who could have predicted that the politician who sailed into office by leveraging lies about foreigners would turn out to be bad

the left wants economists to acknowledge that the economy has been in shambles for decades for everybody but the rich

Like the idea that Americans don’t think good things are possible cause they’ve never experienced Government that isn’t only cops and the TSA is a big thing

chatgpt? the site that's been legally compelled to never delete any user data and also leaked a few million chats a few months ago? what could go wrong

"if we hadn't capitulated, they might have done this really consequential thing to do it anyway" so MAKE THEM DO THAT

so somebody or some ai banned her for no real reason, you spent two days flailing around and this post was the closest thing to a justification you could find, then turned the ban into a 72 hour suspension to try to make it all look measured and deliberate

it's almost like health care isn't supposed to be about generating profits

fascism is capitalism is crisis, as they say. there was never anything truly free about a capital economy, just enough space to make some people think so, and as crisis deepens, the reality becomes more apparent

nobody ever claimed monarchy was democracy because that would be ridiculous. as ridiculous, in fact, as claiming that capitalism is communism

the analogy here is more like "it's still a democracy because the king gets the one vote"... just a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept

workers, specifically workers, owning the means of production is the most very basic definition of communism. if somebody else owns the means of production, then it's not communism. for example, if people with lots of capital own the means of production, then it's capitalism. hope this helps

this show is actually kind of interesting because it demonstrates, in contrast with media depictions, in high stress situations most humans will default to cooperation rather than selfishness. the way they handle the glass bridge is wild

politicians not being weird puritans is good actually

it depends on WHO seizes the means of production. corporate power merging with the state is something very different from communism

sounds like a new paper is deeply incorrect and probably racist

right there helping ice, usually