Great video. Even many people on the left don’t seem to understand how artificial and harmful the concept of nationalism is. The world started to make a lot more sense once I understood this issue better.
For some reason all of the quests with decent rewards are for the evil faction? The developers don’t seem to have considered that many players want to create a character with a heroic arc.
I wish I knew. I do a lot of urban tree planting and this is surprisingly common. Unfortunately, I’ve never had the chance to ask people why they do it. I normally assume that one or two vandalized trees were not driven by ideology but maybe in this case it was, since they did so many.
I was looking at some trees I planted about 5 years ago yesterday and someone had completely stripped the bark off. Very sad. My typical assumption is it’s just an expression of impotent rage but who knows.
No. I think it’s a pretty shitty thing to do unless you had a reason to feel unsafe, which I personally never have.
I think democrats would, for the most part. Perhaps less enthusiastically, but since they hate Trump, I think it would not be a major issue.
The question is, how would low-information unaffiliated voters respond to having a socialist in the ballot? This is a difficult question to answer. Traditionally socialism is a bad word in US politics, albeit less so with younger voters.
Personally I don’t really buy the “Bernie would have won” stuff but there’s really only one way to find out.
It’s such a broad body of work that it’s hard to list all of the issues I have it it. I guess the biggest issue is just that Marx’s writings were an early attempt at describing a more rigorous case for social reform before more scientific theories of social change and economics were developed. So while his ideas were groundbreaking and innovative at the time they were written, not all of them have held up or are relevant to today’s world. And yet I don’t see many Marxists who have been willing to seriously dissect his ideas and take the useful ideas while discarding the bad or irrelevant ones. And in fact, those few who are willing to take a more critical stance are often ostracized and deemed “revisionists” which strikes me as a frankly absurd accusation. If you are not revising your theories then they are no longer theories but mere dogma, and that seems to be the state of mainstream Marxism today.
This is just one idea. It is not meant to solve every problem. Though, frankly, I don’t think your critique is very relevant. The poor typically have little or no savings and spend their money immediately. So they should be largely unaffected by this. And increased spending and lending by the more privileged should benefit the poor to some extent, as will the reduction in the wealthy’s spending power.
But yes I think further ideas and programs would be needed to fully solve poverty. This type of currency would easily accommodate a UBI or similar benefit programs since the natural reduction in money supply would solve any issues of inflation typically associated with large direct payments to citizens.
Thanks for posting this here. I don’t understand how this article was a violation of the rules on the LW politics community. Perhaps the mod simply did not like the content.
Don’t obey in advance. With the exception of the Supreme Court, most other systems and protections remain in place and may continue to exist regardless of Trump’s intentions, especially if they are fought for and protected.
But direct action of the type the author is discussing has been very successful across many contexts, including brutal dictatorships with no human rights guarantees. So the whole thrust of your comment fails to grapple with the real history of popular struggle.
Is the dilemma that I can’t take the tram to my foraging grounds? If so I agree that is a problem.
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It’s not even foreigners necessarily. There are millions of people who were born in the US that speak a non-English language as their primary language. In fact many of these communities have been here longer than English speakers have been, including native people and the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of territory the US annexed from Mexico, which includes the entire southwest region.