supermangoman [he/him, they/them]

you have to assess reactions to the Taliban by their material consequences rather than by what feeling the abstract idealism of a reaction gives you in your tummy

That might be the best sentence on dialectical materialism I have ever read.

They couldn’t care about what long-term accumulation would do to the environment,

This isn’t a “steady state” or constant flow of concentrated waste, right? This is a transient event, as far as I understand it. It’s not like with micro plastics, where more and more of the waste accumulated (and continues to accumulate) over time.

The approach to disposal sounds reasonable.

“Bernie can win” - me four years ago.

These points all do a good job verifying that the government is working for the benefit of the proletariat, but how do you determine that it is actually the workers that are in control? Can a state work in favor of the proletariat and then regress into something that favors the bourgeoisie?

For example, were the workers ever in control in the USSR? If they were, did they lose it? It seems hard to square the dissolution of the USSR with a concurrent dictatorship of the proletariat.

I think “social democracy” is fundamentally different in non imperial core countries, due to a lack of a proper dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Still not socialism though.

Probably pretty expensive, and hazardous. The water can be treated and diluted until it is no longer hazardous, but you now have even more water to store if you don’t release it.

The honeymoon.

I mean it took me 33 years to finally start considering that maybe the USSR wasn’t so bad

There was a weather underground? I lived here for about three years before going to Arizona for six years because I guess I like cacti

Edit: lived most of my life in Kzoo and Adrian before that, mind you

Dam I started Michigan-dering n 1992 so it may be before my time