I mean, insofar as Hegseth has internalized the culture war and can’t stop being a fox news host long enough to do his job. I think priming the Military to eventually use it against the American population was the main purpose of this gathering.
One means kings, one means no kings. We use the term Right to describe a set of political beliefs in which a societal elite rules and power & ideas flow from the top down. The further right you go, the smaller & more exclusive the elite gets, the steeper and stricter hierarchies get. The Left describes a set of political beliefs in which rule is shared or replaced with self rule, hierarchies are shallow or non-existent; power & ideas flow from the bottom up. The further left you go the less you’re willing to compromise on those points and the more you start to see economic power as equivalent to political power.
Context my dude. Hunger is a term we apply to people having insufficient food available while you’re applying it out of context to the bodily sensation of being motivated to eat.
This cuts at the heart of being a Leftist. Deep inside, we’re all secretly convinced that if we can just craft the perfect factually correct well researched well spoken argument, that people will flock to our cause. It just aint true. We can convince some people in that manor but not the majority.
There are in denial or ignorant people who don’t have fascists beliefs yet that are politically adjacent to the GOP who might waver, we just can’t put all our eggs in one basket.
If the state controls the means of production, then the workers don’t. Full stop, no matter how much Bolsheviks want to argue with you about it.
Some people treat Left and Right as more akin to conferences that your sports team joins than actual descriptive terms for political beliefs.
Bolshevism came damn close.
The closest to a universal on the Left is opposition to hunger/starvation for any reason.
I loved RDR but every time I try to play RDR2 I struggle to stay engaged for more than a couple hours. Then it’s 6-12 months before I play it again. Still haven’t finished a single play thru. Just can’t put my finger on why.
Turns out that having the legislature operate via a Gentleman’s Agreement that assumes good faith behavior and concentrates power in the hands of a small number of people was really bad for Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Enemy of the nation, sure. Enemy of the country, the people, sure sure. But as the uncontested leader of the State, he just declared it’s enemies to be the politically disloyal. People like you and me.
And far more unlikely to let the Workers be Disarmed.
Mormans consider themselves Christians, but Conservatives Christians frequently don’t. Unless you’re protestant or charismatic, they look down on you. Hell, their nickname for the Catholic Church is “the whore of Babylon”.
Right. There was a concerted effort to diversify manufacture but that was spearheaded by Biden and Trump made sabotaging anything Biden did a top priority and alienating foreigners trying to open manufacturing in the US a high priority.
Pretty much everyone already understands that but it’s good to see politicians say it out loud for a change.
I’ll never stop being disgusted by Stephen Miller. And somehow he actually looks like the Villain he is. Like does the fucker stare in the mirror each morning and practice his bad guy face?
Holy wall of text, batman!
The whole series is about fighting fascism. In this episode, Imperial propaganda against the peaceful Gorman has reached a fever pitch because the Empire wants to massacre their people and mine their planet without outrage. An Imperial sniper shoots his own troops to start a riot and justify the slaughter.
Having a brain predisposed to fear is one of the hallmarks of being a Right Winger