muck.bsky.social
twxtter refugee, linux user, mutualist.
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They play a Motte & Bailey where they fail to understand that if some random African country really had a national average of -4, like they believe, that there wouldn't be a country there at all in the first place. In other words, they [contextually] bite the bullet that IQ doesn't matter.
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Of course, you're displacing a mundane authoritarianism with a spiritual authoritarianism that eventually expresses itself in the domination of the Church (later divine right of kings)... but then the Reformation happens.
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We all agree that the Grand Old Party, so called, is out of its proper practical relation with the United States of America
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Certainly not at the top of our priority lists.
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I wouldn't want a Dem politician to say that, but the equilibrium where GOP pundits and even high level politicians can constantly trash and demean the Dem base while random lib voters get tut tutted for pointing out obvious stupidity is simply not sustainable.
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They imagine that, at the very least, someone else is tasting it more.
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We break from conservatives in being less concerned with preserving traditions and believing that one can and should, if not engineer, [self-]consciously and rationally influence the norms around them.
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They also live in alt-media echochambers such that they really believe Harris is a communist or something. They don't bear witness to Harris's pivot in the first place. Their world is whatever the most Nazified parts of the anglophone right say it is.
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Imagine Euromaidan, but the military and three-letter agencies are on your side. Russia can not competently run a shadow government.
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god help him if a single person in those screenshots has a fursona
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Any future utopia-or-close-enough is either going to have to engineer people into being comfortable "just" being hedonist "losers," or have some outlet for authentic hero fantasies. Or both.
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There was (and is) some mass unease with the unprecedented comfort and peace of the postwar West; and the imagined solution is always some sort of rebellious violence (see: FALLING DOWN, FIGHT CLUB, THE MATRIX, THEY LIVE, WANTED). If people lived in a utopia, they would think it was a dystopia.
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It's not obvious that there's any long-lasting way out besides restarting history. And to that extent, certain reactionaries are correct that post/modernity leads to a sort of domestication. Baudrillard and Fukuyama are the premier theorists of the late 20th and early 21st century, unfortunately.
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I'd like to give a stab at answering this.
First a few data points:
1. The officer corp is WAY less pro Trump than the average American (there are likely a small number of generals who basically want to be Trump's Von Runstedt)
2. The lower down you go the more pro Trump you get but even then I'm->
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It is true that arms firms make modestly more profits in wartime. This is not a primary motivation for any war ever, as capitalists do not actually control the US govt. There are, obviously, other interests at play.
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You like to bring up Vichy France as an analogy, which is amusing. Read up on the French Resistance. Of course, in this context, there are several other differences that are in Canada's favor. The country has already been whipped up into a nationalist fervor, even the bloquistes, lol.
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No one is under the illusion that Canada wins the initial military conflict. The belief is that protracted guerilla war - in a country with vast territory and hostile terrain, with likely European allies, and at minimum mass civil unrest in the US - means the US is ultimately defeated.
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I'm assuming orientalism because you seem ignorant of history or just how the world works. Half or more of the things you said of Afghanistan and Vietnam apply to Canada. Their being a relatively wealthy country and [increasingly former] ally of the US doesn't change that.
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...thinking they go down easy or without any significant resistance is crazy.