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It’s funny to me how often we (I’ve been guilty of this) look at satire and think how amazingly they predicted the future, when they were really just commenting on their present and maybe extrapolating a little bit.

I wonder if Wag the Dog nearly mirroring the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal one month later counts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

Looks like Finland was simply assigned .fi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.fi

and I didn’t know about .ax for Åland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ax

because nazis are often down for the idea of a fascist ethnostate

There’s a very striking historical picture of a Nation of Islam summit in the US (while Malcolm X was still a member), and in the audience, front and center, is the American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, flanked by two other members with armbands and everything. Rockwell was there because, despite the obvious ideological tensions, both groups ultimately saw common cause on separatism.

Zionism benefits from making Jewish people feel that they are unwelcome outside of the Zionist ethnostate. Nazis want Jewish people to be gone, and them leaving for the Zionist Regime is a realistic and legal option for them. Real antisemitism benefits both these horrible movements.

The literal definition of conservatism is to conserve, to protect from change. This is reactionary.

Therefore, all agents involved must be punished to the letter of the law, no leeway or amnesty. Full stop.

Must? Who’s going to make them? Rules and laws alone don’t matter, and really never have.

The Trump administration continues to claim he violated an executive order prohibiting anti-Semitism

I know the answer is no, and to be clear the answer is no, but does that mean you can finally get rid of the literal neo-Nazi movements now?

Yeah, although on the other hand, it makes me skeptical of that specific watchlist.

I wasn’t being literal, in fact I vote every year (not US), along with participating in political parties and union organizing.

What does ‘fully communist’ or ‘fully capitalist’ even mean? These are modes of production and schools of thought, not scales where something can be more capitalist or less capitalist.

A couple of centuries late. Even if we’re only talking about their own citizens.

Reminder that slavery is still conditionally legal in the constitution (13th Amendment)

“Make America Great Again!”

U. S. A. ! U. S. A. !

Honestly I don’t even think most realize how batshit disturbing it is for other countries to hear about their Pledge of Allegiance. Absolute North Korea levels of nationalism worship.

The dems are one of the only groups in the US who (legally) had the power to:

• reduce voter suppression
• fix the electoral system in general (e.g. remove the broken FPTP system)
• stop sabotaging popular candidates
• not choose a senile dementia-sufferer to remain the country’s leader for years
• support the worker class instead of the owning class and get their votes (too many things to list)
• support US citizens instead of imperial interests in countries half the population can’t plot on a map

For most of these things, they should have been doing this long, long ago, before even Obama’s terms. The Democrat Party clearly had the power of the state for more than enough time to make them look like an alternative rather than a complicit ally of the Republican Party. Why should they not be seen as at fault?

No, that’s also the case in most countries. Corporations and their political influence aren’t a US-only phenomenon - they legally own almost all major media outlets around the world, along with holding influential positions in each economy which can pressure their governments into compliance. If a government doesn’t earn the general support of the owning class, it doesn’t have a realistic chance of remaining in government, either by corporations funding and endorsing alternative parties in elections, or through boss strikes to sabotage the national economy if a government they don’t like does somehow get elected (e.g. Allende in Chile). A modern government cannot survive without either the support of major corporations trying to exploit their workers, unless they empower the workers to overpower the corporations and survive off their strength instead (which, in practice, contradicts capitalism).

Capitalism doesn’t exist without forming those corporations, so governments tending to billionaires isn’t some weird quirk, or some US phenomenon, it’s a systematic trait of capitalism which happens every time.

Hardly. They’re there to enforce the will of politicians, who are funded and influenced by the owning class (regardless of who voted for them once every four years).

But it is in no way comparable to the dysfunctional democracy of USA, or the authoritarian regimes like Russia and Belarus.

Why should we have to compare with oligarchical dystopias at all? SkyeStarfall is essentially saying are fundamental political and economic issues all across the globe as a result of capitalism, still existing even under social democracy because they’re inherent to the liberal capitalist foundation. The USA and Russia and Belarus are irrelevant to that statement. Fundamental problems are still fundamental problems even if they’re not as bad as some problem elsewhere, there’s no need to equivocate at all.

A relevant quote from Jean-Paul Sartre:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Reactionaries continue this. If you are a liberal, they will take advantage of your values, pretending they deserve that universal respect.

See also: free speech

Dems could have beaten him every time. They didn’t.

Dems are not a reliable solution to this problem, and nor is the broken federal electoral system in general. You cannot vote your way out of this mess. Republicans will continue to suppress the vote of people they don’t like. The owning class have purchased the newspapers, television stations and social media platforms. It’s a rigged game.

Organize in your communities if you want any real power.

Sure, but we must also remember not to pretend progressive liberals are enough, and make sure to engage in politics beyond the election cycle if we want any real power.

I gotta say, the English translator for that edition of the party manifesto keeps saying “In one word,” instead of “In a sentence,”

Although perhaps, given how compound words work in German, I wouldn’t be surprised if those sentences were just one word in the original copy.

FWIW, there were also a few smaller waves before the big API one, but they were mostly individual communities migrating (/r/piracy, /r/genzedong, …)

These last few messups are too silly that I can’t even guess what they’ll do next. Surely they won’t force ID registration…