No we have to push ourselves further and further to the right because that's what voters want!!!
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They like feeling like others are worse off. Its all they have.
Michael is like 80 still doing awesome work, I think he deserves some slack lol
Mali is no longer ruled by western interests so they gotta get the propaganda machine going i guess
The musk stuff is the current liberal raison d'etre, its fucking weird
It is clear that childrearing in the west has become incredibly cruel, so I would say children are definitely treated like subhumans. I have some theories about why that is, but would love some resources to learn more about it rather than just word vomit some complete conjecture.
I definitely have a hard time consuming media now that I can see the ideology it subtly yet effectively espouses, especially anti-communism. And now that I am outside that, I see how the labor aristocratic people around me basically center their lives around propagandistic fiction and I can't help but see it as disgusting. So certain things like that, I don't think I will ever be able to engage with again and will always call out the politics involved.
I just can't tell if the north Korea stuff is reactionary or pointing out that the propaganda simply exists to make those in occupied Korea feel better about their deteriorating social conditions
The two parties help each other out all the time. The Democrats love when they get called socialists or communists, for example. It helps maintain the illusion of the whole thing (we can't advocate for these social policies, voters don't like socialism or communism so we have to be "reasonable"). I suspect this was all entirely intentional in some way, as it maintains this image of Democrats being "progressive" in some way when they don't actually do jackshit.
I conflated some things. In Nazi Germany, some 250,000 people were murdered on the basis of eugenic psychiatry that became popular in America and resulted in the sterilization of about 60,000 people. Eugenics in Nazi Germany was heavily influenced by the movement in America and many psychiatrists who continue to have major influence over the field were supporters, like Adolf Meyer. I could have sworn I read an article more directly drawing comparisons between the eugenic psychology in early 20th century America to the practice today, but I can't find it so I can't claim a super strong connection there.
You're right, I got some things conflated. Nazi Germany were actually using eugenic ideas pushed first by psychiatry in the US in the early 20th century to mass murder up to 250,000 people. Many of the most prominent psychiatrists in the early 20th century in the US were eugenicists, some who have major legacies to this day. I remember reading something previously that linked these eugenicist ideas to modern psychiatry but I can't find it. I'll edit my post.
My favorite contradiction about this is how westerners engage in the most ridiculous purity politics about violence but when it comes to dropping bombs that can literally end humanity and destroy the planet on hundreds of thousands of civilians, apparently that is justifiable.