Do you like apples? Too fawkin' bad, you cawksuckah!
Not necessarily. Leninist flavors of Marxism like Maosim argue they are "truer" forms of Marxism because they advocate for revolutionary action over all, and have been more successful in maintaining stable governments. Say whatever you want about China, Laos, and Vietnam, but they survived the Cold War.
Agreed but its going to have to come with real costs of we want to have something that isn't broken. Like we need to actually get off our asses and invest in rail and mass transit infrastructure too not just in your tier 1 cities like Dallas or Philly but smaller cities like Cincinnati or Birmingham.
It would be so funny if it was really imminent domain instead of eminent. Like “just wait, we’ll take it”
"This is beautiful...and that's not fair to the ugly. Why don't we smear it with piss and shit?"
While our local governments have the right of eminent domain, they are also way more likely to buy out land from individuals at a much higher than market value to avoid the hassle. The cost of acquiring land is nothing compared to actually building the thing on that land. It only becomes a problem if there are holdouts who won't sell.
In terms of using less gas? The US already has the worlds largest rail network but we just use it for freight instead of people. Considering the absolute size of the US that is probably all its going to be used for since at best you have local mass transit, cars to drive medium to long distances, and airplanes to travel extreme (anything more than 7+ hours depending) for people.
It doesn't particularly help that the pedagogy around math in the US sucks. Kids are made to hate math when they shouldn't, and calculus is sold as some sort of Ultimate Final Boss of Math that breaks the minds of even the biggest math-loving nerds. That any branch of math beyond basic arithmetic could be useful for any situation one might encounter in life is never taught, and even arithmetic is ultimately disparaged as useless busywork because calculators exist. Instead, all one ever gets is spherical imaginary numbers in a vacuum.
Look at this. These people are so brain rotted and programmed to hate orange man they can't stand him doing anything positive.
I didn't see this until after I did my above post, but it's very different. The Soviets were foundationally and nominally Leninist, but pursued an express policy of peaceful coexistence with the West because both sides had nukes. While the Soviets were pretty fucking wild, they wanted to avoid nuclear war because they understood very well that it could end the entire world. Their leaders actually understood the power of nukes, the dire consequences (even if anyone survived), and how dangerous these weapons are.
Give her a sliver of credit. Few people would be willing to admit that they were wrong, much less admit that they hate admitting they were wrong.
True. A rare case. If we didn't have so many of these reactionary loons, both left and right, that hate objectively good things just because their team didn't do it we'd be a much better off country.
Oh man, we can’t take Khrushchev as an example for the Soviet Union, he was a simple minded drunk who I believe genuinely wanted to be friends with Eisenhower. He built a whole ass golf course just for Eisenhower, but then when he came to America, we told him he couldn’t go to Disney Land, and Eisenhower canceled on him.
The funny thing is that Althusser is considered discredited by continental Marxists, the only places that take him seriously are US English departments. And they do NOT like it when you bring up his "unfortunate" personal history that they neglected to mention when pushing the idea of "ideological state apparatuses."
The way things are going, China is more likely to use those nukes on itself. Chinese civil wars are probably the most brutal fighting you can get.
History departments as well, unfortunately. Althusser also admitted, while under house arrest, he never read Das Kapital or other major works by Marx. He was more into Hegel, but that's another story.
I mean, day to day Chinese existence involves things like all the occupants of a high rise getting welded in without food and entire villages getting cancer