u/theneverfox

I'm sorry, I've been coming at this wrong

Need more sauce for jerking. For OSHA reasons

I like the furries because they're really accepting

But come on...Understanding how progressive movements fail ~~and how it's usually because the CIA destabilized the regime~~ actually matters.

Especially now. Less circle jerking, more historical analysis with clear messaging

Yeah, but what do you do with that? Just give up?

You're not going to convince everyone, but every once in a while someone will dig into it. It keeps the knowledge alive

Yo, put up some context or you're just circle jerking. Not everyone knows those historical deep takes, everyone not in the know will dismiss this as some level of conspiracy theory without sauce

Messaging matters

Because lobbyists get angry and markets get nervous when you mandate a change overnight, but no one seems to care if people get nervous angry

Something about heavy and light crude oil, and some head scratching decisions that involve shipping things around the world

No no no... It's not democracy, it's abstraction

Democracy would be a worker owned business. Where the people who do the thing decide how it should be done. And it's great, it makes sense, it's ethical, and the decisions are made democratically by the most informed people

Stock markets don't work like that. At one point you had voting, but now it's all speculation and layers of abstraction

Do you think the shareholders know or care how the business is being run? No, they just want line go up, because they've got a dozen other places to shift the money to if it's not going up fast enough

They don't know or care if the company is dumping chemicals into the lake until the rest of us do. They don't know that the cars are dangerous, but it was cheaper to set aside money for damages.

They aren't part of the company at all - they have no responsibility for what the company does. They have no control... Except, collectively. Maybe they could join together to replace a board member or sell to lower the price negligably. And the board has a responsibility to the shareholders. And the CEO just listens to the same consultant the shareholders do

So really, it's no one's fault.

Chick fila donates to hate groups, but they also front the money for new franchise owners. Costco pays well. Arizona iced tea doesn't raise their prices because they have no debt and the guy says he's making enough money.

Yes, you're going to have shit heads and good people... But as bad as my pillow guy is I'd be shocked if he was knowingly poisoning people... That usually weighs on a person's conscience, but not so much if they can diffuse the responsibility

Yes. Unambigiously.

What would you rather have, one person with a ton of power making decisions, or abstract it out over a group and diffuse all responsibility?

Both are bad, but one of them has a (likely not morally great) person at the top, the other has lots of robber barons sharing ownership and collectively demanding line go up

A person isn't usually dumb enough to fire half their workforce, because they know their bread and butter comes from that workforce. A consulting company advising the business and shareholders at the same time can easily do such stupidity for short term profits

It absolutely is... Basically anything spread to advance a cause or change behavior is technically propaganda. Generally, we use the term just when it's done by or on behalf of a government, and especially when it's pushing disinformation, but it's all propoganda

The purpose of this is to push support, or at least normalization of, harsh treatment of Mexicans in the US or on the border. It's also an intimidation and humiliation tactic

No matter how you slice it, this is blatant propaganda

Taken right after the handshake


Yep... It also puts pressure on Bukele - I mean, remember his comments to the media

"I can't smuggle someone into the US, and I'm not willing to let them walk around my country, so I guess there's nothing to be done"

The man didn't say he wouldn't return them, he made it very clear the ball is in the US's court and he hasn't been asked to give him back. He said it was impossible to see the victim, and yet when a US senator still showed up they arranged all this

America is the customer buying a service here...a customer known for having a huge crew of assassins with lots of experience overthrowing South American countries

Oh, there's a cohesive plan behind it all right, but before you give them too much credit it's from the 1930's. The new part of the plan seems to be to basically do the 1930's again so they reuse the playbook

Technocracy movement

Central planning is terrible.... Bernie isn't about that, he's dialed in on next steps

Decentralized planning is better - don't control from on high, support it being done as local as possible. Cast a wide net, Foster competition while forcing them to share their answers

Nah, that ship has sailed. They'll never cut diplomatic ties, because why would they?

They've already decided they need to come together to live in a world without the US... They're already making trade deals and new defense pacts, they're already planning around us

Yep. They're definitely not disappearing German and Canadian citizens for basically no reason. They're certainly not putting them in solitary confinement for days on end before shuffling them around the county for months with no way for friends or family to (accurately) track down where they are

Oops...

Canada is putting a 100% tarrif on red State liquor, among other things. Which is hilarious and I love it