I thought I understood US politics…even if it was by osmosis given the sheer volume we’re exposed to…but lately I felt like I only understood the dem half…after the election I’m not sure and by now I have this “there is no hope of understanding this mess, different culture, different values” that I get from trying to understand Indian politics.

Those just reminded me of another one I like and has a sub 6 score: Beverly Hills Ninja :D

I wouldn’t say it was prophetic, because most of it was already there in 2000, but less virulent. But yeah, Mike Judge had to push against the industry to get it out, so at least some corpos were aware of what he was saying too. That is why it wasn’t higher, because Fox tried to neglect-kill it.

Reddit is a shit platform, became worse with the IPO and LLMs, but mainly, to me, the moderation is completely haphazard and the shitty posters were let loose. The inconsistency in moderation made me give up on being constructive.

Here, if you find an instance and communities with good ground rules you agree with, it works. You even have a modlog for transparency.

Meanwhile, the orange clown is celebrating his 27B tariff surcharge…penny wise.

So in some cases the writers ain’t writing them, the peer reviewers ain’t readin’ them…and nearly noone reads them… :/ and the ones who do and finally alert people for glaring mistakes…have to pay for the privilege?

It’s impossible to negotiate with these guys, because they have no clear demands. They just want what “looks” like as much as they can get away with…

For reference: the population of Africa is 1.5Billion.

If it was autonomous, why did it need starlink?

“I’m so ronery…”

haha, this, but trump himself bends a lot too, multiple times a day. He’s like dough.

Yeah, I have no idea why CBS is reporting on this Pakistan stuff. I don’t need to hear about murders in random countries.

PS: 1000 people are murdered every day all over the world. Roughly 30% of those are intrafamilial.

Hey, this is all part of a master plan, ok? tramp always plays 10D chess.

The plan so far:

Maybe they can form the Western Hemisphere anti-cunt organization with Canada and Mexico (WHACO) against indiscriminate tariffs and political interference.

Because Europe, Canada, Australia want to keep options open instead of throwing their lot with China, which they see as a potential threat too. Brazil has little to lose, because the only threat to them right now is the US and their Bolsonarist bitches.

Looks like tramp wants the US to grow its own chocolate and coffee…genius. No more cheap hamberders either.

Theory usually needs to compromise when confronted with reality, there are no blank slates or ideal conditions. Ask the communists.

Yes, indeed, socialism is an intellectual offshoot of capitalism/liberalism/enlightenment (not neoliberalism, of course) that emerged as a reaction to the industrial revolution (and the French revolution, or you could go as far back as the English civil war, with the levellers) as a reaction to the wealth inequality it creates and it predates Marxism, but communism coopted the term and made it seem exclusively authoritarian (because that was supposedly the only way to beat capital).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#Etymology

Engels wrote that in 1848, when The Communist Manifesto was published, socialism was respectable in Europe while communism was not. The Owenites in England and the Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists while working-class movements that “proclaimed the necessity of total social change” denoted themselves communists.[54] This branch of socialism produced the communist work of Étienne Cabet in France and Wilhelm Weitling in Germany.[55] British moral philosopher John Stuart Mill discussed a form of economic socialism within free market. In later editions of his Principles of Political Economy (1848), Mill posited that “as far as economic theory was concerned, there is nothing in principle in economic theory that precludes an economic order based on socialist policies”[56][57] and promoted substituting capitalist businesses with worker cooperatives.[58] While democrats looked to the Revolutions of 1848 as a democratic revolution which in the long run ensured liberty, equality, and fraternity, Marxists denounced it as a betrayal of working-class ideals by a bourgeoisie indifferent to the proletariat.[59]

Yes, but that is no reason to disparage socialism itself. In authoritarian socialism, it is the authoritarian part that sucks.

Democratic market socialism is a perfectly moderate ideology (too moderate, because often it lets the market win over and the democracy decay). You can also consider weekends, paid leave, women’s vote, public education, healthcare, public media and social security as socialist policies. It is one of the main political currents founding the EU and in South America. Only in the US is it used to describe radicals or as an insult.

I’m even reluctant to point this out to magats now, because they never get the point and may even get it in their head that these are the things to destroy wherever they exist, just because they’re socialist in origin.