That’s exactly my belief. Stationary bandit theory is very strong. So the best you can do is a democracy where at least you can kick out bad guys every so often.

That seems fine, if distasteful? Like I’m in support of free expression

What is with hexbear and lemmygrad…why are people calling these out

This is the twitter and reddit ethos. Everyone is Super Smart and You Are Wrong Ha Ha.

On reddit you can find smaller communities where people are more normal and it’s closer to having a discussion at a bar than it is going on to /r/politics or something.

People DEFINITELY don’t like showing up at a new place and posting stuff and people piling on with snark and stuff.

At a certain point you’re at a local maxima and incremental changes just don’t work. They have to be big changes to knock off the hill to another valley and then society has to do the hill climbing again. Sucks and painful but no other way IMO.

Okay, so Luigi didn’t cut healthcare costs. Did you working with people locally cut healthcare costs?

I volunteer in a few things in my neighborhood but I basically do it for warm fuzzies and because I want to make/keep my neighborhood nice. I don’t have any aspirations that it’ll become grander.

When you allow people to buy things freely - in this case a limited resource - this was inevitable. Nothing to do with capitalism, i.e. private ownership of means of production. It would have happened under any system in which people can spend their money on whatever they want.

Here’s where you point out credible alternatives at national scale, where the powerful machinery of state which even Lenin requires doesn’t get taken over by dictatorial narcissist psychos

People don’t want to organize around homeless outreach, that’s why the huge, costly, and incessant efforts in most cities never turn into literally any useful political action. Most people are more selfish than that, and it’s also unclear how giving away donated food and socks translates to anything, anywhere else, in society.

Parents/teacher groups and labor unions are a lot closer to the mark because that stuff has actual impact on the people involved. Although I’m skeptical - the parent/teacher zeitgeist is now one of conflict after the COVID school closures. But it’s a place to get traction.

The old school anarchists used grand acts of violence, i.e. propaganda of the deed. Luigi tried that, seems to have dissipated.

Everyone’s just rich enough to not care about shit like this any more.

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I doubt it. Even moderates understand that the richest man in the world getting his own White House department is novel and worth discussing.

We’re still here.

Generation discourse honestly panders to the lowest common denominator intellect. People who constantly talk about boomers or millennials are usually pretty dumb.

The reason you don’t hear much about Gen X is “we” didn’t cause anything culturally significant in an enduring when “we” were in our 20s.

Or maybe I just want to chat with people about my age

Like punching someone in the dark

This is the sad but inevitable outcome of our busted immigration policy since the late 90s.

Congress never got its act together - nobody bothered to lead - and so we lived with a variety of poor compromises as Americans got angrier and angrier at the lawbreaking. It’s incredible that we had to settle for DACA instead of something like the DREAM Act.

Then the failure to act during the past 5 years made it all even worse.

Luckily most illegal immigrants are very resourceful and eager people who stand a good chance at landing on their feet.

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Zuck sucks but this open letter is embarrassing. Dial back the smarm and self-righteousness a couple notches. I get it’s marketing and not really an open letter but still, cringe

I recommend therapy.

Poe’s law detector fail

chill

Nazism is a very small subset of fascism, they are not equivalent. Nazi also carries VERY heavy baggage which is inapplicable to Trump. Use the right terms.

It’s dumb to call Trump a nazi and the populist wing of the Republican party nazis.

It’s not even clever at this point, maybe it was edgy and transgressive like 7 years ago.

The reason it’s dumb is that you are wasting all of your powerful language and you will have no more if things get worse. Boy who cried wolf. Just like people did to racist which used to carry great power and now is basically meaningless as a powerful descriptor.