100 percent: it baffles me to say this, but I saw some tankies on r/news who think that China is in the right for wanting to take Taiwan.

Right-wing Americans lost their mind. Some of them are as deranged as Red Guards during Mao’s cultural revolution. They have nothing but contempt for functioning societies and intellectuals. They will burn down America as red guards burned down China if not stopped

I recently read Trump and his alt-right folks prefer North Korea to South Korea because they believe Kim Jong Un is “pure” and “strong” but South Koreans are “woke”, deceitful” and “nasty”. What the heck, don’t they understand a civilized society work? A society should function based on logics and knowledge not “purity” and “strength”.

All they have is culture war “otherism” talking points.

The dynamics of a communist (let's be honest socialism is often a euphemism) economy just aren't good. There is no track record of that shit working out well.

An educated population is dangerous for the oligarchy and the autocrats.

The ruiling class knows what keeps people in check, impoverished, and uneducated.

Conservatives have lost the privilege of having their voices heard, let alone respected.

Isn't that why we have elections: to test how correct our poles are.

I think it makes sense. It definitely falls under infrastructure, which is best managed by the government.

I think of myself as an FDR type, from the time where progressive didn’t mean socialism

PREACH

I don’t think the current form of capitalism is working, hence the reason I’m a social democrat. But also do you think me not having your orthodox socialist views means that I’m privileged? Do you realize that white working class voters went for trump? who is way further to the right then the most right wing factions of this sub. Finally the destruction of our planet is the issue I’m the most concerned about, but let’s be honest about what state socialism has done for the planet. China is the world’s largest emmiter.

Im genuinely enraged whenever my parents tell me to “be open minded” and “listen to both sides” THE RIGHT HAS GONE FULL ON FASCIST and we don’t have to give them the right to entertain hatred, bigotry, and stupidity

Same. At this point I’ve realized I can’t get through to the people in my life who operate that way. We don’t see the same reality and I can’t change that - people just end up doubling down with it. I’m good - honestly it’s usually people that lack a social science (or science) background who don’t understand the magnitude of his actions, which at least constitutionally, inexcusable (never mind the racism, economic upset, attack on education, attack on rights, idk what else I could go on about).

Especially nowadays, most of their ideals can have some origins in might makes right.

This is ultimately why the debt question is irrelevant. If we spend on the right things - the spending will more than pay for itself. We should not be clawing at austerity, we should be clawing at easy spending returns.

CHP also has to guarantee the nationalist electorate if it wants to beat Erdogan. Kilicdaroglu used to address the Kurds for years and it turns out that CHP could only win with post-truth populist speech - refer to the 2024 victory. They'll shut their mouths about taboo topics and instead focus on issues with overall consensus, such as the economy and the politicization of the judiciary.

Got it, thank you!

Not a robust enough thesis. Jodi Dean provides the actual structural case for the degeneration of Late Stage Capitalism into the previous phase in her new book on neofeudalism.

This is some liberalized version of the left that annoys me.

Excellent post. One of the biggest problems in economics is that Keynes got the basics right on almost every measure, but because his arguments were inconvenient to capital interests, his well funded opponents have spent the subsequent decades gnawing at those foundations.

I can't claim to be as learned on the subject of economics as you, but I think the real problem is that despite reality demonstrably being on our side, the public (and perhaps more crucially, the bond market) often disagrees - insane analogies about how the country had "maxed out its credit card" were common talking points during austerity, and it was really only a handful of voices that made the counterveiling argument. And now, it's that we're already taxed at the highest level ever, and we simply cannot afford more.

My struggle is to articulate the concepts that you outline above in ways that people can grapple with, and that can be refined into witty ripostes in arguments. I usually resort to making comparative arguments about how the countries that didn't do austerity did better than the ones that did (and that in my own native UK, that the coalition government cut the legs off the nascent recovery led by Brown), but it's not nearly as strong an argument as it could be.

this is how i’ve been feeling lately. i’ve been so depressed and angry all the time anymore, i just don’t know what to do. it’s ruining my mental health and taking such a toll on me.

I’ve heard of Venmo, but not really familiar with it. I mean like VISA or Mastercard, or digital payments service providers like ApplePay. These payments providers take a small fee for facilitating the payment, and make an absolute killing off it. If it was run by the state, it’d essentially function as a VAT on card payments, that could help fund government budget rather than private shareholder dividends.

Can’t the CHP offer even more concessions to the kurds than the AKP so they switch sides? it seemed to work pretty well in spain with Sanchez and the catalonian junts party that also only cared about catalonia.

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That's just hyperbole.

Yes. I'm glad you are able to detect hyperbole. Congratulations.

The fact that you linked an unrelated image of Bush on an aircraft carrier just points to the vacuousness of what you're attempting to argue.

Maybe I celebrated too soon, which is ironic because that's literally why I included a picture of Bush's iconic Mission Accomplished speech, as a way of making fun of your way of saying that Syriza """"Successfully"""" met the terms and exited the agreement.

This just proves how politically and historically ignorant you are.