I don't care if you have a degree. In fact, admitting that is all the worse because it seems like you spent much time and money getting a piece of paper that still didn't give you a proper systemic view of history, especially American history. And don't try to paint me as MAGA for the crime of trying to give some historical perspective on the current American political situation.
I can see you are not just a liberal but an Educated Liberal. So there is little point to these Worst President Olympics except as rhetorical masturbation. Ultimately there is no politician or movement on the scene currently that can end the economic system which produces results like Trump. You seem to think he is a root cause, and I am trying to say he is a fruit of a diseased orchard called capitalism.
You would cull the branches but still be surprised when eventually out comes another crop of poison apples.
Apologies, I mixed up the names of two slaver presidents.
So this is sort of what I mean when I say you're deranged by Trump. I'm sure you mean well and have empathy for others to some degree and are horrified by things happening to people in your country.
But you have no sense of historic scale. Johnson as president essentially pardoned the entire institution of slavery. Do you understand what that means? That's millions of sharecroppers back in poverty. That's lynchings and the height of the Klan. That's Jim Crow. Can you not see the line, drawn from the failure of Reconstruction under Johnson's hand all the way to the poverty of black Americans today?
And if we're going to use killing civilians as a barometer for worst, by far that would go to either a post civil war president where indigenous peoples were slaughtered, or Franklin Roosevelt after civilian internment camps and atomic bombings in Japan. Your country has a long tail of death that follows in its history.
I will say additionally if you add Gazan and Ukrainian /Russian deaths to Trump that does push him up. But then of course the same has to be done for Biden.
If there's one thing trump has done that I applaud, it is showing the world what the American state is really about, and I hope the damage to American reputation and soft power lasts forever.
So you really think he's worse than Andrew Jackson, destroyer of Reconstruction?
There was a democrat president after 2020 right, who could have done everything in your dollhouse fantasy you're wishing for. As for worst president, you truly are deranged by Trump if you think he's it.
Interesting, I think the internal left critiques of the USSR give important lessons. The Soviets at the time faced immense danger of course: foreign invasions, the German military, disarray in food distribution, and White terror/reaction. How do you consolidate a revolutionary situation into something that can resist imperial power, without creating an ossified layer and a new abstraction from worker democracy?
I don't think I've heard much about them before but it does seem like an interesting book. What were the demands/agenda of the Worker's Opposition in general?
Not too familiar with British wiring, but I am thinking your brown wire is a switch leg that goes directly to the light itself. If you go to the light you're wanting to control, do you have the same red and brown wire? You could use your multimetre to ring the wires out and determine what is going where to be certain.
The ndp statement is good enough only by comparison to the depravity of the Liberals and especially Conservative statements. They do point out oil being the motivating factor, but fail to link it to any broader critique of capitalism or even just the US. Instead they come out with the ol' Trump-Putler axis of evil spin :
Trump’s declaration that US oil companies are going to take over Venezuelan oil production reveals the true motive for this attack: seizure of some of the largest oil reserves in the world. Apologists for this blatant violation of the UN Charter by the US can spin all they want - but this is clearly illegal, hypocritical and dangerous.
Maybe this reveals why Trump has been so hesitant to hold Putin to account for his invasion of Ukraine. The US can have no credibility upholding international law and the rights of nations when it blatantly violates those principles itself.
Of all the historical situations and incidents for which to pull from to illustrate American hypocrisy, this is what they pick. Only being compared to Carney's total nothing response, or Poillevre being a sockpuppet for American Republicanism, can the NDP look slightly ok.
Read his biography here.
Highly recommend it, his described treatment at the hands of the GDR as a political refugee and subsequent integration into their society helped show me what life was like there beyond the usual propaganda.
I'm not saying it has to be limited to only neurons, but until there's a way to test whether or not entire ecosystems can have a consciousness like ours then I am skeptical of these claims
Not surprising that the UCP sharpened their knives against the teachers first seeing as how they are the one union that has the power to affect indirectly all other workplaces.
Liberal as in someone who has liberal ideology....not a Maga insult. Jesus you're fixated