@ExileGrimm
Also, the concentration of political power into Clinton and Obama “machines” prevented the development of a new generation of palatable democrats
They chose control of the executive over a strong party apparatus and ended up with neither
@mullymt
@EverydayBastiat
What you view as distinct periods of post-Soviet history were simply different stages of the same process of primitive capital accumulation
The economic frontier you felt excited to witness really the centralization of power in the hands of an unaccountable class
@Mont_Jiang
America claims to be the pinnacle of democracy, but their leaders could not be more divorced from the reality of the people
Under what definition is that democratic?
As the police dispersed, the right wingers took turns stepping on the thin blue line flag they had originally brought to support the cops.
"You have been declared to be treasonists," one yelled at officers leaving. "Only one punishment for treason."
"Fuck the blue!"
@ExileGrimm
I meant that they had their own power centres that drained the recourses of the party, not that it was one big apparatus shared between them
Maybe I wasn’t clear
They hate each other almost as much as twitter leftists—it’s the only thing I like about them
@AspLovePolitics
@nypost
Excuse me? Are you questioning the veracity of this footage clearly showing a brave Ukrainian pilot avoiding Russian air defence systems?
I’m gonna start telling folks who are into astrology that billionaires are trying to make their own space programs so they can control everyone’s horoscope
I'm ashamed to admit that after I read Ulysses by James Joyce I threw it in the trash
I was 20 then, and I've matured
I'm sure if I read it now I'd throw it in the recycling bin
@LadyIzdihar
@catcontentonly
The concerns are projection
American social media companies work in a back door for American intelligence agencies so the assumption is that TikTok would do the same
Folks who tell people not to protest because they might get arrested and lose the ability to vote without questioning why participation in democracy leads to your exclusion from it make me glad I went bald before I could rip my hair out
@jdreesiii
@meowingabyss
@ExileGrimm
Ideally it’d supplement a high quality public education
Most parents can’t provide that (due to financial and time constraints)
Most parents who can probably shouldn’t
@kenklippenstein
@LizardRumsfeld
@SarcasmStardust
Can someone provide me with a formula to determine how many tweets we should have on a topic relative to its importance?
If not, could you help me make one by telling me how much closer each tweet gets us to the goal?