Grebes

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[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m not sure what your definition of incrementalism is. A law passing or court ruling on a single issue is not but a reform of a law is?

My point was not defending some ill-defined “incrementalism” but to just say that all issues won’t get addressed at once. Look at the ACA, watered down and not enough but it did get millions of people insurance. It took so much political capital to get it in that form and it still became a beating stick for the Right for decades. It’s a ad campaign against billionaires that’s needed for anything expanding the government.

People don’t want to vote for anyone who can’t move a mountain in less than 4 years, or in this case someone who can’t move a hundred mountains.

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, might as well just give up then

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don’t think the current facists in charge are doing it incrementally. You don’t acknowledge any changes or improvements over the last 200 years due to incremental progressivism?

Slavery took a civil war but women’s rights, gay rights, minimum wage, social safety nets (granted not at the level they should be), etc. I’d argue there has been lots of progress. If anything, the last 10 years have shown that getting discouraged by imperfect progress and not voting (even for the lesser evil, who do sometimes surprise us) can lead to very quick backslides. We’ve literally lost rights and baked in harder obstacles to progress by not choosing the lesser evil when that is the only realistic choice. I’m discounting revolution there because again it doesn’t always end how it starts

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think it misses the point that while previous rhetoric may have been overblown what we are seeing now is at a different level.

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (11 children)

This would make a better point if the current administration wasn’t dismantling the government, stripping rights, and abducting people in the streets.

People may not want to hear this but not everyone is ready to replace the whole system at once and incremental progress is probably the best way to make gains. Revolutions don’t always end with a government based on the ideals that started them.

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

There is also a British version created by Greg Davies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleaner_(British_TV_series)

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 182 points 6 months ago (12 children)

If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Discounty has been fun, a supermarket simulator. It’s more story driven than Stardew and less open ended but similar vibes.

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ukraine as a predatory proxy war by NATO is a new one

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Ah, the Nirvana fallacy. If he wasn’t perfect then I guess we should let Trump win. Calling Biden a fascist is a pretty gross misunderstanding of history

[–] Grebes@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Fascism is fascism, not sure what you are on about. A vote for Trump or Jill is just a vote for genocide here with the rhetoric the right is currently spouting. But I guess fuck trans rights, immigrants, the climate, and the economy because your hill to die on is peace in the Middle East. JFC

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