I get what you're saying, but...
For example, they'll do some random black character in a fantasy setting that's clearly based off Scotland in the 1200s.
While I don't know about 1200s Scotland specifically, the notion that black people didn't exist in old Europe is a false narrative by racists who seem to believe immigration was invented around the 1700s (like, I've seen them claim black people don't fit into Ancient Greece, which is definitely wrong.)
In the context of Lemmy, my best explanation is that tankies hate Orwell.
Note the fact that despite our late stage capitalist society and rampant neoliberalism, children still live under communism. They get free food, free housing, and free education. Either from the state, or from their parents.
You basically just said "socialism is when the government does stuff"
I'm young enough to tell you that it's not just nostalgia. Most new tech now is like "cool but impractical" at best and "I'm worrying about how this will be used to make the world worse" at worst. Nothing to make me think it's the future.
Every other time I've encountered this argument, it's been an argument in favor of racism and xenophobia, often a Nazbol argument like "socialism only works if no diversity." It's my instinct to refuse it.
But I couldn't deny that, American conservatives and liberals + leftists, on the mental level, live in different realities, with not only different core values and worries, but different ideas of what is actually happening (and no, I actively believe American leftists do not live in a fundamentally different reality from American liberals the way conservatives do from liberals + leftists.)
Some of these are valid to ban (the sex and manosphere ones) but others just seem like they're trying to ban slang.
Does it work if the authoritarian provably CAUSES the economic turmoil?
So many of the people who are most invested in federation are a contradiction in terms; centralized social media is evil and it's fucked up that it's the norm, but also anyone who isn't a cynical, crotchety Gen Xer with a tech degree doesn't belong on federated social media.
Yes, but that's keeping in mind that, contrary to popular belief among the types that go on Lemmy, most people aren't ideological. They don't care that Democrat A is this and Democrat B is that, they care about who they think will help their lives, ideology be damned. So, a lot of the people that socialists would call "libs" would vote for Bernie, BUT, most of those people think of Sanders primarily as "more liberal."
People who are actively aware of the difference between neoliberalism and social democracy, I'm not sure. But I honestly think they're a rounding error in US politics.
I swear that the DNC convinced her to use DNC-as-usual tactics somehow. As a campaigner I swear I saw the things that gave her the initial burst of confidence in her erode away.
More likely, daisugi/copsing just doesn't yield enough to meet demand.
And before anyone says "America joined WWII late," I want to say that's a lie by omission most of the time. It's true that America put troops on the ground only after Pearl Harbor...but the US government was already sending supplies to the allies before that; for the entire duration of the war, the US had an anti-Nazi government. Hypocritically so due to the US policies against black people, but some people phrase it in a way that makes it sound like they want us to believe the US was close to joining the Axis before Pearl Harbor (also bringing up the MSG rally, which...you could find a comparable amount of Nazis in any Western country at the time.) Anti-interventionism was the absolute norm in the US at the time.
Now, it is incorrect that US History class casts Americans as the primary heroes of WWII.
Bernie is right. There are a lot of doctrines that liberals/leftists have accumulated since GamerGate that are stupid. One of them is this whole "don't talk to the right" thing. Hell, the fact that Harris was able to "win" an interview on Fox is proof of that. If she went on Rogan and did well, it would've been that but bigger.
Honestly just about every idea millennial progressives had in terms of messaging sucked. Congratulations, you created some safe spaces for yourself. Now people like you but younger have no fucking idea what's going to happen to them. Sincerely, one of the only zoomers on Lemmy.
US power comes from alliances with a bunch of other pretty damn powerful countries. If it does too much to strain Canadian, EU, UK, Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese relationships, US power goes away.
Failure to continue to aid Ukraine weakens the value of US allyship to UK, EU, and Taiwan.
The problem is that the way we talk about dating has been dominated by people with a political agenda.
Because 10 year olds have been talking about dating longer than red pill has been around. Not dead seriously, but they're not unaware.
Interesting that they see swing voters as "libs" by default.
Japan just had an election where they went liberal after many years of conservative majority.