slickgoat

You weren't ghosted, he told you that he wasn't going forward.

Not to say that he probably wasn't a jerk. But he plainly told you that he wasn't interested in pursuing anything. That's not ghosting.

Squinting not required.

Possibly, but the OP was talking about sitting in a cafe, not brewing at home.

At a cafe you have overheads, staff, cleaning, etc. Plus the rising cost of beans. All I'm saying is that cafes can't freeze the price of coffee to a past point in time because customers have a fixed idea of what a brew should cost.

Not to be that guy, but we have been under-paying for coffee for many years now. The price of beans kept going up, but customers were locked into what a cup of coffee should be and extremely price sensitive about addressing the reality.

A catch-up is underway all over the world.

Note. Not a cafe owner and I don't have anything to do with coffee except drink it.

She got experimental treatment 8 months before Trump wrote an executive order allowing such treatment. This had actually been permitted in such cases for years. So, her treatment 8 months before Trump even got remotely involved is ridiculous.

Stop giving me reasons to never go to the US. I already don't want to go.

I actually deeply admire your post, which is nuanced in the extreme. There is not much I can disagree in a general sense. My knowledge about Marxism comes primarily through the study of European revolutions at University level and it annoys me to see stupid memes simplify complex historical factors based upon immature current day biases.

I would beg to differ on Stalin's attitude towards Trotsky that it was not focused upon his political ideology so much as Trotsky's initial popularity and his potential as a rival. Trotsky was just as powerful an intellectual figure after exile as he was in Moscow. The threat need be eliminated.

The last point I might make is that we are both talking nonsense to a large extent. What historical figures choose to borrow or steal from others in order to realise some political goal is anybody's guess. They can dip in and out of political theory at will. In this way both God and the Devil are able to quote scripture because the text contains all the justification that suits each according to their political needs.

That's very true, for now.

At this moment Reddit is existing on its former reputation. There are a host of like internet megalithic platforms that are now not even distant memories. Once they outlive their former utility they fade pretty quickly. Think of MySpace, Friendster and Yahoo Groups. Even Facebook is circling the plughole, but it may take a while before disappearing due to its former dominant position.

This is the most scandalous and scathing thing that the man has ever done. Sending his plane off without him under the threat of it being shot down while he hides in a good locker.

He should never experience a single day from this day forward where this cowardly stunt isn't brought up to his face. It should be the first question in every press conference.

Is Reddit still a thing? I wasn't aware?

I thought that it had evolved into a bot parliament.

He mentioned state control as a criticism of the capitalist system, not advocating for a communist replacement like-for-like. He well understood the lessons of 1789 and the failings of replacing the crown with a new kind of exploitation.

Much of the concepts you list are the academic explanations for Marxism, but a lot of that have been thrust upon his theories and not what he actually wrote about. You can argue that many of them, including state control, are natural extensions of his writing, but nothing Marx wrote about, or very little, describes what happened in either China, the USSR or satellite regimes. In that sense, there is no such thing Marxism.

Absolutely agree.