NoneOfUrBusiness

As someone watching this from outside: More of this please.

Surprise quiz: Using an epsilon-delta proof, find the value to which the badness of your time management decisions converges to or show that it diverges.

That particular famine’s not the real warning though, that’s just war shit and Russian cyclical famines that were ended by modern agriculture.

Okay so cyclical famines don’t kill millions of people that’s not how that works. The main cause of the famine was the war, but the war caused the famine through (among other things) War Communism. In the immortal words of one angry Irish dude: God created the potato blight crop failures; the British Communist Party created the famine.

What you want is the Lysenkoism-caused famines that followed it, partly because the Soviets were so desperate to end the cycles and thus prove their legitimacy.

Those are more clear-cut since there was no war to blame for incompetent Soviet policy, but I wanted to point out that even Lenin himself was a failure as a ruler and not at all the source of sound socioeconomic ideas when it comes to actually solving the problem he claimed to have the solution for.

I don’t think you should be taking socio-economic understanding from the guy whose mismanagement caused/exacerbated this. And, you know, created an authoritarian state out of a revolution; that was bad too.

Yeah fair enough.

That’s true, but it’s still up to them whether they want to get arrested over social media comments somebody else made.

Y’all should actually read the post. They’re clear that they don’t want to do this but fear extreme repression by the German government, and they even listed examples of what exactly they’re trying to avoid. I’m no Israel apologist, but I’m convinced.

One can only hope, but I doubt it.

Why Democrats Joined Republicans to Block a California Climate Policy

Because Democrats are controlled opposition who ultimately serve the interests of the ultra-rich?

You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.

Don’t forget to praise Stalin first.

Man I’ll be so fucking happy if this shitshow ends with the dissolution of the Union.

I mean yeah, because that pick did have a good track record.

I’ll never understand the hate boner people on the internet have for this guy.

This needs to be the message everywhere. We now know that this movement has a massive following all over the country; the resistance has the numbers. Now it’s time to turn those numbers into sustained, escalating action.

I know you want people to march on the streets and start just shooting politicians but people have families that will not be able to eat without their income.

I do not, in fact, want that. America still has time, probably a lot of it, before violent revolution is necessary.

There have been nation wide protests basically every week since he was elected.

Uh… That’s the problem there: It shouldn’t be every week. You want millions of people turning out every single day if you want a shot at this. Look at other examples of peaceful/mostly peaceful revolutions like the Arab Spring, Euromaidan or the protests in Turkey and you’ll see what I mean, but the short of it is that a protest that intends to force rather than persuade the government to listen is basically a smaller-scale general strike where you also walk around, yell things and imply that if the government doesn’t listen to you you’ll lynch them. That’s your finish line and you have to get there (or to a general strike or similar) before the fascists reach their finish line of complete overriding of the legislative and judicial branches. Now ask yourself: Are the American people closer to a general strike than Trump is to being able to ignore Congress and the courts?

Nah I’m watching this shitshow unfold from a safe distance (roughly half a planet away).

Yeah so one tomorrow and one a month from now. I’ll change my opinion if tomorrow’s protest becomes a springboard for something bigger, but as things are now democratic backsliding is a race and the fascists are in the lead.

It’s so much lead time that if you keep taking it you’ll procrastinate your way into fascism.

Because he lost all hope for America?

It’s supposed to be the sound of a joke flying over one’s head. Basically means “it was a joke”.