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  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlVote blue no matter who!
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    1 month ago

    The reason there isn’t any other option is because nobody puts in the effort to add other options.

    There’s a Simpsons meme currently in Active on 196 rn from 1994 pointing out how ineffective both parties are. People have had longer than I have been alive to work on a third way.

    America isn’t collapsing now all of a sudden. People have been passively watching it die for decades.





  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
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    2 months ago

    Except now Trump is starting to play hardball with Netanyahu, and is distinctly unhappy with the the U.S. taking so much flak while being treated as a money fountain.

    There is a much more real world where Trump gets sick of Bibi and pulls his support than Harris pulling support from Israel. A fully isolationist U.S. is better for Palestine.


  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
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    2 months ago

    As far as I know, we are still not quite in an Authoritarian state here in the US.

    Just wanna drill into this; the United States has been an authoritarian state for as long as I’ve been alive. Deporting people without due process is not new. Supporting genocides is not new. The police state we live in is not new. The rule of law has been a joke for so long zoomers have internalized it. There is a reason why most of the governments we have overthrown have been democracies, and there is a reason the US has mostly replaced those democracies with dictatorships. We are the evil empire, and we have been for decades at this point.






  • I honestly feel like Smith gets a real bad rap from undereducated progressives. He would also have hated what the United States has morphed into, and I’m sure he’s spinning in his grave over people using his economic theories as justifications for pure laissez-faire capitalism. “The Invisible Hand of the Market” that conservatives use to justify trickle-down economics and often attribute to him isn’t even really his, it’s from a batshit insane later guy called Paul Samuelson! Smith only referred to it in the context of international investments, never this idea that “domestic corporations will always do what is good for the public.”

    I don’t agree with everything in Wealth of Nations, but it seems a lot of people just dismiss Smith completely out of hand. We should talk about him just like we talk about Marx, his work is not useless nor trivial.







  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlIt's Women's Fault
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    3 months ago

    There are literally people in this thread claiming misandry cannot exist. People are pretending hating and abusing men is totally okay, and then getting surprised when some of those men start to resent them for it. To say nothing of the fact that the loneliness epidemic has been scientifically measured and is effecting both men AND women.



  • Reduction of consumption at this point will not actually work, we’re already too far down the path of annihilation. We’re either going to need to find a way to manage our planet’s climate ourselves, or we’ll need to find a way to adapt our cities and lives to be able to survive in the coming world. Both of those require technological solutions. So far, we have not found a good one yes, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.