Socialists of all types have been saying this for ages and explaining all the ways you could do it without succumbing to a deflationary spiral, but I'm sure libs will take this as evidence that Xi doesn't understand econ 101 and that he's ruining China.

He just died? Wow. I didn't know that. He led an amazing life, whether you agree with it or not.

He's imagining a past that conforms to his beliefs but didn't actually exist. Nobody ever wanted to die in a trench, for starters.

I appreciate that when the writers learned that they had a right wing fan base, they discarded subtlety and went hard in the paint to hammer into their heads that the nazis are the bad guys. Unfortunately the show was already running out of steam at that point and it showed the limits of how lib the writers are.

This is pretty clearly interference from the judge. The guy who ran the bankruptcy auction has a ton of experience with this stuff and there is no reason to think he wasn't impartial or that he didn't get the best price for everything. Jones' lawyers are just kicking the can down the road and delaying for as long as they can.

Because it's not enough that every cultural institution indoctrinates us into anticommunism from birth, and every political institution backs anticommunist organizations, and every media institution promotes anticommunist messaging, and oh yeah let's not forget that every school textbook is already deeply saturated with anticommunist propaganda.

Trump: "If I see you peeling the bandage off slowly, I'm gonna rip it off real fast!"

In America it's not just fear either, it's a healthy dose of hate and resentment. Whenever kids or especially teenagers decide to spend time somewhere they're treated like an invasive species and driven out.

I wish America would build an Arcology!

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Andrew Jackson and it's not even close. Not to downplay the horrible crimes committed by many of our other presidents but I don't think anything rises to the level of the Trail of Tears.

Remove Jackson from the running and it's a more interesting conversation, however thinking about it reveals just how interconnected all of this stuff is. While the current genocide is occurring under Biden, we can't forget that the conditions that lead to Oct 7 were created under Trump. For that matter so were the conditions that lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine.

I think the worst in my lifetime by a mile is Dubya, but while his wars were massive and consequential we can't forget that George Senior also killed scores of people in Iraq, and Clinton carried out the sanctions regime that killed scores more. Clinton was also the one who broke Labor's influence within the Democratic Party - but it was Obama who was swept into power on the promise of a working class revolution only to smother it in its crib.

But yeah my top two are Jackson and Dubya but beyond that I'm not sure there are a lot of crimes in the history of America's presidency.

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