Losing a tiny amount of money from the federal budget is irreparable harm. But starvation? Just fine.

This Supreme Court is a joke. I just heard they’ve ruled with the fascists over 90% of the time.

There aren’t any.

I’m aware, that’s why it was a question.

They do it because they normally get away with it. And countless people have had their lives ruined by this behavior.

I believe you can be both a demsoc and a Marxist, no?

I feel like people need to think more deeply about cancellation and when it is and is not appropriate. Personally, I think it’s basically never appropriate for random powerless individuals to be canceled, no matter what they did. There’s just other, better ways to handle harmful behavior.

Where cancellation is useful is for powerful, influential people who are actively and unapologetically harming people on an ongoing basis and can’t be stopped through other means. I’m not super familiar with Fuentes but it seems like he fits more in this latter category.

I am actually curious if he considers himself a Marxist. Any information on this?

Can’t be passed over for the Nobel peace prize if the prize committee is reduced to radioactive slag.

Wasn’t it just the other day that the China apologists were trying to convince us they’re abolishing the death penalty imminently?

I don’t wear any flags because I don’t support authoritarian governments (including the Canadian government). In fact, if you paid attention, you might realize the comment you replied to was me offering an alternative solution for those who have this concern…

This is your brain on nationalism, folks. I hope you can find your way to recovery.

Oh gee willickers I’ll just press this depose the president button I’ve got here on my desk. Why didn’t I think of this sooner. Thank you so much!

Maybe I’m already doing that? You are speaking from a place of extreme ignorance about me and my political actions. But there is a limit to what one person can do in an authoritarian nation of 300+ million people.

Doing everything in your power to resist fascism still leads to the dilemma in question here. As this conversation demonstrates.

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Are you implying that I personally can unilaterally fix the US’s shit?

Lol

I mean there are ignorant people everywhere in the world. It’s impossible to avoid them completely. That said I’m American and have only rarely received harassment due to my nationality. But I haven’t been abroad yet this year so I can’t speak to how the atmosphere has change since Trump 2.

Better solution is just to explain to people that we don’t support what’s going on and we’re subject to our government against our will just like they are.

Because a random premier (who is almost as much of an ignorant buffoon as Trump) ran an ad campaign, he decides to punish an entire country? Well, two countries really but the US was always going to be subject to his punishments.

So fucking stupid.

They’re still restricting aid into Gaza? Why aren’t more people talking about this?

Oh I missed the word growth. That makes it a lot more believable. I thought it was saying it was 30+% of the entire economy which I don’t see how we could sustain.

Is it actually over 30%? Those are some wild numbers.

Edit: nvm reading is hard.

So UT Austin is the only one to say yes?

Seems like a good target for some protest actions. Make them regret it as a message for any others thinking about it.

I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying—which, to be fair, I didn’t articulate in much detail.

I understand why it’s a problem under capitalism. But that’s sort of the whole point I’m making. We’ve created an economic system with all of these perverse incentives. We need to create an economic system where living can become more affordable for people without causing economic chaos, and where we aren’t held hostage to the economic interests of the extremely rich.

What if we had an economy that thrived when food and shelter become cheaper? What if the economic pain was inflicted on the well-off when the poorer in society started doing worse, instead of the other way around? If we could engineer such a system, our leaders would make much different decisions, I think.