@JSRGN2@growing_daniel The media and the president should have an adversarial relationship. That will mean the media will go too far and get out of line, but it’s a trade off worth making. It’s similar to how the justice system occasionally lets an OJ get away with it
@JacobAShell The right is constantly hating on academia, demanding to know “where my tax dollars are going!!” while failing to realize that academia sucks because it is trying hopelessly to satisfy this demand
@JacobAShell Naturally, the whole system is driven away from risk taking and bold steps, and toward areas where success is “guaranteed”, just like a large corporation.
@IfIHitYou@dariopy@caitoz@grok Could there have been some event around 1929 that demonstrated why “true capitalism” doesn’t actually work? All of the fascism these days has made me forget how dumb the libertarians are.
@Robotbeat You must at least acknowledge there is no free market solution to population decline. Either having children becomes mandatory by law (lol) or we regress to the point where options are limited and having children becomes perceived as less of a trade off.
@Robotbeat People just follow the examples in front of them. If companies exploit every possible loophole for profit, and profit is God, why would you expect your populous to do something selfless like have children?
@Robotbeat Iran is still a deeply hierarchical and unequal society. Not surprising that its people display the same anxieties and sense of precariousness as those in the west.
@Robotbeat The unhinged capitalism we live with is responsible for the population collapse in the first place. We have traded meaning for “wealth”. You can complain about it all you want, but your refusal to confront that fact only exacerbates the problem
@OccupiedW2583@aelgotha@christopherrufo you will face the same fate as the wokes. Overconfidence will result in the most racist ghouls becoming the face of your movement, just like how the most extreme pink hairs came to represent the left. I know it’s hard to see, but imagine how invincible the wokes felt in 2018