ChristerMLB

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the British navy is in that bad a state?

The initial consequence was a drastic reduction in inequality, with decades of economic growth happening alongside inequality lowering even further. You can try to convince me otherwise, but I’m pretty sure that this, alongside the rest of the post-war consensus, saved the western world from fascism at the time. Anarchist praxis did not.

At the end of the day, you need a state to fight this, and where there’s a state there needs to be certain liberal institutions to limit the actors in it. Call it welfare liberalism or democratic socialism, but it worked.

It eventually failed as well, though, I agree with this

yeah, the US is burning so much good will, it’s insane

thank you, I am giving you a smiley face back: :)

So, I work with toddlers, and this sounds a lot like a tantrum

ah, duh, yeah - the share shrunk but the pie grew so it’s still a bit more cake

“No, it’s not”

yes it bloody well is, but you’re also right, voting is not enough

electoral politics are certainly not the whole solution, I’d say they’re probably part of the solution. I imagine we disagree on that, but either way, they can strangle the solution, so you can’t just ignore it.

it does look a little better, but I still think it’s messy

well, the first thing is that you might want to update the instructions for finding the themes folder. In Gimp I had to look under preferences-interface-theme to find the folder – and even then it was a bit of a journey, since I installed it with flatpak, so the folder ended up being in /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gimp.GIMP/x86_64/stable/5c600asdghjsd0cfe6e9e5bcf71a2e8a1a7e0ca018f43aabfa38dc12bd0954034f06/files/share/gimp/3.0/themes/

…while the Gimp settings just say app/share/gimp/3.0/themes/

abstaining from voting is the same as casting half a vote for Hitler

The US has a two-party system. The way I understand it, if you want that to make sense, you have to take into account the fact that the two parties have different wings. Among others, the Republican party has both an old neocon wing, and a newer MAGA one, the Democrats have a centrist neoliberal wing, and a more new-deal-style classical progressive one.

If you want to change which wing is dominant, you need to get into the party and start showing up at meetings, and/or work indirectly through your union.

“real GDP per capita more than doubled in this time period which means consumer spending also doubled”

GDP measures a lot of things that are not consumer spending.

Nice, I’ll check it out

dude, at least screenshot the same palette

no, I’d say Blender looks a lot better. I tried to find a roughly equivalent palette for comparison:

I wonder how effective it could be to infiltrate those organizations that scrutinized votes the last election - yeah, they were pro Trump, but I also think they had a lot of people who were genuinely worried about cheating

The sad thing is that they just might. The Brits (and the rest of Europe) need lower energy prices

Those three are all real factors, but I think you are exaggerating their size and importance.

The increase in oil price and softening of US sanctions will benefit the Russians, but it won’t make the war economy sustainable.

Western armories are running bare, but the same is true for the Russian ones. Both Ukraine and Russia are mostly using equipment as it’s being produced, and both Ukraine and the rest of Europe has been ramping up production capacity. I imagine you’re right that it’s worse for Ukraine to lose access to American air defense systems than it is for Russia to lose access to Iranian Shaheds.

The high energy prices are a problem in Europe, but compared to the situation in Russia (or Ukraine, for that matter) there’s nothing EXTREME about it.

The reason peace negotiations have been hopeless, is because the Ukrainians and the Russians can’t agree on where the war is headed. The Russians believe that if they just keep going, the Europeans will get bored and give up, while Ukrainians believe that they can keep going longer than the Russians because they are supported by a European economy that is not in an unsustainable “war mode”.

Who is right is up to us, and given that every single demand that the Russians have is against some pretty fundamental international law, it is in the interest of future European peace to ensure that the Ukrainians are right - and to make that as obvious as possible to the Russians so that peace negotiations become possible.