They infiltrated vegan potlucks?!
They infiltrated vegan potlucks?!
Do it very early before they’ve metastasized. Do it after they have power too. The pretext already exists, they campaigned on it. Being a partisan is now literally a fight for your life.
Maybe it was international.
Do not forget that in '32 the SPD backed Hindenburg… who then nominated Hitler as chancellor.
Thälmann was foolish, but even if he didn’t run, Hitler would still get into power. If the far right is strong enough, mere electoralism will not stop them. Fighting them must happen on the street level.
This is just in the USA, correct? Aldi in the EU is unaffected from what I can tell.
C is a makeshift kitchen deep in the Lacandon Jungle. If you burn your food, you start a forest fire and die.
Pretty sure this is inflation
To be fair, most of the book bans going on in Burgerland right now are justified exactly this way: they’re “pornographic” because there’s gay people.
I think that there are many things we can get mad at Trump for, but simple vocabulary isn’t one of those things.
Speaking clearly is a virtue. Using plain language makes what you’re saying easier to understand.
Using complex jargon where an 8th grade level of speech will do increases the load on people’s heads, which makes them get tired faster, and makes your message less accessible to immigrants.
Trump is still not understandable even given the simple vocabulary, which is a huge strike against him.
Well, Trump is a dick
Total embrace of the paranoid style of politics.
A couple decades ago, these people would be ranting about how the reds are adding fluoride to the water to make American patriots infertile.
Previously, the paranoid style was less prominent. By acquiring control of large sectors of the media, a strategically important asset, they have widely propagated conspiratorial thinking at a scale that has never been seen before in the USA.
Huffman is a greedy bastard, but I don’t think he’s alt-right. He’s a bland neoliberal hypocrite. He is an advisor at the ADL and made a post saying that black lives matter, while not actually doing anything to help and actively profiting from what he said he was against.
Best healthcare in the world won’t help little Jimmy when he loses his legs
Kinda off-topic but Current Affairs is glorious.
They outlawed homosexuality?!
My father eloquently described it as a battle between “a zombie who doesn’t know what room he’s in and the reincarnation of Zhirinovsky”.
You know Stalinism isn’t the only type of socialism, right?
The reason the DSA’s predecessors added “democratic” to their name was to explicitly say that they’re not Stalinists.
That every nation-state is built on a foundation of blood is a fairly common belief among socialists. You are not making the point you think you are. This is particularly blatant in some countries; some don’t just have to deal with the effects of a colonialist past, but have a colonialist present. This is why socialists focus so much on the USA and Israel.
Furthermore, the USA’s imperialism is the reason it has so many enemies. You treat them as evil demons out to get your country. Many are. But consider for a moment why they became this way. Why do people keep becoming terrorists? Why does reactionary populism hold so much sway over the people of these foreign adversaries?
Social democracy hides the flaws of capitalism under the rug, rather than solving them. The corporations of Sweden treat their workers at home well, it is true. But what of the workers abroad? The Swedish designer gets to sit in a comfy office and earn a great salary designing clothing after going through college for free. The Singaporean sweatshop worker that makes the clothing earns pennies. Under capitalism, one cannot exist without the other. Attempts to implement social democracy in a poor country that relies on plantations and sweatshops seldom go well. You mentioned one example yourself: Venezuela.
I will not excuse the bad takes the DSA have on foreign policy, nor the idealized past where Palestine was a land of perfect harmony that the other guy imagines, because you have a point there. You do not have a point about socialism overall. These people are trying to achieve a better future: one where people truly govern themselves, rather than taking orders from a greedy board of directors or a power-hungry politburo. I don’t like their love of electoralism or their position on Ukraine, but they’re actually striving for a future we can be proud of. They’re not conjuring the vengeful spirit of McCarthy, who sees foreign agents everywhere, nor are they channeling Fukuyama and saying that what we have now is the best there is and the best there ever will be. Can you say the same?
I need to read this. What was the title?
Every day I find a new reason to hate the US government.