We could call it “The Large Jump Ahead” or something.
No, we’re just going to start using that pesticide that kills bird eggs again.
Heaven forbid we improve on the ideas using mistakes as maps and stepping stones!
DDT? That’s that shit that I use on my side of the watershed to keep mosquitoes at bay.i make sure to dump what ever is left from my spay bottles down stream to kill the neighbors mosquitos too
For anyone else who didn’t get the joke, I already googled it and figured it out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
If anyone is curious, I found it using, “Asian jump ahead” 😅
The same people who would recommend this are the same exact people who are clutching pearls at other people coming in and taking their jobs, and also the same exact people who are least likely to have immigrants take their jobs. What do they actually want? Nobody fucking knows, not even them
It’s not just them. Everyone wants to be angry. But just sitting around feeding it without channeling it to a productive* end isn’t improving anything.
I don’t want to be angry. I want healthcare, world peace, and then to lie down.
Why should we be subsidizing labor costs for large agribusiness?
I can think of a lot more virtuous forms of national service.
They’ll all have bone spurs and we end up doing it.
In talking with some of my RL R neighbors, we all have the same beef, but assign different causes. When we actually got to talking, rather than griping and throwing projections, both sides began seeing commonalities, in causes, and are beginning to see commonalities in addressing the cure.
Healthcare: ❎ “No, that’s communism!”
Mandatory Labor: ✅ “Yes, that’s patriotism!”
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Spin universal healthcare as “Those damn overpayed doctors should be forced to support their nation!” and BOOM, patriotism.
I legit believe it can be a matter of choice of words. I mean, for some issues.
Simply describe any leftist position without using charged words and I guarantee most republicans would be on board.
My mom is “pro-life.” I interviewed her on what exactly she believed should be legislated. Turns out she’s 100% pro choice but just doesn’t like abortion.
Socialism/communism = “someone got something that I don’t think they deserved.”
They’re just bad words to people. I think a lot of the “normal people” on the right are just people who are too stupid to understand politics, so it works like their football team. You don’t need to know anything about the Dallas Cowboys or Patriots to hate them. Democrats are bad because they are the other team. We don’t need to know what “woke” means - it’s just a word that describes people on the bad team.
If you manage to avoid the trigger words, and they haven’t been propagandized on whatever specific topic, it’s really easy to convince them to agree with a lot of left leaning ideas.
