It's like they get zapped with an amnesia ray right after every election, and are prohibited from reading about history. I guess four years is a long time and reading is hard. Better vote blue because who knows what might happen if you don't!
but I don’t think companies should be allowed to sell it as “milk” in any form
Well sure, and they haven't been able to in almost a decade. This court ruling is about something else. They're not calling it milk, they're not mislabelling their product. In fact, the campaign this is about is them saying explicitly this is not milk, and apparently that goes too far. I'm totally with you that food labelling should be clear, but this is not about that. This is not consumer protection. This is anticompetitive agribusiness lobbying, no more, no less.
Genocide. The word is genocide. A genocide that doesn't just spring up out of nowhere and kind of "happens", but is actively being committed by Israel and the United States since October 8th 2023.
I feel like you're a bit too emotionally involved. It's just a cartoon, calm down.
Anyway, to clarify my comment, which I thought was brief and to the point enough that it was easy to grasp, but apparently not for you: I don't think there's anything wrong with covering current events or lampooning stuff. The way south park does this is sanctimonious and smug, to the point where I find it a bit hard to watch.
Whenever they take on real world stuff, they're incredibly smug and sanctimonious about it. This has been the case since the start, and I can't say I've ever been able to get past that.
I'm getting strong rest of the owl vibes from a lot of what you say.
So for example, you say you need strong allies. Well, list some candidates! China? They have a policy of non-intervention, so don't count on it. Cuba? Not very strong. The US, or some other nation that's captured by the owning class (Netherlands, France, Germany, etc)? Fat chance.
Same with the focus having folks join unions more. I think it's a great outcome to strive for, but how do we achieve that goal? On a systemic level we see union membership dropping, and that's no coincidence, because more and more anti-union legislation is enacted across the board in Europe and America. And that in turn is no coincidence because the people who really don't want us to unionize have enough money to lobby this legislation into existence, and they happen to own the media, so they're also doing a good job of convincing us that it is against our interests to join a union. Voting a pro-union candidate into power is incredibly difficult for the simple fact that campaign funds are a pretty decent predictor of electoral success, and guess who has the money to contribute significant amounts to those funds? Not me.
The education thing too is pretty great, but it assumes that some worker-friendly entity already has control over the education system. How do you get there?
And education only goes so far of course. At some point folks leave the educational system, and their main source of information becomes the media. I've seen well-educated folks be completely convinced that there is no genocide in Gaza, and I could not blame them, because for the first year no major outlet would even utter the word. How do you prevent the media from being captured by the owning class?
Ultimately the problem is that the opponent has the means and willingness to use violence to quell your movement. And they've shown time and again that they will use these means, and history shows it works (Allende, the Spanish anarchist revolution, the Paris commune, Indonesia's takeover by Suharto, Lumumba, etc). How do you defend yourself effectively against a violent aggressor without resorting to illiberal means yourself?
Yeah! And we need to do it in a way where the incredibly rich and powerful who have a vested interest and desparate need for us to fail won't kill our movement! In the past and present, any socialist movement was met with
death squads
propaganda
military invasions
assasinations of heads of state
funding, arming, and training the opposition
economic sanctions
so, so much propaganda
all funded by the absurdly wealthy to make nations fail and make them more amenable to re-exploitation by the owning class.
Any ideas on how to defend ourselves against this phenomenon which occurs over and over again?
They did fail to demonstrate knowledge of lexicographical order, which this exercise seems to be aiming for with the inclusion of pond and pumpkin, so I think it's a bit cynical to consider failing the student on this a means of opression or subjugation.
Ok, let's indulge in your racist rhetoric a little bit. What you're essentially claiming is that violent crime will go up if there are more immigrants. However, if you look at actual data, you'll see that the number of violent crimes per capita for undocumented immigrants is much, much lower than for citizens. Reality just doesn't line up with your BS. Facts don't care about your feelings.
Yes this is correct, we're in complete agreement there. The comment I was responding to worded it vaguely though, which made it sound like you cannot get a divorce because you have a sexless marriage. It made it sound like people were being forcibly kept married, which is false. You can get divorced because it's Tuesday, or because the moon is in retroflux. Holding your spouse responsible for those things is a different story, however.
For reference here's the part of the comment I replied to:
Should a person not be allowed to divorce if they fell out of love with their partner, ergo they turned out to have less or no more sex?
It's like they get zapped with an amnesia ray right after every election, and are prohibited from reading about history. I guess four years is a long time and reading is hard. Better vote blue because who knows what might happen if you don't!