without bond and he has been placed on an immigration hold because authorities said he overstayed his visa.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/hungarian-zsolt-zsolyomi-miami-beach-little-havana-murders-lgbtq-targeting/
A Hungarian national who was set to be deported disabled his ankle monitor before he murdered two men in Miami-Dade County, triggering an investigation that led to his arrest, federal authorities said.[…] Investigators said the monitor was placed on him a month earlier by ICE officials while at the Krome Detention Center in West Miami-Dade.
In a statement, an ICE spokesperson wrote that in July of 2024, “Miami Beach Police arrested Zsolyomi for strong-arm robbery, [and] he was encountered by ICE” shortly thereafter.
Federal authorities said the Hungarian was in the U.S. illegally and scheduled to be deported, but in September, the ICE statement reads, “He was processed and then released” with the GPS monitor.
https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/ice-hungarian-national-charged-in-miami-south-beach-murders-was-set-to-be-deported-before-crimes/
Obviously a clear-cut case it is. Since then it was reported that he’s probably getting sentenced to death. What possible culture war angle is there besides the involvement of ICE, you might ask? Well, I’m not much of a true crime nerd and don’t know much about law enforcement procedures, but I’ll say this: when the guy was arrested for armed robbery, I’m sure he still had his passport in his possession. Would have he just thrown it away after his tourist visa expired? I’d be surprised.
It’s not like I’m expecting much of any police force anywhere, but had they checked his identity and then contacted Hungarian authorities, they’d have learned that there are multiple outstanding arrest warrants against him. He’s the sort of dime-a-dozen criminal hoodlum who was probably never planning to do a single day of honest work in his life and he isn’t even a nobody, as he participated in an episode of some lame-ass local TV reality show. Had they learned about this in time, I assume federal authorities could have just deported him to his native country, right? Not only is he a criminal, by the way, but also a white guy, probably a bisexual, but is not identifying as a homosexual, so he wasn’t even going to get any sympathy points.
To address another aspect, him being described as ‘targeting members of the LGBTQ+ community’ sort of insinuates that these were somehow hate crimes, when in reality he was simply selecting victims who had money and were easy to victimize, and took pretty much the easiest path there is.
And there’s a sort of funny aspect to this too: there are local liberal-leaning news sites simply describing him as an ‘illegal immigrant’. Technically speaking he is one indeed, but the journalists in question have otherwise completely adopted US Blue Tribe narratives on no human being illegal, welcoming refugees etc. and would never describe anyone as an ‘illegal immigrant’ in other contexts.
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