The US needs a whole party of "corruption liquidators"
What we have are the Democrats and like... maybe six of them are up for the task? Maybe?
Maybe more. I do not know every democrat.
But, if part of what you are going to do is clean up the corruption it would be wise to let everyone who is "a little corrupt" in that old "tolerable" way quietly leave right now.
@futurebird I wish more people understood that getting campaign donations through a Super PAC isn't any less corrupt than someone handing you an envelope full of cash under a table
Democratic Socialist = You want Canada or a Scandinavian country with a social safety net.
Social Democrat = You want a neoliberal police state, but it to be not racist somehow and gay people should be legally required to make entertaining TV shows.
More or less.
(You will note, in neither space did I say "you want to abolish capitalism" and there is the rub...)
Doing my wanikani and considering how "さいふ” (saifu) means "wallet" but ”ふさい” means "husband and wife" (the kanji for these are completely different, and in fact saifu or fusai might mean other different things, too), and contrasting with our Español and particularly lunfardo where you can take a word and reverse the syllables, preserving the meaning.
For example: mujer means woman. In lunfardo, you can say "jermu", which is also woman (mostly your woman).
managed to not need to internet beg since october but money is pretty tight this month and my SNAP money got cancelled and renewing it has been in limbo because it has been basically impossible to contact the department for that probably due to budget cuts
anyway I'm a trans woman with two kitties and I'm on a pretty limited income from disability and I need help paying for food this month
Naw like I said, I don't think you HAVE to be "crazy" to be a Nazi, but I am increasingly becoming convince that this PARTICULAR Nazi is just objectively missing certain parts of what makes you human - specifically empathy, reflection, and the ability to recognize a world outside of yourself.
I agree 100% that nazis aren't crazy, they're just the worst fucking people alive by choice. But Trump is also fucking broken afaict.
Naw, I mean if I'm being honest I'm not really big on revenge. The show trials and guillotines part isn't necessary, in fact, it might even be counterproductive, although the exact math on that is less obvious that you've been lead to believe by rich white people who'd be the "victims" of said revenge (see: CLR James). The seizing your stolen blood money to save the world/society you sought to destroy for money and power part tho? That's not negotiable.
@AnarchoNinaWrites yeah well I mean there is the whole thing of whether the capitalists will just let you simply take their money and then behave themselves from then on which historically doesn't really bear out
Fwiw, Trump is definitely losing control of the fascist party. I'm not really sure why/how, but if he'd said "eliminate the fillibuster" 3 months ago, you know they do it the very next day. Something is going on, particularly on the GOP side of the Senate.
People will say things like "it's selfish to not want to have kids!" and then immediately follow it up with "Who is going to take care of you when you get old?" as if they don’t know what the word selfish means.
Like, you can talk about oaths and duties to the constitution all you like - at the end of the day, soldiers work for pay, and the guy paying the bills is the one calling the shots.
I don't think folks have spent any time at all considering what it means that Trump is bragging about one of his billionaire buddies funding the troops during the shutdown but the 10,000 foot view says Trump is buying himself an army - and we already know what he intends to do with that army b/c he's doing it.
@AnarchoNinaWrites the thing is apparently this money amounts to like $100 per soldier so I'm not sure that is enough for him and Mellon to buy them off
I mean, I have no other way to read this except all of these ppl are ladder cutters who really DID believe ICE was gonna do full months-long investigations to deport the "bad hombres" and had no idea the Gestapo full of white supremacists and actual fucking Nazis was just gonna start rounding up brown people.
And like, what do you even say to that? "Uh, that was stupid - they were always obviously just gonna round up brown people?" Doesn't help much, even if it's true
@AnarchoNinaWrites pet peeve of mine is whenever anyone talks about "hispanic voters" like mexicans in arizona and white cubans in miami all have the same political interests
In many ways, you're not different than the Nazis. Both of you seek to blame your failures, born of self-interest and arrogance, on mostly powerless people instead of the rich maggot leaders who brought you to ruin - they blame Mexicans, you blame poor people and "the left" which more less doesn't even exist in America.
The reality is the calls came from inside the house. I wasn't running for President; Harris was. And she picked AIPAC/cops/rounding up brown ppl for suburban nazis over winning
Brey, they don't come back. They simply do not come back. Nazis do not later on decide that they were wrong about all that Nazi shit. What they do is go very quiet around about the time people start unaliving nazis because "hello? It's fascism and they're fucking FASCISTS" and burn with seething resentment for the rest of their lives, plotting a return of their mythic past and Nazi bullshit - always, every time.
You can't even get rid of them, you can simply make them afraid. That's the SCORE.
@AnarchoNinaWrites I remember the phrase "I don't know how to convince you that you should care about other people" going around a lot during the first trump admin and it really describes the problem pretty well
I think it's kinda funny that the entire shitlib discourse was up in arms about Trump's revenge prosecution of Comey, but after the first couple of days nobody has any tears for the Bomb Walrus because, well, he's John fucking Bolton and probably should be in prison for literal war crimes.
It's not often I'm even CAPABLE of underestimating American liberal influencers - but they surprised me this time.
Also? Fuck John Bolton with a rusty chainsaw. Maggot hawk murderbot propagandist swine.
I mean keeping in mind that addiction is ultimately an illness, and it does nobody any good to demonize people for something that is, at this point, out of their control...
the guy lives on Percs, steak, and salt licks. Like, literally that's what he ingests.
Am I surprised Jordan Peterson appears to be dying? No. I just wish he'd get on with it - chop chop, we could all use a dose of good news, "Doctor."
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@AnarchoNinaWrites kind of ironic how much he has helped usher in an age of totalitarianism but I guess he is canadian so its not really his problem
@AnarchoNinaWrites if there is one thing i've learned this past decade is that if you put any white guy in a suit suddenly everyone starts taking him a hundred times more seriously
I mean I sincerely hope the peace deal ends the genocide, but I have significant moral problems with the idea that I should give someone "credit" for not doing the ethnic cleansing plan he himself proposed? Even if you want to pretend that Trump hasn't directly facilitated the genocide he would be helping to stop if this holds, how exactly does "yeah I decided not to do the ethnic cleansing I had decided to do earlier. Basically I'm Dag Hammarskjöld" track?
Trump announces a lotta stuff that turns out to be bullshit; let me know when the babies we're helping starve have food, the bombs stop falling, and the IDF fucks off.
Totally awesome that I'm probably going to be gunned down by fascists with badges at some point because Andy Ngo got tanked from his school paper for being Islamophobic and he couldn't find a real job after he graduated tho...
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@AnarchoNinaWrites I am assuming if he hasn't already that guy who talked about how he would always "raw dog" because of the powers his "super serum" have over women is gonna be put in charge of the federal reserve or something
So wait, you're saying you CAN"T run an economy entirely on 4Chan memes and snippets of crackpot economic theory you half remember from Reddit posts?
Well, I'm fucking shocked. If only there was something on the order of 60 years of data demonstrating that libertarian economic reforms result in the rich looting the country, which looks like increased economic activity for a while but then they run out of shit to steal and your currency tanks. Bad luck, again, I guess...
