u/Left_Step

Well Heather wouldn’t need to run since she already has a seat.

Luckily I think the kids took care of that for us. They were breaking some sub rules as well.

In Alberta, our version of that is “Leading Influence” a chaplain ministry that serves a very similar purpose locally.

You’ve lost me. Who am I attacking here? People in the comments? They aren’t doing science. Any scientists that are delving into this to prove or disprove any of the conclusions made by this paper have my support, no matter what the data ultimately ends up saying.

It does offer other explanations as well, while explaining why their hypothesis is most likely. That said, it’s an interesting piece of data that should be examined, not dismissed or taken on faith either.

I did, but I’m just trying to get people to read the article without letting their framing prevent them from receiving novel information.

Yeah, that tracks.

You could read the article and find that it is someone else.

All it concludes is that there are reflective objects in orbit prior to the beginning of the space age. That merits examination and study, not conclusion-leaping.

AI enabling “ideas people” has been a bad move.

This is true, and it’s not an easy propaganda hole to step around. So my advice would be to not even try. Within socialist circles we can discuss the efficacy of various policies undertaken by these regimes or delve into the conditions under which they emerged. But when we are out in the world trying to convince people that our cause is just, we should abandon the fruitless endeavour of laundering the reputation of regimes that are badly stained by real or imagined horrors.

Uplifting the rights and material conditions of workers, ending the domination of the polity by the ownership class, and liberating oppressed peoples are timeless struggles that need to be grounded in the lived realities of our localities. They do not need to be shackled by other times and places and people beating their heads into walls trying to convince people that actually the USSR was pretty cool does nothing to advance the movement.

A problem for me that I run into in online socialist spaces is when the atrocities that have occurred are either denied or downplayed. We can have sober discussions about meta structures that guide political and historical outcomes without justifying those outcomes. Yet, many struggle with that line as they often see the deserved criticism of an event or outcome as an attack on their entire political ideology.

Personally, I am comfortable being a socialist who can espouse that fullthroatedly while also lamenting when flawed instances of my ideology lead to horrors.

If you aren’t in one of the unions that is discussed their collective response, then join the NDP. That’s the single best way to make sure this government gets fucked. The NDP branches in Red Deer are stronger and more active than ever before and they would certainly have a place for you and anyone else who thinks we deserve better than to have our rights trampled on.

This is really fascinating to me, as someone who is pretty much the exact opposite as you. Are there any of these social events that you do look forward to? Like one in a year or something? I am curious if the frequency is the issue or the fact that it’s social at all.

How do you think you would fare in a relationship with someone why is very outwardly expressive of their affection?

Oh I 100% agree. Newsom won’t be the guy for reconstruction here. The USA will only course correct after immense violence has occurred. The country is on the precipice of either a completely despotic rule or civil war. No allies, no possible avenues of resistance can be rejected at this moment. Every single person will be needed for what lies ahead.

When the alternative is concentration camps, maybe the hour of being choosy has passed.

No, it’s far worse. Conservative political leadership has been cancerous. Luckily the electorate in Canada recognized that. Until they change, they will never take power.

People say this as if one fantastical technology automatically accompanies another. We have no idea what alien civilizations may be able to do, not do, or on what timescale they operate on.

Like Pierre Pollievre?

I’m glad you had fun here haha

That doesn’t really answer the question of whether providing war material and funding equates being at war. If Russia is at war with NATO, that would certainly justify their asymmetric attacks on NATO (airspace buzzing, cutting of undersea cables, election interference), but then you would have to agree that Ukraine would be justified in doing the same to all of those countries aiding Russia.

Or, and which is really my actual point here, it may not actually be true that Russia is in a war with NATO. Their propaganda sure says they are, and they certainly see NATO as an enemy to struggle against, but they are really not at war. If they were, and this is entirely irrespective of any moral or ideological weighting in NATO’s favour, Russia would lose that conflict very quickly.

Does that constitute being at war with them? India, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, China, and others have all sent resources, war material, or funding to Russia. Are they all at war with Ukraine?

So when in the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine did Russian soldiers fight any NATO soldiers? One would think that if Russia is at war with NATO that they would have had many clashes and battles with soldiers from NATO countries.

Are you making the claim that entire countries of people are rabid dogs? What do you mean by that?