If we’re just talking Congress, they’ll probably just gridlock most laws from passing without repealing much of anything.

For the presidency (+Congress maybe) I imagine they would scrap the tariffs and try to re-assert the US’ position as global cop/guarantor of European security. Maybe restart some USAID type programs and end the DEI purge. Some EV tax credits and subsidies for offshore wind and solar power might return. I think the BBB funding for ice would stay in place bc they have been moving right on immigration for years. I kinda doubt they’d regulate crypto much harder, but it remains to be seen. We’ll have to see who ends up the nominee and the dems will try to get the most run of the mill establishment candidate they can get.

I’m interested to see what they will even try with the changes doge made. Years later, will they put forth the effort to undo them and rebuild a professional bureaucracy? I imagine a good number of the cuts will continue.

No matter what, they will be very hemmed in by the supreme court. Real change comes from below.

Get to the emotional reasons why they hold one or more of the dissonant beliefs, then try to both make them feel heard and to plant a seed for addressing that emotion, while offering a non-dissonant alternative

Life doesn’t come with a meaning, you are free to find one that speaks to you

Yeah. It’s the same playbook everywhere. The only way to hold it back is to refuse to accept it by refusing to allow business as usual to continue, which the French are certainly better than Americans at doing. The lack of investment is also helping the right wing to rise in power.

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This is an old apologia for colonialism. I would suggest reading some of the works that have come from people from colonized places for the best perspectives on this argument: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4810-colonialism-as-a-system-for-underdeveloping-africa?_pos=4&_ss=r

There are whole course readings from universities around the world that can help you get up to date.

Let the guy govern for a month before giving up. New Yorkers should pressure him from the left, not just sit back and let the right do it’s thing

Things happen and we may say someone “deserved” it, but I don’t believe in any supernatural force making it happen. We have no evidence for that

Why do you think her appearance is meant to attract sex partners or to fool ppl about her age?

Now is an important time to help onboard people to Linux. Bear with these posts or maybe start an advanced Linux users community

We’ve been physically separated by car dependency and the removal of free/cheap meeting spaces; distracted by the internet and streaming media; made to hate and fear each other by propaganda; and made temporary in our neighborhoods by rising rents and the hunt for the ever more rare decent job. That’s why.

One way to meet people is to get a dog and walk them around the neighborhood. Another is to find local activity groups over discord, meetup, etc. Another is continuing ed classes at a local university or community college

Read books, do light stretching, journal with pen and paper, meditate, any quiet activity like that without a screen.

Agreed, its just a bit of a different structure now

We deserve an internet that is not merely a surveillance farm for billionnaires and governments.

It’s not the musicians’ fault. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5006-new-hegemonies-streaming-platforms-and-music-production

Nothing under a capitalist economy is rewarded for merit, only profitability for the business owner or shareholders

Do you live alone?

That’s a beautiful thing. I hope he gets on his feet and you two have a lasting bond.

yeah, same. I think being tired of capitalist pandering is totally fine.

If your passive income is rent, meaning you’re a landlord, then yes you should get a real job instead.

Otherwise, this seems like a real difference in values between you two. If you feel secure now and for the foreseeable future, then it’s a perfectly valid choice not to want to try and climb into a new economic class. If you’re just comfortable for now, with no real retirement savings/emergency fund, then it makes sense for her to worry about the long term finances. If you can choose any route to “develop yourself” (e.g. become an artist or writer, do community organizing, do engineering projects), and the requirement is not necessarily to make more money, then I would view that as a push to get you out of complacency and distraction, which wouldn’t be as bad.

I am generally skeptical of anyone who considers themself “anti-woke” or who complains about “wokeness” as wanting to have a sincere conversation about these things. I imagine in 99% of cases, it’ll be more likely that they complain about corporate wokeness because they simply don’t want to see representations of happy, successful lgbtqia+ people and people of color in mainstream culture, even if it’s just marketing. Maybe test the waters by making a similar point about the companies that market themselves based on pandering to the right and see how enthusiastically they agree about how bad corporate cooptation of culture is. At least then, you can say “and the same goes for corporations pandering to the left!”

Still, the fact that seeing a bunch of rainbow logos actually bothers these people for reasons other than being sick of capitalist cooptation of liberatory movements would not give me much hope that that line of argument will be meaningful to them.