He’s always got le mot juste.
OK, stranger.
You’re absolutely right: dismissing anything you don’t want to hear as “propaganda bullshit” is a much easier way of having a discussion than participating.
He does this because - it may surprise you to hear, but it’s true - America does not have a parliamentary system of government. Here, everybody left-of-nazi is forced to pretend like they are all members of the same party. If America’s system de facto allowed for more than two parties, then the progressive party could actually choose whether or not to form a coalition with the centrists, conditional on policy concessions. Since we do not, the centrists offer is “we get what we want or else you get nazis.” Then make the progressives out to be the bad guys if they call the bluff, which isn’t a bluff, because the centrists today genuinely would prefer 4 years of nazis over conceding anything to progressives.
So, exactly like the top level comment described. Weird take.
Ah, of course. America’s communist party should be trying to form a coalition government in Parliament this year. Literally equivalent.
It may not have been a weird take in the early 20th century. It’s a weird take now.
That comment was not referring to literal nazis. They were talking about the American right wing.
If Santa wasn’t real, how you’d explain finland?
Speaking as a Marxist, we did in fact need to chuck Newtonianism out the window early last century since it turned out not to work at high speeds, in strong gravitational fields, or at very small scales…
In my experience (which, to be fair, seems to be different from many people’s), it couldn’t be any worse than the real thing. 12 different licensed and trained medical providers each responded to my complaints about the ongoing traumas in my life with some variation of “Sure, but focus on the positives!” I’d have been better off saving the money and venting to a chatbot, if venting did anything for me.
Please don’t tell me to see a 13th. I’m completely done with the idea.
Looked it up, and,
Racialization or ethnicization is a sociological concept used to describe the intent and processes by which ethnic or racial identities are systematically constructed within a society.
OK. And the author said he was referring to the fact that society created race. Sure, fine.
I’m no less confused as to why one would refer to their friend as “racialized.” This friend is a person whose race has been created by society? But then that’s true of everyone. What makes the Dominican friend racialized if Karen is not? If they both are, why refer to one as racialized and not the other?
I am also, in good faith, confused.
But only because I was treating it like a real game of Only Connect and figured there was at least a 50/50 chance I was just being baited into saying “Ensign” so Victoria could mock me.
This reminds me of last year’s Christmas present from my husband - a homebrew powerpoint Only Connect game based on our favorite media. Instead of “twisted flax” or “two reeds” my categories were things like “lightsaber” or “Starfleet insignia.” Love the format (and that sweet man).
On the starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!
Counterpoint: he’s controversial because of what he says and does, not because of lies people tell about him.
You want extrajudicial executions? Cause this is how you get extrajudicial executions.
Then we can play god long enough that we eventually fill the niche, and nobody will stop us.