If only he had read Adam Smith, he’d have never become a communist.

I beat Mechanicus early in the weekend. I started playing Tactical Breach Wizards. Very fun game.

As the founding fathers would say, muh tyranny of the majority.

ZOMG this is just liek the tankietarian Chai Nah!

Scratched liberal hegemony enjoyer.

There can only be one.

At least he’s not a chud like Hugh Mungus.

I thought PSL ran Gloria Le Riva last presidential election?

Repeat x1000 because there’s a lot of traffic, so you’ll be on your way for awhile.

Their neoliberal comm is a ghost town. The last post was a year ago, there’s only one page of posts, and all the posts are by the comm’s mod. Very few comments too.

I’m surprised Steve-O didn’t die years ago due to some horrific yet hilarious stunt.

This is almost as dumb as the tariffs on Chinese solar panels and electric cars from earlier in the year.

Unlimited assassination on Trump!

Not to mention his role in normalizing relations with China.

Counterintuitively: falling down the alt-right pipeline. I could never bring myself to fully agree with it and was “deprogrammed” by (and I really hate to say it) . I was a ite for awhile and even (also to my current regret) voted for Jim Crowe Joe in the 2020 election. However, my ism also led me to finding out tankies existed. Like many ites, I mocked and sneered and resisted them at first. However, I like to think of myself as somewhat intellectually honest, and my confrontations with them led me to reading and finding out they were right.

Before long I was a frequenter of r/genzedong (I didn’t use reddit at the time chapo was the specter haunting reddit and only heard of the sub from genzedongers after it had been banned for awhile). I migrated to Lemmy when genzedong got quarantined for fighting against liberal disinformation regarding Russia’s liberation of Ukraine in early 2022.

The difference between democracy and dictatorship is like a ceiling light versus a flashlight. The ceiling light won’t shine evenly everywhere in a crowded room, some places might get less light and some places might be too obstructed to get any light at all, but all in all the room is brighter. Whereas with a flashlight you can point it at any part of the room you want and illuminate it, but the room as a whole isn’t as bright.

I can feel my political understanding get better already. In taking this analogy seriously, I have come to understand that democracies … uh … huh. What is even the point here?

Activating my lib-O-vision, I interpret this as saying that democracy leads to less efficient decision making due to the overhead of including everyone (the bit about some parts getting less light and some none at all) but everyone ultimately benefits (the entire room being brighter). Dictatorship has more efficient decision making because it’s only one person calling the shots (the place the flashlight is pointed gets very illuminated), but only a small part of the room (the dictator’s favored) gets illuminated by the person holding the flashlight (the dictator).

I’m not surprised that the staffers for the undead neoliberal ghoul (1988 edition) are all in for the VP of the undead neoliberal ghoul (2024 edition).