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And now for an interesting question: what if the Democratic Party’s 2024 campaign strategy had worked? What if they had somehow been able to win conservative votes without alienating progressive voters? Well, with the Republican Party electorally defeated, there would no longer be a basis for unity among the two camps of the Democratic Party’s voting constituency. Any policy decision which favors one camp would risk alienating the other camp, leaving the Party paralyzed, even if there were no Republican opposition. The contradictions within the Democratic Party’s constituency are such that winning elections comes at the expense of being able to do anything once in power, and doing anything while in power comes at the expense of winning elections.

Try explaining this to the consultants who wanted to proudly parade around the Cheney family as part of the campaign

Your Grandpa Deserved it

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Found this sticker in Berlin. Awful place

Turn on tha radio, nah fuck it turn it off

on the Gwydir Highway, approximately 20 kilometres east of Glen Innes

This reporter has failed to mention that this location is called Bald Nob.

"Bald Knob wrecks his bike and ends his life at Bald Nob" was a way cooler headline

Which EV(s) have you driven?

This will be part of a Tarantino Soundtrack, mark my words

According to the New York Times, Kennedy has said he also experienced mercury poisoning around the time he had learned of his parasitic infection.

What the fuck is this man doing in his free time?

"Enact the Leveling the Playing Field Act 2.0 (S. 1856 / H.R. 3882) to stay ahead of new and evolving circumvention tactics used by the China’s government."

Do people in Burgerlanders say "The China" the same way they used to say "The Ukraine"?

Have you considered that this very talented musician is a sole trader and they ARE going to handle all those roles...for 27 years straight?

I for one love the hardworking attitude of this hypothetical musician and therefore love Billionaires

Is this chud referring to the lead singer from Tool dressing in drag? Are there any other Maynards?

It is a wholesome "Human Shields" float. Depending on the messaging of that day, every person is embedded in Hamas, or every person is a human shield for Hamas.

Edit: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-197-the-human-shields-canard-as-catch-all-colonial-absolution

I just started Losurdo's Stalin book last weekend. Looking at the table of contents, it doesn't include a lot of information focused on the fine details of the Soviet economy, even if it has the same level of detail as "Socialism Betrayed" I'll be learning something.

Allin Cottrell??

For anyone who would like to learn about this topic, but is not looking for a deep technical dive: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Socialism_betrayed:behind_the_collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union(2004)

https://archive.org/details/SocialismBetrayed

Do you find something funny about the word Tromboner?

Not winning respect is part of the story, but the book is focusing more on the love, fulfillment and emotional satisfaction that is surrendered in order to fit into this patriarchal society. I can imagine there are a lot of "respected" people who are emotionally bankrupted by this system. Luckily, ignoring this system doesn't mean that you can't keep or grow how much you are respected; the people who respect you will be the thing that changes.

Some quotes from chapter 5:

• "men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. More often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; in fact, it intensifies their lust and their longing."
• "sexist logic had convinced them and convinced them that they can have connection and intimacy without commitment"
• "almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love, most folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex"
• "women are the targets for displaced male rage at the failure of patriarchy to make good on it's promise of fulfillment, especially endless sexual fulfillment"
• "Men may be too terrified to confront the facts of their lives and tell the truth, that possessing the right to engage in rituals of domination and subordination is not all that patriarchy promised it would be. If patriarchy were a disease, it would be a disease of disordered desire"
• "socialising women to conform more to patriarchal male sexual norms is one way patriarchy hopes to address male rage"

This chapter opened with a bang. It led me to think (for the first time in a while) about the one-night-stand and how depressing my one-night-stand experiences have all been. I disagree with Hooks, these experiences did not intensify my lust or longing for (casual) sex. Fortunately for me, I decided the best option was to form a connection before introducing sex into the equation.

The points raised about male rage stemming from the absolute failure of patriarchal masculinity to provide a meaningful existence for men has been made before in a range of texts; however, this is the first time I have read of the indoctrination of women (through porn and popular culture) into patriarchal male sexual norms being used as a tool to address male rage.

Some quotes that stood out in chapter 4:

-"frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love, for fear that the loved one will abandon them"

-"these men act out again and again to test their partners love; ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and will end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment"

-"acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves"

-"they choose patriarchal manhood over loving connection. First, foregoing self-love, and then the love they could give and receive that would connect them to others"

This was an interesting chapter, one point that resonated with me was the violence of sons against their mothers. I remember having this realisation at some point in my teenage years, that I was clearly much stronger than my mum, I never acted on this but obviously for may households that is not the case.

The points about men insulating themselves due to a fear of abandonment was also very close to home. This is a topic that I am still working on peronally. Reaching a point where the thoughts and feelings that I share with my partner match the thoughts and feelings I have in my head has been a huge challenge for me.

Sorry for the late reply.

The interviewer is fucking deluded, same as any Australian settler. He probably thinks Ghassan is fighting for an acknowledgement of country at the start of some Israeli ceremonies.