I’m not following.

Not the hood! What a terrible tragedy…

Could not agree more. And frankly, refusing to acknowledge the past failures of leftist movements is a form of self sabotage. How will we avoid such pitfalls in the future if we can’t honestly reckon with them?

The attempted rehabilitation of Stalin’s image is very disturbing.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

All of them I would think.

Sure I was at them, just like I’ve been at a lot of protests for other topics too. But I don’t perceive that any of them were large enough to specifically be the key factor in swinging an election that was frankly not that close. A lot of political radicals aren’t very persuadable anyway.

Anyway your last comment is puzzling. I have no more sway on democratic policies than you do. Your last comment is weird. I think dems should reject genocide too. I just think they should do it because it’s the right thing to do, not because it would magically make fascism disappear through some mysterious and unknown mechanism.

After slipping, Putin’s popularity is still higher than the highest approval rating Trump has ever received. Admittedly I don’t know if those approval numbers are to be trusted but that’s where it stands.

Trump has always been unpopular but the duopoly and minority rule are what allow him to stay in power.

Surely the Russian revolution involved the general public?

No, no, you see comrades it will work out differently if we do it with guns instead of ballots, trust me, I have your best interests at heart and will absolutely not betray you once I’m in power.

In unrelated news, I have now declared that reading history is counter-revolutionary.

Yeah I was going to say sounds like a win win. But I’m guessing instead they would just let no one through.

That said, entering this way could open you up criminal charges so it might stop some people from going through for that reason.

But I was assured by Xavier Becerra that they’re not the bad guys. I feel like I’m getting mixed messages here.

Yes I’m using it a lot right now.

My spouse helped organize a union and I’m under their insurance so that part is correct.

I was gonna say FBI is more of a threat than hackers are this point.

I just find the idea that Gaza swung the election so improbable. Do most Americans even know Gaza exists, let alone what is happening there? And how many who do know care about what’s happening to people they’ve been told are all terrorists?

So I don’t find its omission that surprising.

Oh I thought you had universal healthcare. It’s still tied to employment?

Well presumably everyone in Canada has good insurance.

But regardless of whether you pay out of pocket or not someone is still paying the cost when people need expensive medical care. Hopefully yours is more efficient than ours but time, expertise, hospital beds, supplies… these things are not cheap.

Ironically the monopoly economy would probably function better under conditions of hyperinflation.

So you have a slight preference for killing kids over fucking them? Interesting.

I mean… that was its original purpose. Sure it can be used for other things but systems often revert to the purpose they were designed for.