Jesus he is bad at politics. Just stfu and do it and when the supreme court strikes it down say wow the conservatives just did this to you
Iām a statist. I believe in making decisions for other people that I believe are in their best interests.
A statist advocating burning down the system seems a tad oxymoronic
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I mean this sincerely, have you been in a coma for the last 10 years?
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Law! Weāre still doing this!
Switching from one system to another has transitional costs. People at the bottom generally bear the brunt of those costs. Some people are reluctant to tolerate the poor paying those costs, so advocate no change or some sort of incremental change which is effectively no change.
So, we usually only get great systemic change when things hit rock bottom and institutions collapse sufficiently to close off the possibility of returning to normalcy.
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I thought we were ending fascism bu electing biden but it turns out there are even bigger military and cop budgets, more whistleblowers being processed, more money for the Israel apartheid state. Seems like thereās more fascism
Yes thatās something both parties have been doing forever. Whatās changing is the gop is moving towards ending democracy and making it one party rule, at which point the gop will no longer be constrained by possibly losing to democrats.
While democrats are awful they have done some good this year. If they pass this infrastructure bill in reconciliation they will extend to child tax credit which put a decent dent in child poverty, universal free Child care etc. The covid relief bill and this will be the biggest transfer of the wealthy to the poor in decades. Itās nowhere near enough but itās something
I hate them Dems too but one party rule by republicans is going to be much, much worse.
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Iām envisioning something closer to a Handmaidās Tale than Mad Max.
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All of this, and rooting for the authoritarians so that there can be a revolution later after they win which will finally bring us the socialist utopia we always wanted has a remarkably poor track record in human history.
I have no idea how lawyers want to work for him. I mean they know theyāre not getting paid, right?
Itās hard to over throw an authoritarian government that has support of like 25% support from people. When they have 40% plus like 90% of cops itāll be impossible. It would just be mass slaughter.
That said I donāt think anyone on this site is hoping the fascists win, just people saying there isnāt a big difference between them and Dems, but yeah theyāre wrong about that
You know minus womans reproductive rights and minority voting rights and immigrants rights andā¦. On and on.
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You havent been paying attention to the climate lately then
Oh hey, speaking of which.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/08/04/atlantic-hurricane-outlook-increase-noaa/
Environmental degradation is actually a big part of the Handmaids Tale world.
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The fear of climate refugees is already creeping into right-wing rhetoric, the pandemic, too.
Their answer is going to be the wall with armed guards. Having the military man it. And stop letting them in for any reason so they canāt over stay etc
Right, they are going to just crack down harder and Place even greater restrictions on immigration, which was another thing that was happening in Handmaids Tale
Not talking about climate refugees in particular, but the conservatives donāt really want to stop immigration, they just want it to be illegal. Reactionaries may want it stopped, but business canāt let that really happen. Illegal is good because it helps business use immigrants as more pressure against labor and reactionaries just like punishment for the sake of punishment.
Iām not sure what liberals want. Itās like homelessness. They want it ended in theory, but NIMBY.
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