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How to cause the biggest schism catholicism has ever seen

"Global intifada means destroy israel and kill all the jews"

The level of bad faith here is unreal. Actual fucking ghouls.

With that said, they're being so bad faith that it backfires on them, particularly when it comes to bringing up Israel at all. They can't win by mentioning Israel, they'd be better off literally never mentioning Israel ever. This shit worked against Corbyn but the conditions have changed entirely as a result of what everyone has seen.

genuinely believe governments should be run like corporations

Fascism. They don't realise they're advocating for fascism but they are.

Exactly, and if they start to build their understanding of the world as these people being "Left-Liberal" then they will automatically start to interpret everyone outside of that as being right wing.

I know the whole political window shit is hated here but this genuinely pushes the window leftwards by doing it.

It's a mind fuck because I can logically understand it... I already knew it. But my head does not want to believe it having been brought up with every single socially imprinted expectation being to the contrary.

And that's not just a disbelief in rich people being stupid, because that's an obvious given. But in the fact that they would be so deeply and utterly poisoned by propaganda that they would consider this mayor to be powerful enough to be a physical threat to them that they must run from... That's the disbelief I'm struggling with here. Because it requires being incredibly detached from reality to think that. A level of detachment that is hard to imagine.

One that isn't insulting to the liberals that exist under the "progressive" tent? I don't know. The word is essentially a tent of social-democrats and socialists, and that tent is useful as an alliance but damaging in that it erases socialists from discourse as they get consumed into "progressive liberals". This erasure results in fewer people learning the difference between socialists and liberals, in fact it makes people think socialists are liberals.

Socialists should call themselves socialists and any big-tent collaboration should be clearly labelled as a Socialist-LeftLiberal collaboration/alliance.

The benefit of calling someone like Bernie or AOC LeftLiberal instead of Progressive is it educates less political people that LeftLiberal and RightLiberal exists. This pushes the vast majority of the Democrats to the right in people's minds and it will open up space for a "left" to exist. While doing this it also clearly educates people that Socialists and LeftLiberals are not the same thing.

You get me? If LeftLiberal becomes a thing in people's minds then everything that is not LeftLiberal becomes right wing in people's minds, pushing the entirety of the democrat party into the right and opening up control of what "left" exists to Socialists and Social Democrats. The benefit of this is that everyone who currently associates "left" with being good will fall into this camp over time, they will reject RightLiberals when they become associated with being right wing in their minds. So much american thinking can be boiled down to "left good, right bad" or "right good, left bad". This can be weaponised linguistically.

It is possible to convince LeftLiberals to start doing this because they will realise how much it benefits them to make the distinction. And it is possible to convince Socialists to start doing this because it stops erasing Socialists.

I undergo a sort of existential crisis when I see things like this. I'm hit with all kinds of different emotions and feelings when I'm forced to confront the fact that some of these rich fucks genuinely truly believe the propaganda they receive about socialists. Among them are rubes so truly poisoned by propaganda that they think they need to flee the city to escape impending socialist executions or some shit.

It's very difficult to accept that people with enormous wealth are this stupid. It makes me question reality in a way that's very difficult to describe. Their interpretation of the world is genuinely like an alien thing.

Socialists in america need to reject the term progressive. It's used in order to claim socialists as their own, as "progressive liberals" instead of as what they really are, opposition to liberals. The whole "progressive" thing is used to erase socialists and keep it buried enough that people do not become politically educated about the differences.

According to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, change is under way not only in technical capability but also in public sentiment. In China, 72 per cent of people trust artificial intelligence (AI), compared to 32 per cent in the United States and 28 per cent in the United Kingdom. Similar patterns hold across India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as developing Asian markets consistently outperform Western and developed peers on public trust in innovation.

I don't believe this is because Chinese bazinga AI is inherently more trustworthy, currently the AIs are all more or less comparable, you'll get a similar answer out of ChatGPT, Grok or DeepSeek on any given topic.

I think it is simply because it is inheriting trust created by the Chinese governing system. The AI in the rest of the world is inheriting distrust in the capitalist governing system.

Everyone can see how AI can be used to shape the truth. The Chinese population simply trusts that their government is going to carefully manage it to display the real truth and be positive towards the people, whereas the populations of the rest of the world believe that their governments can not be trusted to intentionally misuse it to harm themselves.

This is less about the technology itself and more about who is controlling the technology.

Gonger is unionising the Furchester Hotel

Waldorf & Statler (the heckling pair) are posters that reside purely in c/slop and live off mocking literally everything.

Animal, dude just wants to drum and party.

Path of least resistance. They will launch dozens of court cases about it if you try and seize it for a socialist and their socialist plans, not to mention some of those cases will go in front of judges hostile to socialists and set precedents we don't want.

Yeah I know libs have seized stuff before but they'll do it purely because it's a socialist doing it for socialist plans.

Ok close them then? The city can buy the empty property and use it for exactly the same thing. You've already done the work of determining the most profitable locations for stores which is really useful. The city can use the profit turned on these ideal locations to operate stores in areas you would usually not bother with because the profit isn't there.