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In one sentence: because of imperialism.

it’s welfare funded by sweatshops. Socdem governments crush foreign labor to placate domestic labor.

And placation is all it is. /u/xiaohongshu posted this graph here the other day: work hours plummeted when the Russian revolution kicked off.

I sure hope so lol, do you have a source?

[…] the baby, a male, has an unknown amount of fluid on the brain.

“She’s pregnant with my grandson,” Newkirk said. “But he may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he’s born.”

“This decision should’ve been left to us. Now we’re left wondering what kind of life he’ll have—and we’re going to be the ones raising him.”

is this a bit?

this is the time for civility libs to really shine as an appendage of fascism

How does it feel to be you, @blandfordforever?

Try to explain it to a stranger who is not like you at all. Someone who has lived a different life.

It’s not easy. That’s because words are a poor substitute for empathy. If you really want to understand someone, you need to actually put in the cognitive effort to imagine how it feels to be them. Put yourself in their shoes. If you can’t understand why it’s different for a woman than for a man, it’s because you’ve never put in any effort to imagine how it feels to be a woman.

Our words are not going to do that for you

I could sit here and list all the things that men do to women. Or I could say, “living in a sexist society as a woman is dehumanizing, much like living in a racist society as a racial minority is dehumanizing, and when a man or a white person gloats at you and acts superior, like you’re nothing, like you’re a piece of dirt, that gets under your skin in a way that the reverse wouldn’t, because of the context, because the society that you live in and the things you have experienced.”

But if you don’t put in any effort to actually imagine the reality of what I’m saying, those are just words.

It’s not a debate, we’re not going to logic our way to an answer here. This is an exercise in empathy. You either put in the cognitive effort to actually imagine what it’s like, to actually put yourself in someone else’s shoes, or we’re describing color to the blind.

I’ve been trying to figure out the core belief of civility libs

My current guess is something like misanthropy or subconscious classism. I think they’re scared of mass insurrection because they look down on the mass public. I feel like I often hear them voice sweeping negative opinions about human nature, like “people are stupid,” “people are gullible,” “people are greedy.” My hunch is that this sentiment can be challenged and corrected, if their personality isn’t too malignant and they don’t have some innate need to feel better than other people.

Why do India and Pakistan fight over their border? Is it more economic or more social?

the fucking gestapo showed up

I think the average Trump supporter is reachable—and if you have the resources of a government, as you seem to be imagining, I think they are reachable at scale. This is the 21st century, at this point the experts know how to influence people. Generations of marketers, academics, and psyops specialists have studied this problem. The knowledge is out there. If the CIA can spin up a color revolution, we can reeducate chuds.

But this all assumes a peacetime scenario where a communist government presides over a large population of chuds lol. Idk if that would happen in real life. Others can weigh in, I have no idea.

lmao, found it, holy shit

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat,” announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon. “We have to be selective on who we allow to go through [higher education],” Freeman added.

From this article https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/

damn, did he ever articulate it that way? that would make for some good quotes

lmao my whole life i thought it was by toulouse lautrec

*also i apparently didn’t know that his name was henri de toulouse-lautrec. i thought his first name was toulouse lmao