I can't begin to think about effects because the data is all polluted. there's no meaningful control. Also we're, like, inside it.
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I mean I know you're an anti-marxist crusader, but seriously, the threat of marxism is not so huge now that you have to put lipstick on the happy pig of capitalism. I think fears of modern communism 2.0 are leading to some sort of dangerous idealization of capitalism.
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my sense is the hard left is gaining, mostly due to despair. I'm an anti-marxist I guess, also sort of a recovering Marxist
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Nah, it's just some superficial rhyming. There are no Stalins lurking behind the pronoun warriors, anymore than there are Hitlers lurking behind the proudboys. It's all idiots larping behind scary historical masks.
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I'm more concerned with the Jacobinkin. they're smart, and sorta world beating so far imo. have a great market of resentment to tap into... people failing out of woke neoliberalism
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There's going to be a certain minimum level of damage involved in the level of inequality correcting itself. This is a blindspot of woke neoliberalism. They refuse to admit that inequality is in any sense a problem at all. They're still thinking it's some sort of mass confusion.
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Trumpism distracted us from thinking through inequality. We kinda hit pause on that debate in 2014 and need to pick it up again. To pretend it's a non-problem is to hand reins over to hard left, just as pretending white-left-behindness was a non-problem handed reins to Trumpism.
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I just can't imagine a fundament, a base layer, upon which the population of this country can reach some kind of compromise solution.
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I can. All countries of this size are going to fragment, either de facto (more regional political autonomy) or de jure (countries splitting off).
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