Old weirdo in Oregon. A system that won't reform will destroy itself.
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That would be one thing. Some of them want to outlaw divorce. Another one could be purposely creating even more of a wealth gap, or eliminating certain profession demographics. Like a lot of white collar or creative professions tend to have fewer children. I'm sure it will all be on the table.
One pretty iron clad trend is that as economies develop, childhood mortality and birthrates drop. What's their planto increase birth rates? I'm going to guess it won't include addressing affordability, but won't mind trampling on people's rights.
This is what going out with some grace and knowing the moment looks like.
Some are critical of Taylor Lorenz's writing style and the reactions she gets, but she's usually right. Creators affiliated with Chorus are the same people consistently behind the curve and more likely to push Dems are cool, than actually try to move dems to a better position.
I'm still seeing a lot of folks around my age (Gen X) confidently saying LLM AI is useless or won't have any real effect any time soon. I'm more in the camp if it's both amazing and terrifying at the same time. There have already been consequences.
Party fuckery isn't new. How many of y'all ever heard of Vice President Henry A. Wallace? youtu.be/h-mavxWkv8g?...
When will Dem leadership realize playing it safe is dangerous and doesn't work. So sad that an org of never Trump Republicans (the bulwark) understands the stakes better than Jefferies.
Newsom trolling Trump is kinda funny, but so sad that it took dems 10 years and a professional team to do basic middle school trolling.
They never wanted a 2 state solution. They wanted annihilation. Hate to say I told you so.
I can only speak on what local media does when we've tried to get coverage. 1. The people in the newsroom are mostly moderate normies. 2. You have to write the story for them. 3. They only really care about clicks & ratings. 4. They don't care to help you or your opposition. They care about biz/$.
Hard to take seriously with pbd as the source though.
I wasn't old enough to remember his presidency and didn't live outside the US firm 78-81. To be fair I don't think a farther left president would have been able to do much. Social democratic politics requires trust and from what I've read trust in government was very low.
He at least tried to make human rights a factor in foreign policy. Unfortunately the trust in government that made the new deal era possible was lost, especially because of the Vietnam war. Many of Carter's govt reforms were the precursor to neoliberalism.
It's actually kinda sad that Biden was our most progressive president since LBJ.
You can STFU about freedom and limited government now.
Legally, it's an autonomous region of China. Most of the world doesn't recognize Taiwan as a fully sovereign country. If you don't think China is looking forward to full control of TSMC some day I don't know what to tell you. However they've caught up in most other areas.
Those chips are all made in China. I'm not defending this, but it's a tax, not a bribe. China limits or restricts strategic exports. However, this is an admission that this was never a security issue and only meant to protect American AI companies.
The department of defense used to be called the department of war. The former was more honest.
I've been in the room when messaging for local elections was discussed and I've found there's this instinct to cater to imagined moderates that don't exist.
I'm not joining their mailing list to read it, but that's definitely the sentiment from a lot of the party leadership. I know a lot of normie Dems and there's no appetite for this.
I'd take libertarians more seriously if they recognized government isn't the only source of power that causes problems.
Cuomo was KO'd in round 1, so...
Man, Threads is freaking terrible. Like almost Twitter terrible.
I will never not be amazed when downloading a 100MB file takes a negligible number of seconds. I remember the 28K modem days when that meant staring the download before bed and hoping it didn't randomly disconnect during the night.
I'm in Oregon. Every few summers for the last 15 years we get a week or two of orange/brown/black skies. This wasn't normal when I was younger.
Does this mean I need to read Das Kapital again?
The low gravity and lack of a magnetic field make terraforming to something suitable for human life basically impossible.
BRICS would actually be beneficial world wide if done gradually. Trump seems to think he can take in the works all at once just pushing more nations toward BRICS. A fast drastic transition would probably be bad for the world, and catastrophic for the US.
You should watch Genetically Modified Skeptic's video on waiting to testify before the TX legislature.
At this rate the bombs will drop before fallout 5 is released.
