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ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.English1·2 months agoWe reached that point awhile ago. I’ve made a meme about it. It will be in my posts.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.English0·3 months agoNo amount of hardship or things getting worse will make people wake up. People will unironically think they aren’t working enough if they’re before retirement age and if they’re after retirement age they will say something like ‘I did everything right, but I have no money’. They have an existing framework to view their material conditions thanks to neoliberalism.
This must be corrected if we want people to adopt socialist and progressive ideas. We have to educate people if we want to make things better. There is no way around it. Now we have to educate people during a fascist dictatorship.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.English0·3 months agoThe answer was to replace capitalism, an extractive economic institution, with socialism, an inclusive economic institution. And yes, it would have taken a lot of political will, which is why I argue it would have been hard, but not impossible. I’ve been arguing this with several users in parallel. If you want to see my argument in full it’s in my comment history.
What’s important is, now that the bomb has gone off and we have fascism, we still need to replace capitalism with socialism. But in addition we also have to defeat a fascist dictatorship on top of that. So now it’s even harder.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•'Such an embarrassment': Donald Trump roasted for wearing blue suit to Pope's funeralEnglish1·3 months agoThat’s a fundamental misunderstanding of political ideologies. These are all different ideologies from fascism. Although neoliberalism and by extension neoconservatism lead to fascism. No one is a classical liberal anymore. Compared to classical liberalism, neoliberalism is fundamentally its own ideology that was developed in the 20th century. Neoconservatism is a more conservative and usually more war hawkish version of neoliberalism.
Here’s a useful video about neoliberalism to improve your analysis.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.English0·3 months agoIt’s not wishful thinking. It was possible, but hard, to make a course correction, but we failed to even give ourselves the time to do it.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.English0·3 months agoThe only way to have time to stop the bomb from going off is to choose the longer fuse. We didn’t even give ourselves a chance to replace neoliberalism with socialism, people let fascism win in 2024.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•'Such an embarrassment': Donald Trump roasted for wearing blue suit to Pope's funeralEnglish0·3 months agoLiberals as in Neoliberals do. Neocons and fascists definitely don’t, but will claim they do. Progressives have thankfully figured out they can be mean. The fact most Democrat politicians are useless neoliberals doesn’t mean we have to be.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•'Such an embarrassment': Donald Trump roasted for wearing blue suit to Pope's funeralEnglish1·3 months agoMore like reality show tv police. They had Dr Phil on an ICE raid. Their goal is to scare people. But they are very close to getting to anyone, not just immigrants. And it’s been all kinds of immigrants not just Latinx. They been detaining pro-Palestinian students on student visas and tourists from European countries.
Also, so far they are outsourcing the death camps, to El Salvador, but I think they are probably going to start using American prisons and maybe even military bases. Trump signed an executive order for getting lethal injection drugs to the states. I think firing squad might be the method of choice still but we’ll see I guess.
I use my real name and face on BlueSky where I’m openly trans. The only reason I used my account name here is because it seemed like Reddit and the I only did that on Reddit is because the site recommend it.
I would link to my BlueSky but I doubt you people would benefit from that site and vice versa. You all mean well, but I think BlueSky would lose its mind over Lemmy and I know people here don’t like BlueSky so I’m keeping you separate for your own good.
But push me on it and I’ll do it. I’ll link to my BlueSky. I’ve been openly Jewish and atheist since elementary school and openly socialist since high school. I suppressed I was trans for the majority of my life and I would rather die than keep doing that.
Also social media radicalist? I think that’s the furthest left of liberal on the political spectrum I’ve been labeled on this site by another user so thanks for that.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•'Such an embarrassment': Donald Trump roasted for wearing blue suit to Pope's funeralEnglish0·3 months agoIn the last fifteen years, Republicans have been on the attack for everything Democrats do. They don’t pick and choose their battles. They are perpetually aggressive and now they have all three branches of government. No one has to care what suit Trump wears, but any excuse to make fun of him means your side is on the attack.
I think it’s some cultural thing where you wear black to funerals and no one but the bride wears white to weddings. Rules people made up to get mad at other people are bizarre and awful but I’ll use them to attack fascists any day of the week. edit: typo
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•'Such an embarrassment': Donald Trump roasted for wearing blue suit to Pope's funeralEnglish0·3 months agoIt takes two seconds to make fun of him for it today. It’s just to exhaust his base of non-MAGA Republicans. Republicans have shown you can be on the attack for everything a person does, for the last fifteen years. Either be vocal or die in silence.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto politics @lemmy.world•A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended herEnglish01·4 months agoIs the title implying or not implying that her suspension is related to the fact that objected to working alongside IDF?
A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her
The title says working alongside IDF soldiers. It’s not implying anything.
Explain to me how being a student is considered “working alongside” with a professor simply because they are both at the same school?
At the same time, Mohammad told her Democracy Now! interviewer: “One of the professors of medicine we have at Emory recently went to serve as a volunteer medic” in the IDF. That professor, she continued, “participated in aiding and abetting a genocide, in aiding and abetting the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza and the murder of over 400 healthcare workers, and is now back at Emory so-called ‘teaching’ medical students and residents how to take care of patients”.
Because she is a medical student and he is a professor of medicine.
ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto politics @lemmy.world•A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended herEnglish0·4 months agoTo everyone not reading this article title: “A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her”
BUT she was not suspended because she refused to work with or for the IDF. That is a bs title.
Reread the title, it does not say that.
She refused to work with a person who contributed to the genocide against her own people. He chose to be complicit in genocide. IDF soldiers are monsters and can fuck off. We should hand this guy over to the Hague. edit: typo
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