Thanks for the explanation.

I don’t think the proliferation of violence is a good thing. I think the most powerful entity having control of violence makes the most sense, as it reduces the amount of violence. That is, assuming that entity is sufficiently limited and democratic, but that of course is the foundation of liberalism.

I think most social democrats would be in favor of private co-ops, state owned industries, and recycling.

If factories/offices were owned by a co-op though, wtih no state, what incentive would they have to let you repair/recycle their product? Who would stop them from putting DRM in their product, and gluing everything together? Who would enforce right-to-repair laws?

Was giving literal gold to Donald Trump part of that campaign to save the users?

Both Tim and Pinchai paid Donald Trump money to attend his inauguration and lick his ass on a daily basis. They both have one very big incentive to invade their user’s privacy: American fascism.

I wouldn’t call people Russian trolls for having a different definition of the word “liberal” than you. Most online leftists use the term “liberal” to refer to bourgeoisie that support, intentionally or unintentionally, mega-corporations and patriotic nationalism.

disliking things like rules-based world order and voting?

What reasons would illiberal ideologies have to be against that? Nationalism? Opportunistic cronyism?

What’s the difference between liberalism and anarchism? Referring to liberals that support a welfare state and market regulation, not anarcho-capitalists like the American Libertarian Party. Seems very similar to reformist statist anarchism.

This. In most countries the liberal parties are in favor of rolling back government regulation and forming coalitions with nazis.

Social-liberalism is the kind of liberalism that results in the most freedom for citizens, and is the ideology of most social democratic parties and their coalition partners in Europe.

10 days that shook the world

The USSR began its life has heavily invaded and sanctioned by countries like the US.

The Red Army invaded many countries, like Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Baltica, etc.

I can tell you’re an authoritarian because you don’t believe in the rule of law.

The principle applied in the U.S.S.R. is that of socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his work." - Josef Stalin

But also

“I am the best at industrial policy, Tariff the Ukrainians to Make the Russian Empire Great Again” - Josef Stalin, probably

Also Stalin wanted to pretend he was as good friends with Lenin as Trotsky was, OP’s painting is a massive manifestation of Stalin’s historical revisionism. Quite ironic to make this text+image with such an obvious example of historical revisionism.

The is some argument to be made to compare him to Stalin with all the industrial policy, trade manipulation, attacks on civil liberties and rule of law, and purges of those disloyal to him. But he hasn’t committed genocide in the US yet.

they are better known than Marxists, though.

H1-B visaholders are in danger living in the US

Yes remind me which invades/threatens to invade neighboring countries, EU, Russia and/or China? Which of them is flying aircraft into the others’ sovereign airspace? Which of them is actively committing genocide?

This be fair Asia has some of the most powerful illiberal states in the world.

Nothing is set in stone, and humanity is resilient to technological changes. Countries that had stasi before no longer have them.

We need a collective will as a society to reject surveillance and the technological tools used to enable it. It should be disgusting to civilized people, it should be taboo. A good place to start with that is the EU GDPR regulation and the EU AI regulation, and grow from there

Carry drives in your carry-on. You are unlikely to be stopped. Worth encrypting them and backing them up remotely though if you are worried about it.

It’s both. They share both the bias towards avoiding risk and the bias towards stratified social structures.

Tribalism is common to all political leanings though unless consciously suppressed.

But yes, American conservativatism is really broken and unwell.

I think it helps to understand conservatism as a bias in the way people solve problems. In a vacuum where tribalism is absent, conservatism comes from being more risk averse and preferring older societal systems, real or perceived.

Capitalism was successful for the visible society until inequality grew so bad that economic development started going backwards. This perceived golden age also disenfranchised queers, jews, and blacks. So the appealing solution to many problems is to go back to the culture of the 50s where these things happened.

This risk aversion also presents itself in the rural/urban divide. People living in the suburbs who are risk adverse prefer the sheltered, familiar environment of rural areas/suburbs, instead of moving to cities, where they have to face the possibility of strangers, or foreign cultures/ideas. So the appealing solution is to stay in rural areas.

Conservatism also has a preference for stratified social structures. There is a core tenet that is very common among American conservatives that says “some people are more important than others”. This also causes conservatives to lean towards economic stratification, bigotry, and authoritarism.

Of course these are just their biases, i.e. the preferences that conservatives are likely to lean on when first presented with a decision. Similarly, progressives have different biases stemming from underestimating risk. Other factors can also have a lot of impact in political decisions such as context, tribalism, personal experience, etc.

I think the big issue corrupting American conservatism and preventing it from being a healthy stabilizing debate partner, like you see with European conservatives, is that the entrenched ideas and tribalism have gotten so extreme and detached from reality that American conservatives are just openly fascist. American Republicans hate European conservatives like Macron, Merz, and Rutte. The cause of that goes far beyond just personal biases and into serious structural problems in the US, and powerful corrupting interests.

Even then, why an educated person like JD Vance thinks he needs to end Liberalism worldwide and attack European culture is beyond me. My best explanation is either selfish opportunism or corruption.

But yeah, if you talk to the average Trump voter and get to know them, there is a lot you can probably agree on, and there are a lot of bubbles, tribalism, and misinformation you can debunk and come to reasonable conclusions on. We’re all logical humans somewhere.