It’s a fairly decent strategy to placate the right wing base with social democracy. Even opponents of socialism can’t deny that. I think that’s part of its appeal.
It is ineffective when the rachet effect is in place, though. The neoliberal wing is more focused on maintaining that first and foremost.
You should see the kinds of arguments opponents of the Clean Water Act make.
Ranges from “Nature heals all so it is fine” to “Fuck those people for being there.”
It went back and forth.
I’m feeling very stuck right now and a little scared/worried that it’s just going to be like this in perpetuity.
Hey kid, I could tell you some stories about when I felt the same, but I’ll cut right to it: It’s normal to get stuck in life. But it’s never like that in perpetuity. Nothing lasts forever, including that feeling of inertia.
This resonated strongly with the alt-right.
There’s folk who can’t help but make anti-tankie posts in the fediverse, which specifically and directly are requests for that kind of responsive content.
The wine budget got to be too much upkeep.
Use hot chocolate mix instead of some creamer or sugar. Approximates the mocha flavor along the same lines of laziness for payoff.
Those staffers are just keeping themselves on a payroll at this point.
Yes. But these topics about tankies are about reinforcing ‘us/them’ rationalizations for those who already have their prejudice. The comments here certainly do.
By providing a critical thinking from Lenin, you instead become the tankie, and therefore become incapable of critical thinking, per the meme. Therefore anything Lenin might’ve said or written can just be dismissed.
And so the tankie can be mocked as a confederate chud nonetheless.
Man, 2013 Rogan was just him talking to other out of work comedians about Fear Factor. Not sure I miss it? Definitely would prefer it.
The line is a dot where we’re at.
The left arm behind the console really stands out. AI fundamentally doesn’t understand image composition. It knows what to show, but not what to hide or obscure.
One of my local grocery stores requires downloading their app. I have to manually generate and accept digital coupons in the app to get the advertised sale price on the shelf.
They have my account they’ve had for 20+ years tracking all my purchases for gas points. But now I need a phone app to personally and individually hand them my data they already have.
Why does a Nazi attack a leftist org of all things? Instead of their professed hated groups: immigrants or jews? The original Nazis used those two groups as sources of communism/socialism/marxism in Europe/Germany.
The cause that Nazis, especially the actual, literal Nazis from history, have used the most to legitimize themselves is anti-communism.
True, but at a certain point the time and attention diverted into the nuances within evil becomes a big component of the banality part.
Reminds me of that Bowling Alone book that establishes the decline of social capital and then goes to great length not to analyze that term further.
I used to regulate septic haulers when I worked for a local health department. They try to have fun with it.
I don’t really have a disagreement with what you’re saying, but please note I said ‘right wing base’, which is predominantly working class.
Social democratic policies can be successful where class consciousness is lacking or suppressed.