A lot of government assistance programs were popular, and they were eroded anyway because their popularity wasn't sustained through outreach and propaganda. Democrats wouldn't stand up for government assistance programs because they didn't really like them either, so the only thing people heard was how bad it was. There needs to be a concerted effort to educate the masses.
Policies aren't popular on their own. They still have to be made popular and kept popular, by activists and politicians and parties.
There are a lot of people on those apps who mostly are protected by the law. They're not, like, Epstein clients or anything but their interactions with law enforcement often involve being pulled over and then let off with a warning, whereas someone else would be dragged out of their car and beaten half to death.
Also, never underestimate how many of them are bots.
It has worked on a big enough scale to matter, it's how so many government programs have been gutted over the past few decades. They're always screeching about "fraud" and "abuse" which basically just means "non-white people getting benefits."
There's definitely a limit to how far race consciousness can suppress class consciousness, but it definitely works on a big scale.
Except for when racists are rallied into opposing things they would directly benefit from because non-white people would also benefit. Anything which erodes their racial caste becomes a material threat to their racial consciousness, and they fight it.
That's how you end up with some poor whites pushing to gut SNAP and WIC.
There are two kinds of people. There are people that the law protects but does not bind, and there are other people that law binds but does not protect. These two classes are in conflict with each other and this can't be overcome with words.
If they are someone that the law binds then they'll either immediately understand what I mean when I say "the government is run by terrorists" or they'll find out when they're terrorized by the government. Law is class power, the terrorism is self-evident.
If they are someone that the law protects, then they'll have no idea what I'm talking about and there's literally nothing I could say or do that would convince them. They materially benefit from the government's terrorism, it's in their interests to support it.
They lasted the night, buuuut I don't think I rolled them thin enough/added enough oil. They're thick and crumbly.
Still eating them, they're delicious, and I'll have plenty of practice going forward. I'm spending $300 a year on tortillas lol gotta figure this shit out.
We aren't going to be able to have regional unity as long as oil remains a vital resource. It creates power imbalances between different Arab countries, and obviously invites imperial meddling to prop up reactionaries to superexploit the nation for resources.
China is weaning itself off of oil, though, and other countries will follow. This will totally change the region in ways I can't imagine.
Might that imply that pan-Arab parties are possible, though? Rather than unifying these different dialects and geographies under a single polity, form a federation of cooperation between national struggles. That's sort of what pan-Latin parties are attempting, rather than recreating Gran Colombia they just want a unified political and economic bloc between equal partners.
I think we can distinguish between a privileged racial caste and the ruling class.
Something like 15% of white people find it very challenging to make ends meet, but we wouldn't say that we don't live in a white supremacist society. After all, take any of those white people who are struggling and then take away their whiteness - everything gets even worse and they know it. That's why so many poor whites will fight to the death to defend their white privilege, even as they scream that they don't have privilege. Whites can be workers or they can be rulers, their whiteness is merely a privilege but not a ticket to power and wealth.
I am now seeing if they really can be stored at room temperature like the recipe says. My gut says "no that's stupid" but I did add salt to them so maybe?
It must be worse on some planets than others, too. Imagine if we reached this stage of development, but had twice as much fossil fuels that were easily available to us on the surface. Or our oceans were half as massive, and so could only absorb half as much excess heat. Or we were already slightly closer to the Sun and didn't even have ice caps.
This might actually be the best of all possible worlds and we're fucking it up lol
A lot of government assistance programs were popular, and they were eroded anyway because their popularity wasn't sustained through outreach and propaganda. Democrats wouldn't stand up for government assistance programs because they didn't really like them either, so the only thing people heard was how bad it was. There needs to be a concerted effort to educate the masses.
Policies aren't popular on their own. They still have to be made popular and kept popular, by activists and politicians and parties.