Oh for sure it's a good post. Definitely interesting because it's almost like if "a penny saved is a penny earned" or "good things come to those who wait" or "whatever will be will be" became leftist dogwhistles lol
Yeah it's also a bog standard concept that's probably existed for longer than written language. You'll see similarly basic quotes attributed to most historical figures, often on fridge magnets or coffee mugs or pixelated facebook memes. Still works as a mild leftist dogwhistle I suppose.
The concept itself is useful for the "nothing ever happens" crowd I guess, but I do worry about how much power platitudes like this have over discourse and analysis. Platitudes and even actual quotes or ideas taken out of context and projected onto whatever topic as if they're universal truths.
Like most recently, the whole Lenin was against adventurism thing, which becomes a useless floating signifier as it gets stripped of the context Lenin was engaging with a hundred years ago. Without a careful analysis of Lenin's conditions and our own we have no idea how well his specific, nuanced conclusions apply a century later in an entirely different sociopolitical economic structure.
That's already a thing unfortunately
For sure and some of the worst (either too powerful or unplayable) cards for limited are regularly pushed constructed/commander staples. But despite that, set design over the last 5 years has generally been very good from a draft standpoint.
I'm a limited player so I'm all for high power formats. Mh3 was a great draft environment.
If I'm gonna play constructed everything over a dollar is gonna be proxies
Lmao I didn't even notice at the time, my brain autocorrected to Jakarta Method.
I vaguely remember the two book clubs may have been happening around the same time or smth like that
This isn't an execution, it's at most an assassination.
What you're talking about is something that requires the power of the state. Which is why seizing the state is so important.
and you tweet like the rest of us breathe
Increasingly worse with each covid infection?
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Yeah it's one way fash have an advantage-- they don't have to care about the meanings behind their words, can just coast off vibes.
To carve out a place in the larger social consciousness, we have to figure out how to compete with that.
Def has to be a delineation between how we analyze things with other leftists versus how we engage with average people. The blurring of that line has caused problems in both directions.