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That’s the biggest sticking point for me, and it’s so big I’m not sure how liberals are ignoring it: we’re seeing what happens right now when you’re a friend to the US empire. How anyone can still advocate for being a friend to the US empire - outside of a desire to benefit from imperialism - astounds me.

I don’t think you can. All the effort and energy you poured into educating yourself is nearly impossibly to extend to someone else. They have to want to learn, and most people don’t. People aren’t stupid or ignorant, they are overwhelmingly incurious, and incuriosity is much more devastating to the mind than simply being ignorant.

If you could tell people where they went wrong, and have them accept it, the world would be a smoother place.

You pick your battles, convince the people you know you can convince, and further down the road we look to systemic solutions for undoing imperial programming.

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented

Sounds like a replacement for the cheap agricultural labour immigrants presented.

Insightful and informative post comrade. Thanks

Space race number two but the US isn’t even going to participate this time.

Australia, already infamous for detoothed unions, just signed the death knell for any serious collective action in a legal sense with this one. Unions already cannot strike without express permission and a promise they won’t impact economic livelihood, now they can’t even grow to a certain size and power without the threat of being placed under administration.

Oh, and it was the government party supposedly made of labor unions that did this. Still waking up every day pissed off about this.