You could bury me with a Les Miserables playbill.

I saw a couple of this format of post in a row and thought it was a new meme

Yes but upside down.

Hobbes wasn't sort of wrong, he was the total opposite of right. Every few years we learn more and more how wrong he was. Yet so many of us still are told to believe him, and the system is designed as if Hobbes is truth.

It's been a rough few thousand years of repression but it feels pretty neat to be on the cusp of something big, whether it's generationally cyclical or truly a new age.

It's pretty simple, we are the most pro social species on the planet. It would be basically impossible for us to not be good and helpful broadly. Everything we've discovered in the last decades also points at this, replacing the competitive and darwinist beliefs of previous theorists.

Stop you're going to make me rank you top 3!

I lived in Iceland 2011-2014 and the jokes about climate change were infuriating. Certainly folks know a hundred km off the coast the temperature drops into the uninhabitable range? It's like living year round in the Highlands!

Oh no!

The multnomo campaign covers a lot of this. I am cautiously supportive (only known concern is as a back door for charter changes)

I had a very similar experience. What the hell is a derailleur! It's still weird because sometimes people talk to me about bike stuff and I'm like, I don't know, I'm just doing this because it's fun and cheap and convenient, it's not a lifestyle (despite it taking over my life)

I’ve seen a good deal of polling this cycle and Democratic voters all over this state are basically saying they want an army of Bernie Sanders’ in office.

The DSA isn’t tricking people. Liberals and progressives are tired of the bullshit excuses and a party that takes a dive while things degrade.

Ohhhh she's a nyt opinion writer, the bad takes and smug certainty about the correctness of their common sense opinion is part of the job.

YOU present the danger, so it's YOUR responsibility to not harm anyone. If that means you need to drive really slowly down this hypothetical street you imagine, then drive really slowly.

If you cannot handle that, then do not drive.

Nice weekend for it!

View of the living area in the tiny house on a sunny afternoon. There's a couch and coffee table, a bookshelf on the right, French front doors on the left, and a storage loft above. The ceilings and trim are all richly stained wood--decidedly cabin vibes.

View of the opposite end of the tiny house, including the dining bar, kitchen area, bathroom, and stairs to the sleeping loft. Again, very cabin-y. A full-size washer and dryer are visible in the bathroom.

View from the stairs of the sleeping loft. There's a queen size bed (pictured), and decent storage for clothes (not pictured).

Exterior view of the tiny house! It has metal skirting and steps, both included in the sale. Overall it's light gray with white trim and a dark gray roof, with lots of windows. The adorable twee cabin vibes continue.

Hey folks! I'm selling my tiny house, it's all prepped and ready for someone new to love it as much as I did.

If you're interested, please reach out, I'll leave DMs open for a while! Happy to answer any questions, and I've got a more detailed sales flyer I can share upon request.

The yellow line train I took in the middle of the afternoon was packed, all seats taken. On a Saturday!

I was on a train home from Delta Park and it took a second to understand why there was one old ass car at Rose Quarter with marker writing all over it. Hope those of you who made it had a good time!

There are, fortunately, many good examples of this. Pikettys wealth and ideology documents this extensively. Long but worth a read. The price of peace (keynes bio) is a bit closer to home.

Are the DSA councillors oppressing people?

That is a serious misunderstanding of both economics and politics. We don't need to tax anyone to solve poverty, as we are a fiscal sovereign; we'll never solve poverty as long as we accept such massive power/wealth differentials.

Anyway, just something to keep in mind.

Faith based ideas on the impacts of socialism are inclined to do quite a lot of harm, for the same reason they do for free market or anti immigrant ideas- when they don't work out, the only solution is to double down. Still too much regulation! Too many immigrants! Too many kulaks!

Who's trying to convince you to like capitalism? It sucks! It's been a pretty crappy deal for most of its history, and it's doing its best to ruin the good it's achieved via technology. My goal is not to perpetuate capitalism. My goal is only to do good things.

You aren't worried that if you misattribute the source of the things you hate, you'll come up with a bad solution? That if you assume a thing is due to capitalism, but it isn't, and you remove capitalism, you'll still have that thing you hate?

With the exception of a certain vile form of racism, all of those things existed well before capitalism and under non-capitalist systems. They are inevitable results of imbalanced power relations (usually but not always through a state).

Ah ok. This is what I call the "everything I don't like is capitalism" view. Hard to argue with over text.

Have you... Read about the origin of markets or capitalism? Maybe you're using it in the "things I don't like about society" sense and not the "economic system" sense? Do you not admit private markets existed well before capitalism?

Why would this be limited to the United States