It’s easy to say the right thing on this because he knows he’ll never have to pay a dime more than he does right now.

And it’s easy to make sweeping statements based purely on hypotheticals and your own assumptions. In our reality, he’s one of the biggest advocates for raising his own taxes.

Most of us here are leftists of some shade, we roughly agree on theory. The tankie problem is one of implementation. It’s delusional either in its estimation of the percentage of people willing and able to join the movement, or in its faith that the vanguard state totally won’t turn into a dictatorship this time. I think most people here could be convinced to join the movement they’re pushing if the movement was supported by a practical plan of implementation. Right now it’s supported either by dreams and wishes, or 90+% of the population being shipped to the gulags

In a sense, the best system is the one which best keeps psychopaths from the top.

Something about the font for me. Maybe the kerning? I can immediately tell based purely on the writing.

Titan can have a little life, as a treat

Hate is the law. Hate under corruption.

His credentials as a tinker and soldier are undetermined.

Foundation. It’s gorgeous, and the first episode is fairly close to the beginning of the book. It very quickly deviates from the source material in ways that totally undermine the themes of the book. It’s not necessarily a bad show, I just can’t enjoy it because it deviates so much.

My theory is something like fluid -> fluoride -> floral but who knows

I promote right-wing policies: you should always use the right wings for your airplane, using whatever wings you happen to have left in stock is a recipe for disaster. Left-wing policies are dangerous.

My grandad, a Trump voter, has several times in the past talked about how golf is like life: it doesn’t matter if the sun was in your eyes, or a dog barked in the middle of your swing, or a sudden breeze pushed your drive off target, all that matters at the end of the day is the number you put in that little box, no excuses. The irony is lost on him.

I know it means “fluid ounces” but every single time I see it my brain says “floral ounces”.

We should probably also add language to that oath clarifying that they need to defend it not only from foreign enemies, but domestic ones as well.

She is an immigrant and not particularly well informed politically. I went on to explain the predictable cycle of Republican presidents leading to market crashes which the wealthy use to buy up assets for cheap, and indicated to Project 2025 which was published well in advance of the election. She seemed to respond as if I had given her valid information that she lacked before (which wasn’t really the case, we’d talked about this well before November). But she didn’t really have any pushback or response, she mostly seemed quiet and contemplative.

I served for about 7 years. None of the individual tasks are particularly difficult in isolation. The skill is juggling a couple dozen simple tasks quickly and efficiently in a chaotic environment. That is much more difficult than it seems.

I had this exact conversation with my MIL just yesterday. She voted for him, and she hit me with “This is so unexpected”. I told her no, no it wasn’t, everyone who was paying attention saw this coming a mile away, nothing could be more predictable.

Hurts the petit bourgeoisie, which is the only ones the working class see

So billionaires will be way better off, politicians will be fine, the working class is doomed, rights will be stripped away from vulnerable minorities, but that’s fine because small business owners will also be hurt? I just question the rationale of that strategy. It is literally a 4chan NEET’s “screw everyone” plot.

Also, because Trump is a vengeful narcissist, you can bet that certain sections of the liberal elite are going to get a coating.

This seems like burning down your whole neighborhood to get back at the guy down the street.

Which can be turned to your advantage if you’re aware of it. “Oh man [insert weird deviant fetish] drives me crazy, sometimes I just start spilling state secrets”

being reformist rather than revolutionary, which places them in the center-left imo.

I disagree. That’s more to do with pragmatics than actual political alignment. Historically, leftist revolutions tend to get co-opted by corrupt individuals; the dictatorship of the proletariat has very little to prevent it from devolving into just regular dictatorship. A lasting leftist government needs to be constructed very carefully, which almost certainly can’t be accomplished overnight.

Reformist communists want the same end goal as revolutionary communists, they just see a longer, gradual approach as being more likely to be successful and stable in the long term.

Credens justitiam is a straight up banger