The French Revolution was ultimately a bourgeois revolution that signalled the transfer of power from aristocrats to capitalists. It’s fine to enjoy the aesthetics of it but we will have to go further than the French did.
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grte@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Republicans ask Donald Trump to revoke Zohran Mamdani's citizenship97·17 days agoDon’t Republicans hate New York? You’d think they’d be thrilled with the opportunity for socialism to ruin one of the bluest cities in the US. Maybe they’re worried something else will happen.
grte@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Blesses Human Trafficking With No Explanation In Stunning Abandonment Of Rule Of Law1·18 days agoPersonally I reserve downvotes for rulebreaking, offensive comments, spam, things of that nature. Differences of opinion I just don’t upvote. Perhaps this is more common on Lemmy than other places.
grte@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Blesses Human Trafficking With No Explanation In Stunning Abandonment Of Rule Of Law1·18 days agoExcept those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.
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grte@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Blesses Human Trafficking With No Explanation In Stunning Abandonment Of Rule Of Law6·18 days agoIt was one commenter and the following comments rebuking them are much more highly upvoted. It’s maybe a bit early to stick a fork in it.
grte@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable15·19 days agoBirds of a feather and all.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Denmark raises retirement age to 70 — the highest in EuropeEnglish5·19 days agoNot to mention the consumer base that makes this all function collapses.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Keir Starmer backs US strike on Iran and calls for Tehran to return to talksEnglish94·21 days agoTony Blair isn’t even dead and he got reborn as this guy.
I don’t feel that great about a homeless person getting their tent vandalized.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Spain wants exemption from NATO’s 5 percent defense spending targetEnglish151·23 days agoThey don’t need a reason, really. 5% of GDP is moronic, the number alone is reason enough to pass. Not 5% of the national budget. 5% of GDP. Insane.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war – postponing son’s weddingEnglish8·23 days agoNo, really, it is like the blitz. It’s just Israel is playing the German side.
Congrats, you understand that the government taxing them and using the money to fix social problems will work infinitely better than charity ever has.
grte@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split42·27 days agoThey experienced a whole ass previous four year term, culminating in the USA becoming the covid capital of the world and over a million people dying from it just in that one country, and were like, “Yeah, let’s do that again.”
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AIEnglish16·28 days agoMaybe we can get back to workplaces training their employees for the job they want them to do rather than putting the entire cost of training on 18 year oldish high school graduates for a job market that might not even be great (or exist) once they graduate post-secondary.
grte@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying HeadphonesEnglish153·30 days agoJust slightly less than when they came up with a fan that doesn’t buffet you with air as though that’s not what you want from a fan.
edit: For the low low price of…C$500??!
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacreEnglish317·1 month agoUS history is a little more than unblemished, though. Hell, not even history. They are literally arming a genocidal state as we speak.
Just in general cast iron has this sense about it like people think it’s made of gossamer and not a chunk of literal iron. They aren’t that delicate. Even coarse scrubbies are fine if not applied too firmly.
Sweet and salty is a good and valid flavour combo.
It’s
infrastructuretariff week.