Nice Parrot Room talk, but I still think there's a very basic contradiction between the politics of a Bernie or an AOC (let alone a socialist party!) winning real office and the politics something like DSA actually practices and enshrines in its national resolutions, platforms, etc. The former tries to be popular, the latter tries to win at the Iron Law of Institutions. You can't do both and most leftists don't really want to do the first one to begin with. They just feel that their intra-Left wins are only worth something if there's a "real movement" of normies to be leftier than.
Gotta call BS on "Our gen is much poorer than Boomers". With smartfones? Great cars? Big houses? Closets full of clothes? Far more material wealth than most Boomers had - ok, the 15% boomers who went to college had less student debt than the bottom of the 30% millenials, but such folk didn't have to go to college! (oh wait - all the DECMOCRAT teachers said they had to). So that bottom of top 30% (85 - 70) has more student debt, and if they did a silly major they have worse prospects.
But all the other workers are better off in absolute terms.
Absolute terms. Everybody who works can live OK.
Relative terms, only a max 10% can be ... in the top 10%. No way 30% can all be "elite 10%".
In capitalism, the rich get richer AND the poor get richer.
There does seem to be an increasing problem with the richest getting richer much faster, but please don't be so dishonest as to claim the non-rich are "poorer". The bottom billion in the world would still happily trade places with the (non-mentally ill, a large portion of) American poor.
I wrote my book review with high hopes of winning, and Carina dashed them quite expertly lmao.
Philadelphia -4.5 and Dallas -10.5 are much more solid. This version of Russ Wilson is a wildly over-payed Mitch Trubisky impersonator.
Freddie, man, sometimes I think one of the best things you could do to improve your mental health would be to broaden your taste in music.
Nice Parrot Room talk, but I still think there's a very basic contradiction between the politics of a Bernie or an AOC (let alone a socialist party!) winning real office and the politics something like DSA actually practices and enshrines in its national resolutions, platforms, etc. The former tries to be popular, the latter tries to win at the Iron Law of Institutions. You can't do both and most leftists don't really want to do the first one to begin with. They just feel that their intra-Left wins are only worth something if there's a "real movement" of normies to be leftier than.
Gotta call BS on "Our gen is much poorer than Boomers". With smartfones? Great cars? Big houses? Closets full of clothes? Far more material wealth than most Boomers had - ok, the 15% boomers who went to college had less student debt than the bottom of the 30% millenials, but such folk didn't have to go to college! (oh wait - all the DECMOCRAT teachers said they had to). So that bottom of top 30% (85 - 70) has more student debt, and if they did a silly major they have worse prospects.
But all the other workers are better off in absolute terms.
Absolute terms. Everybody who works can live OK.
Relative terms, only a max 10% can be ... in the top 10%. No way 30% can all be "elite 10%".
In capitalism, the rich get richer AND the poor get richer.
There does seem to be an increasing problem with the richest getting richer much faster, but please don't be so dishonest as to claim the non-rich are "poorer". The bottom billion in the world would still happily trade places with the (non-mentally ill, a large portion of) American poor.