Honest suggestion: take a civics class to brush up on stuff like this. Theory is great but if you don’t understand the system of government under which you live, you have no hope of changing it.

This is a reason it’s important to get your name on petitions. Safety in numbers.

This is a fancy way of victim blaming. People don’t deserve to be bullied in any context.

I get that some people are willing to sacrifice others to achieve change. I’m not of that belief. If me personally sacrificing myself could lead to change it would be a much harder question to answer. But I’m definitely not willing to risk others on a protest vote.

Not op but I suppose ‘us’ is people with less privilege than those who could reliably survive in a Trump dictatorship. People for whom a Trump presidency is an existential threat.

Wait. Neoliberalism is literally a set of fiscal practices that that online folks refer to as late-stage capitalism. They’re practically identical in meaning. Without neoliberal policy, the phrase “late-stage capitalism” likely never gets coined.

Their news room has been this way for ages. They were the Bush administration’s biggest supporter in the lead up to the Iraq War. They’ve been anti trans for years, they were all in on opposition to Bernie.

I guess you just hire one Paul Krugman for some opinion pieces and people assume you’re not a right wing mouth piece

Have you heard the good news about supply-side Jesus? Even though this exact rule explicitly benefitted massive companies in California for decades, the fact that it also benefits labor even a little means the capitalist class will react very badly.

Economist so often is just amoral false equivalence.

Reading that, any winner of the affected awards, however deserving, should decline their award. This year’s Hugos are clearly illegitimate.

This is a misunderstanding of the UN’s primary purpose. The UN is a diplomatic organization meant to enable a baseline minimum amount of diplomatic interaction. It’s primary raison d’etre is preventing a world war / nuclear war. If military might was not respected, then nations would leave the negotiating table and large wars would be harder to avoid. The veto was instrumental in establishing the UN in the first place.

Santorum leaking again?

Yeah wow. What a horrible person. She has no care for the children’s well-being as evidenced by the conclusion where she attributes the child doing well to “heroing on”.

Please do not put in with this guy, even as a protest vote. He’s a demagogue who tosses neurodivergent people under the bus to gain influence and money. We have explained this to him for over a decade, and he ignores us, preferring his money and influence to our rights. Even if you’re confident he won’t win, every vote he gets is a signal to others that neurodivergent rights are not important, and that the most important thing regarding us is to make sure we don’t exist.