Because they still need to earn money for housing, food, medicine, etc.
If we lived in a world where machine productivity was used to meet everyone’s basic needs, they would be saying that. But we don’t. So machines doing more jobs doesn’t free us from work, it just makes finding work more difficult.
ONLY praising ones you like isn’t enough.
See, this is where you lot get hung up. No one’s saying to ONLY do anything. You make that up inside your own head and pretend it’s someone that other people are suggesting. It is not. Humans can do more multiple things, in service of multiple goals.
Anyone working against leftist ideas, like the couple Dems OP talks about that are against trans rights, can’t be allowed to have any representation. Being against human rights needs to be treated the same across the board, not rewarded cause they said nice things about other topics.
There’s another hang up: ideological purity. Drawing lines in the sand, “across the board” ignores the actual political landscape. The Dems are not currently our people, and it’s foolish to pretend that they are. They are the lesser evil, that is all. Where we have progressive candidates that can displace them, we should absolutely try to do that in the primary. Once the primary is over, it’s a choice between Democrat and Republican. It’s not about “reward”, it’s about doing what we can to mitigate a bad situation. A Democrat who wavers on the trans rights is better than a Republican who’s decidedly against them.
The world is not black and white. Political action is neither simple nor easy. You don’t get to fight the battles you want to fight, you have to fight the ones that currently exist.
As a light skinned person in a warm climate, this but unironically.
They did what they could before aspirin
One single egg seems like a weird quantity of egg
I’m going to talk from personal experience cause that’s how humans work.
Humans know when their personal experience is relevant to the topic at hand.
I seem to only see ya’ll have a problem with that when it’s negative about Dems.
Because the Dems are the lesser evil, which means wherever voting matters you should be voting Dem. At least until a better option is viable.
When someone from NYC comes on here and talks about how much they love Mamdani, you don’t tell them to keep it to their community and leave it off the Fediverse cause it supports what you want.
One of the things I want right now is for progressives and proper leftists to displace as many non-leftists in government as possible. Singing the praises of a prominent leftist increases the odds of that happening.
Unlike you guys, I don’t tell people to sit down and shut up when they say something against what I want to see happen accusing everyone of psy ops
Unless someone is telling others to vote strategically, then we’re all liberals and BlueMAGA.
you and I both know that 99% of people only vote and do nothing else if they even do that
Here in the Fediverse? No I don’t know that, because most of the people I encounter here who have an opinion on politics are otherwise active in their local politics and communities.
Trying to get people to do literally anything, even something as simple as some community volunteer work, is like pulling teeth.
Which is precisely why getting them to at least vote against the worst outcome is so important. You’re not going to get those people to do anything outside of voting anyway, so you might as well encourage them to at least vote strategically. There is no scenario where wasting a vote is better than using it.
If Dems will never hold power in my area anyway and nobody wants to organize, then I might as well vote for who I actually want running things while spending the rest of my time at the range.
Sure, then spread that message in your hometown. This is the Internet, most of us don’t live in your area. In a lot of places, the races are relatively close and voter apathy can be the difference between the lesser and greater evil. When you talk to strangers on the internet like they’re your physical neighbors, you start making ridiculous suggestions.
I don’t want either of these jackasses to win cause both will send us towards destruction. Some are fine with being sent there at a slower rate
Who is “fine” with destruction at a slower rate? I see people correctly acknowledging that we don’t have the organized numbers for a viable alternative, and begrudgingly choosing slower over faster because, of the two options, slower is preferable.
If you think the people around here telling you to vote for the lesser evil are doing so because they’re fine with evil, you should spend more time trying to understand what they’re trying to say. Because it isn’t that.
The concept of “continent” doesn’t really have clear consensus.
here I am encouraging people to organize and make changes outside of the electoral system, and getting told in not so many words to pound sand.
I don’t believe you. I believe that they tell you to pound sand if you say to organize instead of voting, I don’t think anyone is opposed to organizing and voting.
I love the fear-mongering attack ads that make socialists look based af
Local power matters. Both in local politics, like city and county, and in community connectedness. Make your town a better place, create non-political systems for neighbors to help each other, gain control of the narrative. You’re right that conservatives have been working for so long, and nothing we can do will magically flip a switch. The solution is going to take time too. And that starts with building connections with your neighbors.
Everyone knows ass is better, let the tit-lovers have this one. Unbothered.
I’m announcing my campaign as the candidate of the Soapy Tiddy Party. Our platform is self-explanatory.
The reason I stopped playing chess was because I reached the point where the only way to get better was memorizing openings and gambits and such. And really, that’s how you master it. Spend tens of thousands of hours playing, practice hundreds of specific sequences. There are books that teach you all those sequences and drop some theory about them.
A month in, general practice is more important than theory and gambits. Play hundreds of games against the easy computer, get a feel for the dynamics of the pieces. I like blitz chess (short timed games, like 5 minutes) because it forces you to not take slow calculated moves. Eventually tick the difficulty up a little bit, and try to find the level where your win-loss rate is 50:50.
Don’t be afraid to lose, just pay attention to how you lose, and try to figure out how not to do it the same way again. Once you roughly dial in your rating, start digging into the gambits and stuff. Put enough hours into that, and keep increasing the difficulty to provide a challenge, and you’re on your way to mastery. Basically just keep practicing theory and playing an obsessive number of games.
But where you’re at now, I’d just play blitz games against the easy bot until you have specific things you want to improve.
Other orders are no different, everything has been published for years.
And yeah, overactive imaginations create a lot of malevolent noise (e.g. Taxil), but at the same time I think that mystique is what drives people to start the journey in the first place. What I expected of the “magickal powers” associated with esoteric study have changed drastically since I began. I’m reminded of some yogic text I read over a decade ago, describing all the fantastic powers gained from years of strict yogic practice, yet the process of unlocking those powers divests one of the urge to use them.
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I had to train my wife out of immediately dumping random hot sauce on every meal.
As a man who’s been traveling east, as it were, for the last few years, secrets never stay secret. I’d wager just about every nugget of divine knowledge worth knowing is out in some form or another. But in my view, a pilfered secret without the framework to understand it is about as useful or dangerous as fluffed up nonsense. Less so honestly, since they’re not suitably impressive without the knowledge to understand. Fantastic claims, far beyond the purview of sincere esotericism, are more attractive to charlatans.
Huh? Democratic socialists tell you to do both. My local DSA has a Labor Working Group which works closely with [EWOC](http://www…com/ https://workerorganizing.org/) to encourage unionizing and striking. Just last week I personally helped organize a workshop on unions, including discussions about historical and contemporary strikes.
What makes you think democratic socialists don’t want to help you strike?