Right. So it was a 50 year long struggle led by the working class and groups like the Wobblies and your solution is to vote harder?
To what extent can we credit colonial nations like Portugal and the UK and the Netherlands for extending this right exclusively to white people with political capital?
Is it really a "pass" if the comfort of the homeland was predicated on slavery and/or empire elsewhere?
Also, I need a source about other countries enacting this before the US. In the 1880s, there wasn't exactly a plethora of Democratic governments anywhere. Germany was a brand new idea and so was Italy. France encompassed parts of Spain and Sweden, which was itself an empire with a military dictator. The UK is still a monarchy with colonies that want to secede (namely Jamaica) and the Netherlands is too. Swedish people didn't have surnames yet--they adopted the last name of their employer.
Eastern Europe had serfdom and antisemitic laws were the norm.
I would totally believe the UK got it first, but not without a mass mobilization of working class people.
Seriously, what are you talking about?
I think the law is irrelevant without a mass movement. You simply won't get the law without the mass movement.
You can't get from where we are to working class liberation without passing through working class struggle.
Totally understandable. My job is being an AI critic and it's exceptionally small world.
no, no. you must mean how school lunch exists because of electoral poltics and not because the original program was started by the black Panthers.
Or did you mean when US military service members occupied DC to get the GI Bill?
Maybe this coal miners strike that was an armed uprising?
ah ok. In that case, I'll point you to the bombing of a police vehicle that led to the 40 hour work week and an international holiday for workers.
Nah. monarchies were largely ended by the Napoleonic wars and world war 1. It's ahistorical to say Democracy was earned through electoralism. It also just makes no sense.
The Spanish revolution was definitely a bloody conflict. So was the foundation of Yugoslavia and it's NATO backed dissolution. So was Finnish independence from Russia. Or Ukrainian. Or Polish. Or Estonian or Latvian.
Switzerland was founded by war too. Germany's democracy was imposed by an occupying force-- as was Japan's.
France murdered their entire royal family. British India faced a decades long insurgency and worker strikes. The Magna Carta was signed after the king was fucking kidnapped.
America's founding myth is centered on a symbolic action to destroy private property (the Boston tea party).
The only country (that I can think of) that voted for it's democracy was Canada and that was only after a genocide of the indigenous population and centuries of colonial rule.
So, if your phone has ever connected to the work wifi or your laptop to tour home wifi, IP address can be used to de anonymize you. Additionally, stuff like typing characteristics, browser add-ons, and your search history can be used to correlate two "unconnected" accounts. From the point of view of the advertisers, they don't really need to know that you're the same person-- that's totally irrelevant. They just need to know that the person receiving the ad is more likely to buy a product than a random person, so these correlation models are sufficient and they don't even need to know those two devices belong to one person.
I would also guess that you saw dozens if not hundreds of other ads that did not provoke the same response. So, the eerie feeling of this being too specific is just a statistical bias that ignores the many uninteresting ads you didn't engage with.
Also, depending on how you took the screenshot, they know that too. Even if you didn't use the browser, they can probably see that you spent more time than average looking at it, hovering your cursor over it, etc. Now they have more evidence that you have been "engaged" by this content. And, again, they don't care or need to know that you have two devices, just that the user of either device might buy some Hyde stuff.
Furthermore, most people search for things after hearing about them IRL. It's totally possible that someone you know googled something similar and Bing knows that you're associated with that other person. This social graph data can come from any number of social Media Sites or by tracking location or by tracking IP address or when Facebook was pre installed on Android devices a decade ago and mined your contacts without consent or or or...
It's really not magic, but, yeah, it's horrifying how predictable people are.
Electric vehicles are peak neoliberalism though. It just outsources the energy production and moves the environmental costs to mines in the congo. The solution is mass transit, not giving tac incentives to people rich enough to own a Tesla.
In that same way, the chips act is there to shield Intel from foreign competitors and allow the USS yombuild up a military supply chain independent of TSMC. It's super naive to think the Dems passed those to benefit the working poor.
Also, public support for funding Ukraine has been falling and I'm old enough ti remember when the left was categorically against wars. My ass was getting beat by the department of Homeland security while Secretary of State Clinton handed out donuts to Maidan square Nazis.
This comment is not meant to absolve Putin or to say Ukraine's self defense is immoral--just that the media depictions of good vs evil are far more subtle and nuanced in real life and that Raytheon and Boeing benefit from this conflict more than the Ukrainian civilians who are dying daily. here's a really good interview with an actual leftist who participated in the 2014 Maidan square actions and discusses the inciting problems of ethno nationalism and neoliberalism in 2014.
The Dems could have forced a ceasefire. The Muslim contingent warned them months ago and polling very clear showed that a ceasefire would have likely changed the result in several critical swing states.