Here’s Wikipedia on the Irish potato famine:
That genocide is a poor comparison. The Irish were invaded and colonized by the English, a foreign power that maintained its political and cultural separation from the subjugated. Struggle against an external force is vastly different than struggle against an internal one.
the next election.
…The Federal Elections Commission is in the process of being dismantled. The US is not going to have free elections again at this rate.
Too many are still trapped in the “it can’t happen here” denial that they’ve been in for the last several decades. Some are waking up to the fact that many of us have been shouting that this isn’t “just making it through four years” but, it’s really looking to be too little too late.
Sorry to burst the bubble.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign
I really want to be in a time of history where rapid, positive political change is possible through non-violence alone. Those levers were taken away by decades of anti-electoralism/accelerationism and it’s always easier to break things than to build them.
Resistance against a foreign power is also a much different thing than domestic.
Americans are struggling because of a lack of socialism, basically.
That’s one reason. Another is accelerationists intentionally supporting increased suffering with religious dedication, believing, despite all of the evidence otherwise, that if they throw enough LGBTQ+ and genocidees under the bus, it will stop, rather than just swerving to avoid the heap of corpses.
No. If you’re rich enough, you put it under some abstract business entity and write off any taxes with invented losses.
I wrote a while big thing but my ADHD meds wore off part of the way through, leading to a less-than-cohesive stream of thought. My apologies for that.
My point overall is that protests change people, not policy in a government subjugated by oligarchy, which the US has, by the data, been for half of a century. This is why those in the current “bloodless” coup are so anxious to achieve the smallest government that they can, purged of anyone who is not a loyalist. If they succeed, there’s noone on the “inside” to impact any positive change with the existing levers of power. Protest and resist but do it from a place of knowledge. And, unfortunately, do it with awareness that you are likely putting your life and those of your loved ones on the line (please, no cellphones at protests, they are readily traceable).
Things are bad now and are likely, based upon recorded human history, to get worse for at least several generations. If your thesis is that uprisings by a populace subjected to domestic repression is likely, I’m going to need you to share your notes with the class because millennia of data imply otherwise.
It may seem defeatist to you, but, the reality is that the time to save the nation and prevent suffering of its vulnerable as well as genocide abroad and at home is done. The regulatory state is being rapidly dismantled by a billionaire, while none in power offer much more than performative resistance. November was the last “escape hatch”. Right now, it looks like accelerationists have handed the government over to people intent on speed-running a certain austrian’s rise to total power. Better to accept this now and get through the disillusionment so that you can effectively resist into the future.
Now, I absolutely hope that I’m wrong but, the camps being built and talks of international human slavery don’t make that hope very great. Resist as you can and help others as you’re able.
It has been studied and published numerous times over the last decades. A good reference that I’ve been aware of, nearly since it was published is this one from Martin Gilens, a professor from Princeton University’s Politics Department. The study was published in 2004 and utilized data from between 1981 and 2002.
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf
To be clear, I am not advocating violence, nor trying to convince anyone of futility. I think it’s all the more reason to call accelerationists out on their bullshit magical thinking that helped put us in this place and push for more engagement on political structures, supposing elections continue. If more than a tiny segment of the Left participated in primaries, instead of performative behavior and offering up vulnerable populations as blood sacrifices, we’d have universal healthcare several decades ago and actual consequences for genocide.
Also, international airports are legally borders…
Unfortunately, data does say otherwise. For the last half-century in the US, political decisions have almost exclusively been the will of the ultra-wealthy, with following the desires of the populace being generally coincidental, statistically speaking.
More so, they non-voted for it. They heard the quote:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
And thought that it didn’t apply to them, or alternatively, they wanted to offer up LGBTQ+, Palestine, Ukraine, and PoC up as blood sacrifices in hopes of achieving the workers revolution that no evidence suggests would happen.
Then they shouldn’t have taken a federal judge seat. It’s like sitting in the exit row of an aircraft; if you’re not willing to carry out your responsibility when shit gets hard, you shouldn’t be taking the position in the first place.
it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP
Absolutely. I just have trust issues with closed source software and platforms. Burned too many times.
When your education revolves around dehumanizing people and turning them into abstract numbers, it’s not that far of a leap, unfortunately.
Also going to raise the call of shenanigans on the implied support of accelerationism, an ideology based on magical thinking and involuntary blood sacrifice, and no historical data showing any efficacy.
That’s unfortunate. Both for throwing out all of your work and replacing it with an objectively inferior solution with poor track record of long-term sustainability.
Those who produce MBAs at it again.
He didn’t even need to do that. The complete removal of accountability for anyone wealthy over the last half-century along with subversion of all major media did everything for him. He just had to be born wealthy and racist, and refuse to pay people that he signed contracts with. He should have been a pauper decades ago but all institutions that could or would do so have been defanged.
I (potentially) got you.
Edit: Might be this one https://knoxgelatine.com/ColdSoupsandSalads/CSS2.htm