theilleists

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In Aristotelian geography, the coastline is infinitely divisible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Quantum cryptographically signed memory certificates from my designated reality broker or it didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

But you have to understand, to 74 million people, the Fox News Cinematic Universe is reality. There's regular bullshit, and then there's bullshit so widely believed that you actually have to study the bullshit, just to be able to predict what its subscribers will do next. Like religion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

He's always got le mot juste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You're absolutely right: dismissing anything you don't want to hear as "propaganda bullshit" is a much easier way of having a discussion than participating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

He does this because - it may surprise you to hear, but it's true - America does not have a parliamentary system of government. Here, everybody left-of-nazi is forced to pretend like they are all members of the same party. If America's system de facto allowed for more than two parties, then the progressive party could actually choose whether or not to form a coalition with the centrists, conditional on policy concessions. Since we do not, the centrists offer is "we get what we want or else you get nazis." Then make the progressives out to be the bad guys if they call the bluff, which isn't a bluff, because the centrists today genuinely would prefer 4 years of nazis over conceding anything to progressives.

So, exactly like the top level comment described. Weird take.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Ah, of course. America's communist party should be trying to form a coalition government in Parliament this year. Literally equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It may not have been a weird take in the early 20th century. It's a weird take now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (11 children)

That comment was not referring to literal nazis. They were talking about the American right wing.

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