Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)
AaronMk 
Meaning supposedly with the dissolution of the USSR there came a period in US history that was not only the supposed supremacy of liberal democratic values, and that in time all nations shall become a liberal Republic believing in free-market capitalism because peak human existence was to be found in liberal capitalism. There was no more growth or evolution to be had, we were at the end of the road. That today is, or was the very essence of what it means to be a highly evolved human.
But Fukuyama overlooked that everything done in the Cold War to “beat” the Soviets would have knock-on effects on through the rest of the future and we are not entirely done. Liberal capitalism is not without its contradictions and antagonisms that have been alienating populations to this day as it manifests in a sort of new colonialism from the globalist economic policies of the global north to lower the bar of entry into global southern markets to radically reshape their physical societies and push people out or around. The intrusion of market-forces as unleashed by the “superior” Reagan model generating the uprisings of the Zapatismo movement which has recently announced “breaking the siege” and in the middle east and southern Asia generated support for radical Islamists culminating in Al-Qaeda and Daesh today. While at home, feeding into a feeling of hopeless listlessness as the general political philosophy that rules over us asserts this is the best of all worlds for everyone ever.
Sky funeral
@AaronMk
Meaning?
Meaning supposedly with the dissolution of the USSR there came a period in US history that was not only the supposed supremacy of liberal democratic values, and that in time all nations shall become a liberal Republic believing in free-market capitalism because peak human existence was to be found in liberal capitalism. There was no more growth or evolution to be had, we were at the end of the road. That today is, or was the very essence of what it means to be a highly evolved human.
But Fukuyama overlooked that everything done in the Cold War to “beat” the Soviets would have knock-on effects on through the rest of the future and we are not entirely done. Liberal capitalism is not without its contradictions and antagonisms that have been alienating populations to this day as it manifests in a sort of new colonialism from the globalist economic policies of the global north to lower the bar of entry into global southern markets to radically reshape their physical societies and push people out or around. The intrusion of market-forces as unleashed by the “superior” Reagan model generating the uprisings of the Zapatismo movement which has recently announced “breaking the siege” and in the middle east and southern Asia generated support for radical Islamists culminating in Al-Qaeda and Daesh today. While at home, feeding into a feeling of hopeless listlessness as the general political philosophy that rules over us asserts this is the best of all worlds for everyone ever.
AaronMk
Yup.
Fukuyama fancies himself a conservative Hegelian, meaning he interpreted the “victory” of the US as the final synthesis between liberalism and Marxism. Except that in Hegelian philosophy the synthesis of two antagonistic ideas is supposed to result in a new thesis, and that doesn’t really imply there won’t be a new anti-thesis to that.
To explain these terms so I don’t cause any confusion: the thesis is the idea, the anti-thesis is the opposite of it. The merger of which is the synthesis where the contradictory ideas between the two are shed and they merge together into a new idea after a period of conflict or antagonism. Even if Hegel himself may not have used those terms exactly, it’s typically how his ideas are expressed.
So the immediate failing of the proposal is that he generally doesn’t acknowledge any push-back against the new world order that was supposed to arise from the ending of this conflict as being a natural progression of historical ideas. Or that one could borrow from the Japanese Communist Party’s stance on the dissolution of the USSR as being the collapse of Stalinism, and not of socialism; the Japanese Communist Party being notable because they didn’t suffer an ideological meltdown after the end of the Soviet Union. So it’s if anything the end of one strand if you’re willing to overlook several things, or a clearing of the air on the left in a Chomsky way: the fall of the USSR is a way to simply excuse them from the conversation and restart the conversation on the left with new ideas without the ghost of Stalin.
Sky funeral
@AaronMk
Ah.
Yup.
Fukuyama fancies himself a conservative Hegelian, meaning he interpreted the “victory” of the US as the final synthesis between liberalism and Marxism. Except that in Hegelian philosophy the synthesis of two antagonistic ideas is supposed to result in a new thesis, and that doesn’t really imply there won’t be a new anti-thesis to that.
To explain these terms so I don’t cause any confusion: the thesis is the idea, the anti-thesis is the opposite of it. The merger of which is the synthesis where the contradictory ideas between the two are shed and they merge together into a new idea after a period of conflict or antagonism. Even if Hegel himself may not have used those terms exactly, it’s typically how his ideas are expressed.
So the immediate failing of the proposal is that he generally doesn’t acknowledge any push-back against the new world order that was supposed to arise from the ending of this conflict as being a natural progression of historical ideas. Or that one could borrow from the Japanese Communist Party’s stance on the dissolution of the USSR as being the collapse of Stalinism, and not of socialism; the Japanese Communist Party being notable because they didn’t suffer an ideological meltdown after the end of the Soviet Union. So it’s if anything the end of one strand if you’re willing to overlook several things, or a clearing of the air on the left in a Chomsky way: the fall of the USSR is a way to simply excuse them from the conversation and restart the conversation on the left with new ideas without the ghost of Stalin.
Dustcan 
Dogs
So Rush Limbaugh’s take on the destruction of Saudi oil is that it’s proof that we need to be reliant on fossil fuels. And of course he spun it as more proof that the Democratic candidates pushing for Green Energy are radicals.
Overnight half of Saudi Arabia’s oil went up in flames in retaliation for their own belligerence. About 5% of the global oil produced vanished. And this is somehow a mark against alternative energy.
Overnight half of Saudi Arabia’s oil went up in flames in retaliation for their own belligerence. About 5% of the global oil produced vanished. And this is somehow a mark against alternative energy.
Zincy 
In Vino Veritas
Trump finally has a poll where he’s at 50% approval… from the far right tabloid National Review.
CaptainXtra
STOP KOSA!
Apparently the NRA doubled down on its Facebook spending after the mass shootings in August:
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/16/nra-facebook-ads-mass-shootings/
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/16/nra-facebook-ads-mass-shootings/
Zincy
In Vino Veritas
John Oliver masterfully destroys Trumps ‘chain migration’ nonsense
You cannot sponsor your entire extended line, nor are “bad people” using it to sneak whole generations across to “genocide them whities”.
You cannot sponsor your entire extended line, nor are “bad people” using it to sneak whole generations across to “genocide them whities”.
Background Pony #F205
I’ve come across a Youtube video where somewhere in the middle it explains “welfare states incentivize poverty by rewarding the poor with government handouts”.
I think that’s a load of bull. Look at the scandinavian countries, welfare safety nets has served their populations well.
I think that’s a load of bull. Look at the scandinavian countries, welfare safety nets has served their populations well.
Background Pony #91A9
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Scrabbleman 
You put too much faith in people. Half of them would screw people over for funsies.
[screams in German]
@Scrabbleman
There’s not going to be any more opportunity for that bullshit.
Young people right now know that the cycle of ‘get old, get greedy’ is completely unsustainable for the continued existence of our stupid species.
You put too much faith in people. Half of them would screw people over for funsies.
Zincy
In Vino Veritas
@TheMagpulPone
I don’t think there is a single car out that made from 100% American parts. Odds are there are parts and materials from around the world in most vehicles.
That, and the auto and steel industries are two of the largest employers behind farming that hire illegal immigrants.
So there is a good chance you’ve bought a car made with Canadian aluminum and Chinese steel, with electronics made in Japan, assembled by Padro the Honduran.
I don’t think there is a single car out that made from 100% American parts. Odds are there are parts and materials from around the world in most vehicles.
That, and the auto and steel industries are two of the largest employers behind farming that hire illegal immigrants.
So there is a good chance you’ve bought a car made with Canadian aluminum and Chinese steel, with electronics made in Japan, assembled by Padro the Honduran.
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