Socialism in political theory is the idea that, at minimum, some systems should be owned by the collective - that’s it. The Road system in the US is largely a socialist project, for reference. USPS was also a socialist project before it was privatized. So is our now mostly defunded education system. Our fucking amazing national park system was also a socialist project to create jobs during the great recession. And the only reason that these things are going downhill is because we’ve defunded them.

Other things socialists want would be federally funded healthcare, a federally maintained train system, college being funded by US taxes, etc.

Yes, stalinism, communism, and Maoism are socialist ideologies. So is social democracy, the Nordic model, and various others.

You’re brainwashed based on your reaction to that word.

No, these points strongly line up with liberalism, and that final point actually diverges from US leftist rhetoric ATM.

Anarchists are pretty often saying ‘learn to use a firearm for your own safety’ right now. As in ‘arm the LGBT’ line of convo.

Marxists are often saying ‘learn to use a firearm, we need them for the revolution’.

Hell, even US people who are strongly aligned with maintaining democracy are now saying ‘get a gun so we can throw this shithead out of office’. I don’t doubt this rhetoric is similar in other countries dealing with soon-to-be dictators.

In the US at least, Gun control is currently much more aligned with liberalism than leftism. It’s gotten that bad.

Again, it’s 50 dollars per student - given to the school as a subsidy. The average middle school has something around 500-600 students, so that’s between $25,000 to $30,000 per school. That’s not huge but it’s not negligible either.

If that money were all distributed to our education system, it would only really go to the children of the US, so it makes less sense to evaluate that money on a per-american basis.

That money would also be going to institutions as opposed to the students, so a more practical evaluation would be to see what amounts would go to each school.

At the end of the day, though, we know that $3.3bn isn’t going to education - not even a bit.

That design goes so fucking hard.

What about South Africa?

Here’s a direct link. Read the Table of Contents, so you get what it’s about. It’s good info.

You know, based on the capitalizations, this is very goofy, where Progressives are all fighting each other and are concluding that democratic systems are the problem, which is actually fairly funny. I’m alright with that.

Why’d you go with Capital ‘P’ ‘Progressive’ and lowercase ‘d’ ‘democrat’?

If you are a Progressive, it means you run as a progressive in politics. If your a ‘progressive’, though, it means you hold progressive ideals, like women’s rights, nationalized services for people, open borders, etc.

If you’re a ‘democrat’, it means you are a supporter of democracies, as opposed to authoritarian regimes, feudal states, or vangaurd states. If you’re a ‘Democrat’, though, it means you are apart of the Democratic party.

Politics is case-sensitive.

This is so true. I remember hearing about the two Israeli officials who were shot and I was stuck thinking: " was this motivated out of antisemitism and he just happened to hit legitimate targets instead of some innocent folks, or was the guy actually acting out of rage and sadness for what he’s seen in Gaza?". Nowadays it seems like you can’t even tell immediately - like you’ve gotta wait for more info. It was a relief to find out that everyone who knew the shooter agreed that he was not antisemitic, and chose to platform justice for Gaza when asked about the shooter.

They also created the bagel, no? Love me a plain bagel as the buns if a breakfast sandwich. God. Now I’m hungry.

So the idea is a central platform for academic institutions to collectively fight disinformation from?

From my current understanding, this does not strike me as very compelling.

This is not about Canada’s sovereignty, it’s about a shitty list the US keeps about which places it’ll accept as a new state. It’s a worthless piece of paper. Canada would already have to consent to becoming a state for it to be even relevant, and that’s not happening without a war.

So this article is fluff. Neither Washington nor Puerto Rico were ever going to be a state under trump, Canada won’t either without a war, so this list getting rearranged doesn’t mean Jack squat about current politics. It’s another stupid stunt meant to distract you from actually important issues.

I could not care less about this kind of drama. It’s a worthless distraction.

Keep your eyes on Gaza. Stay aware of US protests and activist actions in your state. Don’t stop tracking the deportations. These are what actually matter.

Personally, I doubt that most enslavers would be killed had they been turned over to their newly-liberated slaves. Why act out in aggression when you’ve just won what you would have killed for before?

Even so, you as the enslaver have cast the dice and been shown mercy. Can’t really sell that whole ‘Black retribution’ bullshit when the moment has come and gone without occurrance. I agree, turning the land over to the enslaved and letting them decide the fate of the enslavers would’ve done the US a load of good.

Honestly, we don’t know where he was actually aiming. He could’ve been aiming center mass and just sucked, which might line up with the whole story about him not being allowed into the marksmanship club at his school.

We keep hearing this and keep having to repeat: these fucks don’t give a shit about hypocracy so long as they get their way. They cannot be logic’d out of their shitty, racist views and will bull head-long into things till it fucks them over.

For anyone who is working in the oil industry: as things get worse and more people are impacted by climate change more and more, you’re who those effected will come after. Not the CEOs high up and out of reach - it’s gonna be you guys operating the rigs, inspecting the pipelines, driving the tankers, operating the plants, and crunching the numbers. It’s going to be you who gets targeted because you’re the ones with the logo stamped on your uniforms.

You European? This meme’s most likely referring to American Libertarianism, which is described by Ayn Rand and is actually Anarcho-capitalism. Think more ‘Atlas Shrugged’ than anarchism.

Yeah, mostly. I understand they were politically very different. My main lense I was looking through in this case was progressive policy vs regressive policy.