KantNeverCould [any]

Why do you think Biden is floating permanent $300/month checks per kid?

Conservatives are having kids! It's liberals worried about the baby bust. In the past, they could rely on the global South sending migrants our way to boost their numbers. Now that no one wants to move to this shithole country, Liberals are worried about being outbred.

Ignoring reality and never changing your analysis as conditions unfold is the essence of dialectical materialism :)

Who, whom?

The average Leftist has zero fucking understanding of class relationships in this country. The "99%" slogan is catchy, but it has been incredibly damaging to discourse.

Lmao you're lucky they waited this long. When I was in school, the expectation was that you would sign a lease for next school year in late September/early October of the previous year!

You're have a far, far, far too pessimistic view of society that completely fucks up your perception of reality. The Left in general has this as a persistent problem....... We're always the first to freak out over shit, the last to get out heads out of our asses, and persistently falling behind the eight ball. It's completely against the idea of "dialectical thinking" to always be repeating whatever bullshit nonsense the Democrats said in the past and try to hold them to account, but we keep doing it anyway.

Most Americans do not rent. If your thinking in terms of "making rent", you've already lost. Most Americans did not lose their job under Covid, and those that did got a $600 check every week for 26 weeks on top of unemployment.

The real issues facing people are the same as they were pre-Covid: Skyrocketing housing costs with absolutely nothing affordable being built to alleviate the issue. Unaffordable healthcare. Unaffordable childcare. Most people have a job, and face those issues. Losing a $12/hr service job is a drop in the bucket, and focusing relief on the small minority still out of work is such a God damn waste that makes us look terrible.

Most of the jobs that were lost are low paid, service work. A lot of that initial spike was temporary layoffs as well. People who matter to the media and politicians have not been affected very much. In 2008/2009, a lot of the jobs losses were managerial, so it got a lot more attention.

It's all a game. What's disheartening is that so many people on the Left do not realize it yet.

What are you gonna spend your $2000 check on?

wait until it’s politically expedient for the dems to do something about the pandemic

March of 2020 is when it was "politically expedient" for the Democrats to do something. The impeachment was supposed to be their slam dunk. When that failed, they had to make the pandemic into their backup plan. They don't want to play with that toy anymore.

Just lmfao if you thought the "tough" response from the Democrats was genuine and not a political game.

Republicans are stubborn, and there will be dry counties, but the cat is out of the bag when it comes to the drug war. Legal marijuana passed a ballot initiative in South Dakota last year with 54% of the vote!

Note also that some red states still have restrictive alcohol laws

A lot of blue/purple states do as well. Have you ever been to PA? Or Massachusetts, where you can't even have happy hours!

Republicans are way behind – I don’t believe they’ve led any pro-pot movement anywhere in the country, and they picked noted drug warrior Jeff Sessions as AG a few years ago.

Oklahoma has one of the biggest, laxest medical marijuana programs in the country. Their Republican AG actually overturned a bunch of proposed regulations for being too strict (things like banning everything but edibles from dispensaries or requiring a pharmacist be on site), and the state courts have shut down proposed restrictions. My guess is that this wil be a trend in other Red states in the next 10 years or so. It's going to be nanny state libs that make you have the Apple Store experience with product under lock and key and it's more expensive and shittier than what your dealer has. Red States will be more like how you expect - jars of weed that you pick out that are half the price.

To be fair, Illinois already had a pretty well developed medical cannabis market. And "liberal" Massachusetts took almost 3 years to open rec dispensaries after they legalized cannabis through a ballot initiative in 2016. Virginia currently has jack shit, and honestly, I would have guessed that VA would be the last state in the nation to legalize weed with all the super cops, super troops, and spooks that live there.

Lots of Democrats don't like legal marijuana, but in 2021 it's incredibly unpopular to be against it. Stalling is the next best thing.

These people don't twist themselves into knots because they don't think about it. They repeat what the TV says.

Start with Engels' 3 rules

1. The law of the unity and conflict of opposites

2. The law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes

3. The law of the negation of the negation

"Good" dialectical analysis is based on the conflict of opposites as opposed to using formal logical rules like the transitive property or the law of identity.

The fundamental thing about "dialectical" thinking that separates it from more "analytical" schools is the idea that objects and events don't have an "essence" or a "true nature" that can be abstracted away. Objects and events are always in a process of being what they are and becoming something new, and they only have meaning in terms of their relations with other real world objects, which are also always in a state of being and becoming.

You can't practice it like a problem set of logical proofs because there is no right answer like a logic problem set. The problems you're analyzing don't have the same neat answers.

"Dialectical" methods have been used pretty extensively in scientific discovery, though. Engels wrote a lot about this on the "Dialectics of Nature"

No, last year Covid was THE BLACK PLAGUE because Orange Man was in office. Now it's no big deal because Biden is in power. Any "SCIENCE!" is crafted to meet the needs of the state.

It depends on who is getting squeezed. The big issue with the 2008 crash was that Blue Chip, supposedly secure companies like Lehman Brothers were getting involved with risky business.

Bruh...