[-] amerika@annihilation.social 1 points 12 hours ago

@wintermute_oregon @Zeppo

The stupid party and the evil party

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -1 points 1 week ago

@wintermute_oregon @glimse

Remember the articles of confederation.

Federalism has always been a tricky balance.

We are the United States, not United Citizens.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -1 points 1 week ago

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen @wintermute_oregon

By definition, the Radical Republicans were progressives.

Back then it had a lot more to do with industry than Communism.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social 0 points 1 week ago

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen @wintermute_oregon

Lincoln was a radical closer to Marx than the founders.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -1 points 1 week ago

@LookBehindYouNowAndThen @wintermute_oregon

Slavers were just there to make money, and most of them were Arabic, Chinese, or Jewish.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -2 points 3 months ago

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

A couple more links:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/

https://iep.utm.edu/egalitarianism/

These are about the philosophy, but you can see the divisions in Leftism from classical liberal through Communism play out in these arguments.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -1 points 3 months ago

@realcaseyrollins @glimse

As far as I can tell, Trump is popular among a range of social classes but also captured the college-educated conservative vote.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -1 points 3 months ago

@realcaseyrollins @glimse

In fact, it has been non-stop legal cases without anything in common between them except being a presidential candidate.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social -2 points 4 months ago

@realcaseyrollins @LookBehindYouNowAndThen

That must have been quite a shock, but it's not against conventional wisdom.

People on addictive drugs have their lives collapse and end up living under a bridge.

This is why we used to call the homeless "winos," because they were basically sad broken alcoholics.

[-] amerika@annihilation.social 1 points 4 months ago

@realcaseyrollins @Blamemeta @Bongo_Stryker

Good summary. The worst we have IDF on is hitting the wrong targets while the Palestinians used them as human shields.

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