The level of vitriol against pelosi is in no small part because of republican efforts to demonise her. Yes, she's a corrupt plutocrat. But why do people hate her specifically, versus every other corrupt plutocrat that makes up the leadership of the democratic party?
She forced out biden and was one of the few dems who actually wanted to fight this election. But she was also a driving force behind the kamala campaigns failed right turn which destroyed her own good work.
She's a more complicated corrupt plutocrat than people give her credit for, is I guess my point.
It's genuinely hard to recognize when a rule that almost always applies doesn't apply to the specific situation at hand.
Killing bloodthirsty rich people who are beyond the reach of the law and can't be stopped any other way is a valid exception to the otherwise valid rule that murder is bad.
Sorry I engineered a system that extracts wealth from the poorest and filters it to the wealthiest in a self-reinforcing cycle to emiserate everyone outside my peer group.
Russia is wasting no time here. They're already starting to pull apart the US military while the tariffs plan strikes at the core of the US's most important alliances. And their regime hasn't even taken power yet.
One vaccinated and well nourished 21stC individual won't bring back the level of disease of boatloads of sick, unhealthy, unwashed 15thC european sailors.
What's been the most stable written language over time?
The best possible combo of far back and wide reach is probably Akkadian cuneiform. Maybe you could get further back with Sumerian cuneiform and trust that it'll get translated once Akkadian becomes the lingua franca.
Oracle bone script which becomes Chinese characters probably doesn't get you as far back and maybe not as wide an area, but definitely much longer in time since it's basically still in use.
The only problem is those are both languages of imperial systems and giving them greater power is probably a net loss for humanity.
state is, ideally, composed of elected representatives
oligarch-led private armies oppressing people.
They're the same picture.
Elections are a venue for competiting oligarchs - US elections are largely just a wealth check - with the bonus that afterwards people feel they've chosen their oligarchs and are less likely to notice that 90%+ of elected representatives only represent the interest of elites.
I do the same thing at work when I need mentally ill people to do what I say. "You can do what I want version A, or do what I want version B, which one?" always works better than "Do what I want!"
I agree that violence management is a very difficult problem with no easy solution. But I don't think giving full control of legitimate violence to the rich is the best solution, which is what a state of elected representatives does.
The posters in the Linux version are also in the windows version. The windows version has extra layers of posters on top, the Linux version just has that base layer.
The state is nothing but a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. To a hammer, everything is a nail. To a state, everything is a target for violence.
While there are millions of patients across the country who would have loved to pull the trigger, successful assassinations are usually rich people defending their interests from other rich people.
A new hope was only good to the extent that a mediocre remake of a Kurosawa film is still good. Empire was slightly downhill from that (sad ending =/= good movie). Everything after that struggles to remain watchable.
Grifters trying to stymie competing grifts is the ideal use of our throughly corrupt court system. Just the perfect venue for that. It's like an inception of lies and money.
One of my friends of at uni was a woman in her 60s. She told me that in her experience young people who could make friends with mature age students tended to have healthy relationships with their parents.
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The level of vitriol against pelosi is in no small part because of republican efforts to demonise her. Yes, she's a corrupt plutocrat. But why do people hate her specifically, versus every other corrupt plutocrat that makes up the leadership of the democratic party?
She forced out biden and was one of the few dems who actually wanted to fight this election. But she was also a driving force behind the kamala campaigns failed right turn which destroyed her own good work.
She's a more complicated corrupt plutocrat than people give her credit for, is I guess my point.