Look, if the only candidates the Democrats can put forward are people who don’t give all that much of a damn about human beings dying… Yeah, I dunno.

Suggesting that a Republican that killed a bunch of people had the right idea about national pride and unity is just terrible. Normal, but terrible. There are a billion quotes about unity from much better people. Why Reagan?

I can’t vote for another Democrat who thinks human lives are something to be brushed under the rug. I did it once, but I’m not doing it again. Not after I’ve seen just how dedicated they are to sticking to that.

82 + 12 is 94

Wowie.

My argument is that summer is relatively terrible specifically in our current circumstances. For most of history, I would absolutely agree with you. But now we have all kinds of heaters and blankets and clothes designed with incredibly complicated materials to insulate us. There’s like 62 million ways keep warm, like 3 ways to keep cold (air conditionerand, touch cold thing, or take off clothes) then factor in global warming and obesity rates rising. It’s almost enough to forget that for most of history winter is when people starved and froze to death meanwhile summer was a time of wonderful abundance.

I think the best solution would be to have general instances that are vulnerable to bots, and then also instances with stricter measures just like we have right now. Before you take someone seriously, look at their instance to see if they may be a bot. If the instance is reputable, you can be safe in taking them seriously. It’s like blue check marks used to be.

“yeah, uh, that’s my cousin Steve. He’s trying to doom the world these days. We don’t talk much.”

sigh

I’ve found the equation that can calculate anything in the universe. A = f(x), where f(x) is the equation for the specific thing you want to calculate, you just have to put it in.

Academia is just very strict standards of thinking and talking about thinking. This makes it difficult but reliable.

He tried his best.

For-profit will never be for you.

I think Lemmy is training me not to start arguments because all y’all lemmings don’t just yell into the void, you link back to further reading and now if I want to stand my ground I’m gonna have to do like an hour(s) of research. Welp, maybe if I didn’t want to do research on a complex topic I shouldn’t have started talking about Chinese economic policy… Sigh

I still think you’re dead wrong for the moment but the order and civility with which you’re presenting your claims when faced with my admittedly hostile tone in the previous comments is something I admire. I’ll get back to you after I’ve done some research.

You’re right about politicial ideas being more than 1 dimensional, but I think of the left-right spectrum as one specific measurement.

Oh my God. Holy fuck I gotta hand it to you for this amount of effort. It’s gonna take me a while to sort through all this, gimme a minute.

So… no protections, no real policy, no solid connection between the working class and power except for this notion that the government has the interests of the working class at heart. Is that right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth

Read through the above list and tell me these people must work for a living, that they could not live solely off of their assets. Why are these 607 people allowed to hoard such massive wealth and own so much if the working class controls the means of production and the economy? How is that good for anyone?

Oh, the government is separated into smaller local and regional governments and less than 10% of all Chinese citizens (there are 1.4 billion) are members of the CCP? Cool fun facts, I always love to learn, but you did not answer my question.

Does the government of the People’s Republic of China support and protect the legal right of the working class to control the means of production?

So you’re saying that the working class Chinese citizens have direct, official power over the means of production and can use that to further the political goals of the working class with no repercussions?

I don’t care what you call it, I’m not supporting fascist state capitalism.

There is actually technically no such thing as an authoritarian leftist. Leftism is defined as more egalitarian/less hierarchical. Tankies are right wingers that have been pushed into the same spaces as leftists because they are against Western nationalism.

Sometimes people get tired