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  • The arguments that are in favor of social democracies are those around the effectiveness of social welfare programs and how effective compassion is as a political root, but that doesn’t make them fractionally socialist and they aren’t held up as socialist countries. I feel like a lot of this follows from a view of “socialism is when the government does stuff”, which I doubt was the definition Calfpupa was using.

    What voting trends have you seen that suggest a move towards democratization of the economy over privatization that would be in line with complete democratic control? Further what trends have you seen in freeing neo-colonies from debt trappings and foreign ownership?












  • I don’t think it’s bad to insult AI or its fanatics online. For me it’s a distrust of anyone that delights in cosplay racism in whatever form is acceptable, and while they are doing so strive to be close to recreating real racism. I am thinking of people with chatgpt girlfriends being mocked as clanker lovers; it just seems like we can insult loser gooners without drawing on slurs.



  • Except it doesn’t do that. Lets shuffle the teams and see if you can see how dumb this comes across.

    Imagine Abdul El-Sayed having an interview with fox news, and after months of painting him as wanting Sharia law, close friends with people that hate America, and the daughter of a woman involved with the Muslim Brotherhood. In that interview they talk about someone that made a political assassination attempt on El-Sayed, stating their hate for all of the above. When asked about the manifesto of the shooter, El-Sayed says they were mentally ill and it’s terrible what the lies they’ve been convinced to believe about him. If the fox news interviewer then smugly says, “Oh do you think it’s referring to you?” does that not come across as the absolute dumbest smarmy gotcha? Wouldn’t that make you feel more like the media is being deceptive and moving in bad faith when talking about El-Sayed?

    I am fully aware of the difference in these cases, and that Trump actually is a pedophile and rapist, but this smug clap back does nothing but galvanize those that already think the media is “out to get Trump”. And if we want to actually try and convince whoever in the Trump cult is teetering on realizing they’ve been lied to, its with the detailed receipts of how close Epstein and Trump were. Not pithy witticisms that amount to “pedo says what?”.