charlescearl (u/charlescearl)

charlescearl commented on Is it a bubble? oaktreecapital.com/insigh... · Posted by u/saigrandhi

The term “populist demagoguery” always calls to mind Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-work...

"Yes, peasant associations are necessary, but they are going rather too far."

Is it a bubble? Maybe it’s just the landlords up to the old tricks again.

charlescearl commented on Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity fortune.com/2025/12/06/us... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

charlescearl · 11 days ago

The evisceration of the pension system in the united states has created a class of those nearing retirement who will live in poverty. https://www.ncoa.org/article/addressing-the-nations-retireme...

The result of “fiscal restraint” amounts to acceptance of premature death for millions. Likely acceptable to a country that has accepted excess COVID deaths and support for genocides in West Asia, East & Central Africa, and South America. I only hope that boomers turn to anarchist resistance and disruption.

charlescearl commented on A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/flail

charlescearl · 21 days ago

Ali Kadri’s The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction comes to mind

https://lpeproject.org/events/the-accumulation-of-waste-a-po...

charlescearl commented on PRC elites voice AI-skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

charlescearl · 23 days ago

Jamestown Foundation was founded by former CIA director to support Soviet defectors and seems to have employed former employees. A 2021 FOIA request that the agency provide all records related to its interaction with the foundation was denied https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/foi...

charlescearl commented on America is bracing for political violence – and significant portion think its OK politico.com/news/2025/11... · Posted by u/alephnerd

postflopclarity · 2 months ago

"bracing" ?

we already have it.

In order of approximately most significant to least significant acts of political violence just in the last 6 months:

* The assassination of Melissa Hortman (D - MN House) and attempted assassinations of John Hoffman (D - MN Senate) and each of their spouses.

* The assassination attempt (arson) on Josh Shapiro (D - PA Governor)

* The assassination of Charlie Kirk (R - not a public official)

and there were several other acts of political violence in 2024 (including the attempted assassinations of Trump and of Nancy Pelosi and her husband)

charlescearl · 2 months ago

- The excess deaths experienced by unhoused persons - The excess deaths of persons that live in in the so-called Cancer Alley https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards-of-lo... - The persistent excess deaths of those incarcerated in american prisons https://www.vera.org/news/the-hidden-deaths-in-american-jail... - The american mass shootings in 2025 https://massshootingtracker.site/ - The internationalized violence of ICE arrests and attacks https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5538090/ice-detention-c...

These are all instances of political violence. The political class in the united states deemed particular populations disposable, and enacted policies that lead to excess deaths and extreme violence upon those populations. Millions in the united states live under the threat of state violence and politcally accepted exposure to premature death.

The article and comments refer to the resulting counter-violence that perpetrators of the un-remarked systemic violence may become exposed to.

charlescearl commented on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program pyfound.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/lumpa

charlescearl · 2 months ago

On the ending of “DEI” (itself an eviscerated approach to addressing the minimal demands to address over two centuries of american slavery, indigenous genocide, patriarchal violence, anti-trans, anti-queer violence) as targeted death making. The list of the scientific establishment’s participation, complicity, neglect is long. Some programs called immediately to mind include:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards-of-lo...

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/about/index.html

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/education-and-awaren...

https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/infant-health-and-mortality-a...

charlescearl commented on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado nobelprize.org/prizes/pea... · Posted by u/pykello

danabrams · 2 months ago

Maduro, Castro, and Saddam Hussein are/were bad. Castro and Hussein, at least, committed murders to maintain power and Maduro pulled a coup after he lost an election.

Whether they were worth removing is another question, but if you could flip a switch and magically replace them with something better (with no cost and a guarantee the replacement would not be a murderous authoritarian) you would of course do it.

charlescearl · 2 months ago

The uncritical, unfounded, white supremacist equivalence of the names of Global South heads of state that share nothing other than their inclusion in the never-ending spectacle of a collapsing and always fascist empire’s hitlist. I’m reminded of how this abomination of a country relentlessly linked Marcus Garvey (Black nationalist and Capitalist) and W.E.B. DuBois (Black pan-Africanist and eventually communist) both with the label “Bolshevik” and “Communist threat” as justification for surveillance, incarceration.

This “dictator” meme, played out for the last 100 plus years is tired and tiring especially in a place that has a higher incarceration rate than USSR in the 1930s ( or Cuba ) and is currently snatching up folk for the crime of speaking Spanish, while US Southern Command blows up Venezuelan fisherman for the crime of feeding their families.

charlescearl commented on Cuba hit with fifth blackout in less than a year with 10M people in the dark theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

cogman10 · 3 months ago

Compared to the US. While not uncontested (they are accused of falsifying data), cuba posts better infant mortality rates.

A lot of the medical issues in Cuba aren't related to the healthcare system but rather to trade embargos. It's a small miracle they do as well as they do given the constraints of being an island nation.

The reason for their success on a shoestring budget is administrative competence. They have a large number of clinics (rather than big hospital complexes) and education in medicine starts at those clinics. Future doctors work and are educated in medicine moving up into specialties. It's a little like making everyone that wants to practice medicine start as a orderly in a family medicine clinic.

IMO, this is superior to the US system of requiring several years of schooling before ever interacting with patients. And if you know an old nurse, you'll know they often do know a lot more than new doctors.

charlescearl · 3 months ago

This amidst an unrelenting united states “embargo” - in another world this embargo would be called the crime against humanity that it is.

I often think of this Logic article on Cuban information retrieval design. “ Informatics of the Oppressed”, by Rodrigo Ochigame https://logicmag.io/care/informatics-of-the-oppressed/

charlescearl commented on US lawmakers introduce bill to strip citizens of passports over Israel criticism thecradle.co/articles-id/... · Posted by u/slt2021

charlescearl · 3 months ago

Passport revocation of Paul Robeson https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/selected-t...

Passport revocation of W.E.B. DuBois https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/when-civil-rights-were...

Passport revocation of William L. Patterson https://depts.washington.edu/moves/CRC_genocide.shtml

charlescearl commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927

charlescearl · 3 months ago

The american state was brought into existence and persists through unrelenting political violence - internal and external. The estimated 90% of Indigenous population that perished; persistent excess deqths of indigenous peoples https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1698152/; persistent racialized violence perpetrated by the state on Black communities; the exploitation and arbitrary state violence upon documented and undocumented non-citizen workers (or those perceived to be non-citizens); the 5 million that have perished during GWOT; the 5 million or so excess USSR deaths from US policies during the early 1990s; the violence of carceral warfare (the so-called “mass incarceration”) against racialized populations.

Aime Cesaire called it “imperial boomerang”; Malcolm X said “chickens coming home to roost”.

Yet the only form of violence that legible to the bourgeoisie is even the prospect of resistance & counterviolence - most of the recent attacks upon capitalists & those labeled as “right wing” seem to have not come from “the left”.