Agreed about Machado, but Maduro isn’t this populist champion of the working class he presents himself as. I’m about as convinced of Maduro’s commitment to socialism as I am of Trump’s commitment to “affordability.” He’s just another corrupt campist, willing to stoop to any means necessary to secure and consolidate his own power under the delusion that it’s the only way to resist US imperialism (while doing little to nothing to actually improve the living standards and autonomy of the working class).

The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they’ll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they’re being pushed to meet.

The above doesn’t even scrape the iceberg of everything that’s been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.

However, I think the capitalist class has made it clear that they would not allow an FDR to save them. They turned down that offer with Bernie and again letting Biden run for a second term.

They’re just not desperate enough yet. They will cave when they begin to feel they are under personal threat.

The new wave of DSA-aligned progressives are running on an FDR inspired “Green New Deal.” If they get enough victories in next year’s primaries there could be a realignment of the DNC towards FDR style policies, so there very well could be an FDR type running in the 2028 presidential election with the support of the Democratic party. The wealthy donors who control the DNC would be forced to appease the base

It’s likely to be a very chaotic affair given Trump’s unwillingness to abdicate power. Unfortunately the only way I see trump leaving office peacefully is if his own party turns on him and votes along with Democrats to impeach him before the next election. Failing that we’ll get Jan 6 two: electric boogaloo and we get to find out if they worked out the kinks.

Bastards can sometimes be attractive, unfortunately.

The placebo rage bait effect works even on those who are aware that it’s placebo rage bait.

Andor is good precisely because it’s nothing like most other Star Wars media, so there’s a lot of people who enjoy it that aren’t part of the Star Wars fandom.

I’d say that’s a unique case. The Revachol Citizens’ Militia sold out to the Moralintern in exchange for legitimacy and vested authority, but by the end of the game they’re about to betray the Moralintern and side with a workers’ uprising. Afterwards they’ll probably still be a police force, but they’ll get their legitimacy from an independent Revachol rather than an occupying force, which is at least better.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22871468

Crazed gamer now wears thigh-highs because the BPA and BPS coating on the receipt paper mimics estrogen in the body and is absorbed through the skin.

Pff, I would never hold that against someone. Or rather, It’s what comes after that I have an issue with.

In this case it’s Thatcherite/Reaganite US puppet and Nobel “Peace” Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado.

It was literally their stated strategy back when they were honest about their colonialism.

Also, divide and conquer is a strategy as old as warfare itself.

The coloration and proportions look similar to the last true wild horse species, the Takhi:

Particularly the neck. I wouldn’t be surprised if the drawing is based on a now-extinct wild horse species that looks similar to the Takhi but with shorter legs.

I think we’re on different wavelengths because I’m coming at this from the position that there’s a distinction to be made between who is the better candidate and who is better for the country. Trump, despite being a fascist moron who has and continues to destroy the lives of millions while enriching himself and his donors, was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Any of those three would have been better for the country (marginally) but were absolutely god-awful candidates. The only reason Biden even won by a hair is because of how awful Trump’s first term was, that people were willing to hold their nose and vote for Biden despite hating his guts.

You don’t even know who it’s gonna be and you’re already stating they’ll be better than Vance as if it’s a truism. I can absolutely see the DNC fucking up so badly that Vance looks like a better alternative. INB4 we end up with two Peter Thiel acolytes running against each other; “abundance” vs. “Christian” nationalism, a true clash of ideas.

Wait, hard-boiled? I was initially impressed by the muscle control it takes to get an egg up there intact, but now I am less impressed.

“Dem candidates are never bad, progressives are just fickle!” - you

You have to remember that a lot of people weren’t working or getting paid either, so even though their expenses went down many were still struggling.

I’m down. I recently read The Dispossessed and have been wanting to read some of Ursula’s other works.