There are many different accepted methodologies for measuring unemployment. For some reason the media only focuses on the U-3 value, and I agree that is highly misleading.
It sounds like the relevant statistic you are looking for is the U-6 value. U-6 is currently measured at a relative high of 8.7%. That is 30 million Americans who are unemployed or underemployed.
You can find all the data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Alternative measures of labor underutilization
Oh so you aren’t discounting the hypothesis… You are denying a genocide.
That’s much worse. :(
Israeli propaganda is a disease, please get well soon.
I’ve reread it and I’ve come to the same conclusion: You are discounting the hypothesis that this mass murder was triggered by Israel’s ongoing genocide.
Israel is committing a genocide, and they claim to do it in the name of all Jews.
I have no idea what actually motivated these deplorable mass murderers in Australia, but the possible connection to Israel is an obvious hypothesis. Discounting this hypothesis without evidence only shows your bias.
Well there’s a good chance I’ll die in a Trump concentration camp, so might as well make the best of it.
Shoot to kill any intruders that invade your home without a warrant.
If ICE Gestapo thugs invade your home without a warrant, be a hero. Exercise your second amendment right.
Well if you aren’t an accelerationist, then why would you point to Egypt as a positive example? Ousting a brutal dictator, ushering in a short era of political instability and violence, and then ending up with another brutal dictator - it seems to me Egypt is a prime example of accelerationism gone wrong.
But more broadly, I feel you didn’t answer my original question. I agree if we can get there through reform, we should try. But we have been trying. We’ve been trying - and mostly going backward - for at least 40 years.
If reform is impossible, then it is the reformists who are accepting the fascist agenda without a fight. If reform is unlikely, then it is the reformists who are helping the fascists win.
So what makes your possible reform any more likely than the reformists that have come before you? How can you be sure that your position isn’t helping fascists win?
Oh so you’re saying we need violent coup of the American government in order to make progress? That makes sense.
It seemed like you were suggesting we could get ICE Nuremberg trials through the electoral process. That is a fantasy.
And what are the people going to do about it? Vote harder? Protest?
We did all that in 2008, and Obama still let the war criminals go free.
So if you honestly believe this situation will be different, please explain how it is different.
Just like how Obama punished all the war criminals when he got into office, right?
Comparing a rigorous Philosophy degree to an internet argument is something said only by the uneducated.
Philosophy is the spearhead of science, most scientific breakthroughs begin first with philosophy.
honest company
You have better odds finding Sasquatch and a unicorn than you do finding an honest publically traded company.
None of that washes the blood off of the hands of Democrats.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
What “argument” are you referring to?
I agree that Republicans are the worse of two evils, by far.
I was just pointing out that Democrats are not a benign sandwich, they are violent conservatives. Just less violent and less conservative than the alternative.
The secret sauce on the Democrat sandwich was the blood of Palestinian children being killed by US weapons. Those who still possess a moral compass found the copius amounts of blood difficult to stomach.
Personally I would have preferred ranch or avocado spread, but the DNC and Biden admin looked at the menu and actively chose blood.
How can you say “Spain democratized after francos death” as if the entire bloody Spanish Civil War didn’t happen?
By that same logic it seems that Germany also overcame fascism peacefully, because Germany democratized right after Hitlers death.
I feel a little less sane after reading your “Jews should have been less violent in their resistance to the Nazis” opinion.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Yes the window dressing is very different, but the material reality is the same:
The Biden administration provided nearly unlimited weapons to a genocidal regime, while actively lying to the media to cover for the ongoing brutality, and vetoing many ceasefire resolutions.
The Trump administration provided nearly unlimited weapons to a genocidal regime, while actively lying to the media to cover for the ongoing brutality, and vetoing many ceasefire resolutions.
Where’s the psyop?
Do you ever wrestle with the moral implications of this?
If the “least-worse” option that your system produces is aiding and abetting a genocide, then the only moral option is to destroy the system.
If this is truly the reality of the American system, that genocide is unavoidable, then almost everything is justified. If the Greatest Generation were alive today there would be fascist blood in the streets.
Any self-respecting “meme historian” would refer to themselves as a memeologist.
They would know the history of the word “meme” and that it is explicitly intended to be analogous with the word “gene”.
We don’t call them gene historians, we call them genealogists.