ChristerMLB

The way I understand it, free buses are not a cost-effective way to get people to stop driving. You get a better effect by using the same money for more routes and higher frequencies.

As a social policy, though, it might have something to it.

No, Vance will take over, and that will be worse.

If the approach is just “look for evil people and then destroy them”, or “if politicians piss the people off, and they’ll come for their head”, it’s likely to produce more evil through the fear that it creates. A good political system is predictable – politicians should know that if they do evil (clearly defined in law), it will become public, and it will have consequences (again, clearly defined in law). This should also apply to all powerful people, not just politicians.

At the end of the day, the goal is to control and counteract certain ambitions, not to create fear.

It is going to get worse, but it is inequality that is at the center of the problem. Inequality will be a problem regardless of what our mode of production is.

Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit

That sucks, and I hope you’re wrong, I can’t say you’re wrong to prepare, though. Solidarity from Norway

True, but you could also band together with the other rich people and lobby for the inheritance tax to be abolished for a few years so you can give your children the inheritance before the tax gets reintroduced. A wealth tax doesn’t have that problem.

nice summary, thank you

The president is, and is supposed to be, just a dude – not a supreme leader. I get that it might not be politically expedient to sell them like that, but at least realize that whatever candidate wins – even an establishment favorite – they are subject to pressure from within their party.

So, join the party and push from within, or your union and push from there – or both.

Could he be seeing Trump less because he is no longer a White House Insider?

In that case, shouldn’t your focus be on building a broad political alliance of opposition that includes as much of the military as possible?

fair enough. why do you think that, though?

alright, I’ll give you a better answer.

I wouldn’t say I’m looking to make capitalism ethical, as much as I’m looking to make it harmless. The big problem is the high and increasing inequality, that eventually makes free societies impossible.

As for FDR: whatever. I neither engage in, nor approve of, political hero-worship. His legacy is complex, including maybe even the image of the führer-president that Trump is exploiting right now.

that sounds like a slogan, not a strategy

yeah, I switched to Linux on my personal computers once I noticed ads in the start menu, my work computer has win11, though

Let me rephrase: it can, and probably will, get worse. It is not in the left’s interest to hurry that process along.

Yeah, the edition I read had a preface that seemed specifically written to prevent those kinds of interpretations. I wonder if it was written by a female relative of Nabokov’s.

It’s well written, but maybe too subtle

I mean, this is clearly the same kinds of magical immigrants who steal all our jobs while sitting around claiming welfare all day.

dude, Notepad even has Copilot now

Pretty sure no type setter or graphic designer would use Word for anything else than making Word templates.