Americans also have socialist judges demanding that Trump, a president, overturn Congress, but not a word on ordering Congress to reopen their government. Why do socialist judges want to destroy the way the American government is supposed to work?
Americans also have socialist judges demanding that Trump, a president, overturn Congress, but not a word on ordering Congress to reopen their government. Why do socialist judges want to destroy the way the American government is supposed to work?
Maybe a gofundme for the entire city...
Some parts of New York are already communist. The city owns and operates the MTA, so that's the free buses from state-owned property. SUNY & CUNY (public colleges), NY Thruway Authority (highways, tolls), NY Power Authority (electric power), NYSERDA (energy programs), NYS Insurance Fund (workers’ comp,) NY Port Authority (airports, bridges, tunnels), NYCHA (public housing), Empire State Development (business & property projects)
And that's before Mamdani.
Why are you a liberal anyway is your only argument "gee I don't like the personality of trump because he mentioned having secure borders and criticized NAFTA in a way that sounds jingoistic"
I noticed that a lot from Americans. I know Mamdani is for things like free busses and free childcare and high wages and rent freezes, but I rarely hear people say that's what they really want. Let's hope New York really wants all those things.
And yet every developed nation on earth runs on some combination of socialism and capitalism.
When the lobbies are in power of socialism, we call that corporatism or possibly the vernacular: "crony capitalism."
When the government is in power of socialism, we call that fascism.
When there are no private corporations, we call that kind of socialism....communism.
Many of your present day New Yorkers want the Socialism, and really don't care if the Mayor is Muslim. They want a familiar system where the managerial government class has most of the responsibility of taking care of the peasants. New York no longer wants the "American dream" of personal freedom and strong protections from an overbearing and overregulating government. They want the neo-feudalism of 2025 socialism. They tried autonomy and personal risk, and found out it just didn't work out well for them. It might be a blueprint for the rest of your country.
I said a form of feudalism, which rewards disproportionately the managerial class over the working class.
Red states have working class Democrats where Blue states are the white collar managerial class Democrats. Most of this social structure will be upended during the AI transformation, for better or worse. Many college produced white collar jobs are going away while skilled trade jobs will be invaluable. The wealth transfer will be quite the shakeup for the USA.
That's a proper concession.
Socialism always ends up becoming a form of feudalism, as whoever collects the taxes gets exponentially powerful, insulated from their own mess, and rich. So much for "no Kings."
I got it. after 9/11 the Islamaphobia was a bad thing. and getting a Muslim mayor elected is a good thing.
"proper discipline" as you call it, isn't a trigger word, nor does it rely on luck.
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Then why did you say after 9/11, only Trump could install a Muslim mayor in New York City, like that's a bad thing?
Unless you were framing your 9/11 attack on New York as a good thing, in which case your OP makes 100% sense.
Exactly
In a capitalistic society, wealth begets wealth. To turn a thousand dollars into a million is difficult on par with winning the lottery. To turn a million dollars into two million, with proper discipline, is inevitable.
So you admit America is full of many undisciplined, child-like minds. Evolution has a solution for this condition. Funny that you bring up the lottery as the behavior of an undisciplined budgeter. It's a tropey example of telling on yourself. But budgeting without "proper discipline" and still being able to live without any real existential threats is yet another example of 1st world problems. Most countries in about 40% to 50% of the world have nothing to budget with because their society is like an uncapitalistic ant colony with zero stored food for anyone, regardless of "proper discipline."
It's like blaming SNAP for being so fat and lazy. That was always a part of the person, regardless of the circumstances.
A fool and his money are soon parted, no matter who you vote for.
It just comes across more like a lecture rather than a persuasive piece. There's no objective "real issue" except the one she says exists. That sounds oddly....undemocratic? How about, (wild thought) we leave such a decision to the people and neither your bombastic president Trump nor this obscure and condescending author. That would come across as a lot more like an actual democracy and nothing described in your posted article.
it is a predictable evolution of a capitalistic society.
It's far more accurate to say a capitalistic society is the predictable natural evolution of any natural society of any species, where specialization is rewarded, promoted, and optimized. Every thriving species develops systems of evolved specialization where certain desirable fit traits or behaviors are rewarded and sustained because they enhance collective efficiency or survival odds. That's an observable fact.
And mechanics can't function without engineers. That's the hierarchy of societal value. Society rewards those who multiply the productivity of others and that’s why innovation and design naturally sit above grunt labor in terms of economic value, even though both are necessary for civilization to run. Queens need worker ants, but there can only be one queen. An ant colony where everyone is a queen or a worker will die quickly. Thus, natural evolution shows that theoretical communism and egalitarianism is not a fit trait for survival. The result of such a social experiment is entropy with no innovation, no incentive, and no hierarchy of utilitarian function to sustain real growth. Nature’s template for natural societies makes that pretty clear.
Again, 1st world memes don't exist in a vacuum. Those tropey memes exists through a capital system where productivity is rewarded through ownership. Or in nature through the transcendence of basic survival as with the ant colony or a wolf pack run by an alpha, where overpopulation is the only real challenge faced. Until these 1st world problems are replaced with actual survival problems, there's no natural stress to change anything with the system.
The result is that we can risk losing sight of the real issues we need to follow to effectively defend our democracy.
Why does this one person writing this get to decide what the "real issues" are? Doesn't seem very democratic.
Yeah, she is not an American. Otherwise, her mind would be too broken to write a coherent piece.
The American mind broke Trump.
it is a predictable evolution of a capitalistic society.
The predictable outcome is a society with the richest poor in the history of human civilization, as it is the only system that rewards the radical outliers of humanity for their incalculable contributions for all of society. With more rewards comes even higher standards of living for the least productive members. That's the predictable evolution of such a system. "1st world problems" isn't a meme in a vacuum.
Being useful to society isn't a function of hours worked. If that was the case, anyone that dug a hole and filled it back up all day would be a millionaire. And the mechanics will never be as useful to society as the engineers that create the machines for them to work on.
Americans lost 3000 on 9/11 and went on to murder over a million in the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia as retaliation. Israel has a lot of work to do and places to see.
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non sequitur