If americans don’t rehab the word socialism, they’re not going to even be able to have a word to talk about “making life a little less shit for the 99% that work to uphold the 1%'s lifestyle”.
Or…call it something else: shelterism, anti-oligarchy, equalization, wethepeopleism…
2 dolls, how about no dolls, you don’t need dolls in the mines.
Here, play with this pixelated pickaxe.
Subconsciously, many (10-25% depending on culture and social conditions) people long for the protection of a benevolent father figure who will save, nurture and esteem them (especially in today’s ultraneoliberal jungle)…
But the benevolence depends on who you are and fluctuates with time. So you might end up under a malignant father figure if you end up at odds with it. These people who can’t imagine they would ever be the targets of the father figure are the ones who think they are the chosen/good ones who can do no wrong.
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We’re gonna have to build a loooooooot of housing quickly… :/
Show the actual video whenever possible, don’t let them off the hook with “it’s an awkward hand gesture by an awkward guy”.
It’s because the russians are busy resetting their disinformation campaign on VdL (this is the left-wing of it, the right wing exists as well among antivaxxers and other communities), because apparently Europe is not letting Ukraine fall even if trump doesn’t care. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/19/imagined-common-enemies watch out for the “Eurofascism” buzzword.
But it’s pathetic, VdL has no real executive power and the EU decision making is too decentralized to demonize single figureheads with their hamfisted attempts, like it worked with genocide joe.
Do genocide don, genocide bibi and genocide putin first, that would solve 95% of the problems to start with.
How long until Voltron?
Pre-WW1 and WW2 Germans were some of the most educated, informed and progressive societies in the world at the time and it didn’t stop them blundering into jingoism and fascism, I don’t think it is just that.
There is a large component of “the socialists/wokes are coming for you” which glitches regular people into protest voting to the right of center instead of for a left that actually represents their interests.
PS: there is also infighting between lefties, far lefties, “moderates” and liberals that can prevent them from aligning against fascist demagogues until it is too late.
PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.
I knew it was going to be bad, but I wasn’t expecting them to go “the founding fathers were woke” so soon, they must be really confident about their grip on their brainwashed base.
People need to see fascism in action in other countries to be reminded of what it is, too bad that it had to be the US, last time it was Germany.
Too bad voters can’t live in a simulation showing the consequences of their vote before they do so, that way it wouldn’t be necessary to stumble and waste resources/progress that we’re going to need in the future.
I love that ending sentence.
They hacked about until they stumbled upon the major vulnerabilities of open societies, rule of law, democracy, 24-hour newscycles and social media.
The only safe safest way to dispose of plastic is to incinerate it…maybe it can replace some fossil powerplants…idk.
Yea, I’m trying to look back to think of manufacturing powerhouses that also printed reserve currency and can only think of the British empire and the post-war Bretton-Woods US…so this could only work if the rest of the world is destroyed or colonized/vassalized :/
Aka the imperial boomerang
Is it enough to clear cookies and site data to avoid this when e-shopping?
…no? There are plenty of white and non-white working people outside the “third world” who want a good job with rights and resent being exploited as well. The labour and socialist movements of the 19th century predate Marxism, which tried to coopt them.
Anybody have any “theory” of why now?