What do you mean fake? We literally got credible report of a piss camp today.

I don’t disagree with you in the North American context, but in other parts of the world you can have totally normal discussions about the merits of globalization/globalism and globalists without it being a dogwhistle. And you can be a critic of “globalism” (better understood as a configuration of imperialism) without being a racist or even for explicitly anti-racist reasons.

I call her Haifa Jane for the Zionism.

The problem is that the difference between an abundance lib and a socialist is chauvinism. And chauvinism runs impossibly deep.

Double blind experiment where you put on a blindfold, vaccinate half of a bunch of newborn babies, then shuffle them and hand them out to parents at random.

Mr President I am your most senior advisor and my official recommendation is - ignore the haters, keep saying things like this.

listening to my mom slowly read the dilbert guy’s tweets out loud about how xi jinping personally got his son addicted to fentanyl and shaking my head to show that i disagree

I think it really isn’t about propaganda. They didn’t defeat Hampton or the Ferguson people with propaganda. When capital loses the argument, they just shoot you.

If the parliamentarian decides it’s haram they can shoot Trump, right?

Ah well, nevertheless

Really complex ideas here, really have to have some sympathy for Trump. Who could’ve thought the economy doesn’t like it when you just flip the tables and give everyone a middle finger?

Thanks for your perspective

Flow for flow bar for bar

GOOD post

Where in other subjects the knowledge you gain is related but not completely contingent on everything else you were taught, e.g. you don’t need to remember too many exact details about the Mayflower pilgrims to understand the American Civil War, math requires a solid throughline from the basic arithmetic, through algebra, geometry, and so on. You can’t really do anything with trigonometry if you didn’t understand algebra well. You can’t really do algebra if you didn’t understand arithmetic. You definitely can’t do calculus if you struggled with any of the previous areas.

So the problem is the continuity required, combined with the way most students learn simply not being thorough enough to completely internalize the intuition for each math concept they’re being exposed to. Ask a 9th grader about the differences between rational numbers and irrational numbers that they may have learned in 7th grade: you’ll probably get answers that are about right, but might start to get a little vague or confused. Thankfully I might be overstating the interconnectedness a bit, but I know I definitely had some hiccups in college related to how I had only learned some of the advanced concepts halfway in previous courses, which led to me just barely understanding the really abstract concepts I started to get into like Stokes’ Theorem and Greene’s Theorem at the end of Calc 3.

Fair, but in my mind if we can consider a tax credit a form of government spending, getting someone else to pay for something you were doing is basically getting them to pay you.

That’s what NATO is and the whole point of letting Europe bear the weight of the war in Ukraine is to make them pay for America’s war.

Well it looks like Yanis was at least somewhat correct about Trump’s plan to try to cause chaos then negotiate with all the other countries with the upper hand — although he was saying Trump would isolate the countries to negotiate 1 on 1.

appeal to consequence

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I guess that’s where I disagree. We aren’t engaging in a project to change people’s hearts, to convince them of the correctness of our ideas. We’re engaging in a project of the use of political power to define a new social reality that is liberatory for workers across the globe, a historical struggle defined not by right and wrong, but by the inevitable progressive forces of the people who hold power in their hands. “Progressive” in that sentence doesn’t mean “good person” like liberals often use it, but literally in the sense that it progresses history forward, dialectically.

“Communism is not love. It is a hammer to beat our enemies with” - Mao Zedong

Obviously that’s not to say that on a personal level, one person can’t feel guided by moral or sentimental things, because the counterpart (we’re getting really dialectical now) to the above quote is:

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” - Che Guevara