Yeah every store values client loyalty, but pretending companies (e.g. Walmart for crissakes) want to be loyal to their customers should disqualify you from being called an “industry analyst”.

The guys name is John Kilo.

I dunno, what do you think about this whole thing?

Accelerationism is like being on a plane and wishing it crashes when one of the engine fails.

Simply put:

Israel and Russia = bad guys

Palestine and Ukraine = good guys

There are people with whom arguing is sterile.

Are there other US representatives or senators that called this war a genocide?

The article doesn’t say this, where did you get that info?

To me, people complaining about how hard it is to adjust to daylight savings time is the epitome of a first world problem.

Well Trump did actively support an insurrection, I don’t know how you can’t see this as a threat to democracy in the US…

“Religion A is less genocidal than Religion B”. This is a supremely futile argument to make.

And millenials will be in 15 years, then genZ in another 15… As generations get older, they tend to shift to the right.

If my kid comes back from biology telling me about intelligent design because his teacher mentioned it in class I admit I’d be pissed off, but I don’t think I’d call for the teacher to be fired or try to censor them. Instead I might tell them about the scientific explanation and why I think what the teacher says is bullshit. As a parent I try to participate in my kids education. Problem is, some parents don’t, and then they go crazy when teachers different ideas than theirs.

Teacher here. IMHO the job of any pre-university teacher goes beyond the strict subject matter of their class. Nothing wrong with a math teacher doing a bit of computer science, or a language teacher talking about history, or a history teacher doing ethics. Helps students develop their critical thinking skills, judging by themselves the worth of someone else’s opinions. Some people think that teachers must be controlled so that they don’t indoctrinate kids or whatever but this completely ignores the fact that kids are smarter than what most adults think. School is the place where they can exposed to a diversity of opinions, new ways to think about stuff, learn to live in a society. If you think of school as a service and education as just another product, you’re wrong.

Even if the messenger might have dubious motives, I think the message deserves to be heard.

There are different levels to being a threat to democracy. I’m pretty sure what Democrats did doesn’t really compare with the dictatorship Trump has in mind and what happened on Jan 6.

They just had more time to practice than Nazi Germany did.

It’s doing a not so bad job in a few countries (spoiler: the US is not among them), e.g. Finland, Denmark, Germany, Canada. I’m not saying it’s a perfect system, not even a good system, just that it’s a good place to start.

Wealth redistribution requires that there’s wealth to begin with, and capitalism is clearly the system with the best incentives to create wealth. You just need strong policies to prevent sociopaths a la Musk, Thiel or Bezos to try to hoard “all the money”, to easily break up monopolies, etc.

While I agree with your first paragraph, I’m not sure that communism would be a solution, given how history has shown us that it can be quite easily corrupted and used by the elite to exploit the masses.

A capitalist system where political power have the means to control financial power, and where there are limits to the influence of money in politics, might be better IMHO.

Russia is just much more powerful than them even with full NATO support.

Not so sure about that: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/

Anyway it’s been a while since a war has been won in the traditional sense. I find the conditions of victory hard to define for Ukraine or Russia.