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Not by informed people. There are always flukes and voter revolts occurring, and they have long had mechanisms in place to deal with them, up to and including assassination, though they tend only to use that as a last resort

It's neither, it's just realistic character writing

That's actually really cool, I hope someone picks that thing up for restoration

They are able to promote and veto every politician seeking candidacy, and therefore they can secure the support of all the voter options in every election without needing to interfere (beyond a certain point*) with the election process.

*Gerrymandering and voter suppression take care of the rest

Nonsense, they don't need voting rights because they already control the most important part of the election process, which is candidate selection

I have no problem with non-Americans having and voicing opinions, I just want them to be informed ones, and I promise you a liberal cannot possibly have those

This is exactly how liberalism weaponizes "diversity" against the oppressed, through token inclusion combined with class collaboration

that can earn their support in keeping the rest of the group oppressed.

And the voices of the former drown out the voices of the latter because they have more resources and access to media platforms, as well as more support among other members of the ruling class. The bourgeoisie are often happy to grant social legitimacy to a small portion of an oppressed group if

What the former want are things like broad social acceptance, representation in leadership and media, and so on. What the latter want is mainly food, housing, secure employment, and not to be subject to death by bigoted violence

A big part of it is the lack of class analysis. Queer and LGBT members of the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeoisie share subjectivity with similar members of the proletariat, but they do NOT share interests, and their presence in the coalition is therefore disruptive and harmful.

It was inevitable, since the single biggest threat to liberal democracy is an informed populace

Clearly my decision to follow you was correct

Excellent, fantastic, brilliant analysis, and extremely important. The first step to real coalition building is recognizing that we are in fact, a coalition. The basis of all political identity is not shared subjectivity but shared *interest*.

Depending on your level of interest and your time, there's an enormous world of appreciation in front of you. I'm honestly kind of jealous; I wish I still had that much new and exciting stuff in front of me

There's a surprisingly large genre of action-puzzle retro games serving as the history behind Catherine that you can explore, from Q-Bert to Tetris to Bust-A-Move to Intelligent Qube, and more; and Starcraft opens you to both turn based and RT strategy games

Just Hollow Knight alone being on there, for example, means there are basically no 2D retro games that will be "too hard" for you, so the entire history of platformers and other action arcade games is open to you. Stardew Valley means you can appreciate at least some of the entire retro JRPG genre

Actually the more I look at the list the better it gets and not just because your chest is behind it. These are very good bones for a broad and rich appreciation of games. You've got the makings of a connoisseur

I'll strongly second that recommendation

offer not only to the workers who are plunged into misery by the crash, but even most of the *capitalists*, who may hate socialism but could very reasonably still prefer it to immediate and permanent ruin.

growth in imaginary financial capital just to keep itself running in the present, and every year the hope of ever paying that deficit down gets more and more distant. This process cannot continue, and as soon as a true collapse comes China will be there with a better, more stable alternative to

The past five decades have all brought with them new and increasingly desperate existential crises of capital, and every solution to them has further and further mortgaged possible future capital growth in some way. At this point capital has leveraged 40-50 years' worth of its own potential

That's the absolute worst case, but tbh at this point I consider it vanishingly improbable given that it is riding on a razor edge over a bottomless abyss at all times right now

hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm a Marxist-Leninist, this is every other day for me lol

I mean, there's also no real evidence that the drive stops with the "offshore accounts" and the ultimate source of the movement isn't just the same right-wing American billionaires who are also leading and benefitting from it. It's not like outsourcing and offshoring labor is new.

....yeah, actually, that's basically it

"So why aren't there any black people in this show anyway?"

"Oh they were all quietly killed offscreen before the show in the fascist uprising."

"....."

This isn't actually useless lol this rules

AssCreed maybe