no platform has done more to accidentally destroy the meritocracy myth than twitter. every day this country’s richest and most powerful people logging on to say the dumbest thing you've ever heard
https://twitter.com/internethippo/status/1417950976137261056
He's our own Juan Guaidó, but pathetic in a different way. How do you manage losing to :ted-cancun:
Guaido went up against :maduro-katana-2: for the Colombian presidency and lost, no shame in that.
Beto lost to Ted fucking Cruz. He’s in a different stratosphere of pathetic.
Colombian presidency
:guaido: is truly an international man of the people
Colombian presidency
maduro and guaido have this game where they declare themselves president of random countires
Not hard, in a state that normals goes +20 R.
His positions may be liberal bullshit, but his actual organizational efforts were laudable in the moment. Closing the gap by 18 points inside a four year cycle and swinging multiple historically Republican counties (Harris County chief among them) was a BFD for the state.
Dems can’t help but swing left even when their opponent is a mile to their right
Abbot is a corrupt as fuck capitalist with a power grid designed specifically by capital interests... MuSt Be SoCiAlIsM
:agony-soviet:
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as socialistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of socialism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Sometimes I have to wonder if Marx was the most correctest man who ever lived, to the point he could accurately predict politics 150 years after he died, or if politics have not essentially changed in that time
In mike duncan's season on 1848, he talks a bit about how the largely liberal provisional government in france did multiple things to undermine the few socialists who were basically only let in in the first place because they were that popular. One thing they did was they basically assigned all of the socialists to this thing called the "luxembourg commission" where the they would come up with proposals on how to fix problems that the liberals could then disregard. Another was that they created the national workshop meant to guarantee the right to work and instead of putting one of the socialists in charge they put in a massive reactionary who was opposed to its very existence, and then when it failed intentionally, "oh well we tried guess it didn't work."
I think in many ways things have not changed.
Oh, you like the Foundation tv show? You'd love the source material. No, not the Asimov books. Kapital by Karl Marx.
