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  • You were voting for fascism with either one of these candidates

    Harris told pro-Palestinians protesters to let her finish speaking. Trump stripped their degrees and departed then. Dems are problematic in their own neo-liberal way, but they weren’t kidnapping innocent people and shipping them off to Salvadorian death camps. We can criticize the Dems without equating them the other, much worse major party.

    You can’t even make a defense for the Dems here other than “they’re not Republicans,” so maybe you should point that anger toward the very people running the party

    Again, I don’t know where you get the idea that it’s difficult to do both. I’ve got plenty of anger to go around, and lots of guilty parties that helped get us where we are: the oligarchs themselves, MAGA, non-MAGA that voted R anyway, Congress, SCOTUS, the Biden administration, the DNC, and the abstainers.

    Each one deserves their own bespoke ire, delivered in a method suited to reaching them. I point my anger and my words in the same direction. When I’m mad at my senator, I write my senator, and take other actions designed to communicate my disapproval to my senator. This particular space is a hotbed for idealistic, counterproductive leftists. Guess who it’s most protective to criticize here?

    Why are you here calling people names instead of directing that anger towards the ones responsible?






  • That’s not really what complexity is. Complexity has nothing to do with purpose, it’s just about how many “moving parts” a system has. Those elaborate do-nothing machines that don’t have any real “purpose” are nonetheless complex.

    A random distribution of matter, subject to physical laws, is unquestionably a complex interconnected system. The laws of physics generate planets, stars, nebulae, blank holes, galaxies, superclusters, etc.

    And I’ll tell you a secret: every single “purposeful” pattern you’ve ever encountered was generated by that distribution of physically reactive matter. The complex interconnected universe, by definition, includes every other system, including the ones that you normally think of when you think of as “complex”.