If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they're lying.
Evidence or GTFO.
Seems more like the standard fascist approach to me. It's probably not going to stay government owned.
- Demonize a minority group
- Government takes control of businesses owned by members of that minority
- Government gives control of the business to (typically larger) businesses owned by the dominant group, allowing them to artificially produce growth (what Zucc is likely aiming for)
- Narrow the scope of who is accepted in the dominant group, move on to the next minority, and repeat.
This is why communists often describe fascism as "capitalism in decay." Because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, it becomes harder and harder for companies to find new ways of producing growth, and have to find methods that aren't involved with actually increasing productivity, which is where you get enshittification. The fascist economic solution is obviously unsustainable, it's like eating your own arm, but corporations that are desperately focused on short term growth (the vast majority of them) will happily sign on.
Socialism, otoh, is not about finding more stuff to feed into corporations, but, upon reaching that point, transforming the economy to remove the need for endless growth through nationalization. But socialism is not synonymous with nationalization, especially when the nationalization is selectively targeted and (most likely) temporary.
Mandatory military service is the one case where accelerationism might possibly make sense. The fact that the military is made up of volunteers makes it harder to radicalize, and people are more willing to support war because, "The soldiers chose to be there." Go ahead, rip people away from the comfort of our homes, give us guns and training, and tell us we have to go risk our lives murdering brown people on the other side of the world in pointless conflicts in service of corporate interests - it's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them.
I oppose the draft because I wouldn't want to subject myself or others to that. But at the same time, I dare them to try it.
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Also, wouldn’t this actually be deflation in the value of silver and / or inflation of the value of labor relative to it?
:::spoiler Shhhhhh!
Yes. It would be deflation but the joke doesn't work that way and I figured I could get away with it.
I chose to tell the joke knowing it contained an error, bringing shame and dishonor upon my family.
Funny how female Dem senators won in three of the swing states Kamala lost. Given the limited data, it's hard to imagine how we could possibly have more evidence that you're wrong.
Your dataset is two, and they both ran with very similar strategies of moving right to try to appeal to moderate Republicans. Biden meanwhile had the enormous failure of Covid working to his advantage.
Pretty much all of those things have to do with gerrymandering, lmao.
I'm used to y'all punching down at regular people to defend the Democratic party from any and all criticism, but I didn't realize you'd also punch down to deflect blame from the Republican party too. I thought it was just a matter of party loyalty, but I guess it's more pathological than that.
Seriously, mentioning gerrymandering is a "victim complex?" At that point, why even care about politics at all? Everyone should stop worrying about how rigged things are and just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps! Who even cares how much democracy crumbles around me, no matter how undemocratic it gets, I'll just, what did you suggest? Call my gerrymandered wife-beater representative and ask nicely?
But then I guess you wouldn't get to condescend and look down on people. I suppose that's the real purpose of politics, huh?
Hey, I have an idea. Maybe, since you're so much better than everyone, you should go out to backwoods East Tennessee, drive up secluded driveways, walk past the Confederate flags in the yards, knock on their doors, and explain to them why they should vote Democrat. Sound good?
It's gerrymandered to all hell. A federal court literally ruled it's gerrymandered along political, rather than racial lines, which makes it legal somehow.
TN-4, which includes the college town of Murfreesboro, used to lean blue, but they lumped it together with a bunch of rural areas going all the way out to East Tennessee and now it's one of the safest red seats in the country, held by a dirtbag domestic abuser.
Gov. Haslem may have been a corporate tool but at least he pushed back on some of the culture war bullshit. Ever since he retired, the far-right kicked into overdrive. They're all trying to outdo each other and the state government has no understanding of how the law even works. If an issue is mentioned on Fox News, a new law will be proposed about it within the week.
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Inflation's gotten so bad, nowadays all you get is a T-shirt. Used to be you could get 40 pieces of silver for it.
Literally the worst result since the Republicans won California.
JFC I don't know which is dumber between unironically believing in accelerationism or stanning RFK. That is fundamentally not how the world works. What's actually going to happen is that we'll continue living in the shitty system we have now except with more diseases, less access to healthcare, and more quack medicine in its place.
The voters could have also not voted trump in, why not get mad at them?
This is so completely upside down it hurts. "Why punch up when you could punch down?"
Even if voters were the ones at fault, it's completely pointless and unproductive to blame the public at large because changing their behavior is a hell of a lot harder than changing the behavior of the handful of people running the campaign. They should be the ones to change based on what the voters want, it shouldn't be the voters who have to change based on what politicians want to do!
