Thanks, I know how to use markdown, I just can’t get my lemmy client to upload an image to my instance to get the URL to begin with.

Pretty sure the headline was changed by USA Today, based on the page title. Once I figure out how to include an image I’ll add it, but I think when the OP posted this, that was the headline.

There’s also just a fundamental problem with planned economies from a purely economic standpoint: they are much less efficient at actually providing the minimum set of goods and services required by a population, and they’re worse at achieving growth. See the most recent Nobel Prize in economics for a citation. Funnily enough, the same paper’s arguments apply equally to oligarchic economies and crony capitalist economies, which are semi-planned economies by a small group of the ultra wealthy.

More specifically to the OP, communist countries have planned economies, which by nature requires a strong authority to tightly control production. Hence why communist states always have very consolidated political power structures. And once the power is consolidated, all it takes is one bad actor to get that power and ruin everything.

Wow that’s an aggressive reply, assuming I’m just dismissive as opposed to unaware.

The answer is that I am unaware - I haven’t seen these articles you’re discussing.

My buddy’s dad with terminal cancer had to go through a hell of a process to get approved for MAD. I haven’t heard of people being railroaded into it here.

This has also been my personal experience with their brand.

If I’m shopping in a new space where I can’t find a clear winner in reviews, I consider Anker to be the safe bet for a good product. Let’s hope they never logitech themselves.

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Whether it’s divisive or not really depends on your perspective and reasoning.

“What voters did we fail to capture, and why?” is a very valuable question to be asking. “Who can we blame?” is not. This article would help answer both of these.

A family of 4 on 140k combined income would indeed be kind of tight, especially depending on where.

I disabled replies because you said /conversation and I thought it was done. I didn’t bait you.

I think we agree on most things. I disagree that pivoting left on Palestine would have net improved voter turnout for Harris. I do agree that the Dems have failed to appeal to undecideds and non-voters. I do agree some people in the Democratic party will be blaming third-party voters, despite them being of little consequence this election. Criticizing Hispanics for voting Trump based on vague notions of “the economy” is fair game, though, along with criticizing white people who thought Biden was still running, etc.

Re: your other post, if your post is so widely misinterpreted that you have to comment a clarification, maybe your communication isn’t clear.

You’re clearly not dumb, but not everyone who replies is committing a logical fallacy.

https://lemmy.cafe/post/9478325

This you? This isn’t a meme you posted about Dems needing to shift left on Palestine? /conversation

Again, not a false dilemma if you’ve previously posted that pivoting left for Arabic votes on Palestine would put the Democrats in power.

I agree that the Dems abandoned appealing to voters on economic grounds, which is what actually lost them the election. But I’m not addressing any arguments in that - I’m commenting on your previous commentary on Dems not pivoting left on Palestine. So hey, fallacy fallacy yourself if you want.

It’s only a strawman if you haven’t posted exactly that argument before. So, which is it, though? Did the Dems lose because they failed to pivot left on Palestine to capture the leftist Arabic vote, or are leftist Arabs an inconsequentially small voter base?

Answer: it’s the second one! White people handed this country to Trump, and trying to court Arabs with Palestine wouldn’t have increased Harris’ results.

And so with the leftist Arabic vote being such a tiny % of the overall voter base, it would be really smart to pivot to single-issue to maybe win some of that 0.46%, right?

I know - not sure why you’re getting down voted lol

I mean, MAGA media sphere is heavily paid-for by RT/Russia, so… yeah.

2024 election was dictated essentially entirely by minority voters swapping sides for economic reasons

DNC should run on purely social issues because they can’t address the economic issues

Hm.

International shitposting is the best shitposting

“A Lightweight VPN Built on top of IPFS + Libp2p”

Seems like both at a glance

You’re not alone - Disney Star Wars has being either absolutely fantastic (Rogue One, etc.) or absolutely trash (789, etc.). Rogue One had good characters with interesting motivations and growth. Jyn had to come to terms with her fathers role in the empire and make choices on how to tackle unclear situations.

The new trilogy featured Rey, who… never changed or grew or really faced any meaningful challenge? She was just… always stronger/better because she just was. It felt more like playing a video game where your character fights increasingly big bad guys but never actually changes skills or unlocks new stuff.

And c’mon… “somehow Palpatine has returned” is the laziest piece of shit you can think of. That’s some 5th grade fiction writing assignment shit.