absolutely. essential resources like water should be nationalized and managed with extreme bias towards ‘the public good’. unfortunately in many places the public good isn’t even meaningfully defined and our courts prioritize the rights of capital/corporations above all else. I agree we need to keep fighting and pushing every overreach. poly-crises demand poly-solutions.
100 percent.
polling, for the most part, is just another way establishment media shapes public opinion by preemptively announcing who is “electable”.
all they have to do is keep pushing headlines like “Latest Poll from Dogshit Analytics Shows Reasonable Americans Hate Socialism” and in-group / herd psychology does the rest.
counterpoint:
I don’t have a direct link to a file but here’s a clip on a regional (Nebraska) news affiliate:
pretty boring regular clapping. by the way, the speaker he clapped for right before getting arrested: his wife. literally applauding his wife for speaking up at town meeting.
they probably asked everyone to remain completely silent and had setup"rules" for applause between speakers… knowing that 1) they don’t want people to get riled up 2) it gives them pretense to remove people who say literally anything when not standing at the podium.
yeah, I also liked IW. my only gripe though… the universal ammunition should have been a toggle in difficulty settings
thanks for comment and links to the review. I’ll give it a watch.
tax wealth not work
Deus Ex really was prescient of a lot of things. autonomous kill bots, using disasters as a cover for fucked up shit, corporatism and influence peddling, private militaries, even people becoming obsessed with AI as a weapon/salvation/god.
… alright, time to reinstall
politics is downstream from culture. and American culture (if such a thing even exists)is deeply flawed.
some of it, perhaps, is because America never fully reconciled its brutal origins or path to becoming a so-called ‘superpower’. nor have the people acknowledged the ongoing systemic violence enacted in America’s name.
progress is possible. America has made intermittent advances in civil rights and select areas where the public benefited. it isn’t all shit though it does feel that way at times.