How are you defining mass parties?

When did they stop working, and why?

Your idea is that… any politics with roots in the 20th century are irrelevant?

When exactly did everyone on the planet wake up and decide history doesn’t matter?

this guy pointed out trump would be worse for Palestineans

You realize Trump has already pushed Israel to accept a ceasefire/prisoner exchange, right? That’s an actual, material improvement in the situation in Gaza compared to Biden. Democrats who are still trotting out “Trump will somehow do an even worse genocide” are giving away they game that they don’t even care enough to keep up on the news.

I say this as someone who think Trump should be in prison, too.

It’s functionally no different than a dollar bill.

In the case of communist ‘money’, I think we would cease using money to kill our neighbor.

Seems like a big difference to me

Nonsense – people frequently help others even during disasters, wars, and other precarious times.

Doesn’t sound like they live in a bubble, then.

the Republicans fixed the DMV here by running it like a business

Any details?

The U-2 first flew in 1955. One was shot down over the USSR in 1960, and another was shot down over Cuba in 1962. They largely stopped flying over peer air defenses at that point.

That’s about a 7-year span where it was useful for its primary task. Hanging around to fly over Libya in 2011 is not the same as fulfilling the role the plane was designed for decades later.

Maybe if there are no competitors. Even as monopolistic as the military aircraft industry is in the U.S., drones open up a lot of space for competition by being vastly cheaper.

Then there’s concern about long-term sales to foreign countries, plus the corresponding parts and maintenance revenues. The F-16 is flown by 25 other countries.

Twitter also has automated pro-Israel community notes if you post certain pictures from October 7th.

We’re not talking about hanging with friends and interrupting a conversation to call out them out over ethics. We’re talking about people coming to you and engaging with you directly on this topic. It’s hard to imagine a scenario more conducive to changing someone’s mind, but you do have to put in effort instead of just dismissing them.

“I empathize but don’t think you have the best approach” is not hostility. It’s a disagreement.

Do you expect to convince a lot of people you’re right with this approach? If you want to get a lot of people to agree with you, it’s not enough to have all the right ideas written down somewhere. You do have to educate and persuade, that’s just a fundamental part of any social movement.

None of the vegans I know in real life are as hostile as some vegans get online. Probably a majority of vegans I see online (or in interviews, articles, etc.) aren’t hostile. The hostility is coming mostly from vegans who think it’s a useful tactic to get others to agree with them.

It’s a whole other discussion about how effective that tactic is, or who it’s effective on. But it is definitely a choice, because there are tons of vegans out there who choose to present their ideas differently.

The brave Tianamen Square posters here envision themselves as their mythological ideal of Tank Man, which they invented without so much as even watching the video of the guy and the tank.

The things they get right (e.g., actively opposing bigotry) you don’t find in many other places, and the things they get wrong (e.g., major changes without community input) happen everywhere. Like an AES state in miniature.

Our informative well-sourced arguments, their propagandistic walls of text

If “hardcore leftist” is defined as “left of Joe Biden,” then sure. Within that group there are a wide range of opinions.

$30 per quarter pound

The second sentence of the article gives $30 as the unsubsidized price of one pound of hamburger meat, not 1/4 pound. You have to read it more carefully if you want to get into the details.

Setting aside the details for a minute, how would a subsidy of only pennies on the dollar even be plausible? One purpose of agricultural subsidies is to stabilize prices; pennies on the dollar can’t do that.

That said, price-wise, real meat will have to become very very expensive before lab-grown meat will be competitive.

At least in the U.S., meat production/pricing is heavily subsidized.

Killing another human is an issue no matter what it is.

Killing a healthcare CEO is no different than killing a mass shooter. In fact it’s better, judging by the number of people each harms.