Holy guacamole

Wait, labor are also tories?

Yeah, I was just thinking that this looks like the kind of picture you'd take if you wanted to make your shitty protest that nobody attended look big.

The Nazi ideal: a young man with blonde hair, blue eyes, rippling abs, boulder shoulders, glutes that could press-weld steel plates together, uh... Where were we? Oh, yeah, clean-shaven, neatly manicured, and upright. You know, for reasons of the state.

The Nazis:

The government and its rules are like Tinkerbell; they only exist if we all believe in them. Or, to quote my boy Montesquieu: governments rule by the consent of the governed. Don't forget that the first major native American relocation program (Andrew Jackson's trail of tears) was ruled unconstitutional. Jackson was a real piece of work and had a fucking hate boner for everyone and everything; I mean, thank fuck the guy wasn't around for WWII and the technology/political ideologies of the time. I'm pretty sure he came when he heard the SCOTUS ruled against him. He famously said "Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him come enforce it", and just went ahead with his act of genocide. The SCOTUS couldn't really do anything besides stamp its feet and yell about it because Jackson just decided that the rules didn't apply to him.

We've actually been in deeply, deeply unconstitutional territory multiple times in our history and the court either turned a blind eye to it or they were just flat out ignored. It can and will happen again.

So, I always kinda wondered about that format: talking at the camera while driving around wearing sunglasses. Why is it always driving? Like, is there some kind of subliminal messaging I'm missing here?

It's only 3 irontgen

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If there were enough supply and competition in the rental market, this would never work. This kind of post would be made to the sound of a laugh track, they'd sit on their empty apartments, their property values wouldn't go up, and they'd eventually come back down on their pricing. Instead, even if you don't get tenants, you can still make money on property values going arbitrarily upwards. At that, large real estate holdings (like apartments) are increasingly held by a handful of small players that obviously won't compete against themselves, so they just charge whatever they want, which raises the ceiling on what the little guys can charge, too. We have a trailer that family is staying at that, honestly, the fair price to rent it is $5-600/mo + utilities; like properties are going for almost twice that, and spare rooms in my city start there. It's because of how little choice and opportunity we have in housing that the system can be this exploitive. Sometimes, it's dizzying how much needs to change, but it must be done or things will just keep getting worse.

No, Patrick, Mayonnaise is not a Bourgeoisie.

Also notably, many of the European social programs that American politicians love to screech about were actually promoted by European (and as late as Eisenhower, American) conservatives as a way to keep a lid on communist sentiment. Basically, the idea was that the wealthy could give up a little and in exchange, these programs would keep people happy enough that they wouldn't go and start the revolution. Which, as far as I can tell, actually has worked pretty good so far. I think the US gave up on that because they figured out that using their propaganda machine was a lot cheaper for the wealthy.

But investors are desperate to scuttle those european programs and get those sweet sweet privatization dollars, and I don't think the propaganda machine is quite as powerful there. It would be really funny if the attempts to speedrun removal of social safety nets and implement privatization blew up in their face and led to a brand new revolution.

I'm convinced that it was. The USSR wasn't even fully in the grave yet when the NeoCons showed up to start dancing on Communism's grave with shit like stock buybacks and deep social spending cuts.

I need a live camera feed of Nettanyahu spilling all of his spaghetti.

We picked up Legacy used, because we wanted to try it out but without funding JKR. Eh, it was alright, the thing that I thought was funny is that this game would have definitely had the right screaming about Wokeness if JKR hadn't already gotten it boycotted by just being herself.

Safe food is communism? This communism thing sounds pretty rad, where do I sign up?

Nationalized commodity infrastructure is only acceptable for NATO members like Norway, I assume?

Don't see Vermin Supreme on this list, 0/10

Least car-brained American. If we destroy the interstates, then it will be physically impossible to leave the cities lmao. TBF, our car dependency is insane, but there's been really cool case studies where major highways got demolished and urban traffic actually got better, not worse.

I disagree on your points about medicine. The last 100 years have seen incredible growth in our ability to reduce mortality. Sepsis, pneumonia and tuberculosis were death sentences that got humbled by antibiotics, the ongoing rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria still pales in the face of the untold millions saved from death and disability by antibiotics. Type 1 Diabetes, also a death sentence, can be managed by insulin that is affordable to manufacture, we just choose the greediest, stupidest way of distributing it. Death from anaphylaxis is largely a bygone thing thanks to epinephrine. Death from dehydration (which is how many childhood and tropical diseases like Ebola* kill) can be mitigated with IV saline. Children with asthma can be saved from death or hypoxic brain injury thanks to Albuterol and asthma controllers. Blood transfusions, TXA, and reliable, clean, readily available orthopedic surgery have all proven incredibly useful in mitigating death secondary to Trauma. You don't have to dig very deep into the last 100-150 or so years of medicine to see that we've come an incredible distance in a lot of places in modern medicine.

This, to me, is the most exasperating part of privatized healthcare. A lot of these incredible innovations are neither very new, nor vastly complicated undertakings, and yet we still ration and price them as though they are, because the rent must be sought.

*The overwhelming majority of Ebola's victims die of dehydration secondary to massive, massive diarrhea. The hemorrhagic manifestation doesn't always happen and is the less common cause of death.