Here’s the non strawman version of the top panel:
“I will operate the foreign child crusher in a way which will perhaps lead to less foreign children being crushed. What’s that? Dismantle the child crusher? This is not politically feasible you should be more reasonable.”
In the early 00s I remember there being a whole lot of propaganda centering about how futuristic Japan is with their technology and robots and shit.
They’re really milking it for all its worth even before its even released lmao, this kind of nickel and diming is bizarre even for a mainstream gaming company.
but society is a little more complicated than Legos; smashing it down to start again costs a lot more than just time and even money.
Wow can’t believe Marx never thought of this, he literally just said everything would be perfect the very next day can’t believe he lied to me.
I’m also saying we can still be pragmatic.
The kind of pragmatic you’re supporting here is never going to adequately reform or incrementally replace the current system. I know this because it was tried many many times by even more radical social democrats than Mamdani and it never worked. To me revolution is the most pragmatic thing you can do.
I’m not expecting miracles from this guy I know he’s just a mayor even if it is one of the most important cities in the US and arguably the world but the way he’s speaking in a typical weaselly Democrat manner and by doing dumb shit like this doesn’t really make me super confident of his future success.
Sure, let’s dump on the only guy demonstrably working to improve the lives of his constituents in whatever way he can in a system designed to concentrate wealth and power away from the people.
That’s exactly the problem, he shouldn’t be merely fiddling the knobs of the system to make it slightly less horrible he should be advocating for demolishing it and building a new one.
You can also do both at the same time but he doesn’t seem to be interested in the latter at all. He is a pressure release valve, he’ll get some concessions out of the ruling class but nothing is going to result in systemic change and when inevitably he loses public support either due to being unable to resolve some contradiction inherent in the system and/or being victim of a propaganda effort he’ll be replaced by some shitbag that’s going to reverse all the good he did.
This happened time and time again throughout history but people like you are still going to be yelling “but anything more is unrealistic” even as the we all burn from climate change.
“Vets shouldn’t be advising owners to stop birds doing this unless it’s obviously caused a chronic problem like a prolapse, but that’s the absolute minority of cases,”
It got my GPU completely wrong tho, it showed it was many generations older than it really is.
You said he was unshakeably principled.
Yes, he was a principled marxist. Marx didn’t really write about gay people. LGBT rights weren’t on the radar of the average marxist (or much of anybody really) in the early 20th century.
That’s a lot of work tho, think of all the missed brunches.