We should reject the notion that Nazis were simply dumb because that view treats Fascism as an aberration of individual stupidity instead of a systematic process of capitalism in crisis. There is some subtle ableism in attempting to correlate “stupidity” with fascism.

Yeah I think you’re right.

I think the science says baby talk is good for babies.

I think all the appeals to preserve “whimsy” in recent years lends credence to your observation.

What does this even mean

Ignoring the fact that this conversation has been steered towards an explicitly liberal/market economics/consumerist framing…

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful

In a 2016 survey, 69% of Azerbaijanis believed life was better under the USSR.

In a 2016 survey, it increased to 53% of Belarusians saying life was better under the USSR

Another Pew survey, also in 2017, showed that 43% of Georgians thought the dissolution was a good thing, compared to 42% who thought it was a bad thing.

In a 2016 survey, around 60% of Kazakhs above the age of 35 believed life was better under the USSR.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 61% of Kyrgyz thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 16% who thought it was beneficial.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 42% of Moldovans thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 26% who thought it was beneficial.[7] Regret about dissolution later increased to 70% according to a 2017 Pew survey, with only 18% saying the dissolution was a good thing.

Levada polling since the mid-1990s on the preferred political and economic system of Russians also shows nostalgia for the Soviet Union, with the most recent polling in 2021 showing 49% preferring the Soviet political system, compared to 18% preferring the current system, and 16% preferring Western democracy, as well as 62% saying they preferred a system of economic planning compared to 24% preferring a market capitalist economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union

long standing contracts

“Won’t someone think of the contractual obligations?? 😩😥”

Noooo, you don’t understand. Biden tried really, really hard to not send 21 billion to Israel. Trump wanted to send aid! Big difference, tankie.

500 million could buy you a fleet of 150 buses to start a bus system for a small town.

Sure, it won’t buy you a coast-to-coast rail system, but no one said that was what the 500m was trying to afford.

There is simply no productive capacity for it. You can spend however many billions you want, but dollars don’t magically turn into factories or rare earth metals.

The rosewill 4u cases are cheap and fit eatx. I put some noctuas in mine, and it works great.

you chimed in to bullshit that it’s all the Dems faults

Do show me where this happened.

Nobody mentioned either party till you chimed

You did read the headline, right?

Why do y’all get so bruised when extremely valid critiques are leveled against the democrats?

blame democrats for everything republicans do

Uh, Joe Biden was not a republican. Neither was Obama. And it should be clear the Democrat senators are also not Republicans…

Lamo to be spouting constitutionalist hopium at this stage of the descent.

These [rights] are explicitly given by the Constitution and cannot be taken away.

Then explain how they took away Alex Pretti’s rights. Political power does not come from a Constitution; it comes from the barrel of a gun.

Also keep in mind your constitution is the only one I know of that explicitly enshrines the right to enslave people.

Joe Biden spent a record amount on ICE camps while the threat of fascism was obviously clear.

Obama not only discovered Homan, but awarded him with a medal when Homan devised a plan to separate migrant children from their parents at detention centers.

Every single dem senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio, who has obviously been one of the biggest champions of "immigration enforcement.

They’re not entirely wrong when they say the Democrats gave them a mandate.

Wise words. Thanks.

Who do you expect to be the ones investigating? Who do you expect to be the ones doling out punishment?

Soo… Your answer for the Native American women being murdered is just to sit by and wait for a justice system that is emphatic about refusing to investigate these crimes? You’re essentially telling these people to have complete faith in a system that has shown great interest in letting them die.

https://northernkentuckylawreview.com/blog/the-legal-loophole-affecting-native-nationsnbsp

There are approximately 326 federal Indian reservations located in the United States. [i] The violence on these reservations is estimated to be up to ten times higher than national averages. [ii] Specifically, the violence against women and children is astounding. A study completed by the National Institute of Justice found eighty-four percent of native women have experienced some type of violence within their lifetime, with fifty-six percent having suffered sexual violence. [iii] Nevertheless, the prosecution statistics for these crimes do not even begin to measure up.

Confusion in jurisdiction, lack of funds, and overall disinterest in the pursuit of the crimes and seeking justice for native victims produced an epidemic of violence on reservations. [viii] In Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, the United States Supreme Court concluded that the federal government and the state in which a crime is committed have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians on Indian land. [ix] The state and federal departments tasked with prosecuting these crimes are funded by tax dollars, which Indians do not pay. [x]

A landmark case in this discussion is Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, because the U.S. Supreme Court held that non-Indians, even if residents of a reservation, could not be prosecuted by tribal courts for criminal conduct. [xi] Essentially, tribal councils only maintain jurisdiction over Indians whom commit a crime on reservation land. [xii] This allows for non-Indians to commit crimes on reservations with little fear of repercussions. [xiii]

Non-Indians have exploited this legal loophole because they are aware of the unlikelihood of prosecution by the federal government. In 2011, only one year after the Tribal Law and Order Act was signed into law, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University recovered data that revealed federal prosecutors declined to file charges in fifty-two percent of cases involving serious crimes on Native American reservations. [xiv]

Because you’re not engaging faithfully.

Why does it matter? You’re not trying to slyly pin these murders on Native Americans and Indigenous people, are you? Just make your point and don’t be chickenshit.