President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions.
“There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA movement,” Biden says in excerpts of the speech Thursday in Arizona, released in advance by the White House, referring Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.
Although voting in the 2024 Republican primary doesn’t begin for months, Biden’s focus reflects Trump’s status as the undisputed frontrunner for his party’s nomination despite facing four indictments, two of them related to his attempts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
lol what the fuck
Okay, so like, I was trying to point out the fact that famine being widespread means that the underlying cause is bigger than politics and ideology. No one knew what the fuck they were doing. There isn’t some fatal flaw of Leninism that causes famine and is somehow unique to Leninism, that’s just how agriculture was before scientific understanding advanced to the point that we could truly industrialize the agricultural industry.
I literally said I also think anarchists have good ideas, I wouldn’t consider myself pure M-L or anything. Back off lol
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And what is to be done when there aren’t any experts? When all the instructions you have to follow are folk wisdom and superstition? That’s what the USSR was dealing with back then. Again, no one knew what the fuck they were doing. They weren’t special. That’s just how the world was.
And as we speak and without any centralized ideology the agricultural industry is destroying our world; emitting carbon and methane, polluting our drinking water, incubating new diseases, causing oceanic dead zones, inducing metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity, deforesting and destroying habitat, on and on it goes.
How do you solve that without authority to crack down and force people to stop chopping down the Amazon and stop keeping pigs in tiny cages filled with shit?
Lysenko had less idea than anyone else about what they were doing. However he was promoted to the Soviet head of agriculture science. And his batshit crazy ideas were pushed by the party. Simply out of a feel-good desire because it aligned with their political beliefs. Literally forcing Farmers to plant the wrong things against their will. And even plow glass and other trash into the fields in China to increase soil volume. Those policies demonstrably made the famine worse. It happened everywhere else in the globe for the most part too but those places did not have tens of millions combined to compare with either Russia or China. And lessenko and the party is to thank for that.
Anarchists, libertarians, and even leninists have a lot of ideological overlap. We’re socialists after all. Even if leninists are only nomally so. That doesn’t mean you’re a centrist. Because I’ll tell you one area where we anarchist / Libertarians disagree with you wildly. The authoritarian Mono Party bullshit. That you as a solid ml are always around hypocritically pushing. Or that bullshit about Al Franken recently. Perhaps you should take your own advice.
Seriously. Research Lysenko. It was literally the parties’s rejection of those exact things along with scientific method facts and reality. That compounded the famine and made them rack up the high score. Seriously stop ignoring what’s being said or hand waving it away. I’m not repeating his name for my own health or sanity. It is a prime example of the failures of authoritarianism leninism included.
Did you fail to notice modern farming today is largely centrally owned and controlled? It’s not a bunch of little disparate mom and pop shops. There is absolutely a central ideology behind it. Perpetual and impossible growth at all costs. With no focus on sustainability.
There is Authority Beyond threats of imprisonment or murder. This is the reason no one likes leninists. To a leninist winning a debate is my gun to your head or my tank in your face. It isn’t about the strength, authority, or inherent value of your ideas. Often quite the opposite. It’s how you end up with thin-skinned strong men like ole poppy Pooh Bear. Speaking of Xi what are your thoughts on the recent Naomi Wu situation? She had been one of the biggest ambassadors for technology and makers for China and Chinese companies. And giving a face to many of the often too faceless Chinese people. It sure was humanitarian of ole Xi’s thugs to come threaten her and her partner for the mild criticisms she made. And I do mean mild. Seeing as how Wu had previously spent most of her life hiding from the party. Yet still generally supportive and apologetic of how China has been. It’s a good thing China isn’t bigoted/racist. With an axe to grind against lesbians like Wu or uighers like her partner.
I’m familiar with him (we learned about his failures in my highschool actually), but his ideas (while wrong) weren’t all that much worse than the other dumb shit people believed.
I’ll give you one thing, decentralized agriculture at least means every individual farmer is trying their own whacky shit and occasionally they get lucky. Central control destroys that. If the central ideas are bad, like the modern model of infinite growth at any cost, then the results are bad.
Fair - but that is liberalism. The ones you think you can work with. What’s up with that?
They want centralized control over their image in the West (she had an English speaking audience after all), and she wasn’t the image they wanted. Tragic collateral damage in a propaganda war.
They also have a backwards notion that queer people must be silenced to promote population growth - as if we aren’t, ourselves, important family members that can help our straight brothers and sisters watch their kids.
Central control is good when the central ideas are good, it’s bad when the central ideas are bad. I think that’s pretty obvious. What’s so hard to understand about that?
While we’re on China, what are your thoughts on the fact that Chinese life expectancies have surpassed Americans?