Yeah I agree, though I think Marx's ideas are more accessible than his writing and there are better places to start with people who grew up in McCarthyland.
I still think you're assuming the general population saw the primary the same way we did. I don't think any of them needed or wanted to see an assault on Biden the way we did, because most of them don't hate Biden the way we do. They liked Bernie roughly the same or better but when the media told them he didn't stand a chance and was already losing they ate it up.
The exit polling discrepancies still tell a different Super Tuesday story.
Right, and I guess my main point is "[ideology] doesn't have any historical wins" is deeply subjective take because everyone draws different parameters around what counts as a win. But yeah we need to organize together.
Okay, I really really don't agree lol. The vast majority of the country does not give a shit about Bernie saying that Joe Biden is his friend and could beat Trump. I really can't understand how that could be what sunk him, except for those of us on the old sub.
I really don't know if that's what sunk him. The exit polling thing is enough to make me really question how many of those states he lost. He's one of the most popular politicians in the country.
He's also a tired old socdem, but I do think you'd be in a very different position with him as president.
There are a lot of elements of that lifestyle that you can do for pretty cheap. As others have mentioned, making your own granola isn't very expensive or difficult.
Actually getting outdoors is probably the hardest part, depending on where you live, available transportation, and your abilities. Hopefully there's somewhere nearby you can hike for free, and camping can be pretty cheap if you split the costs across a group and keep it simple (overnight tenting in the summer, someone has a car to get you to a campground). Again depends on where you are.
It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I don't see why he even needed a ploy and couldn't have just blown up the city as soon as he had the bomb.
As in, I get that it's anti-communist propaganda, but I'm trying to figure out how that even works with the plot, unless Nolan has really just fallen that far that he can't even make it make sense.
90's was the early days of big evil software guys. Bill Gates had a reputation as a cold-blooded killer before he started fixing his image with philanthropy.
Yeah third one is entirely anti-Occupy propaganda.
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Bane makes no sense - he wants to take down the stock market, free all the prisoners, and lock up all the cops underground only to... blow the entire city up?
Watch the first season and then stop if you don't want the politics to get way shittier
Edit: I also just wanna say that Mr. Robot has such incredible visual aesthetics, and some terrible terrible written ones. You write a Chinese hacking group into the story and you decide to call them the fucking Dark Army? Cringe
I agree with you but I wanna ask the deeper question that is really bugging me.
What the fuck is a success? Is it related to the length of time that a radical experiment stays going, its geographic wingspan, or how well it adheres to its principles and for how long?
One could just as easily call the Soviet Union a failure for its downfall at the end of the century as one can call it a success for it's economic accomplishments in the first half.
I swear I want to write an essay about those short bursts in music history where it feels a whole bunch of young people were really trying to reach for some kind of better society even if the best they could do was take drugs in a club together. I just don't hear that kind of optimism in anything any more.
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Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It is pretty good.