Sure, but voters can decide if they want more or less people sacrificed.

He also played a principal role crafting in the campaigns of several Democratic presidential candidates, including Massachusetts Senator John Kerry in 2004, New York Senator Hillary Clinton in 2008, and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet in 2020.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carville

He definitely is and always has been a moron, but he’s been an unfortunately influential moron over the years

Hakeem can go and we can get a better Speaker.

@anemone anyway if you're interested in object capabilities for agentic purposes I'll be dissociating and word vomiting about said topic in room 230C tomorrow at 2:55pm.

@Twisted666 Gloria Swanson was perfect.

The “social democrats” are the DSA. The mainline Democrats are free market liberals.

He’s a centrist moron who’s only claim to fame is that he’s married to a Republican. I’m probably being unfair, but fuck him.

The hell it isn’t. You haven’t got the foggiest clue what Marx wrote do you. Let me guess you read the manifesto and thought you were an edgy contrarian didn’t you. Marx wrote a library of works on relational ethics and sociology, as well as economics. If you think he stopped at ownership you have barely scratched the surface. As bad as the capitalists that read Wealth of Nations and didn’t bother to read the rest of Smith or the other capitalist thinkers.

I’m skeptical of everyone. They all tell the truth in their own way, and dismissing anyone outright is foolish, but it’s important to know their blind spots as well. I was raised in a firehose of lies and half truths. From every side of the argument, the ones I’m most sympathetic to included. I can feel the spin on your take from your take a thousand miles away.

Большой террор, The Great Purge, where Stalin murdered most of the revolutionaries who still had any influence and actually intended to make the USSR communist instead of Authoritarian with a red coat of paint.