I think this moment is typified specifically by societies collapsing from their political centers becoming too divorced from reality, policy and rationality to identify the difference between a peaceful leftwing movement on one hand desperately ringing the alarm bells and on the other hand open calls for political violence and terrorism by the rightwing.

If the center continues to blindly follow fascism because it is more palpable to them than actually taking care of people there isn’t really anything leftists can do but hope there is a limit that exists to all of this.

The crux of the problem is centrists lazily allowing rightwing movements to be openly violent because it is easier than addressing how existential of a problem this is for a peaceful society. Centrists consider it divisive to address the violence of the rightwing, and this cowardice will undoubtedly destroy us.

Another way of stating this is that the center of societies have allowed the social contract to be shattered by the rightwing while instead focusing on tone-policing the left in its rhetoric trying to warn about it.

Centrists would rather keep normalizing catastrophe as part of life than try to avoid it or mitigate it with bold, visionary moves. Most centrists I have met seem disgusted in some subconscious way by leftwing ideas at a superficial level, even if you can get them to admit a leftwing idea is valid or promising they will fundamentally always recoil from the concept of actually implementing leftwing ideas, at a basic level this is just not something many centrists can stomach it seems.

The reason? The realm of political possibility has been defined by the rich to fundamentally exclude leftism, thus there is a necessary imaginative resistance to applying our vision to denied horizons that is utterly invisible to the centers of most societies I am speaking about here. Centrists don’t seem to question the fact that they themselves have acquiesced to a full 360 degree horizon of only rightwing futures no matter what direction we head.

As a rule it feels like centrists see practical policy that has been thoroughly combed over by experts as naive, wishwashy and handwaving when leftists do it. However when rightwing fascists spout violent nonsense they literally just came up with that second, well we outa here em out right? We should at least try it to be fair right?

Why is it ok for rightwing figures to openly call for violence?.

Until the rest of society stops making an exception for rightwing people we are fucked.

For one, adults act like kids are too stupid to experience nihilism about the permission we give ONLY to certain people to openly call for violence at the highest level and then panic when said kids turn “mysteriously” to simplistic hateful ideologies that are less dishonest about the reality of societal collapse happening around them.

Once she had won the election, there really isn’t any reason for her to change her stance

It would have been used itself as the reason not to listen to leftism since the headline (written by Ezra Klein) would have been “Neoliberalism Shows It Is The Only Winning Strategy For Democrats Again”.

Yep, I could not agree more. Seeing the smug and the self-righteous still proudly argle-bargling about Gaza is infuriating

This is a two way street, your lack of perspective makes your self-righteousness just as insufferable.

The newly opened solar plant in Karbala will eventually be able to produce up to 300 megawatts of electricity at its peak, said Nasser Karim al-Sudani, head of the national team for solar energy projects in the Prime Minister’s Office. Another project under construction in Babil province will have a capacity of 225 megawatts, and work will also begin soon on a 1,000 megawatt project in the southern province of Basra, he said.

The projects are part of an ambitious plan to implement large-scale solar power projects in an effort to ease the country’s chronic electricity shortages.

This is cool as heck, for someone who has always lived in very temperate, rainy, cloudy places with long bouts of darkness Solar power generating technology has always been inspiring and exciting… but when I imagine growing up somewhere arid with brutally intense sun being the norm… solar technology must look like alchemy in being able to transform an ever present aspect of your existence into buckets and buckets of electrical power.

I hope that a future for arid places like the Middle East is not far away where there are solar panels everywhere and living in arid places becomes known for living among solar power instead of fossil fuel power.

There is also a direct benefit for Iraq here in that Iraq has historically been a battlefield for empires because of its geography and the behavior of other nations, living as a citizen in a place like this must be exhaustingly difficult from having to grapple with the regional power dynamics always collapsing and being replaced while locals try to just live their lives. The presence of distributed solar generation I think reduces some potential leverage of oppression, it makes it easier for more localized groups to take getting access to electricity into their own hands at whatever scale of governance is most actionable.

The international geopolitics of fossil fuels have dominated countries like Iraq for the past 100 years, but this is something different, this represents a material possibility to construct things more resiliently so they can’t be as easily destroyed for no good reason by countries like mine.

What leftwing groups or even prominent individuals in the US with any actual following advocate for political assassinations and direct violence against rightwing people they don’t like? Where are all the lefties supposedly making calls to violence and terrorism?

