radio_free_asgarthr

What field were you in? Journal fees should either have been paid by your advisor's funding or they should be the one paying.

Yeah, the point is that there needs to be some material or structural change that would buy people into a movement and motivate them to focus their efforts into some political project. Not that chiding individuals online, hoping people spontaneously thought and acted different or just getting more people to vote would magically fix things.

Arguably, if the US voter turnout would just perpetually remain high, the Democrats would be incentivized to be even worse. Then their strategy of always moving right and throwing minorities and rights under the bus to win over "moderate Republicans" since they couldn't alienate poor or non-white voters because "what are they going to do, vote Republican!?!?! HAHAHAHAAHA! We're the lesser evil!" might work.

Sure, but places like Australia with mandatory voting shows that forcing increased participation doesn't solve or really improve things. You would need to create conditions where a leftist/progressive politics could actually push forward a real policy after getting elected. But even that is hardly possible except under extreme catastrophe or duress in a capitalist system. The causality is that the major parties being undemocratic and out of step with the nation creates low voter turnout rather than the other way around.

I've actually heard this in a more egregious form. I once heard someone claim that sarcasm is an anglosphere phenomenon and someone that isn't a native English speaker would never be able to understand sarcasm.

Well, going after low hanging fruit, people that think shoplifting is a major expense for most retail stores that would cause locations to shut down. Obviously self checkout and how it makes abuses and shoplifting easier shows that that is a much smaller cost than just the labor of paying a cashier. It is always advantageous for PR reasons to blame crime and shoplifting rather than a lack of profitability or demand for shutting down locations.

But on a more serious note, it is a lack of curiosity or unwillingness to challenge really simplified narratives about common facets of daily living. A more original answer might be the lack of ability to pick up on jokes or sarcasm. I was always shocked about some people's inability to pick up on sarcasm, even when the statements would make no sense or be obviously wrong, if they were done sincerely. There is an awareness of context and meta-awareness that is what I usually identify with intelligence, as opposed to expertise in a specific domain.

uhh, that was colonialism and not capitalism. /s

Are you telling me that all the Plutonium-235 that I need could be found in the Walmart grocery section?

good meme, but the hat should be blue

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

I am still getting updates nearly every day, so it must be maintained.

I did somewhat feel betrayed or disappointed after my thermodynamics professor made this joke, thinking it was funny, and then finding out how ubiquitous it is.

I would say the most leftest right, just because of noting what the adjective and noun are.