Is this your democrats doing a “lesser evil”?

Link me a post of yours from a local account in both those comms, thx.

Who’s the one telling you that the USSR, Cuba, China, Venezuela or Vietnam are/were autocracies?

If you actually investigate countries that have substantive / economic democracy, which goes far beyond the liberal equality before the law, you’ll find them to be far more democratic than the countries accusing them of being autocracies.

USonians used to be more community-focused. In the 1950s polio was eradicated due to massive community efforts, showing that they were willing to do things to benefit their community.

Nowadays they won’t even do the same to benefit their extended families.

During covid, going to a rural area in the US really got to me. The population is so individualistic / freedom-brained / “i do whatever I want all the time”, that their grandmothers all dying meant nothing to them. I got mine keeps meaning smaller and smaller groups of people.

Or even better, reading books. With respect to a small minority, podcasts are not a great source to learn about anything.

It’s such a long book(> 20 hours), but very good. I only finished it ~ a year ago, and I remember the person who recorded the audiobook said it’s been a journey.

I like this version better, thx.

Anytime anyone whines about “commies / tankies”, they’re entirely complicit with these mass killings.

the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they’d read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012.

That’s quite a drop. I def notice that reading is very polarized now, someone either reads like 30 or more books a year, or they read nothing.

The plummeting literacy rates is pretty scary too. Literally the richest country in world history and their literacy rates are worse than many dirt-poor countries, and getting worse.

A good intro book to western philosophy is Will Durant - the story of philosophy. Very easy to read, and some chapters are insightful and very entertaining.

It’s an attempt to humanize philosophy it by focusing each chapter on one important philosopher, their life, and the historical context their ideas sprang from.

Good article from forward on the existing Nazi collaborator monuments in Latvia, and their participation in the Holocaust.

It’s the most anti-communist country on the planet, so there’s not much hope. Talk of raising wages or organizing collectively, or not agreeing with US imperialist foreign policy gets you labelled a commie / tankie by its witch-hunting, McCarthyite majority.

If there’s a list of countries to next take the communist road, the US would be dead last.

This has never done anything in countries that use it, like SK, Japan, Australia, etc. It might make the candidate stacking a little more expensive, but that’s it.

If capital stands above the political system, the method of voting doesn’t matter.

Please use a user agent that identifies your app.

We blocked some crawlers on lemmy.ml today, so a dev would have to let us know what user agent mlem is using.

Kamala was VP under Biden, who like Obama gave billions to Israel to murder Palestinians. Even tho the majority of people oppose the war, they get this anyway.

The US is not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.