quarrk [he/him]
they weren’t primarily being intended from birth to be sold
The “production” of slaves consisted in the fetching, not in their births. They were, in the twisted logic of slavery, “naturally occurring” resources to be exploited. It is just as immaterial how they came to be in their environment as the fact that iron ultimately was created in a supernova far before the era of capitalism. Likewise, the capitalist value of slaves corresponded to the socially necessary labor for their reproduction; not labor in general, but labor that socially counted as equal homogenous labor, ie the labor of the European slavers.
The “production” of slaves was comparable to the production of machines. They didn’t work for a wage or directly produce surplus value. Their value was preserved in the product in proportion to the average working lifespan. The logic of why slavery took over as the dominant “technology” of the Southern capitalist production methods is the same as any other technology like the cotton gin; it reduced the amount of socially necessary labor (again, labor that counted as social labor, generally white labor).
Sorry to dig up an old comment but I thought it was an interesting discussion. I think all here agree that whether the CSA were capitalists doesn’t make a big material difference. Especially since I see below you agreed chattel slavery does ultimately look capitalist.
Nature is full of camouflaging organisms, so it could be that: a strong aversion instinct to camouflaged things which can be threatening. False-eye camouflages give me a similar uncanny valley feeling to androids.
Could also have to do with rejecting deformed offspring like others have mentioned.
This is great. Reminds me of how you can replace the word “may” in headlines with “may not”, because so many speculative articles are written without any substance at all, and no one’s going to read an article titled, “Pfizer CEO: We May Not Have a Cure for Cancer”
Actually, it’d be great to reverse-engineer liberal news with your list here. We can call it LibGPT. It’ll be affordable and accessible, and it’ll be 100% data-driven to put a moratorium on :LIB: ness.
LeBertarian
No need for conspiracy theories when the simpler explanation is that Bernie is a true believer in electoralism and functioning democracy in America. He believed civility would win out, that a popular message would overwhelm party narratives. He was wrong. But he’s also not a hard line leftist. He doesn’t have a great history with Biden in congress, but he really hates Trump.
The charging bricks have had detachable USB-C cords since 2016 or so.
Yes, I had a first-gen Air. The cord was not swappable, and coincidentally it also had a limited lifespan due to a degradable plastic that turned yellow and peeled off over time due to heat. I had exposed grounding wires on my charging cable for most of college. I really like the new ones though.