The media and even a lot of people here will flip a shit about someone like Hasan Piker being so radical and yet if he even remotely said something like “maybe we should just start shooting rightwing media figures” an overwhelmingly massive chunk of Hasan’s audience would tell him to fuck off and cause an uproar because that clashes with the basic foundational ideologies of leftwing movements in the US, they are about obtaining a state of freedom for all, the idea of targeted violence has little salience to a US leftist as we are well aware that 1. senseless violence doesn’t change anything, it will not lead to freedom for all, it just accelerates the bad things. 2. the ruling class in the US will jump at any chance to radically villainize the left, the bulk of the country will blindly follow along in this, thus random senseless acts of violence aren’t just bad because they are evil they actually existentially threaten leftwing movements in the US as a whole, leftists in the US are WELL aware of this…

The difference between the left vs the center and rightwing of the US is that the left actually builds coalitions on shared values, most leftists in the US these days are strongly influenced by figures like Bernie Sanders who has been mainly focused on broad social programs to improve people’s quality of life like healthcare and for fighting wealth inequality. How the hell would advocating for shooting someone like Charlie Kirk make affordable healthcare more likely in the US? How would it help get the public focused on Citizen’s United and getting money out of politics? Leftists in the US are about ideas and policies, this isn’t just an aesthetic, if you enter US leftist circles and start advocating for targeted violence as retribution, preemptive violence or really for anything for any reason at all the leftists around you are going to turn on you for being a hateful bastard trying to distract from the actual issues at hand.

If there is one thing that ties virtually all leftists in the US together it is that we fucking LOVE to argue about things… so much so that sometimes we can never agree on stuff because we want to argue the little details on and on forever. It is not lost on us that the very first thing that happens when you commit violence against others is that they stop listening to the wisdom of your arguments and ideas.

Honestly, the FBI has been doing brainworms shit for decades. This is way worse now obviously but lets not retcon the former legitimacy of the FBI. It is NOT there to keep us safe and it never has been. The FBI always has been a tool of oppression for the rightwing.

Ultimately the US was… by its own cancerous military industrial complex.

It is time for us all to step the fuck up and protect trans people, ESPECIALLY if you yourself aren’t trans.

If AI worked the way techbros think it does it would be an affront to god that intelligence was so easy to artificially make. If you believe in god you likely believe humans are special creations of god but then why would god build our brains in such an inefficient, wildly overcomplicated manner if sentience and intelligence were so trivially easy to do it would only take a bunch of computer bros less than 100 years to build a far simpler machine that can achieve a similar and surpassing intelligence?

If you do not believe in god you are an idiot if you think techbros can outsmart hundreds and hundreds of millions and millions of years of evolution in a couple of decades of hamfistedly hacking away at concepts while ignoring the necessary integrative knowledge from other fields like the humanities that is a prerequisite to even setting the proper goals in the first place in the process of creating artificial intelligence.

These are simply pattern matching tools with a limited degree of context memory that you can interact with in plain english language. Further, these machines are even worse logic machines than humans are and as much as logic isn’t popular these days, it is a VERY necessary underpinning element to functional intelligence in any real context.

Yeah and that is possibly the least heterosexual, “manly” trait I can possibly imagine.

These people define themselves around being one of only two genders and thus the attractiveness of a person is most reasonably defined by the opposite gender “that is supposed to be attracted to them” and yet none of these men could have ever possibly made a woman orgasm on purpose in their entire life, you just have to listen to them for 10 seconds to realize that…

…so according to their own definitions they are incredibly unmanly men if they can’t bring a woman to a place of utmost pleasure even as she does so for them, they are inadequately manly, they are basically boys who haven’t learned what it means to be a man yet right? How could it be otherwise if they so catastrophically fail to fulfill the desires of the very gender they are supposed to be entirely obessed with pursuing at a definitional level?

Even if you take the toxic framing of masculinity that women are objects to pursue, I would still bother to learn more about objects I spent my entire life pursuing and coveting than these men do about their wives. Ughh spits on ground these people are lazy and disgusting even according to their own trash standards.

Do you think these men have ever actually made a woman orgasm? Like… in their entire life?

They wouldnt know how even if they wanted to.

You remind me of myself

Hmm but it doesn’t force ads down your throat so can you really say it is part of Windows?

Double post!

Can’t kill a reanimated corpse, reddit is already dead.

I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.

Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle. 1 AntArcSpan is thus the rational radius of Antartica.

Multiply Antartica North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. the number i.

I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.

It would also hopefully draw irrationality from other continents, maybe acting as an irrationality sink.

Why did such an internationally respected english news source go with such flimsy evidence on a topic where the consequences of leaning into rightwing narratives are so high?

Pathetic and disgraceful for the guardian.