@hecubian_devil Arguably there's one very big area you yourself have acknowledged that has not gotten better: housing costs. But the other socialists seem to have forgotten about this and are trying to make the underemployment/unemployment point stick when it isn't

@maxdubler @AlbuquerqueDsa @Mike_from_PA @hecubian_devil This is what many online socialists haven’t fully internalized even though it strengthens the overall argument the “working class is hurting”. Housing costs have massively gone up so on one side we have income gains and low unemployment. On the other side: rent shot up.

@JakeMGrumbach Will Stancil’s biggest jam is that he was not elected.

@lxeagle17 @JamesSurowiecki By “more popular than ever” we mean his approval is either underwater or like +4. It really does seem like a bunch of centrists and right wingers think Trump has this mandate when he won by like 1% of the vote

@RealJamesWoods Republicans will continue to be woke it seems.

@noemonas @diasisgod @RomeInTheEast I think you should re-read what I wrote: I was referring to the hypothetical timeline where Romans remain ethnically Roman and aren't turned into Greeks. The Rum of Asia Minor might have been deported to Romanía just like in our timeline, who knows?

@noemonas @diasisgod @RomeInTheEast One is an exonym and the other an endonym, I am quite aware of the situation. But they are not quite synonymous, since "Greek" is used to refer to many different varieties, from ancient to modern. Whereas Romaeic only refers to the variety spoken by medieval Romans.

@noemonas @diasisgod @RomeInTheEast will repeat those errors.

@noemonas @diasisgod @RomeInTheEast interesting, but I'm not sure how well-versed they are in the relevant history.

@elonmusk What happened to free speech Elon now you’re cancelling people for exercising that right.

@noemonas @diasisgod @RomeInTheEast was "revived" in the 19th century, resulting in the extinction of the Roman ethnicity. As you said, in another timeline, maybe what is now Greece would be Romanía, and the people would still be Romans, and the Greeks would still be an extinct ancient race.

@Markosg1020 @RomeInTheEast @DeusExBoreae δεν ταυτίζονταν μ'αυτόυς. Ανέπτηξαν ρωμαϊκή εθνική ταυτότητα. Δεν ήταν «μόνο στα χαρτιά» - έτσι έλεγαν οι Φράγκοι που ήθελαν να τους πάρουν την Ρωμαιότητα. Όλοι οι άλλοι λαοί όταν τους ρωτούσαν «ποιοί είστε;» έπερναν απάντηση «Ρωμαίοι». Αυτή ήταν απλούστατα η εθνικότητά τους.

@noemonas @diasisgod @RomeInTheEast point: they were Romans (first and foremost) who happened to be linguistically Hellenized (i.e., adopt the Greek language). Again, I encourage you to read Romanland - even the first few pages should be enough to get the idea of Kaldellis' argument.