Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Mr Biden could then use Section 2 of the 25th Amendment to nominate a more popular vice president.

@Kiryu-Chan

What would his supporters do after he dies? Elect a new cult leader, or wage war and terrorism?

@AaronMk

In a way, you communists are right. Capitalism will end up making people poorer because of inflation and greed - it has to be changed to make society more convenient for poorer people. I prefer something like democratic socialism or what Norway does, but with less focus on corporations and more punishments against politicians and middlemen.

I wonder if the natural result of inflation, if left unchecked, is Zimbabwe or Venezuela, but with corporate or political tyrants reducing people to slaves.

@AaronMk

I want to know how would a Marxist or true socialist state handle inflation, such as if it’s in other countries and then in that state?

When I asked this question to communists on Quora, they suggests that inflation will never happen in a true socialist state society because inflation is nothing more than corporate manipulation to force people to slave away. Their version is more closer to anarcho-communism, where there is almost no authority except a shared-ownership by all citizens under some world commune.

Video shows moments leading up to deadly child custody shooting in Texas [News 4 San Antonio]

TL;DR: The video in question was taken in Lubbock, Texas showing a child custody dispute turned deadly. It shows two white men getting into an argument over custody of the 9-year old child, when the man who brandished, Kyle Carruth, shot and killed Chad Read. Kyle Carruth tries to claim the shooting was in “self-defense”.

Remind you guys, this was all over the custody of the child.

@Background Pony #1F81
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, revealed in a book he wrote that Trump got tested positive for COVID on September 26 of last year, a week prior to the official announcement of him being infected and his hospitalization, and three days before his first debate with Biden (where he conveniently arrived too late to be tested ahead).

When asked about it, Trump of course dismissed it as fake news™, relying on a second test done immediately after, which could very well have been a false negative.

Who knows how many people his dumb ass contaminated during that week?

Though the two decades between the end of the GLF and the advent of the reform era are often portrayed as a society-wide struggle between “two lines” held by different factions of the Party,[70] the reality is that these factional struggles were themselves largely epiphenomena of various economic and social crises that arose over the course of the socialist era. The picture of politics and policy in this era as the product of “two line struggle” is largely an illusion reinforced by state propaganda campaigns within China during and after the fact, as well as by the export of these biased sources to various political-academic factions in Western countries over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, when “Maoism” came to designate a distinct political current.

Prototypical of this problem is the example of the Shanghai Textbook. Originally published as the Fundamentals of Political Economy in Shanghai in 1974, during the peak of state influence during the “long” Cultural Revolution, the book was meant as a summary of Party ideology at the time. Ostensibly describing “socialist political economy” as theorized and practiced in China, the textbook was translated and published, with accompanying essays, by American Maoists under the name Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Socialism: The Shanghai Textbook.[71] The textbook, alongside other collections of state propaganda and reports from foreigners’ tours of model factories,[72] has been taken as a common reference point for both supporters and detractors.[73]

The problem, for either political persuasion, is that the data laid out in the Textbook is purely mythological. The text’s theoretical poverty aside, no system such as that described by the book ever existed. By the same token, the practices observed by touring model factories were often limited to those factories. Though some features were obliquely shared between reality and these Potemkin villages, all the fundamental characteristics were different. The Textbook is better understood as a sort of religious text rather than a description of the socialist era’s economy. Tours of model enterprises became a kind of pilgrimage, reinforcing the holy status of such texts for Western radicals. Scholars basing their studies on policy pronouncements are then engaged in a sort of glyphomancy, pulling apart the minute details of leaders’ speeches and rearranging them to fit whatever narrative one wants to tell.