MAGAts don’t deserve a place in society.

I agree with this sentiment. It really drives home what the word “rights” means: you don‘t have to deserve them to get them.

“You just say bingo.”

Nah it was an authoritarian dick measuring contest that we managed to get a lot of useful science funding from. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is clear on this point at least. Once the Soviets lost interest in the moon, we dropped it.

The complaint is that we shouldn’t need a dick measuring contest to do science. We’ve even had the chance to see what science funding like NASA’s can do now, yet still we can’t bring ourselves to fund it without a dick measuring contest to motivate us. So we’re outsourcing it to the billionaires, who have a dick measuring contest between them that fits the bill.

What’s the next dick measuring contest that this idiotic species will need to latch onto to keep space exploration going?

‘Surprising, illogical and very troubling’

We have a rhetoric problem in the US. Trump does something dumber than a bag of rocks, and smart people react with statements like this that actually elevate what he did even while they are trying to lambaste him.

It’s not “surprising,” it’s dumb as fuck.

It’s not “illogical,” it’s dumb as fuck.

It’s not “very troubling,” it’s dumb as fuck.

Call it what it is, guys. Your polite high road responses to this lunatic serve to dignify him.

No! Only my! one! thing! /s

Demonstrably not.

That can be the theme of the next No Kings protest. I bet we crack 10 million people for that.

Is there some customary period for it to stay up after someone is fired?

As long as Trump is just going to fabricate stuff and lie to our faces, maybe next time he can just invent the entire war effort itself and not actually drop a single bomb. “We’ve destroyed China. No one’s ever seen anything like it. Totally obliterated.”

It’s not cementing his position though.

Yeah I was about to say damn what a shame she was so young.

After much back-and-forth, Lindell finally grabbed the papers and tossed them on the floor.

Fool. He accepted the papers. No one cares that he then littered. She won.

I’m getting a little lost - you said both “social democracy” and “democratic socialism” there. I just want to be sure that was intentional? I’m still a little unclear what the better system’s rules are. I don’t mean to be ungrateful for the explanation, but this section in particular didn’t clear anything up for me:

people can still get rich, own companies, and buy jet skis, but they can’t take a successful company that hundreds of people have helped build and centred their lives around and hand control of it to their unqualified, arrogant, spoiled children to run into the ground

So… okay, but how is this codified in law? No inheriting?

Any reason not to just throw out these terms and talk about it as capitalism vs communism?

Thank you for breaking this down. Would it be fair to say that social democracy on a national scale can still be imperialist but social democracy on a global scale would actually be a good thing? I guess when I see social democracy equated with fascism it leaves me wondering what is actually the better path.