No one made HRC have all those pro war talking points. There are no extra voters in that lane. Maybe it got some big MIC donations. I still voted for her, but Iraq was still a fresh memory. Stuff like that was a mega turnoff for a lot of people.
This should be as good as the Sam Sedar one. I still think this show is terrible though.
It's sad that Colbert lost his job, but I'm hoping to see a Stephen Colbert free of the corporate leash. That guy from 20 years ago is still in there, right?
Saw a bunch of people on FB trying to figure out what this means. 😂
As an American I am outraged at this claim This goes back to the Wilson administration in the 1920s.
Anon posters on Facebook groups can be literally anyone. 🤣
Funniest thing about Marco Rubio. Most of the Trump/Russia stuff originated from the Steele Dossier. The Dossier was initially funded by Paul Singer a Rubio supporter.
I kinda get why folks are disappointed with YouTube video essayists not speaking much on Gaza. I also get it might be tricky to fit the format. Meanwhile daily content creators like Meidas Touch, Brian Tyler Cohen and David Packman get a pass.
Yeah, plenty to criticize, but Goldwater, Reagan and William F Buckley saw people like that and the John Birch Society as a threat and worked to marginalize their influence. That faction owns the party now.
I watched it. That wasn't what I took away. As a white guy in some of those white leftist spaces I know what he's talking about. Some people's passion comes off as self righteous and tone deaf. No reason to pretend there won't be an effort to weaponize it.
With all the recent plane crashes and space x explosions this seems like the logical next move.
November is a loooong way off and they are going to use every day to try to destroy this man. I don't think it will work.
They are really digging. 😂
I can't tell if you are intentionally or ironically contradicting yourself, but whatever. If you want to avoid fascism or anything that rhymes you can't ignore how it rises or what it actually is in practice.
In the early 30s Mussolini said Italy had 22 corporations. The list was clearly about market sectors and not individual corporations.
What are you arguing? I've never found a legit citation for quote you posted. And he didn't use "Corporatism" like you or I would. Mussolini's "corporatism" was about sectorizing society into a societal hierarchy with the economy under state direction.
Like I said, they rise out of similar conditions. Not to mention in practice fascism in practice goes beyond the narrow scope of a single line from Mussolini. Like toxic nostalgia for a mythologized past, ultra-nationalism, fear of others/change, patriarchy, racism/othering etc.
And the material conditions that gave rise to fascism were eerily similar to what led to tyrannical reactionary regimes of the past. History didn't start in the 19th or 20th century. Ignoring this only means you'll be blindsided when it happens under another system.
Fascism is the name when it comes out of a liberal democracy with a market based economy. Similar things happened going back to at least the ancient Greeks. Aristotle called it perversions of government. Socialism might have additional tools, but you'll still need constant advocacy to avoid it.
There are lots of examples in sci-fi of human labor without conscious awareness. This is usually physical labor or doing something evil. AI has a context window limitation. How long until they start experimenting with humans via brain chips to solve this?
I'm just pretending that all the fireworks tonight are a protest against this current government.
I'm out on yamhill county. There are still plenty of fireworks, but not as many as last year.
I've seen signs like this before, but this was in a gift shop in rural eastern Oregon. Like the part of Oregon that's essentially deep red rural Idaho.
I literally don't give a fuck how many abortions Lilly Allen had. It's none of my business and it's none of yours.
Fellow Americans, I just wanted to say on this 4th of July that we are the bad guys far more often than we are the good guys. This is not a recent development.
China engages in empire as well. Albeit more with economics and investment than bombs like we do.
This isn't new. We've seen online content get cannibalized and slightly reworded to skirt plagiarism accusations. This is the next logical step. I have problems with Andrew Yang, but he predicted this several years ago. He said the only solution was subsidizing journalism. I think he was right.
Curious what people to sign off on an email. Are there generational differences? I'm Gen X and usually use - Thanks. I get some emails that sign off with -Sincerely- which usually feels weird. Regards- seems professional, but cold. Almost angry like "good day" in a British costume drama.
51 here. Peanuts have been a mainstay of my diet since childhood. I'm 5'9 and ballooned to 235 about 15 years ago. I'm still a bit overweight usually at 185-190, but much healthier now. Cutting sugar was the key. My blood pressure is 120/80.
