BeardededSquidward

Don't forgot Zoran Mamdani, they would let Bloomberg split the vote and not endorse a mayoral candidate. They'd let a Trump republican win before an avowed socialist.

I'm just curious, where in the realm of conservatism is their views acceptable and not acceptable? I'm not confused but many people seem to give neo-liberals a free pass when that's the ideology of Thatcher and Reagan. Becoming mainstream in the Democrat party while the Republican party tilted further into conservatism, especially after Gingrich said essentially no more compromise with Democrats.

You might as well be asking them at this point to end themselves then destroy their immortal souls if they believe in that.

Remember a discussion amongst the wealthy with one guest telling them some hard truths that they don’t listen to. You have to provide your workers with positions that not only pay well to live but also decency and respect. Second is pay your damn taxes.

It's more of neo-liberal Dems are fascist, they just have a nicer visage about it as they provide more of the boots.

I can get behind primaries pushing out the establishment and neo-liberals, but honestly if we don't succeed in that you'll find me hard pressed to vote blue no matter who.

Paid opposition party.

What neo-liberals and their apologizing masses don't understand is we don't see a difference anymore. They're both conservative parties that only care about their payout ultimately. Advancing billionaire objectives and ignoring us. I really wish they'd understand and stop trying to fucking argue against this.

I feel like there's 45% genuine leftists, 45% liberals that think they're left, and 5% tankies.

Capitalism requires a second class of people who are easily exploited and disregarded by the wider majority of workers in its system usually through propaganda. Racism existed before it but it certainly does benefit from making those different lesser so they can be easier exploited and dehumanized when needed.

Trans rights are human rights and stripping people of those rights is my biggest make me angry button.

Yes humans do it in general, but you find a lot more do it for a lot more who trend politically right.

I vote go against established conservative curriculum and teach matters that are presently happening with little regard for the whine it generates from those against it.

Yeah, projection is common among conservative types.

Voted for Harris, regret the vote now because I argue with insincere, blame mongers like you. And believe it or not, there's improvement in areas of voting with the younger MAGA becoming disillusioned and realizing they were wrong, swapping to Democrats who are seeing a rise of non-conservative candidates running for various offices. How long would it be before another Republican became president because of Democrat ineptitude anyway if things continued on this trajectory? We're driving off a cliff, the Dems are just not accelerating while the GQP are. In the end, we're still getting closer to that cliff!

Yes, because evil is still evil. What in the living fuck do you not understand supporting Harris was still supporting Israel as well. Jesus fucking christ you people tire the fuck out of me with your inane vote blue no matter who lesser of two evils bullshit. As long as you continue to play with their games they'll continue to never improve. So you can continue and hope for harm reduction or not vote, campaign for those you would like to actually see and refuse to vote for those you don't like at all. Because right now, Newsom is looking like the Democrat's candidate of choice and he's goddamn awful of a politician and person.

The conspiracy is that all of them know what's good for them solely is also good for the others in their rich person club. They networked, colluded, and talked in college about ways to become wealthier. Just some people facilitated places to meet up is all to further discussion as time went on.

Arguing with people who don't realize this or remember it is tiring. My dudes, they've also been voting FOR Trump appointees. So much for being "The Resistance." Their message has been "we're not as bad as them!" for decades now. They're losing because they've lost touch with their voters. Who aren't wealthy, who are struggling to feed themselves and family while not being GQP/MAGAts. Biden even said you NEEDED Republicans in a speech for crying out loud.

It's not game theory when you see the two parties as the same side of the same coin which is what people like you fail to realize. Let me put it this way, there are Democrats still voting FOR Trump appointees, and it's not a few of them. If they're really "The Resistance" like they want us to think they can start but not voting with the fascists. But hey, blue no matter who, right?

The difference between terrible and more terrible is a thin line. If you think the world is only binary choices then you're the type of person leftist rail against. There's more choices but Democrats would have you believe there isn't.

In the neo-liberal brain and rhetoric that's how they have to argue to get you to swallow the poison of the "lesser evil."

You are correct.

A Zionist twat. Hope terrible things happen to him.

So did I, but I'm more referring to the Wall Street and CEO as well Billionaire types who wouldn't do anything if they didn't get more out of it.

I'm convinced people who believe that are some of the biggest shit stains on the planet.

Between work, here, and other things pulling at me, got confused what it was about. My apologies. For the actual topic, though, I still don't see Dems are more than the control opposition party. You throw enough at most of them and they'll let you do something.

The only difference is that the Democrats wouldn't be threatening to end the civilization. AIPAC and thus Israel has our country by the proverbial testicles.

We're at the last one because they've removed all the others.

There's a difference between 2A folk really. You have the right wing which view it as a tool of power and wield it with little to no responsibility. Then the left as a tool against oppression that one should take care with. There's far fewer left leaning attacks like this than there is right leaning.

