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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

FDR did the unthinkable and saved capitalism by making strategic concessions and even compromising with socialist movements.

The modern porks wouldn’t even think of voting away their subsidies for their own good.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Something today's liberals can't do is cooperate with the left. Even über conservative "loyal to the crown" Churchill understood Britain would have to ally with the Soviets in order to beat the Germans. FDR was especially open to working with communists, whether Ho Chi Minh or Stalin, because of how difficult the invasion of Japan was going to be. If the US was to maintain its position as the colonial power in Asia, only total capitulation of Japan would allow for that to happen.

Liberals right now are completely incapable of cooperating with anything except the fascists who want to stab them in the back the moment they can get away with it. Liberals are working against their own interests because they're too high on their own supply of American exceptionalism. They think a trade war with China will favor the US. They're willing to cut themselves off from Latin America. Probably the most horrifying is the idea America can win a nuclear exchange against multiple countries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Even if we “won” a nuclear exchange with multiple countries we’d all be losing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

US politicians have been pretty clear with their actions that they are all in on Capitalism's downfall by its overgrowth from autocanniballizing the country's democracy, so long as they get rich on it. It's the Red Tide model of ecosystem collapse. I am resigned to the idea that our response will be to grab the snow shovels and close our noses to the stink of rotting fish in the hot sun to clear our boat ramps (launch pads) instead of preventing the fish (us) from dying in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m starting to wonder how many CEOs need to be human sacrificed into a volcano before the metaphorical rains come.