!agree

thats cuz u define lib as classical lib

when its used to mean the left in general

which can be authoritarian or libertarian

muricans use liberals to mean leftists tho

and left can be either

A or L

yes

but

liberal itself is increasingly used to mean leftists in general

colloqially

even tho its wrong

technically

nowadays, you can't just say you're liberal
you'll have to qualify that with classical liberal or centre-left

cuz liberal itself is kinda tarnished

and useless

I know

they belong to the progressive camp

which is also where stuff like intersectionalism belongs

I recently read an interesting piece about how many ppl support socialism, marxism etc just as a way of rebelling

in europe, you've got social democrats

who are capitalistic as fuck, but tax income to maintain welfare state

so is that socialist or capitalist

both

Yurp breaks the left-right dichotomy

nah

they have some of the best environments for businesses

but

they tax income to maintain welfare state

they don't have crony cap tho

they rank top of best places to do business every year

even above the US

whats your country, btw

ok

i heard spain has a socialist govt currently

damn

das lit

do you like it there

do you get benefits until you find work

nice

its sad how breakdown of the family in the west

only pushes it further towards a bigger welfare state

in asian countries, life's setbacks can be absorbed by the family

but will be interesting to see if that remains

in asia, family based savings is a huge market
served by multiple financial companies

to be used in times of emergencies including health

in the west, its a huge clusterfuck with the whole nationalized health insurance

and ppl are again and again coming up with the same solutions like - nationalized education, nationalized healthcare

basically renaming it to - free education and free healthcare

sad shit really

I'm kinda glad that we had to make do with market solutions because our governments couldn't come up with even bad solutions

nice

Swiss seems to have figured many things out

but their solutions might not necessarily scale

I still think that govt paid education is exactly the wrong way to deal with college debt

increase in administrators and other kind of fat is what is increasing tuition fees

if govt swoops in and pays for it

there's no incentive to curb that

inefficiency

similar case for healthcare

no incentive to cut down on waste and thereby cost by competing for customers directly

if govt pays for it all

fuck barkley

and fuck diversity

charles cuckley

nobody thought that tho

only when it comes to gettin puss

so wat

youtubers are entertainers too

but if they didn't exist, engineers at YT would be out of a job

its an interdependent ecosystem

think about movies

so much tech and engineering involved in that

and yet its just 'entertainment'

because guess what, even the most analytical mind has to make things for humans

or not make money at all

who are they serving, common people again
just like engineers and entertainers

Drumpity Blumpf has done a pretty decent job

delivered much more than I'd expected

y'all been noticing how the populist right and populist left align on many issues ?

like, how many times has Jimmy Dore praised Tucker Carlson

for being anti-war, for being anti-Amazon

anti fake russia scam

well, they do agree on the problems but not on the solutions

but in some cases, they do agree on the solutions too

like withdrawing from foreign wars

they do even now

i'm talking the populist left

not the mainstream neoliberal one

neocon and neoliberals were always very close to each other

you guys wanna know why most ppl are oblivious ?

no, its deeper than that

also, sadder

let me get it..

```
Girard’s studies in literature, history, and sociology led him to develop a pretty cynical theory for why we want things:

We don’t know what we want, so we imitate what other people want. He called this “mimetic desire.”

People are switching jobs, getting divorced, and feeling dissatisfied more than any time in history. It’s as if our values and desires are in a constant state of fluctuation, changing with the slightest off-hand comments or newest trends. Rene Girard saw it coming: we have no concept of what we truly want or value, so the next best thing is to mimic someone else’s desires.

The girl with the Louis Vuitton bag got 600 Instagram likes – drop two grand.

Being a [insert religion here] worked for the rest of my family – do the same.

He’s a lawyer that makes money and drives a cool car – go to law school.

Everyone’s having fun in L.A. and New York – pack up and move.

The compound effect of mimetic desire is that it creates a culture where we battle for products, ideologies, and lifestyles that likely won’t satisfy either person fighting for them. We unintentionally manufacture social, political, and cultural norms, then try to stand out by being really good at those norms. And if that doesn’t work, we look for something else to “want.”

Needless to say, social media turbocharges mimetic desire. Scrolling through Facebook and Instagram is like diving into a vortex of social proof. It’s where our personal tastes are formed. It’s where “likes” have more merit than authenticity or talent. It’s where we learn to want what everyone else wants.
```

mimetic existence

basically old-school NPC theory

sad, right ?

we keep acting like there was a time in human history where most ppl where original