There are a lot more lurkers on any forum than active members who comment. Everyone here has read a thousand more posts/comments than they've made. Getting lurkers to consider what you say is a very real thing, and people do change their political beliefs based on what they read online.
MarxMadness
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You're right that interrupting shipping along this route would be much harder than closing the Suez, but the U.S. still has carriers and submarines, so it could act alone without any of those nearby countries you mentioned.
In my mind, the big shift here is (1) cost and (2) forcing a longer route now means you have to shoot at boats, you can't just refuse them entry to a canal. It would mean a much larger escalation.
The former group isn’t negatively impacted by patsocs because the former group aren’t fucking stupid, and the latter group will never engage with you or anyone seriously no matter what you do
This is good to keep in mind, but I think you can still say Patsoc types hurt the cause. The problem is most people who are exposed to their stuff don't engage with anyone about it, so there's no opportunity to have the sort of discussion you describe (where you can reach the reachable, and the unreachable respond predictably).
A bunch of reachable people get turned off by this/get misinformed about socialism by it, and then we never hear from them (and get to explain what this shit is and why it's bad) because they don't talk to anyone about it the way most people don't talk to anyone about stuff they read online.
With this election and with Allende, there are two separate-but-related questions:
- Can a leftist party gain state power through elections?
- Can a leftist party that gained power through elections hold that power against reactionary attacks?
Allende succeeding at #1 but failing at #2 does not mean every party that succeeds at #1 must fail at #2. It's a question worth asking, but we have basically one data point.
"You can say anything about China and people just buy it" is a good one. Doesn't push too hard right away, doesn't invite any easy lib talking points in response, and is obviously true enough to get anyone who would ever be receptive to at least pause and think a little.
How long could you pay your rent and other bare necessity bills if you lost your job? How long would it take you to find a new job with comparable pay?
If the answer to the last question is more than the answer to the first, I'd say you're housing insecure.
ai art is art because people are mad about it.
Most persuasive point here haha
Also seems useful to separate the economic impacts of AI art (on artists, on the environment, etc.) and larger criticisms of how AI is currently used (destroying the usefulness of search engines) from the question of whether AI art has artistic value.
The point I bring up is that the peace terms are just going to get worse. The only way Ukraine turns this around is expanding this into a great power war, which is insanity, especially in the age of nuclear weapons.
Of the 31 Abrams tanks the U.S. sent to Ukraine
At $10 million apiece, tanks like the Abrams are not easily replaced.
They're missing what makes these hard to replace. It's not the sticker price -- "just" 1 billion could buy you 1000. It's that the U.S. currently lacks the production capacity to quickly manufacture replacements.
Unintentionally a great demonstration of the "industrial capital vs. finance capital" conflict in this war.
Survivorship bias
The financial industry is heavily regulated by the US Gov’t
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Many such cases