Price of eggs.
THE PRICE OF EGGS ANGLE WORKED WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT??
The economic angle has been tried to death
It really, really hasn't lol.
and a constant refrain I hear is, “how can people vote against their own self-interests?!” It’s because the other side speaks to the animal brain, not the frontal lobes.
Yeah, and the animal brain wants stuff. And so do the frontal lobes, so it doesn't really matter what part of their brain they're using. Of course, you can't just maintain the status quo and talk about how the other guy would be worse. The status quo sucks and is getting worse and even if it didn't our brains aren't wired to be satisfied with it. That messaging, sure, it's been tried and failed, because it's basically just lecturing people on how they're not smart enough to understand economics and should be satisfied with what they've got. When I say economic messaging, I mean promising people new stuff beyond maintenance of the status quo.
The murder of a pretty, young nursing student activates strong emotions and has a lot more cognitive stickiness than economic arguments about who gets paid how much to pick our strawberries. Guarantee that if voters picture his grubby, little fingers sliding into a vagina in a department store dressing room, they’ll remember it.
Ok, I would like to collect on that guarantee, right now. Because you tried it already, over and over again, and it didn't fucking work. I guarantee you that it won't work if you keep trying it. If your position was at all true, Trump would've lost in 2016 when it first came out, when they could hear it straight from the horse's mouth! No matter how you phrase it, it'll never be more compelling than that moment when it first came out.
I repeat this for the third time since you seem to have missed it the first two times I said it: even if you were right, which you're absolutely not, Trump isn't even eligible to run again. Even if you've finally hit on the exact right phrasing that'll definitely get through to people, this time I swear (you didn't), you're too late.
That's ridiculous. You're thinking way too small, you can't just use the same line of attack over and over again with slightly different phrasing and expect it to suddenly start working.
Trump repeatedly crossed lines that were supposed to tank his campaign. You can't just chalk that up to some people using slightly less visceral language than you think they should have. The reason nothing sticks to him is because people have decided, "We don't care how much of a dirtbag he is, because he's our dirtbag." The only thing that can challenge that is to attack him on economics and demonstrate how he isn't actually working towards people's interests, and in order to do that convincingly, it's necessary to adopt a platform that does benefit people in a direct, material way.
For all the words that have been spilled about things like finger-raping a woman or January 6th or any of the other shitty things he's done, how much of it directly impacts the average voter? The best way to reach people is by appealing to their own material interests. Instead of, "Donald Trump fucked a pornstar" how about, "Donald Trump is fucking you, right now."
The only time Trump lost an election was when his botched handling of COVID directly impacted people's lives. I'm not sure what would have to happen for liberals to understand that the electorate does not give a shit about Trump's character. And even if they did, as I pointed out, he's not eligible to run again, so the whole thing's moot. Maybe next time they'll run someone clean as a whistle with the exact same policies, although, I suppose if they're smart, they'll run another dirtbag so liberals get distracted focusing on that.
This is the same playbook they've been using since Trump first appeared and it doesn't work. People don't care that much about Trump's scandals, they need to focus on economic messaging. Besides, he's ineligible to run again so they need to have a strategy aimed at countering the right more broadly, not just one specific person.
Except, of course, to Israel.
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I also choose Inscryption but for the ability to sacrifice cards to add their ability to another card, which can also get ridiculously OP.
For example, if you put the Cockroach's Unkillable Sigil on a Skink, whenever it dodges an attack it creates an Unkillable Lizard Tail card that's free to play and can be sacrificed repeatedly, as well as used to block. This is one of the ways of dealing with the Kaycee's Mod challenge that makes the bosses spawn 8 Grizzlys.
There's so many weird combos and stuff to discover in the game, even after completing all the challenges in Kaycee's Mod I wish there was more to do.
Hi! Democrats bad, Genocide Joe. Not sure what you want us to say, this was expected and I would do the same thing again.
Hyperbole is a form or rhetorical trickery.
Nothing else you said is relevant. I commented to point out a lie, or "hyperbole" if you want to call it that. If you want to debate something unrelated to that "hyperbole," bring it up somewhere where it doesn't serve as a deflection from a legitimate call-out.
If you take this position of, "Using hyperbole to exaggerate the other side's position to make it easier to attack is perfectly fine," it doesn't exactly give me confidence that you're going to engage in anything resembling good faith. This sort of attitude is unfortunately pervasive around here, which is why I have to use that first line so frequently.
When did, "End Racism" become a controversial political statement? 🤔