Peaceful protest works great under two conditions:

1. Just a metric fuckton of participants

2. The implicit threat of violent protest (e.g. Malcom X behind MLK)

Two minutes or two bites, but realistically when you can get to it. You wanna make sure they got everything they ordered, and it’s not burnt or undercooked or anything. The alternative is having to wait to get something fixed if it’s messed up. Source: 7 years a server.

To be fair, the only Palestine comments I’ve seen were from immediately after Oct 7, when that was a fairly reasonable take.

Still though, total sellout. Tenacious D defined my adolescence and it’s really disheartening to watch JB heel turn after tasting that Kung Fu Panda money.

A vanilla soy latte is really just a 3 bean soup.

I’d go one step further to gnosticism.

Cult = listen to my communications with God

Religion = let’s all get together and approximate communication with God

Gnosticism = communicate with God.

Yeah they were probably the only one in their philosophy debate club

Take another look at that jak friend. That’s not the look of shock, it’s awe.

Literally different birds, and we’re on bird flu now anyway.

They are both corvids, but they are distinct species.

Your life up until now is meaningless. You can be born again.

Funding, yes. Also voting for them in local elections, no one benefits from trying to thrust them straight into national elections. Yeah it’s gonna take a few election cycles, and yeah blue is our best bet for those cycles.

It moved us right slower than if Republicans had been in charge the whole time. Americans don’t have the class consciousness to spontaneously vote left. Leftist third parties hold very few offices at all, and zero major ones.

Without a shift in cultural hegemony, and a flood of leftists in local offices to make good candidates for higher office, third party votes are a waste. They’re not electorally successful, they’re not even good marketing.

Voting blue slows the rightward slide. It can’t save us, it’s not supposed to save us. It’s supposed to give us enough time to save ourselves, to do the ground work to shift the culture to embrace the left when a party is ready. The culture has not shifted, the party is not ready. The least we can do is strategically keep out the politicians who most fervently legislate against worker rights.

Gotta get rid of one of the current two first. Here’s my suggested strategy:

1. Vote blue no matter who while they slide right. All the leftists hold their nose for the cause.

2. Send the MAGA party the way of the Whigs, absolute Democrat domination until the fiscal conservatives join them, and the fascists and libertarians make their own third parties.

3. Push a new party, leftist policy with blue collar vocabulary. Proper terminology is poisoned by propaganda, “hard working Americans”, not “proletariat”. You wanna distance yourself from those snobby college libruls.

4. Lefties jump ship, scoop the progressives on the way out. Bam, new second party.

How would you define dialectics?

Really? Who’s her dad?

Why?

Let’s say pre, what are you trying to demonstrate with this line of questions?

I’d say 50%+, but I’m sure various political historians would draw the line in various places.

If the coup is supported by the masses and actually replaces the government itself, then yes. If it’s not supported by the masses, or merely replaces the leadership of the existing government, then no.

Displacing the previous government with a different one. What other sense is there?