X. is what Lemmy uses for numbered lists. So
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To avoid that you could write 400\. rather than 400.

Hint: Don’t out yourself as a fascist while saying stupid things.

MAGA are conservatives. The distinction between a conservative and a fascist is one of degree, not kind, so the military will be radicalized and/or purged until they become MAGA if they aren’t already.

Centrists, both rank and file and leadership, apparently don’t care about Vote Blue No Matter Who. I sure hope this lesson will be taken to heart by progressives out there.

Mamdani is where he is because he was out there getting support for his progressive platform and making voting feel like it matters. I strongly doubt somewhere like Los Angeles or Seattle would react differently to a candidate like Mamdani showing up, but they just don’t.

It’s the Bernie-Trump pipeline working in reverse. Because offering real solutions to people’s problems works. Who woulda fucking thunk.

First, they’re not claiming to be socialist. Second, they’re criticizing corporate welfare, not social welfare. They support social welfare in the exact same comment. Rich pricks sucking on the government’s tit and providing nothing to society is a bad thing, or at least the leftwing position considers it to be a bad thing. Are you even reading what they wrote?

“Living on the governments tit” is straight up right-winger bullshit. We pay taxes, why the fuck should the government hoard that money and use it on shit that doesn’t benefit the people? That is the ENTIRE FUCKING POINT of a government, to pool resources and skills to better society as a whole.

True on your other points, but here they’re saying the money should be given to employees rather than employers. That’s not rightwing at all; it’s leftwing if anything. I mean it’s the farming version of being anti-corporate welfare.

Because either you’ll cite a good example and prove me wrong, or you’ll cite a bad example and confirm I’m right. While I doubt you’ll be convinced in the latter case, someone reading this exchange might be, so there’s value to be had in either case.

What’s an example of something that’s not politics but is politicized?

We need to stop unfettered immigration, so closing the borders is great, locking up and kicking out immigrants who have committed legal offenses is good, and we should expedite that process but we shouldn’t be kidnapping or profiling people.

This is literally what modern fascism is made of. It always starts with “expediting the process” and “immigrants who committed legal offenses,” but these terms are so malleable that you will relatively soon end up at the kidnapping and profiling stage. And let’s not get into how so-called “unfettered immigration” (which is actually pretty fettered when you look at the process) harms exactly nobody if handled properly, as many examples (e.g. Germany) show.

but also much less regulation because most of it is actually designed to protect the incumbent corporations.

What kind of regulation do you want gone?

Justifying things as “scientific” when the science is social science and the results are not reproducible is intellectually dishonest, and is rampant in discourse about various topics nowadays.

Social science is science and underpins many aspects of modern society such as urban design. Do you have an example of this in action?

Proof: It’s literally what the Mexican government did in 2018-2024. Lifted millions of people out of poverty even as the economy mostly remained the same and/or shrunk. See: https://apnews.com/article/poverty-mexico-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-social-welfare-c7ec7f184ce8163e84fffa1b9f47aed8

Nitpick: They’re Marxist-Leninists, not Marxism-Leninists.

I mean, everything is politics whether anybody likes it or not, because politics is just what you get when you have a hierarchical power structure.

Uh… fucking cope hard. The Nazis won’t care about your enlightened centrism when they arrest you for being brown and/or the wrong kind of white.