Ah, thank you for explaining.

Donald Trump is America’s medicine and we’re going to have to drink it all

What did you mean by this? Care to elaborate?

I don’t know much about it. All I know is GNU software is somehow important to how Linux works on the low-level layers.

More like confirmation bias. People only remember when their prayers “solved” a situation that surely wouldn’t resolve itself either way, but forget the million others where it failed.

Guess the mayor forgot he was supposed to find an alternative mode of transportation so customers can “hang out at the expensive boutiques”.

“While sales are not our main concern at the moment, we have seen a very significant drop,” said the official.

I always find it funny when representatives of a big corporation say this.

The profit is all that matters to companies, even their reputation with the wider public only matters because it affects their ability to achieve a higher profit margin.

It feels disingenuous and manipulative to hear this.

That seems like a misrepresentation of the “left” (pretty much a useless term, but oh well).

Most of the “right” indeed believes “rich people” are essential to the economy and their abandonment of a country leads to economic collapse.

I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way. In a capitalist economy (like most in the world), the need to appease capital owners, constantly growing, desire to accumulate capital leads to unwanted outcomes like democratic backsliding and without resistance economic power subverts democratic institutions.

I’ll admit I don’t know the work you mention in your comment, so I might have missed some context.

Why the hate on Alberta specifically?

In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions

I’m not even complaining, just pointing out the obvious, even though I understand why it’s the way it is.

As the other commenter said in a reply to this, people are quick to complain about a better solution just because it isn’t perfect. But I’m not complaining because frankly I don’t care that much.

I’m not from NYC, I’m not from the USA and I’m not even from that continent.

It’s cool Zohran won the election, you guys should celebrate his feats and criticise his faults.

Still only corporate platforms unfortunately.

He could livestream to multiple platforms.

Personally I’d enjoy a stream to any federated/open source platform like peertube.

What definition would you use?

Not socialist, social-democracies.

Absolutely, I could have worded it better.

Socialism is defined by “the ownership of the means of production by the working class, in a transition to communism”.

There’s some debate about whether cooperatives satisfy this criteria.

What you seem to be describing is a social-democracy, where there’s still the common capitalist dynamics and class interest contradictions, but with the conflict reduced somewhat by appeasing the majority with a social safety net.

They were never socialist, they’ve always been social-democracies, that’s quite a difference even though there’s some shared ideological roots.

I can understand this reasoning, but I still believe some separatist movements are genuine and should be respected, without trying to trigger the hornet’s nest the Catalonia separatists come to mind.

Why? Aren’t they attempting to make use of their right to self-determination?

Disclaimer I’m not from the states.

Believing the Democratic Party will in anyway abolish or even threaten capitalism is laughable. Even the most “left” (I don’t like the left/right axis) politicians in America are at most social-democrats and are more likely to actually enact social liberal policies. The democrats will never pose an actual threat to capitalism.

The republicans are much more enamored with the status quo, but the democrats won’t resolve the structural contradictions the USA (and the west) faces.