As a math enjoyer, I’m saddened by your reminder that basic numeracy is not a given in the us. I let myself forget that for a while.

I wonder if it would cause political apathy in the us at least. It is comforting to think, problem solved, and ignore wealth inequality until the tension again sufficiently increases so as to be unnoticeable.

Yup. This admin is just so blatant that it embarrasses the liberals. I finally figured that out. The concern with appearances combined with a lack of principles is my new razor for understanding liberalism. I’m embarrassed I didn’t realize this when I was younger.

Yes, and some use the terms pejoratively while knowing exactly what they mean. Tactical ignorance

That’s fucking pitiful

Woke just means being aware of white supremacy. The blues musician lead belly spoke the first recorded instance of the word in reference to the scottsboro boys.

The ignorant use of this term drives me up a wall.

Isn’t the BLS compromised and actively suppressing information (beyond the usual lies by omission and goalpost-shifting)? I would expect the truth to be much worse than the report indicates.

Nah. “What do you expect someone to do that changes anything” was the question. One must win the battle in one’s own mind. You’re the one using the word concrete now, for the first time.

Did you mean to reply to the comment under mine? They posted the electoral reform stuff.

As someone with some decent math education, I’d love to see you explain this. The word math is not a magic incantation you can invoke to automatically be right.

Then fuck off with the vote blue no matter who bullshit

Liberals stop trusting establishment politicians challenge: impossible.

What you gone do when the police state begin
Well it already began but I guess it depends
On what’s really going on what’s happening, huh
Military target practicing
They finna write another Patriot Act again
The days is short the nights is long the fight goes on
The pistol and the pipes are drawn

-Tariq Trotter aka Black Thought in Guns are Drawn by the Roots from the album The Tipping Point (emphasis mine)

Understand the difference between substantive and bourgeois democracy, read history and theory, join a communist party, engage in direct aid for their immediate community, start a bail fund for their community if they have money, maybe start a library of things if they have a bunch of old, usable stuff, etc… There’s tons of things to do, but they’re hard to do while throwing up your hands and quitting before you’ve started.

Not voting does not give your vote to anyone. It gives your vote to the “did not vote” column, the current undefeated champion of us elections. Do you libs even hear yourselves?

“We can do this nicely” reeks of the “negative peace which is the absence of tension” which MLK wrote about in the Birmingham jail letter. If by “doing this nicely” you mean unarmed, nonviolent protest, then the jury is still very much out on whether that can achieve meaningful change. Also, do you believe in civil disobedience? That is, does your version of “doing this nicely” preclude breaking unjust laws? If so, you will achieve nothing.

ARMED protest specifically in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers were strategically competent in taking advantage of open carry laws. Those laws still exist in certain areas of the country and absolutely should be taken advantage of if any protest movement is to be taken seriously. I mean, this is still baby talk. It does not even rise to civil disobedience since it is within the law.

Majority rule? What the hell is that? In the us? WHAT?! Most people are working class, so majority rule would be socialism by definition. Your comment is a very strange false dilemma. Reform or revolution is an interesting question, but you’ve basically dismissed it outright in your second bullet point by misrepresenting revolutionary theory.

Yeah protesting only how the rich and powerful will allow you to will get you nowhere.

Civil disobedience can work to an extent when the enemy has a conscience or is supported by subsections of the population with a conscience, but it requires breaking unjust laws. I am beginning to think liberals would rather die than do so. Further, the enemy has no conscience.