I’ve also been wondering that. Seems like news about the incoming trump admin is 10:1 against the outgoing administration. I don’t think that happened in 2016?

Does that mean you never see the riots with burning cars that seem to happen there every few years?

Until some other fuckwit buys it out (my pessimism says they’ll never get around to making it truly federated).

Undo? No?

But it doesn’t take that much effort to do some minimal self-education about power structures and injustice and see the patterns. I’d say given how mainstream those discussions are on much of social media these days, it probably takes active work to avoid a basic understanding…

The realism is fine, but the pessimism just seems pointlessly demoralising for anyone who is capable of acting.

That’s a wild interview. Surprised the prison guards didn’t come out and tell them to leave.

Staying in that position of privilege you were born into is also a choice.

(I agree with you while people are young though)

It is what it is

And it’s gonna stay that way, with that attitude

You realise Gen Xers are all in the 40-65 age bracket now, right? Nearly all way beyond the deciding-on-children age. And heaps of them own property (at least where I live).

Your assertion has even less basis though… It’s been a day, if it weren’t true surely they would have issued a refutation…

If you’d put “probably” in your statement you’d be on more solid ground.

This is strongly supported by Wengrow and Graeber’s “The Dawn Of Everything”, though I think they would say that in the case of state communism, it’s bureaucratic power/control of information, rather than charismatic power. I think charisma is more relevant in fascist dictatorships (which I guess some communist systems evolve into).