Pasolini, an atheist and communist, came close in the approach with ‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew’, but the result is a rather romantic vision of the life of Jesus, perhaps dictated by both the chosen source material and Pasolini’s ‘nostalgia for belief’.

As a former Christian and current socialist, it makes sense for socialists/communists to have a romantic view of the life of Jesus. It’s the one part of my old beliefs that I can’t let go of, since it shaped the values that I have now. The values that Jesus preached are often the same values that lead people to socialism/communism.

Anyone eating that much THC has been working their way up to that for a long time.

Uncharacteristically self-aware of you to post this in the shitpost community.

Surely someone’s had the idea of doing the re-encoding client-side before uploading. That seems to me the obvious solution, especially since online creators already generally have beefy hardware for video editing.

Agreed about Machado, but Maduro isn’t this populist champion of the working class he presents himself as. I’m about as convinced of Maduro’s commitment to socialism as I am of Trump’s commitment to “affordability.” He’s just another corrupt campist, willing to stoop to any means necessary to secure and consolidate his own power under the delusion that it’s the only way to resist US imperialism (while doing little to nothing to actually improve the living standards and autonomy of the working class).

The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they’ll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they’re being pushed to meet.

The above doesn’t even scrape the iceberg of everything that’s been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.

However, I think the capitalist class has made it clear that they would not allow an FDR to save them. They turned down that offer with Bernie and again letting Biden run for a second term.

They’re just not desperate enough yet. They will cave when they begin to feel they are under personal threat.

The new wave of DSA-aligned progressives are running on an FDR inspired “Green New Deal.” If they get enough victories in next year’s primaries there could be a realignment of the DNC towards FDR style policies, so there very well could be an FDR type running in the 2028 presidential election with the support of the Democratic party. The wealthy donors who control the DNC would be forced to appease the base

It’s likely to be a very chaotic affair given Trump’s unwillingness to abdicate power. Unfortunately the only way I see trump leaving office peacefully is if his own party turns on him and votes along with Democrats to impeach him before the next election. Failing that we’ll get Jan 6 two: electric boogaloo and we get to find out if they worked out the kinks.

The placebo rage bait effect works even on those who are aware that it’s placebo rage bait.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22871468

Pff, I would never hold that against someone. Or rather, It’s what comes after that I have an issue with.

In this case it’s Thatcherite/Reaganite US puppet and Nobel “Peace” Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado.

I think we’re on different wavelengths because I’m coming at this from the position that there’s a distinction to be made between who is the better candidate and who is better for the country. Trump, despite being a fascist moron who has and continues to destroy the lives of millions while enriching himself and his donors, was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Any of those three would have been better for the country (marginally) but were absolutely god-awful candidates. The only reason Biden even won by a hair is because of how awful Trump’s first term was, that people were willing to hold their nose and vote for Biden despite hating his guts.

You don’t even know who it’s gonna be and you’re already stating they’ll be better than Vance as if it’s a truism. I can absolutely see the DNC fucking up so badly that Vance looks like a better alternative. INB4 we end up with two Peter Thiel acolytes running against each other; “abundance” vs. “Christian” nationalism, a true clash of ideas.

Wait, hard-boiled? I was initially impressed by the muscle control it takes to get an egg up there intact, but now I am less impressed.

“Dem candidates are never bad, progressives are just fickle!” - you

You have to remember that a lot of people weren’t working or getting paid either, so even though their expenses went down many were still struggling.

I’m down. I recently read The Dispossessed and have been wanting to read some of Ursula’s other works.

There is another one, when you’re addressing a cop.