Back in school (80s/early 90s) I knew many of my teacher's views. History teacher: Zinn/Chomsky Econ Teacher: Reagan pic on desk Biology: liberal christian lesbian Speech coach: former Dem state rep. US govt: spoke glowingly of both Friedman and Lenin Anyone saying they didn't know is dumb or lying.
I think loomer secretly wants to move to Chicago so she can vote for you.
With emails begging for donations?
It can't just be a zero tolerance policy. It must be a spectacle. How long until public torture and executions?
The plan never changes
It is breaking my heart that disabled people and their families telling how scared they are about Medicaid cuts...seems to mean nothing to those in power.
They are real leaders, whereas official leadership has proven themselves ineffective, irrelevant and a relic of the past. Like I'm actually a bit skeptical of Crocket's politics, but at least she's fighting.
They are a very particular cohort, the ones whose talent is courting big donors. We need to give the voters credit for rejecting the establishment candidate and bad faith leadership concern trolling.
They meant all of them depending on the situation. Jefferson in particular thought there should be a new constitutional convention every 20 years. So what's the solution when that doesn't happen?
It's about time
He already did
Seems relevant
Dems already have several viable "Joe Rogans of the Left" possibilities. That would mean, at the very least, making their politics part of the conversation. Kyle Kulinsky and Hasan Piker come to mind. Instead, they want someone safe with no audience.
The conversation always ends the same way.
Hexadecimal and binary are the only number systems I accept as real.
All because Ethan can't handle criticism.
I'd give this award to Schumer, but Jeffries is definitely a worthy competitor for runner up. Honorable mention for Harris becoming invisible after the election.
How about just Rob? Like when you go to get a vaccine and they are illegal and then the food police seizes your last 6 pack of contraband soda, you're like "I got robbed bro"
Fascists are panicking.
Biggest concern for me is who are his first calls for donations. Pretty sure it's finance, insurance companies and Ag monopolies. No selatious story about that though. (Not to underplay his questionably record as mayor)
How could I not repost this?
The woke mind virus is winning and I'm here for it.
I am nowhere near New York, but this feels like a win.
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I don't think WW3 is a likely outcome right now unless we (the US) do something really stupid like attack China. That doesn't mean catastrophic consequences won't happen.
Not really disagreeing. He's a reformer. That's fine for what he's doing. That doesn't mean there can't be other outside strategies to push things farther.
I never saw him as a grifter. Maybe a little naive, but in good faith. He had an opportunity for the inside approach. He got shut out so he went to a more outside strategy. I don't agree with a lot of his politics, but I like the trajectory.
The taco thing is stupid. It makes it sound like you want him to do more, when you actually want him to do less. A lot less.
I'm not pro-Iran, but anti-western meddling that always comes with unintended consequences. The state of the Middle East was caused by Western intervention. Iran doesn't have nukes, in spite of us teaching the world they're the only effective deterrent from American aggression.
Neoliberalism ended somewhere between 2008 and 2017. At least the fukuyama version of it did. This national populism and the creeping techno feudalism don't fit into neoliberalism. We're in a transition and what's coming doesn't look any better.
It causes me physical pain to say I agree with Tucker Carlson on this one.
I remember that. He said something like I hate the New York times too, but at least they spell people's names right?
He was kinda okay when he was on MSNBC and played a part in giving Rachel Maddow her start. They remained friends for a while. I never really agreed with him, but it was definitely a different Tucker back then.
The hardcore maga folks won't. There are a ton of other people who hear and see their messaging. There's no reason to meet that with silence.
It's apparent all the factions of MAGA think they are the only faction. I agree with her in this except the America first part. The problem is the only MAGA that matters is Trump and he disagrees.
The only acceptable version of the national anthem is the Jimi Hendrix version.
Yesterday I posted that ICE was at my kid’s elementary school. It got more attention than I expected. I heard it from multiple people, but the details conflict. Some say they were inside, others say off the property nearby. I haven’t been able to verify it, so I’ve deleted the post
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