https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFsYsMa31g

Honestly the conciseness of this argument is heartwarming to me. 🥰

Here’s one: study insurgencies that managed to hold off and/or beat the US and get ready to apply those tactics because that time is coming. Best get to networking too.

They have to win elections and they have to fight from within.

Wait everyone! Don’t you see? If we join the Nazis we can change them from within!

Great hero of the people: Neville Chamberlain

To be fair, that’s pretty much the ancestry of West Germany. Well, that and all the Nazis who got a great big beautiful American bailout.

Obama drone struck that 16 year old American kid, and when someone in his administration was asked about it, he said that he should’ve had a better father

Oh boy the irony

What are you talking about?

That’s why it’s so important to learn these things, at least whenever we have the opportunity to do so.

While it may be taught in school nowadays if it wasn’t when they were in school then it would be hard to imagine them hearing about it otherwise unless they pay very close attention to the media.

That was actually where I heard about this from. I haven’t finished the series yet but this event in particular seemed significant to me.

Indeed, how can anyone pay attention to something they’re never informed of?

Fucked if I know 😂 I’m studying it on my own from textbooks and online resources, not in a classroom setting taught by scholars much much smarter than me. I assume the reduced complexity of simplified characters makes it more accessible though, which is why I understand the PRC makes Pinyin required on road signs as well.

I’ve been enjoying studying Mandarin. The tones are a bit weird but the grammar seems surprisingly simple, everything can be written pretty universally in pinyin, and Hanzi characters are great for condensing information.

I didn’t invent clinical depression but my god have I innovated it

That’s a debate since authoritarianism to libertarianism is a spectrum so there is no official “normal” and its generally used qualitatively on individual polices

So, essentially, it’s subjective?

Where the state has extra power that they can use to enforce their goals

Extra power in comparison to what? What is the normal amount of state power?

What makes them authoritarian?

I actually always wondered a bit about the line between fascism and monarchism. To the casual observer they might seem nearly identical, though I wonder if in historical materialist terms it’s a reactionary attempt to backslide to feudalism rather than progress capitalism to socialism.