The author admits Platner is better than the republican. To defeat the republican in this current system, lots of people gotta vote for Platner. This potential victory is anything but assured. Mountains of money will be spent to get Collins across the line. What the author sees as “cult” could easily be also seen as simply agitating for people to come out and vote for the non-republican. Whatever anyone wants to call it, that’s the function - helping get Platner beat Collins. I don’t see the point to smear this agitation.

Besides, the fact that the Democratic establishment also spent a boat of money to try and defeat him, smear him, Platner has got to present some threat to them.

A head injury sustained from reading history. American presidency didn’i start with Reagan.

As opposed to - what about the protesters - in response to a statement about balamce of power against a regional aggressor?

More good news. This region won’t stabilize unless Iran is able to show that the US cannot significantly diminish Iranian capability to legitimately threaten the safety of Israel.

This is geat news. The last time Iran got economic reprieve their economy grew by 6-7% per year and purchasing power grew.

That said this won’t happen again if Israel has any say in the matter.

And ran out of the expensive munitions.

Well they fucked their arab allies in the region. They lost their bases hosted by those allies. This means the Americans can’t rely on the pre-existing material base or the goodwill of the arabs. What they got left in the region is Israel. Perhaps they think they no longer need the arabs to project power.

Why so little?

A country adopts free-market economics (privatization of SOEs and so on), gets K-shaped economy, shock ensues.

Never stop talking Mr. Katz!

Are you the one doing these edits or is this just quote from the vid desc?

A brown area.

That’s mostly a problem in capitalist economies. We already support some 3 times more elderly per person today than we did after WWII. How did that happen without the economy scuttling? Productivity growth. We pooduce way more products and services per head than we did back then. The problem is most of that is collected by the owner classes. If the owner class consuped less resources we’d be able to provide more to our elderly. A non-capitalist economy can allocate production and distribution more based on need and not on return on investment on private capital. Part of that would be using productivity gains from mass automation to fulfill these needs with fewer people. Under the capital system automation gains go into more hyperyachts and private space trips.

It’s like they’re hellbent on living out the antisemitic stereotypes. It’s getting difficult to fight antisemitism outside of Israel.

And I don’t think the war and $5 gas are fully reflected in these opinion surveys quite yet.

As an anti-theist I’m proud to be called islamo-leftist by the hasbara brain-rot. Solidarity alhamdulillah!

"This is a guy who was convicted of precisely the thing that we want him to be convicted of in this context, and yet the minute he’s released from house arrest, he’s off in China,” he said.

Perhaps imprison him for a few decades of slave labour at the Hyundai plant in Alabama. That ought to do it.

I got worried for a second.

I thought there was an effort to target a not-so-easy to change part of the virus. Maybe I’ve been dreaming. Either way the yearly shot, mRNA or otherwise is much more profitable so a one-and-done vaccine won’t appear out of Moderna of Pfizer, that’s for sure.

Anyone know much about the efficacy of the flu part of it? Says it’s more effective than existing ones but is this the revolutionary flu shot that takes us out of the yearly flu vaccine rat race or not that far yet?