Lol I have so many conversations like this. Someone was saying a bunch of people got laid off at their job during covid and they almost lost their house. I said something like "it's a shame that they didn't just temporarily decrease everyone's hours so you all still had work. I mean, the work was going to come back eventually".
And they of course agreed
This is a really great write up. Thank you
I think many will obey the decision, just not the USA, Canada, terf island, the E.U., you know the usual culprits for not following international law.
Within at least physics, there is still a lot of importance placed on "prestigious" journals like Phys Rev. So it's not so simple. Why would authors trust something published in the "Journal for Comradely Science"? It makes it very difficult to start something just due to the scientific cultural inertia.
Realistically it is 100% possible. But it's the same issue the rest of the working class runs into: insufficient organization. The push for open source in its current form is just a way to make science open without affecting the profits of these huge journals. It costs the author to publish in a journal (which usually means the government allocates x-dollars within grants to pay for publishing). So it's a farce tbh.
If there are education and experience requirements imposed on judicial candidates, and then they are elected, this is not an issue. Because those who are elected are accountable to those who elected them
(provided they can be removed from.power by the same people, which is one of those "checks and balances" Western "democracies " have imposed so we can't remove them).
That way you have professionals/experts who are accountable to the people. Obviously elections can always be tampered with and influenced by powerful and moneyed interests, but by assuming this is true and then making it the default is a bit daft tbh.
That's like... 4 or 5 times the speed of sound at sea level so... There would be a bit of a boom.
Damn, that's.... Well yeah.
Thanks!
Okay, clearly you believe that two of the parties/candidates are definitely very different. Most of us here don't hold that view.
What exactly makes you hold this other view? What are the big differences between them? Is it what they have done? What they have said? What you are afraid they will do? Is it something else?
While I despise your approach, I am still interested in knowing your thoughts.
Haha so funny!
It's very interesting when someone conflates:
"Please stop worshipping this politician, they are not a good person. Here, look, the things you are upset about that this other politician said have also been said by this politician you like. Maybe you're caught up in the political spectacle? Because neither one of these politicians have your best interests at heart."
And:
"ThEyy ARe tHe SaMe!;:; "
Have an actual conversation about facts, and the real things a "representative" has actually done historically. If you believe the electoral system works, then the only way to hold a politician accountable is to make sure they know your values/interests/etc ., and THEN should they not up hold these values, DO NOT vote for them. If you vote for them because they are not the other person, no matter what they do, why would they bother to do anything for you? They know you'll vote for them anyway.
Which I suppose (bit of on the fly analysis here) means the Republicans need the Democrats and the Democrats need the Republicans. Both are easy scapegoats for each other, and make it so the voters will choose the party that presents the image and ideas that you most align with, without ever having to do anything.
It's Utopianism at its finest, and an incredibly effective tool of control.
The real question is if you slapped hard enough to raise the temperature to 74C (undergrad clearly doesn't cook), what would the temperature of your hand be? And for the engineers: how far up your arm would you have to measure before the temperature returned to normal body temperature? And for the bio/kin/nursing/premed students: how much would need to be amputated?
If you are elected into a position where you can enact change, those who elected you have expectations of you based on the policy you supported during the election.
If, then, you turn around and do something completely different your actions no longer reflect the will of those who elected you, and you are not behaving in a representative manner and thus in an undemocratic way.
So ignoring anything specific to the American system, class interests, etc., it is a losing battle to try and be anything different from the status quo and getting elected by aligning yourself with the status quo.
A communist who gets elected by siding with a fascist is no longer a communist. A liberal cannot be a liberal if they denounce capitalism and side with socialists. They are fundamentally different ideas of who the political economy is designed for, completely contradictory ideas about hierarchy, property rights, human rights, and even what constitutes truth (liberal ideas are often utopian, like the "rational economic man", and socialist/communist ideas are often based in the reality of the current and past material conditions, like believing people need homes and food, and a wealthy society should be able to provide these for itself, so people get homes and food. In contrast a liberal society would let the "market" provide these things in whatever way is profitable.
Even if it's true that people are stupid (which is also a narrative pushed which ensures apathy) that is completely irrelevant. Why is it that these apparently stupid people believe the "wrong thing"? Well, it's the same as always. The capitalists are better organized than us, and those supporting them know of no other alternatives. So for a successful revolution the oppressed class needs to get better organized (which IS happening, albeit slowly).
If YOU feel apathetic, please find a socialist/communist/radical left party/group and join it. It can help immensely