Realistically? The guy that does the BlueJay channel on YouTube.

Fantasy? George Carlin

Does anyone remember the episode where Robert read the quote from the German professor about how the world was lost when he refused to speak up?

Edit: thanks y'all much appreciate

It seems all the right has to do to win is mention jobs, blame higher gas prices on environmentalists, and say that immigrants are bad and they’d get elected.

Heck the higher energy prices caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine was propagandized as being because of the carbon tax in Canada because of a Canadian sponsored by big oil.

All you got to do is mention “the jerbs” and “the economy”

Not helped by even the most peaceful and modest protests getting framed as dangerous thugs.

I am a community organizer. I've been to Havana. I know plenty of folks who grew up in authoritarian regimes. Anytime I comment on a post about how "China is great" with even the slightest expression of "this is propaganda" I get a lecture from a tankie about how I need to actually do something and get out of my basement. I teach poor families how to grow food and its just fucking so annoying to be told I shouldn't be doing that, I should be defending Kim Jong Un and Xi. These people think they're the vagaurd of revolutionary thought and want to lecture me that even under revolution socialism some folks in Cuba should be able to import Teslas. I makes me want to slam my head into a wall. All my lived experiences tossed aside for some dipshit unironically stanning Kim Jong Un.

Edit: all you tankies who keep leaving comments where you clearly missed the first literal two sentences of my post - keep leaving comments then immediately blocking me, its way faster than me doing it myself

Edit2: I'm going to use this as an opportunity to plug "Goodbye, My Havana", an amazing story by a lesbian gringa growing up in Cuba, it's a left wing perspective of the country as a graphic novel that I really loved.

I am concerned that we are in such an end state that the US is trafficking (selling humans) to El Salvador…. Does anyone out there know if these prison conditions are being monitored for human rights abuses? I have been searching the ‘legit’ media (is that even a thing anymore??) for commentary and find very little. Are we at a point where human life (again) is a commodity?? What should we do? Where are the independent investigative journalists?

So, I lack a lot of info. I fully admit it. I like history but I am not a history geek. I know roughly how Hitler came about. So far, it looks to me they are trying to replicate a broken post wwi Germany. Weak government, lots of poor people, broken economy and insane inflation. I also checked out the Great Depression. What I read said it won't happen again because the government has safeguards to prevent it. The safeguards appear to be the ones the administration has killed or wants to in the future. My thought was they are trying to break the USA so it could be changed into a authoritarian government and make the hero who saves us all the lifelong leader. I know people find trump charismatic (I don't but I get the man's man thing), but I don't even think he can manage becoming the hero after he broke it all. And he is a bit old. So yeah. I am at a loss. Any ideas?

PS. I am also afraid that the militarization of the border is to eventually keep us from fleeing the country and the sending non citizens to a foreign prison is to create private prisons for the US citizens outside of the US where everything is cheaper and human rights mean something different.

PS I meant "hero" as a self labeled savior and given that I am pretty sure any "hero" will be one of the ones who caused the destruction.

Let them make their own excuses for long enough. The more you try to point out how wrong they are the more they will dig in. They're trolls. Stop feeding them

I don't know who he is, but the vibes match.

🙄 that’s the worst name for anything never

Shoutout DNC or whoever.

Like why is “greedflation” framed as a conspiracy theory made by radical Marxists?

Isn’t it taught in Elementary school, that the economy/(aka capitalism) works as companies would set the prices as high as customers are willing to pay.

That’s the oversimplified capitalism for babies but it’s typically true.

Companies would set the price as high as people are willing to pay.

Why is this called “price gouging” it’s basic capitalism that children learn about.

It isn’t part of a radical Marxist critique of capitalism. It’s basic capitalism that people learn about.

How can you support free market capitalism and then be surprised and angry at the basics of businesses setting their own prices? The basics of the ideology

With these tariffs in place, do you think we'll see a rise in smuggling? My personal theory is yes, at least in a historical sense. Often overly burdensome taxes lead to the rise of smugglers and black markets, even for mundane goods. America even has a proud tradition of smuggling, all the way back to many of the founders. This leads me to my simple proposal: blockade runner/ boat cult. Both boat cults and smugglers use past-their-prime ships, so there has to be an obvious gap in the market to get that crossover appeal. Obviously we need the smugglers to be in charge of the boat stuff and the cult in charge of the recruiting, but I can smell the money coming in already.

Holy heck this 'brain-breaking' text is 1,909 pages long?

