• djsiete@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    It’s not only Americans. It’s every western or western-infected country. Racist pieces of shit whose mask of acceptance and equality slipped off at the smallest of inconveniences.

  • dx1@lemmy.ml
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    I really went down the ancap rabbit hole, but the whole time I was thinking the end goal was promoting equality and the government was getting in the way by rigging the market for the ruling class. Which, you know, it is, but really doesn’t change anything about the injustice of owners taking all the profit.

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    20 hours ago

    Literally the whole “just get rid of billionaires” crowd when someone says that no one needs more than a million. Everyone thinks they will become a wholesome decamillionaire

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        Okay, abolish capitalism. There is no way of satisfying your needs, which includes surviving climate change, without changing the fundamental structure of society.

  • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    Well the billionaires own the media. Left wing media won’t even let their journalists be activists because this would “conflict with objectivity.” Meanwhile, right-wing media just parrot narratives (favorable to privatization / big business) and call every sensible progressive policy “woke”.

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      21 hours ago

      Liberal doesn’t mean left wing, it means pro-capitalist, anti-communist. The US tolerates no public leftist presence.

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        16 hours ago

        from what my sibling who did poli sci taught me, a lot of those stances are logical conclusions of the explicit property rights stances (liberal theory promotes personal, private and public property, whereas communism (if i understand it correctly and let me be clear i don’t) does away with private property. i’m not well read enough on the subject to say specifically where or how).

        we really need different word in english for [member of the communist party] and [believer in/promoter of communism].

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          For an even better analysis than you could ever get in a university class, I highly recommend reading Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history for a more detailed history of what liberalism is. Even from its very foundations and founding authors, it was white supremacist, pro-slavery, anti-worker, pro-colonialism, pro-workhouse and prison, etc.

    • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
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      Left wing… media? What’s that?

      I’m trying to list all of the well-known news organizations that have a large reach, aren’t owned by a large corporation, and have large private endowment or some other form of complete financial security not reliant on the government or any of those large corporations.

      I’m sure they’re probably some in the world. Maybe. But I can’t really think of any in the US.

      Can anyone help me out here?

  • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
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    I can’t do anything about the evil billionaires. They already own the politicians and I can’t compete financially with that.

    If we replace 100 of the blatantly billionaire and corporate owned politicians by voting in 100 who seem uncorrupted and idealistic and full of passion then most of them have sold out for personal gain before the election is even done. Within a year or two something like 98 of the 100 will have sold out their ideals for monies.

    So what can I do? I can blame immigrants and brown people. Sure, it doesn’t actually help, but seeing goon squads in the street beating brown folks with batons and shooting innocent women for no reason at least puts a smile on my face. I can’t change the world, but I can at least find a bit of happiness in it. <3

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    Genuinely everyone has a story about talking to one exactly like this. It’s like they put a chip in their brain to prevent making the connection.

  • Krinkil2705@lemmygrad.ml
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    Because they don’t believe those three questions are actual problems. Billionaires will enslave them and they’ll still blame us for it instead…

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    I am starting to feel like the gun toting hillbillies we have made fun of for 30 years are more than our opposition.

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    Um, aktuly, the Billionaires are all Chinese and Muslim Terrorist. And they are the ones coming over the border, via Trende De Agua, with the help of AOC and Hillary Killington, who both got rich smuggling children for Jeffery Epstein. So we have to fight back by passing out AR-15s to the beautiful Christian patroits along the Texas-Mexico border and telling them to fire when you see the whites of their eyes, just like the Founding Fathers told us to.

    Because, under Real Capitalism, none of this would be happening. The problem is all the Socialist Fake Capitalism that’s been imposed on us by the College Marxists and the Woke Cathedral of Hollywood Sickos. We need a New American Revolution to wash away the wicked. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

    Also, I should note, I’m typing this from a McMansion in the Texas hill country while sitting on a cool $50M in SpaceX IPOs. So when we say “Things are bad right now” what I hear is “My neighbors are unseasonably tan and I’m not allowed to sexually assault the house workers with impunity” not “I’m suffering even a modicum of physical discomfort or personal danger.”

  • Zephorah@discuss.online
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    Yep. Social security is terrible. Grandma is why everything is terrible right now. Not Musk or Altman or Theil. Grandma and her entitlement to money she worked for, for years.

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    It’s such a sad state of affairs, my local next door forum is full of things like, headlines of people getting slap on the wrist punishments for sexual assault of a minor and then people responding with “this is what socialism is doing to this country”.

    Umm yeah, I’m sure mandami winning mayor in new york this year is why this bright red state, with a bright red state senate and bright red state house of representatives has had such lax laws that haven’t been updated in 30 years.

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      Okay, but is it really Bright Red? What if there’s an enormous fifth column of hidden leftists who are actually making things worse? Please consider that I don’t actually like half the people in my government. And anyone I don’t like is a Secret Socialist. While anyone I do like is red in tooth and claw fighting a Rambo-esque insurgency against armies of invisible tankies who want America to fail.