They straight up executed Alex Pretti. He wasn't resisting, they were beating the shit out of him, then the guy just draws his gun, walks up to him, and puts rounds into him.

Purposely making code and behind the door deals to exclude any browser development or success for years does, yes. Steam didn’t destroy ownership of games, scuzzy business practices in the entire industry did. It also affects non-gaming software, movies, most media actually. It wasn’t Valve going “Let’s remove ownership!” In fact it has crept into the physical realm with right to repair and subscription services in cars. So is Netflix a monopoly then because it wiped out video rental stores? It wasn’t Valve alone again, it was a collusion in the video game industry to go all digital to maximize profit and not have to make concessions to retailers. That’s why they also tried their own platforms. Edit: You are again mistaking a successful business in a capitalist society with monopoly. Monopoly is again, the manipulation of market forces and regulatory control. Not I just do business better.

Nope on Microsoft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/_Microsoft_Corp. It was restricting the web browser market. Point two, it’s if they also hamper competition or capabilities to compete. Steam, as shown in this thread and how it operates, hasn’t done that. Now you can give a good thumb of the nose at Epic for their paid exclusives, but that didn’t get them anywhere toward dominating a market. Also, competition exists in various forms as well. It’s not monopolized. I hate monopolies and no friend of big companies, but come at them with the right cudgel, not made up dross.

When I think of monopolies, I think more of telecomms, of Wal-Mart and their selling at a lose to kill off competition, Microsoft purposely hindering the ability for competing software, and other examples. Unless I’m missing something, Steam didn’t do that, they were just first in the game and built a better product than the others did. Offering a better service that attracted customers. Now do I think it’s too large and would welcome competition, absolutely. But monopolies typically aren’t though just having larger market share with a better product. If Steam did something like oh, pay developers/publishers to be exclusive to their platform, then yeah you’d have a good argument there.

Unfortunately there's Democrat hardliners and neo-liberals who will throw a helluva fit when you point this out to them. They don't understand that neo-liberalism and yes liberalism are ideologies in themselves, and trend more conservative than progressives.

Liberal != Leftism/Socialism/Communism/Anarchist. Liberal is and ideology and used incorrectly in media to purposely confuscate you.

There's diversity in BUILDS of people. Some will be thicker than others but that doesn't mean they're obese. I'm obese and I suffer health effects from it and have been obese most of my life. This entire obesity acceptance thought is backwards. We should get rid of the stigma but it is not healthy.

That doesn't make it not relevant, if anything it shows it's a multinational issue of just arms build up to sabre rattle at the best of times.

It would make them cheaper likely because economies of scale. Add in it'd be actual healthcare and not insurance that works to deny coverage.

You're right, but again we don't live in an anarchist like state here we don't need to worry about bad actor nations or actors in general. I would love there to be a situation where borders and countries disappear and we come together as a species. That does not meet well with the reality of our situation. Even then, I would still think some defensive force necessary because well, I'm not too optimistic on the galaxy at large.

We have poor nutritional education in the USA as well. With the addition of blaming addicts for their behavior than those who are addicting them. Looking at you sugar/HFCS in everything. A lot of it is not so obvious. We've literally been led to believe that FAT is bad for us, it's what makes you fat. Not that carbs and sugars are what cause you to be fat.

I have a bad habit I’ll admit that I can’t let grossly negligent and misinformed comments go without a rebuttal of some sort. I’ve learned with anyone on the right to just fart in their general direction. This naive belief I can help some people who are wading into the leftism pool further into it.

You do realize that the majority of electricity is generated from burning fossil fuels, like oil, correct? Not all countries have embraced renewables yet or even nuclear power to sustain their power grids…

Nationalize the energy industries! No more profit of necessities.

There’s a difference between disconnecting with media discourse that’s overly negative and just metaphorically burying your head in the sand and ignoring what’s going on.

You may not affect politics but it WILL affect YOU.

Am I the only one that sees a Wehrmact soldier with an MP-40 in hand? Like… Come on.

Yeah, I feel a lot of the boomer generation has a hoarding problem despite so many not being in a situation to need to. I would have taken it to a thrift store though regardless. Even if they don’t sell it someone of the staff may make use of it. That said, good on getting rid of a burden on your life mentally.

Yup, and if having no use for one still means you don’t need one.

Not speaking up or pushing against policies and such that target specific groups of people because that’s the way we’ve always done it makes you a bastard still. We all know there’s probably one or two good cops per department/precinct that truly wish and do help people when they can. But they’re silenced for the sake of their job speaking out against the mistreatments and policies.

Good luck getting either party to do so with the amount of corporate money thrown their way. :/ You might be able to shout at the Dems to do something but it’ll be a half measure of allowing an opt out system.