sambananaham.bsky.social
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I don't care whether or not the author wrote the headline, that's a cop out. If the headline and dek misrepresent the facts or the article that is an issue with the paper, not with me
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not really based on "years of experience" so much as job title, responsibilities, income level, etc. you can look up studies of voting records based on occupational class if you're actually interested
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not purely income level, though that is part of it, along with things like requiring a certain level of expertise or accreditation
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they have different voting patterns
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to analyse how it impacts beliefs, behaviours, voting patterns, what sort of political messaging they're open or susceptible to
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are you ok? what are you even talking about
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are we talking about elon musk vs a retail worker, or are we talking about an etsy dropshipper vs tom cruise? do you not believe that upbringing/income/living standards have any real effect on politics and ideology formation? do you think there's no analytical value to be found in subclassifications
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why don't you just classify everyone in a way that doesn't place any one person above or below any other person? put all living beings into one big class and see how useful your framework for analysis becomes
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you are insisting the expansive marxist definition of it is the only one, to the extent that you even reject the existence of a "middle class"
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ok, so you are aware of the concept and its widespread adoption and use, you just wish it were different? seems useless to pretend you don't understand the term "working class" also exists outside of the marxist framework, where it's more defined by sociocultural aspects
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is there such a thing as "middle class" to you?
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"so-called evils" and "mistakes"
too far gone
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I think reducing the soviet joint invasion and occupation of poland to "elections" is disgusting and tantamount to atrocity denial
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"soviet imperialism: elections"
katyn? what's that, some kind of sandwich?
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their mutual objective was to invade and occupy their respective halves of poland in accordance with the plans they'd just made. yes they cooperated, man, they even held joint military parades. what the hell are you talking about
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yes, i said "jointly" because that is what they did, they jointly invaded poland and split it along the lines they defined and agreed to in the Molotov Ribbentrop pact
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it's not "my contention", it's just what they did. they agreed to split it between them and they did. the idea that the soviets' invasion and subsequent brutal occupation of poland was done out of the goodness of their hearts is for the birds. nazi crimes against humanity do not excuse soviet ones
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they should not have made a pact to split europe between them and then do a joint invasion of poland. that was a bad thing to do imo. might give some people the impression that they were in some sort of alliance to carve up europe between them and jointly invade other countries
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I didn't see any tanks at the protests, a '56 style crackdown seems unlikely at this point
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You were talking about the need for violent revolts, and for there to be groups who "demonstrate what is ultimately required."
I believe you were referring to internal actors, but if costly failed wars is all it takes, then the US has already had a handful, so peaceful protests should be fine, no?
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The violence came from the state
The violence of the people against the state is implicit, or reactive. There was no violent insurgency happening in parallel in the baltics. There was no black bloc "demonstrating what was ultimately required" in hungary. There were strikes and protests
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Maybe you're just not as knowledgeable about all of the movements for systemic improvements across all of human history as you think you are. Here's an instance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_...
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A lie that people want to believe already appeals to everyone. Delivering doesn't even come into it, that's for after. The lie won the campaign and the power
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You cannot promise something more appealing than a lie people want to believe
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This is the exact same point Stancil has been making
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did Biden say "just stop feeling the way you are feeling"?
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So the Dems problem wasn't a lack of empathy but voters' strict preference for politicians who don't contradict themselves?
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did Kamala say this?
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The Houthis themselves don't even pretend to be the legitimate government of Yemen
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The Houthis are not the legitimate government of Yemen
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People didn't suddenly come back to life after covid either
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the fundamental problem at the root of all american societal ills is illiteracy
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hell yea
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They will offer all this in exchange for grand promises, they will get spat on instead, and they will learn nothing from it.
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I was thinking about exactly this last night. People don't make shoops anymore, it's a lost art