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@Prunebutt
China? Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?

I know the horseshoe theory is problematic, but it’s fact that some nominally “left” groups in practice resemble the “far right”; today’s China specially in practice resembles more Nazism than Communism.

@mhague
The problem with the US political system is that it’s so far skewed to the right that the moderate right Democrats are called “far left”, and by hearing “far left” people will associate it with Stalin and Mao…

@FenrirIII
That’s more like “center left”.

At least some definition of “Far Left” would be more: “we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs meet by exterminating entire social groups because they’re impure”. It’s not the only one, but it’s the one that “centrists” would say it’s no different from the “far right”.

@pdqcp
Iguaçu Falls, on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Nearby you could also visit Itaipu Dam, formerly largest in the world.
Going a bit into the same Brazilian state of Paraná, there’s also the amazing Vila Velha park, with incredible sandstone formations.

A bit of alcohol vinegar can replace or help fabric softener.

Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.

Tab means “move to the next tabstop”, not “advance a fixed amount”.

(I don’t do it, I’m not THAT insane)

Proverbs I’m sure as I read recently. Others I need to read again. Ecclesiastes likely also has something like this.
Job, Psalms, and Song of Songs are also part of the “Wisdom” block, but their focus is different.

There are multiple books in the Bible praising knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom as gifts sent from God.

If going by the book, the very center should be mint.

Because it refers to economic liberalism.

Here in Brazil bolsonaro’s party is also called “Liberal Party”. Weirdly he was elected when in the Social Liberal Party.

Names don’t mean anything in political discourse.

Happiness is connected to contentment, feeling you have enough.
There are people living in their cars who are happy, and elon musk, with all the money in the world, very much doesn’t look like a happy person.

I read a story that once the US air force tried designing a pilot seat based on the average of the measurements of all their pilots and ended with something that was uncomfortable to all of them.

The US Democratic party is also a neoliberal right-wing party, just a bit more moderate.

I said it was a stretch, tracking time certainly was already important for hunter-gatherer societies. I was not disagreeing with you.

It’s a stretch, and not Capitalism, but arguably the primitive agrarian societies were the first to have an exploited worker class.

If it wouldn’t endanger people they might as well start sabotaging musk (if they aren’t already)

Yes, it had bad consequences, but it’s as I said, a highly experimental prototype, it exploding was certainly undesired, but also certainly not unexpected.

Not to defend musk, he’s a complete shitbag, but the “rockets exploding” argument is stupid, it’s always prototypes, or after the main mission is complete, which at worse makes them the same as every other rocket.

IIRC China does have elections, but people can only vote for local councils, and those elected then vote for higher positions; but there’s no parties, and it’s those currently in power that choose the candidates.

trump is an Antichrist