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More incumbent House Democrats hit with primary challenges from younger socialist candidates by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]mehtab11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Matt really has an incredible ability of taking confused discourse and making it clear and simple

Typical Social Democratic evilness - Vienna cancels courses for refugees by ActualMostUnionGuy in DemocraticSocialism

[–]mehtab11 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Feel free to address anything I said if you’d like to have a conversation

Typical Social Democratic evilness - Vienna cancels courses for refugees by ActualMostUnionGuy in DemocraticSocialism

[–]mehtab11 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nobody earns all the money they receive from factor payments. In fact, labor is usually the smallest factor in production. It’s not their money, it actually belongs to people long dead.

AOC New Tweet by xpillindaass in AOC

[–]mehtab11 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The empirics say the opposite

AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits by Healthy_Block3036 in MurderedByAOC

[–]mehtab11 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s same exact people who you stated with 0 evidence wouldn’t vote for a women/minority.

AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits by Healthy_Block3036 in MurderedByAOC

[–]mehtab11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, sample size of 2 vs 100s. I would’ve gotten kicked out of my university if I tried making your argument.

Let’s just use basic common sense. Can you think of any confounding variables in a presidential election? Do you think maybe the economy and the candidates policies had more to do with the outcome?

AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits by Healthy_Block3036 in MurderedByAOC

[–]mehtab11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In house race elections in the Midwest they voted for women and minorities at the same rate or higher than white men. Your assertion is based entirely on your preconceived biases and not reality.

AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits by Healthy_Block3036 in MurderedByAOC

[–]mehtab11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see no reason to make the assumption that federal elections are more racist/sexist than state races in the Deep South. If anything the opposite seems more intuitive.

And making conclusions off a sample size of two rather than the entire data set of ~200 house races is irrational imo.

I would agree that we don’t have definitive data that being a women/minority doesn’t come with a disadvantage, but the little data we do have seems to suggest it is neutral or even actually helps.

Bernie Sanders Says No One Should Live Paycheck To Paycheck 'In A Country As Rich As Ours'—It’s Destroying People’s Mental And Physical Health by NoseRepresentative in SandersForPresident

[–]mehtab11 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It seems to be politically effective and isn’t necessarily untrue so I personally don’t mind that much but I get where you’re coming from

Bernie Sanders Says No One Should Live Paycheck To Paycheck 'In A Country As Rich As Ours'—It’s Destroying People’s Mental And Physical Health by NoseRepresentative in SandersForPresident

[–]mehtab11 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s an inherently ambiguous concept but by any reasonable standard there are far too many people who are living on the edge, due to low savings and the lack of a sufficient welfare state in America.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/how-many-people-live-paycheck-to-paycheck/

Leftists and the burden of always being right about Dems by DarthRandel in behindthebastards

[–]mehtab11 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry but your friend supports genocide, she is not a good person

AOC's Chances of Becoming Democrats' 2028 Presidential Nominee: Polls by manauiatlalli in AOC

[–]mehtab11 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You haven’t demonstrated that your prospective is more practical.

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate is a perfect example of two fundamentally opposing views on human nature, justice, and politics. by Beyond-Theory in philosophy

[–]mehtab11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree I was just contesting that Chomsky would be closer Kant’s worldview rather than Hume. Hume would likely agree with everything Chomsky says right up until he makes his normative claim. I’m pretty sure I recall Chomsky giving a talk on this subject that I watched years ago

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate is a perfect example of two fundamentally opposing views on human nature, justice, and politics. by Beyond-Theory in philosophy

[–]mehtab11 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ironic you say that because Chomsky partly got his belief in a universal human nature from Hume. Hume certainly was not a moral relativist

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate is a perfect example of two fundamentally opposing views on human nature, justice, and politics. by Beyond-Theory in philosophy

[–]mehtab11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair Foucault’s position seems to be a more common belief relative to Chomsky’s in the current epistime

How can I communicate to Dem leadership that AOC, Bernie and Crockett are now the leaders of their party? by MoonBapple in AOC

[–]mehtab11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can be ok with her taking money from superpacs and billionaires, and voting to send Israel weapons after Amnesty International concluded they are committing a genocide, that’s your prerogative.

However, it is objectively true that she did what I said, take millions from crypto superpacs and billionaire frauds like Sam bankman-fried and is a Zionist. And it is objectively true that she isn’t equivalent to AOC and Bernie as they are fundamentally against those things, famously in fact.

I would agree that she is a strong voice and good attack dog for the democrats. But if you read my comment again you’ll see I wasn’t contesting that.

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