AI art proved beyond a doubt that death of the author was always 99% bullshit justifying media illiteracy. Now that we have art without an author and it is totally void of expression.

You can smuggle a rotisserie chicken under your kilt.

A German accusing queer folk of promoting degeneracy, where have I seen this before?

Damn, your dad liked a communist Muslim trans man’s policy? Sounds pretty based.

Turn it around on him, mention the deporter-in-chief’s record deportations, that even Trump didn’t beat. All the African and middle-eastern countries the patron saint of drones bombed. All the poor folk the banks gave predatory loans to that he taught personal responsibility to by letting the banks take their homes. Making a speech blaming poor outcomes in black communities on fathers not being in the picture is every racist conservative’s wet dream. It’s much harder for your dad to admit he didn’t like Obama’s policies.

Then I am confused why you would disagree with the left, that the political philosophy of capitalism, liberalism, is to blame.

Do you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?

That’s quite distinct from an economy organized around worker co-ops.

I was not aware the Cuban economy had a significant fraction of cooperatives, outside of the more recent growth in the last decade or so.

There’s been quite a few instances of organizations which are progressive under capitalism being used by forces of reaction against a socialist government. The trucker’s strike under Allende and the actions the trade unions took against Burkina Faso under Sankara leading to their banning come to mind.

A system of “worker coops” would inevitably work towards either a regression into Capitalism or centralization into Socialism

Or have right-wing factions armed and trained by the CIA to overthrow the government and do a bunch of crimes against humanity during the 90s.

I don’t know enough about Yugoslavia’s economy to say whether their coop-centric model was responsible for the stagnation and high unemployment rates.

How could any socialist country protect the workers without a state in 2025?

We don’t have a lot of dyed in the wool capitalists on Lemmy

*dyed in the wool liberals

Liberalism is the philosophy of capitalism, capitalists are people who owns significant amounts of capital.

He has to play nice with China because they don’t bend over for him like the US does. I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for him to have investments in Russia at this time.

How much does Musk like China now that Tesla is getting outsold by BYD 2:1?

Unexploded cluster munitions don’t target Serbian politicians, they tend to hurt children more frequently than anyone else.

This is why it’s almost universally agreed that weapons that don’t discriminate between soldiers and civilians and continue killing long after a conflict has ended are a special kind of evil and a crime to use even in war.

The other reason being that less precise weapons just aren’t as effective at actually destroying military targets.

No, using cluster munitions is never fucking warranted, the land is still blighted today, 25 years later.

There’s bombing the pharma plant in Sudan that killed 10,000 and an unknown number of downstream people due to lack of medicine, there was the sanctions on Iraq, estimated to have killed 1 million, mostly children, the acceleration of Israeli settlements, dropping cluster bombs on Yugoslavia, etc all right there.

But republicans only issue with those crimes is that Clinton didn’t kill enough foreigners.

How else could republicans attack a guy who deported more people, bombed more countries, and saw the immiseration of more black families than either Bush or Trump? Right-wing democrats are more competent at being republicans than actual republicans.

This is not a strategy it is a description of how elections work.

Dems manage to filibuster plenty.

As soon as the republicans got into power they removed the filibuster.

There’s also the oddity of “we didn’t exactly what we wanted in the first months

Congrats, you understand how elections work. You do what you were elected to do and you don’t do things the base doesn’t want you to do or you decrease turnout.