I had to spend the weekend in Trumpland. His supporters already have their excuses locked and loaded. No matter how bad the economy gets - 20% unemployment, 1929 stock market crash, whatever - the US economy was already fundamentally broken because of democrats and their “loony lefty” socialistic policies over the last few decades. However bad it gets, the suffering was “necessary” because our entire economy was built on a shaky foundation - not because of capitalism, of course. But because we didn’t do ENOUGH raw, uncut capitalism.
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As someone in his early 40s, watching old shows is such a disorienting experience. I was hate -watching Home Improvement recently and Tim Allen was always the “old dad” to me but I’m seeing him on screen and realizing I’m actually older than that person now. Bizarre feeling.
On flip side, I have a daughter and I’m trying to figure how I help navigate all this when she gets older.
This is something I was saying in a recent post… it’s not that most Americans have a distorted view of what communism is (“it’s when everyone makes the same salary” or “when the government does stuff”). It’s worse than that. To people like Boebert, communism just means “really bad things”. They can’t articulate what those bad things are, just that invoking the word “communism” is equivalent to summoning demons or something.
You feeling any better?
I like that song!
tbf our own comrade XHS said work culture in China is often very intense, much more than the US.
If I was evil and an advisor to Trump, I would make a deal with Abrego Garcia and his family that they will get him out of CECOT but he has to remain in El Salvador forever and not try and return to the US (CECOT seems so bad I imagine he would take that deal). Trump and the GOP can spin it to their base as “keeping illegal immigrants” while taking the pressure off Trump to allow to him to do more evil shit with deportations.
In manufacturing, orders are more relevant than sales. A “sale” is recognized when you deliver the product. Most manufacturing has lead time, and usually it’s weeks if not months. So sales are a lagging indicator. But orders tell you about the here and now.
On a related note, when I do talk politics with white folks in my area (generally reactionary), their first reaction is often confusion. Because I am a very Kevin-ass looking white boy, they just have a baseline assumption in their brains that I must be a reactionary like them.
Yeah, OK. Good.
This is some “only the Global North really matters” type of thinking (I mean the author of the article, not you OP). Sure, fascism is on the rise in the US and Western Europe (and maybe some adjacent areas like Argentina or Poland)… but this isn’t necessarily true in the rest of the world. And I think the Catholic Church is pivoting to the Global South anyway. It’s sound logic that they may not want a further reformer, but I don’t buy the argument I quoted.