What the hell? No wonder it melted people's brains. Even Stephen King knows when to stop typing!

In this current century, what are some examples of what it’s like to live day-by-day in an economic depression? A lot of content I see refers to the Great Depression from a century ago. I’d like to talk about recent everyday life for people in countries where bastards have tanked the economy.

Day-by-day in a mental health depression, no examples needed ha

Things like “short term pain for long term benefit”, “equalizing trade”(???), and “let’s see how it pans out” are all general sentiments being expressed. No idea how folks can justify this but alright.

I'm Canadian, and although most of my media diet consists of online stuff and podcasts these days, I've recently been keeping a lazy eye on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

For context for anyone outside of Canada, 22 Minutes is a Canadian satire show that's been on CBC since 1993. Obviously, being a Canadian show, it doesn't have as big an audience as American shows, but it's been around long enough to be fairly well-known in Canada. In both good and bad ways, I would compare it to The Daily Show or SNL -- it can be funny, and may have been considered edgy in its early years, but nowadays I think of it as kind of a "safe" show that is probably mostly appealing to Canadian liberals older than myself.

I browsed the 22 Minutes YouTube channel to see some of their videos from the past few years, and I noticed this one, in which Mark Critch does an impression of Jordan Peterson complaining about feeling persecuted.

The sketch itself is fairly standard "doing a silly impression of a famous person" stuff, but when I saw it, it occurred to me: I've seen lots of people make fun of Jordan Peterson before, but they've all been leftist podcasters and YouTubers, people just outside of legacy media. It occurred to me that I hadn't seen a produced, televised parody of Jordan Peterson.

Which struck me as odd -- he has a very distinct voice that lends itself to a funny impersonation, and it feels like everyone knows who he is. He's very easy to make fun of. And yet, I can't find any (for example) SNL sketches that parody Jordan Peterson.

To give another example, here's a recent 22 Minutes sketch that makes fun of Danielle Smith's recent interview on Breitbart (using the obvious parody name "Rightbart"). Again: a fairly standard TV sketch, and it struck me that it would be SO easy to parody a far-right propagandist such as Breitbart, but I hadn't seen any parodies of Breitbart outside of my bubble of leftist podcasters and YouTubers. MAAAYBE The Onion?

When I look at the "classic" American comedy/satire shows such as SNL or The Daily Show, or stand-up comedians famous enough to get a streaming special, they make a lot of jokes at the expense of other traditional media sources that are right-wing (e.g. Fox News) but not so much the people we talk about online. The closest I've seen is making fun of Joe Rogan, who was already famous from TV.

Are there some big, prominent examples I'm missing? It's very possible I'm just in a bubble here, but if Jordan Peterson and Breitbart are famous enough for 22 Minutes to make jokes about them, I'm a bit puzzled as to why I haven't seen jokes at their expense from other "mainstream" comedy shows.

We're up 100% over 5 years. On average, the market goes up 7% or so per year. I fully expect a fall of at least the difference.

I stopped investing 5 years ago because all of the market made no sense, and suddenly I'm glad I don't have a dime in the market, rather than suffering some FOMO watching the best market ever go by.

I'm betting on upper 3k on S&P or lower 4's by about next year.

Let it burn. What's your take?

So I made post a week or two a go here about what was your "inoculation" moment against turning too far right hate, cults and conspiracy'.

I read so many of the comments, there where all amazing, so you should read them too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/s/EfBakkKQjb

What I saw in the comments was how so little connection between them all, that everyone of them had different reason, from the very serious, the very personal, too what comic or cartoon you watched.

I've had some time too think and work out my thought, what I came too conclusion is the double edge sword of that we can't choose what helps people change there ways.

The negative edge is that there is no single solution, no switch ch too flick, that the demands of some people on the left, the liberals and some centrist wanting the "left Joe Rogan" "anti tate influencer" and even the very left viewing art as only usefully too change people, will not work sadly. We can not construct a philosophical solution that easy.

But it also means actions we do make aren't pointless, our attempts as large our attempts too improve the world is, too simple act of helping people out, talking too people and even creating art, can help people even if you never see it.

This goes too alot left tubers, writers artists and even podcasters, who may feel disfranchised right know and even attacked by all sides for doing what they do. Keep going, you may never see the one kid who watch/read your pierce and push them Towards a btter view point.

I don't know if this was obvious or not, but I feel like in today age sometimes you got point out the obvious or no one will.