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The ones who argued his public mugshot would lose him supporters were idiots. Always got my comments buried for saying rhat and how the first thing he'd do was market his mugshot and exploit it for his political brand yet here we are.

Hitler hated Christianity for its worship of meekness, weakness, a dead man, etc, but used it very well politically. Nazi leadership ranged from full on Christians to pagan weirdos. Jews were associated with Bolshevism, and their hard antibolshevim especially appealed to people who had emigrated to the Weimar Republic during the Russian revolution. Communism and unions were the first targets and how they wedged themselves in to power in the first place. Hitlers first major political victory was the concordat with the Roman Catholic church, promising freedom of religion. In the late 30s Catholic pulpits were ordered to recite a condemnation of Hitler for betraying the concordat. The Nazis implemented a Christian denomination and sent pastors and priests who didn't comply (many did of course) to the camps. One of these was the famous poet who wrote the "first they came" poem, at first a Hitler supporter who recanted when it was too late, like many of them.

They had all kinds of weird views about Aryans, a very fluid and subjective category in practice, and the history of Aryans. There were archeologists tasked with digging up the magnificent history of the Aryan race etc. Some people like Japanese were honorary Aryans etc. Down to weird specific traits of people based on the false premise of race being a real thing.

rofl that's kind of amazing then. I'm used to legacy stuff that nobody wants to touch because it's functioning how it's supposed to.

Not the type to read an interview with leading scholars on this subject I take it.

You can't even be on the "far left" and be a liberal simultaneously, "far left liberal" is an oxymoron. Private property is a core aspect of liberalism which is contrary to any ideology that could be considered "far" left. Liberalism is also market economies, with the left being at the very least mixed but "far" left would be centrally planned economy.

"The dominance of neoliberalism frames inequality as deriving from personal responsibility or the lack thereof and replaces structural analysis with a focus on “race relations.”" - Barbara Fields

He said on Pod Save America the other week that we have collective blame for what's going on in Gaza. Do you have blame for that? I think of you more highly than he does apparently.

And what did he do, approved drones to kill kids at weddings and other civilian bombings and atrocities in Afghanistan, knowing full well how terrible it was going but not wanting to take the L? Come on you don't need to stoop to the level of pretending this was a good person. He was a great brand and orator with mass public appeal that sold neoliberal capitalism as something new and different, the same economic arrangement that caused the situation you're currently in was something he proudly promoted, and it led to fascism, just like what we were all saying at the time from the black left.

"Race relations" is itself a racist notion, the idea that a race is a real ontological entity and that people can be spokespersons on behalf of a race. This usually means meritocratic elitist race representatives dismissing notions of racial justice which threaten economic arrangements that sustain the system that causes racial disparities in the first place. "Race relations" is how you get things like entrepreneurial programs (half of all businesses fail in general) for racialized business owners instead of improved social services.

I mean the most introductory book Blackcoats and Reds deals a lot with this and there's a whole chapter on the weaknesses of stable socialist/ML states. Whatever you think is stable or good under a capitalist government is merely because the negatives you associate specifically with socialism are exported, but are actually far more severe.

Would you say we are in an improved state today vs Obama's time? America is in a degrading state right now and Obama was hugely influential in this system. Trump basically created his political brand in a similar fashion to Obama's.

If you seriously think Obama was good explain how things are better now. You do realize about 13% of Obama voters supported Trump? Arguably Trump won because of former Obama supporters.

I can imagine plenty of viable alternatives.

You are right that I cannot imagine a viable alternative.

Otherwise pretty basic points that any decent book on socialism or alternatives to capitalism basically addresses in the first chapter.

My favorite thing about Rudy are his sexts with the assistant he was banging. They sound like someone who doesn't really know how to talk dirty but the partner really wants it.

"Those tits... those are MY tits. You like my tits? That's right, I own those tits. They're mine. Those are my tits."

"Far left liberal" is an oxymoron.

Obama was basically the best brand and spokesperson for the Democrat neoliberal ideology but ultimately he was an actor of the US as a global hegemon.

Captures Obama really well, I think he is the best the Democrats can offer in the current political era, the ideal person to carry the brand of the center-right neoliberal ideology of the party. I posted Adolph Reed Jr's take on him from 1996 in the comments which basically echoes this sentiment as well.

One thing that captures this is that America on the world stage basically is what it is, even someone like Obama, who was known to frequent pro-Palestinian talks and events, had to be pro-Israel in his role.

Adolph Reed Jr has probably the best response to Obama from the left, a black political scientist himself who was still alive when Jim Crow laws were in effect in New Orleans and lived through the aftermath and written countless books on things like race relations and black politics. This was published in 1996:

“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”

This is storytelling, this is Cosby comedy, this isn't "bing bing bing," it's going to require a little bit of your attention.

That's true and I've seen this thing a lot to the point people were buying assorted spare parts for a refrigerator sized server circa 1998 almost 20 years later while the entire business was complaining about how slow it was for a majority of those years. Our data center dates back to the 80s so there's some great artifacts still lurking around.

You're expressing the notion of "capitalist realism" which is argued to be an effect of neoliberal ideaology. The idea that not only is capitalism the only viable solution, but you can't even imagine a viable alternative. There's a book of the same title that you'd probably get a lot out of since it might make you more critical of ideas you may have taken for granted, which is my personal favorite kind of book.

We have a document repository managed by corporate governance and to file documents in it they need to go through a workflow which enforces naming convention/category and establishes approval chain, version control, and review intervals. Anything that is actively used for things should be captured in this system, there's some that aren't of course but it's the standard and you're laughed at if you reference documentation outside of this system basically. We do this to comply with audit requirements but it's also just good practice and everyone basically sees the value in it, despite the mild annoyance of dragging your document in to a webpage and filling out some fields.

That's why I don't care about my personal document organization too much, because anything of value is getting liberated into a controlled doc template meant for it's specific purpose and put into the system where it lives it's life.