We should probably also add language to that oath clarifying that they need to defend it not only from foreign enemies, but domestic ones as well.

being reformist rather than revolutionary, which places them in the center-left imo.

I disagree. That’s more to do with pragmatics than actual political alignment. Historically, leftist revolutions tend to get co-opted by corrupt individuals; the dictatorship of the proletariat has very little to prevent it from devolving into just regular dictatorship. A lasting leftist government needs to be constructed very carefully, which almost certainly can’t be accomplished overnight.

Reformist communists want the same end goal as revolutionary communists, they just see a longer, gradual approach as being more likely to be successful and stable in the long term.

Holding them accountable is also the only way we get real change

Helping to elect the opponent who even more enthusiastically supports genocide does less than nothing to hold anyone accountable.

Barely drinks water either is imagine. Body by Diet Coke.

Correct, but there are obstacles to getting there, including FPTP.

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Stress does things to a person. I’m hopeful that his absence is indicative of getting all his ducks in a row across the pond, and when he’s ready to come back hopefully some of that stress is relieved.

Complicated and expensive. Expensive being the more limiting of the two. I saw a thread just today where a Canadian told an aspiring American ex-pat to have about $10k on hand, in addition to selective qualifications. Most aspiring ex-pats lack $10k on hand. I don’t know much about comparable costs in other countries, but just physically moving across an ocean would be expensive.

And by complicated I was referring more to the many, potentially exclusionary, complications that arise than to the complexity of the task itself. Canada is more selective than you might think, Europe presents its own unique challenges. Much easier in some cases if you have recent European ancestry, but a lot of Americans are 5th generation, or more.

If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same. Two or more though, and you’re net positive.

I dislike FS

Mind if I ask why? I mostly just know him as (until recently) one of the big Lemmy power users, and I never personally saw a bad take or had a problematic interaction with him.

Moving is expensive and complicated, especially international. Not to mention the difficulty of finding work in a new country.

I found exactly one keyboard with oversized keys for my fat sausage fingers, no num pad. I emailed the company to see if they were planning on doing a full sized version, nope. Guess I’m gonna keep making typos.

I could, but whatever’s wrong with her is way hotter tbh

I mean, libertarianism in essence, arrived at purely through your own reasoning, is pretty based. Every person should be free to do as they please right up until it infringes on their neighbors’ own similar freedom; the government should be limited in scope to services which uphold that goal.

In practice, its proponents are either selfish pricks who think libertarianism means they specifically get to do whatever they want, or they wind up reinventing the government with Citizen Advocacy Boards and such.

The principle is valid, the company is pretty cringe tho.

I can’t speak to the opinions of the Polish people, but I’d imagine that’s considered an upgrade from when the jokes were largely about them being bafflingly stupid.

It’s a parade float, which could be considered a form of play, so…

Do one with his campaign promises, and revel in the awkwardness as no one ever wins. Plus, it will give everyone personal reasons to fact check him every time someone does claim it.

Gotta stop going high. We know their tactics, we know how their brains work. We need to stop trying to devastate them with irrefutable facts, they don’t care. Turn their own methods against them, destroy them in their language. The left has better trolls and meme lords, let’s use them.

Probably wouldn’t do that, capitalists are heavily invested in Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities (SLABS), basically the same as '08’s famous Mortgage Backed Securities but backed by student loans instead of mortgages. Whatever they would do in regards to student loans would be much more malicious against those who owe them

Don’t give them ideas