I said it before and I’ll say it again: The American mind can’t comprehend European social liberals.
Oh so smug, and yet still “European social liberals” are constantly on the brink of having their own outbreak of fascism.
I think that one of the few reasons the Nazi party hasn’t re-emerged in Germany is that it’s strictly forbidden by law.
But you’re talking about the US, specifically. Complaining about regulation not working in the US is like complaining that rule of law is a non-starter in Somalia: The issue is not the idea of the rule of law, but Somalia being Somalia.
Oh yes, it’s simply because the US is the US, and has nothing to do with the fact that we’ve had neoliberal politicians for approximately 50 years. All of that stuff I mentioned at the end of my last post was describing mid 20th century US politics.
Also, comments like “rule of law doesn’t work in Somalia because it’s Somalia” show me you have exactly nothing to add to any conversation about geopolitics and borders on racism.
Those kinds of difference goes all the way back to rugged individualism and whatnot. Or, less detailed but not less accurate: Because the US is the US.
“I heard a phrase once about Americans, so that must be why they’re sliding towards fascism. It definitely can’t be for the same reasons people have pointed to for a hundred years.”
The fuck would race have to do with anything you really are American.
Right, right, it’s not that Somalia is Somalia, it’s something in their “culture”? Right?
What are the reasons those pointed-at reasons persist? Why does is that persistence more pronounced is some places, but not others? Can there be a symptom without underlying causes?
Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.
But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.
Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”.
That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.
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Oh so smug, and yet still “European social liberals” are constantly on the brink of having their own outbreak of fascism.
I think that one of the few reasons the Nazi party hasn’t re-emerged in Germany is that it’s strictly forbidden by law.
Oh yes, it’s simply because the US is the US, and has nothing to do with the fact that we’ve had neoliberal politicians for approximately 50 years. All of that stuff I mentioned at the end of my last post was describing mid 20th century US politics.
Also, comments like “rule of law doesn’t work in Somalia because it’s Somalia” show me you have exactly nothing to add to any conversation about geopolitics and borders on racism.
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“I heard a phrase once about Americans, so that must be why they’re sliding towards fascism. It definitely can’t be for the same reasons people have pointed to for a hundred years.”
Right, right, it’s not that Somalia is Somalia, it’s something in their “culture”? Right?
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Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.
But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.
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Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.
That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.
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