@Matthew76212238 @rd_steen @Call_Mee_AL @christoaivalis@MattWalshBlog Lol maybe you could explain how it is then that social spending as a percentage of GDP, SOE's contribution to GDP, percentage of people employed by the government, and percentage of people protected by union contracts in Scandinavian countries all dwarf the US.
@WeAreCanProud Natural order. Indeed, Wendy Brown, one of the best living critical theorists has a book that charts the (re) emergence of right wing populism using Nietzschean analytics. Ie resentment born not out of weakness, but dethronement 2/
@WeAreCanProud Lol Pierre taps into the sense of waning entitlement on the part of traditionally powerful groups. And certainly makes gestures towards the restoration of some imagined time in the past where 'true' meritocracy prevailed, and the organization of society better reflected the.. 1/
@GadSaad@GovRonDeSantis "Calling it a “positively dystopian” effort to “impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints” in violation of the First Amendment, federal judge Mark Waller struck down Ron DeSantis’ law gagging Florida university professions from expressing “woke” views in the classroom."
@benshapiro “I’m a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. … There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism.” - Hakeem Jeffries
@MattFlisfeder As Zizek puts it: "nature is already in itself “second nature,” its balance is always secondary, an attempt to negotiate a “habit” that would restore some order after catastrophic interruptions."
@JohnClaborn @campistgamer @BenBurgis “Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.” Rosa Luxemburg