@mindswarm@Phil_Lewis_ Like I cannot wrap my head around that. We want racism to end, so we're recruiting small children and teaching them to be racist? Or is this a fake in your view and we're going down the false flag conspiracy theory BS route to make the mental gymnastics fit?
@mindswarm@Phil_Lewis_ Sympathy is at least the right reaction, thanks for that. Out of curiosity, what DO you think is going on? To a liberal it looks very straightforward, and it's very hard to understand how a person could think this is caused by the side with the known goal of ending racism.
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@KrsJin@mohammedjrpg That's actually really helpful to know. I'd never thought to look any of them up on HLTB. Maybe that's where they fit in to my schedule - in between other bigger titles.
@analyticalposts @HartehankUnion @oneunderscore__@MikeIsaac It's hard when a vocal minority who is currently enjoying a large share of power on the right does not agree and tries to lead discussions into bad-faith-argument-induced stalling so that emotional arguments can win the day. I don't know how to surmount that nonpartisanally
@analyticalposts @HartehankUnion @oneunderscore__@MikeIsaac Whether or not it's what "they" want it's unobjectionably what's preventing any solutions, and it's bad for both sides whether they realize it or not. I keep looking for a rallying call both sides can agree with and honestly this may be it.
@analyticalposts @HartehankUnion @oneunderscore__@MikeIsaac But one thing I do know, and which drives my current voting behavior: Any attempt at regulation to try to wrest control of the economy back to a form which benefits the individual would be blocked by the right and would thus HAVE to come from the left
@analyticalposts @HartehankUnion @oneunderscore__@MikeIsaac Functionally a death blow was dealt to capitalism around 1982 though. Darned if I'm enough of an economist to know how to reverse it, because by now greed has hit critical mass and it's basically "anything we can get away with to make a buck" and ethics be darned
@analyticalposts @HartehankUnion @oneunderscore__@MikeIsaac Since rulings like Citizens United I think "divide and conquer" is EXACTLY what is going on. The divide is artificial and being used to keep the status quo in place. It's not right vs left, it's the ultra wealthy playing ALL of us.
@analyticalposts @HartehankUnion @oneunderscore__@MikeIsaac I'm not sure the willingness to subvert the democratic process is as equally shared as you think it is (thus why the democrats are so good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, despite large popular majorities), but...