Every society is three hot meals away from chaos.

I very much agree. The key part at this moment in time is to craft an appealing narrative that’s at least as palatable as what the right is peddling. What’s happening is that people in the mainstream are increasingly becoming disillusioned with the system, and they’re starting to become open to new ideas as a result. They’re going to start shopping around and settle on a narrative that makes sense to them as an explanation of what’s going on and what needs to be done to make their lives better.

The right has been doing a really good job convincing people of their narrative because a lot of it builds on the existing tropes, small government, more personal freedoms, etc.

The really challenging part for the left at this time is to come up with a narrative that’s easy to digest, that inspires people, and gives them a long term vision for the future. It has to be a long term vision, something people feel that’s worth fighting for, even if there’s no quick reward on the table.

Black Heart from Nine Treasures for expanding horizons :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TRPCPoVhw&list=OLAK5uy_ki7KfC9keEcJRL5bnPdpa_M_aedfAXFSE

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle

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Yup, we tend to take our world for granted, but there’s so much to see even in things that normally seem mundane. Learning to stop and appreciate things has been a really eye opening experience for me as well.

I’m sorry to inform you, but Burgerland is not technologically advanced enough to tally the results in a day.

indeed, it’s basically a spyware company at this point

Also worth noting that the US continued to do business with the nazis well into the war, and IBM famously facilitated the holocaust.

I got into photography during the pandemic as a way to go outside and stay active. I find it makes you pay attention to the environment around you a lot more closely. Things you normally wouldn’t notice become interesting.

wasps 🤝 genocide

The fact that somebody would be asking this question after a year of genocide is phenomenal.

welcome to the real world child

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

Nah, it’s the same kind of genocide on both tracks, but one track allows liberals to pretend to have morals.

Ah yes, 99% Hitler is obviously a reasonable choice. 🤡

The fact that you don’t understand how utterly imbecilic this argument is means there’s no point having a discussion with you.

The argument basically comes down to you being fine with genocide as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.

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That’s why PSL exists.

That’s right, liberals just want a genocide to be done with a certain level of decorum that allows them to ignore what’s actually happening.