Far left plan at this point seems to be: 1. Last the fascists win 2. ? 3. Spontaneous revolution

We treat voting as a matter of consumption, a buy-in to a candidate and their entire platform, a reflection of our personal values. This is not what voting is or how it was meant to function! Yet, capitalism is gonna capitalism. It’s a category error that convinces people to opt out of voting.

6 million "people"

(stupid autocorrect: *Hisako*)

"what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?"

For real, though, I think we've had more thunder and lightning tonight then we usually get in a year

No real diss on MN - I was born but not raised there - y'all do you

Just waiting for Vance to pull "I served in combat, he didn't" or some shit and watch Walz hand his ass back on a platter

It's so that alien civilizations can reconstruct our culture after the fall... Electro-industrial as lossless distributed digital culture archive

Like most idealistic visions, it's probably unattainable. I mean, how do you rank soft skills anyway? But more the point is that the bad faith rw arguments against DEI, et al, is that we should have a meritocracy, glossing over the fact that race considerations are baked into the status quo