No, that’s fair. I was hoping you could see how that study relates to what we’re discussing, but if you can’t, I’ll spell it out for you. The findings in that study are illustrative of the union between the public and private sectors in the U.S., or the blur between them. In the U.S. and Russia, oligarchic capitalism…

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lol what? what does having rampant corruption have to do with being non-capitalist? Again, by these standards, the U.S. would comfortably qualify as non-capitalist. The Republican party (half of our government) and a disgustingly large portion of Democrats (the other half of our government) are beholden to corporate…

Ok, non-capitalist. If those countries don’t qualify as capitalist, then the U.S. doesn’t either.

Fair enough 

Russia and India are most definitely not socialist. I think you make the common mistake of thinking that a few social welfare programs = socialism. And China’s per capita emissions are well below the United States’, and they’ve already met their 2020 targets per that Reuters article. The U.S., uh, hasn’t. Also, those…

Ok, so rework the phrasing. Don’t scrap the policy 

The phrasing could use some work, sure. But do you honestly think the right is going to be any less relentless in their attacks if we go with a less progressive approach? When Obama lowered his healthcare target from universal healthcare to the ACA (a product of a right-wing think tank), did the right mellow their…

I think it’s deeply naive to call India and Russia non-capitalist. What sort of economics do you think oligarchs practice? And are you sure you want to bring China into this?

Wouldn’t the other side of that coin be that the attention and energy of the attackers is also divided?

Climate change is caused by carbon emissions. Income inequality is not. They do not share a root cause.

Should’ve gone whole hog on the environmental angle, IMO.

Pelosi: [does performative, meaningless stunt]

Did Splinter post anything at any point praising Pelosi’s Totally Epic Clapback? Because all I’ve seen is this, an article about her affinity for health insurance companies, and an article about her affinity for unpaid labor

I mean, the shit he’s railing against hasn’t changed. Why should his message?

“We’ll send you Kryglfiv Slbndrytz, Borf Beanes, and the second-round pick only we could possibly use to find an effective professional player.”

Um, ok. If I were to give you an article from the New York Times linking to the exact same study, would you take that criticism? 

Then again I work in the pharmaceutical sector so we’re more confused when people aren’t raging against us, than rather. We’re apparently the devil, you see, and we should give our products away for free regardless of the $200-350 million we just spent on testing and trials.

Seems like AOC lives in your head, given that you live in the comment section of every AOC-related post. Also, your constant use of caps is a lovely touch

I know these folks are college kids who have never voted in an election before and so it’s a youthful impetuousness thing and the power of being part of a MOVEMENT (like the kids who shit in the park in NYC to send Wall Street a MESSAGE a few years ago), but man, DIGEST SOME HISTORY.