great work!
r/conservative now calls the raised fist "the new MAGA salute" https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1e2qkme/this_is_the_new_maga_salute/
Barring some unforeseen demographic situation in the electoral college
What do you mean by that?
Fun fact! In the Netherlands, Elsevier publishes a weekly magazine about politics, which is basically the written version of Fox News for that country. Very nice that those people control like 50% of all academic publishing.
our pressure isn't working
That's not true. Evergreen state college is divesting because of student demands. Basically every university in Spain as well, in Belgium the Free University of Brussels is divesting and in Ireland Trinity college as well. This is just the beginning.
You're forgetting PTB-PVDA: the only marxist-leninst party in Europe with amazing poll numbers. Currently around second place (in a landscape with twelve parties) in the polls for the election in June.
I had a libertarian manager who used to say "What has Bernie ever actually done?". Hate to hand it to him,
Of al the criticisms one can have of Sanders, this one really annoys me. Offcourse he "doesn't get annything done", because all other people there are the worst monsters imaginable, who're only trying to get tax cuts for their donors. That's a criticism of them, not of Sanders. The problem is that there is no broader movement agitating around these sort of bills, not that they're voted down. These bills are a meager form of pressure on the elite, their existence is a net positive.
The question was if heavier cars should pay more. Heavier cars are more expensive to buy, so this means that people who can afford a big car, will pay more. It's a sort of progressive taxation by proxy.
For context: don't forget that this isn't the US: not everyone drives an SUV/pick-uptruck. Here you can see the size of the most popular car in France, compared to a pick-up truck.
and he immediately started improving relations with Russia.
What do you mean? There's no governement yet. NSC and VVD haven't even decided that they'll actually form a coalition with him.
But we all know this already. How do we stop people taking the easy answer (blame immigration) and engaging with the hard answer (economic system/ class war)
By building strong, left-wing alternatives. Right now, if you want to vote "against the system", the hegemonic idea is that you vote for the radical right, because that's the only alternative to the neoliberal, centrist parties that exists in the minds of the majority of the population. Ireland and the Francophone part of Belgium are good examples of regions where the left managed to become the alternative, instead of the extreme-right. In both those places the "against the system"-vote is left-wing because they out-organised the right, and they're universally seen as the alternative to the neoliberal, centrist parties.
That does not mean that there's no racism, sexism... in Ireland and the Francophone part of Belgium, just as it doesn't mean that in the rest of the West there is no desire for redistribution of wealth, it only means that another type of political force became the hegemonic "anti-vote" because they were better organised, and by taking up that position, they've taken away the oxygen for the extreme-right to become a relevant political player: both Ireland and the Francophone part of Belgium are the only places in the EU without a non-marginal extreme right political party.
(Slight nuance: it is known that the French Rasseblement National and The extreme-right party from the Dutchophone part of Belgium - Vlaams belang - are financing their counterparts in Francophone Belgium, in the hope of them making a breaktrough in 2024. Perhaps that will be succesfull, I don't know, but it should be noted that they can't force a breaktrough without outside help.)
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Are you saying it's propaganda that there was a lot op doping among athletes from AES countries?