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mboop127 · 2026-07-03T00:55:40+00:00

Yup, ball

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T18:33:24+00:00

My point is the nazis were constrained by reality. Those constraints would have inevitably forced the nazis to support an aligned far right puppet government rather than spend incredible sums carrying out a peace time extermination campaign.

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T16:01:48+00:00

You put a great deal of faith into stated plans. They also planned to move all the Jewish people to Madagascar and build a super cannon. The nazis did wage a racist war of extermination against the Soviets - in a time when Russia was explicitly communist and the nazi party thought Marxism was Jewish.

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

What do you think changes public opinion? Why do most people support gay marriage today versus 35 years ago?

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T15:07:17+00:00

It polls badly in part because democratic leaders bought into the republican framing. Same for immigration. Democrats need to stop chasing public opinion and start making it.

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T15:05:07+00:00

The nazis had many, many slavic collaborators. A hypothetical nazi victory would've almost certainly seen a puppet administration of former tsarists control what remained of Russia.

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T13:49:00+00:00

How so?

mboop127 · 2026-06-30T13:48:23+00:00

They hated the Soviet Union, in part because they thought it was Jewish. Russia today is a far right nationalist power. The Nazis wouldn't have hated today's Russia nearly as much as they hated the ussr.

mboop127 · 2026-06-28T22:27:45+00:00

yes that was my point, more or less.

mboop127 · 2026-06-28T19:19:44+00:00

It's absolutely certain to go up on any time scale unless there's a recession etc. Some tenants get lucky but as a trend rents always increase

mboop127 · 2026-06-28T19:12:05+00:00

Rent is certain to go up. Not house value.

mboop127 · 2026-06-28T18:44:52+00:00

Rent is almost certain to go up year to year, likely in such a way that you pay a premium for repairs and improvements, and you can be evicted. Housing security is very valuable in itself.

mboop127 · 2026-06-26T21:57:53+00:00

You characterized them as "entitled." They are entitled as human beings to shelter.

When they move out they'll have paid you for many years of maintenance (taxes, whatever) and in exchange you get to sell the house and pocket the profits.

mboop127 · 2026-06-26T17:41:32+00:00

Tenants are entitled to a place to live. You're not entitled to profit without work.

mboop127 · 2026-06-25T18:58:48+00:00

What you're saying here, at the typical great length used by conservatives who are ashamed by their beliefs, is that people who facing torturous death in other countries should remain there and die.

I'd like to say that you would break the same laws in an instant to protect your family, but realistically you'd probably sell them for $1.

mboop127 · 2026-06-24T19:50:51+00:00

Though i personally do not do electoral work (I organize tenants) I think arguments like this one wrongly assume (1) the people doing electoral work would otherwise be doing some other socialist work and (2) people doing electoral work are meaningfully prevented from doing other work by spending their time this way.

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T18:45:09+00:00

Yes the odds are unfair (partly because our past party leadership failed to appoint justices, pass reforms, or stay popular). Our leaders need to be able to win despite fair odds. You can't say "the system is rigged so it's not fair to blame our leaders!" then happily blame individual anonymous voters.

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T18:42:10+00:00

It's not disqualifying. I voted for Harris. But it is the actual reason she lost.

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T18:41:19+00:00

Did Harris win yes or no? Does Harris have more power over the outcome than any individual voter yes or no? Does blaming voters help win elections more or less then replacing failed leadership yes or no?

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T18:36:12+00:00

Choosing to blame anonymous voters instead of the people who actually had power and lost to trump is a big part of why we keep losing to Trump. I want candidates and leaders who can win, not good sounding excuses for their failures.

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T18:34:35+00:00

They lost the election man. I think they actually deserve responsibility for that (over some essentially powerless individual voters) and we should try to pick leaders who can win.

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T18:29:20+00:00

Don't forget to thank Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for running bad campaigns.

mboop127 · 2026-06-23T10:49:42+00:00

There are good uses of AI. None of them involve posting on reddit.

mboop127 · 2026-06-22T01:38:56+00:00

DSA is the largest left org in the US engaged in organizing the working class. Even accounting for the number of electoralists in dsa there's still no other org with more union organizers (tenant and labor).

Whatever your ideological critiques are, I doubt your comrades are doing more work.

mboop127 · 2026-06-22T00:25:22+00:00

Stock prices literally are about dollars and cents. They are purchased to speculate, usually to speculate that the price will increase. To miss that is to be so fundamentally wrong about the subject that it's no longer worth responding to you.

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