It's most definitely a representative sample of the people that show up to vote in democratic primaries though. Which largely shapes politics
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I maybe misunderstood what you meant by "not thinking about them". But, yes, it sounds like you should take a dive into historical materialism.
I'm saying systems and institutions are part of human nature and we build them without thinking about them, and we likewise serve them without thought
This sentence tells me you need to read Marx or modern day Marxist literature for yourself. You likely have a major misconception of what Marx wrote or Marxist that expanded it. Dialectical and Historical materialist thought are the people "thinking about" the things you're saying people aren't talking about.
There is significantly more to Marxism than a criticism of capitalism. Marx and Engels develop Historical materialism to analyze and explain how and why systems develop. This includes feudal and prehistoric ways in which humans organize themselves into class structures and structures of government.
A lot of what you're saying people don't think has been described and thought about by Marxist for centuries.
Have you read any Marxist literature? Even if you don't follow the ideas beyond a criticism of capitalism I think you'd benefit from being able to see through a lense of historical and dialectical materialism.
You definitely have some unaddressed contradictions. An appeal to "Human nature" being the obvious one. An unsatisfactory answer, personally for me, that is about as helpful as "God did it".
Most of what you are talking about are structures of hierarchy within a patriarchal, white supremacist, class system. These are very much not "human nature" and have not existed for most of humans evolutionary history.
My company "Bomb the Baby" bath bombs always has problems at security.
The goal right now is to get Europe involved via Ukraine. They are testing the waters right now.
But, I think they miscalculate Europeans. They don't care about Ukraine. They care about NOT becoming Ukraine.
If Europe gets involved all of Europe gets stuck in the same meat grinder for America as Ukraine has been in.
The inevitable conclusion to this shit is "ok, guess I'm an antisemite then".
Do they think labels of bigotry will make people change their opinion? Do they know what fucking country they live in? That doesn't even work when the labeling of bigots is true. Hell, they end up in the white house.
If a president got elected that actually had the balls to give justice to the Epstein class thats when the Democrats would actually start doing something to stop that president.
Hell, they'd probably just kill that president.
That movement was largely a place for young liberals, interested in resistance to Vietnam, to go and be useless and not become socialist. It was a means of keeping them separated from a growing militant resistance to the apartheid in America (Malcom X, Black Pathers, etc).
If you're smoking weed and telling everyone "just give peace a chance" you can stand idle as the violent state attacks black neighborhoods for mass incarceration and condemn "violence on all sides". Which is just allowing the violence of the oppressive state to be justified.
Being against bad things while telling everyone else "not yet" when they try to fight to stop the bad things. That's American liberalism in a nutshell.
Hell, listen to Kings frustration.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
Or in song form by Phil Ochs: https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA
Pointing to historical examples that liberals of the past failed on is hard for modern day liberals though. They know the Jim Crow south was bad. They know the Vietnam war was bad. But they're unable to realize it until after the fact. Israel took them 2 years of genocide to start acknowledging.
Just one more injunction! Come on bro! One more injunction and we got him! Please! Just one more injunction!
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The cope is that the post are better. AI is rotting the brains of all the people that use it for writing. Writing is a fundamental exercise for our brains; that all of us should be using in at least a small part every day. Hell, even social media comments are working the muscles of your brain to an extend. When you stop using that muscle it's going to weaken. Remember that for everything you use AI for.
And no, writing prompts are not working that muscle. You're writing a prompt specifically because it's less cognitively straining to do so. You're using 2lb dumbbells when you were previously using 50lbs.