Maybe instead of getting sent to kill brown people for oil cartels and the state department first, you can just join a revolutionary organization right away and do work in your community as well as build collective power that can be used to bring these rich fucks to heel.
If yr fit, and aware there ain’t no war but the class war, join the military
Being the enforcer of global capital to own the… capitalists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKO8qMJtbng this is from the 90s through the early 2000s, but I imagine you’ll find another reason to dismiss his words to pretend you know what was in his heart was different tho.
For the record, I don’t agree with his defeatist outlook, I think there’s comedians with better takes on American politics, but to pretend Carlin would be blue MAGA just because you wish him to be is ridiculous.
Yeah bro, the anti war hippie who was challenging the FCC in the 70s would have totally been team corporatocracy. Carlin had several interviews where he talked about how the two party system in America is an illusion of choice and ragged on Bill Clinton for being phony, and that’s the farthest left liberal candidate in like 30 years, a fucking neoliberal.
Yall sound exactly like the conservatives claiming MLK.
America: does the thing America always does
Americans: this is literally like the foreigners
Mad Max too, my computer doesnt heat up and the framerate is smoother when I’m not running 6gb ram worth of bloatware before the game
That’s their fuckin job lmao, those consultants wouldn’t keep raking it in otherwise
Next time they’ll run Literally Hitler and wonder why Turbo Hitler got elected instead
That’s not as easy as lecturing those who do the work for not doing what they wish they’d do instead
Again with the reductionist analogies lmao. Can liberals not defend their positions without pretending it’s a fundamentally different situation first?
Pretending your argument maps perfectly onto a reductive analogy (that you absolutely didn’t understand) doesn’t make it reality.
If this were the trolley problem, dems and conservatives would be the exact same track, just one option goes quickly and other slowly. Actually changing the track involves choosing to organize and do the work of undermining the capitalist system itself, not the brand of puppet you’re gonna get. But liberals dislike this because it’s not as easy as literally flipping a lever.
If you’re still campaigning for corporate dems, you’re insisting on keeping the lever where it is, but the lesser evil would make it run slowly so maybe it’ll give others time to stop it, and that way it might not splash guts and blood on you, which is the important part after all.
Decent people stay at home because they recognize they’re only choosing which person they want to sign the bills that corporations write. Insisting they’re at fault for not voting and staying inactive the next 4 years is the shit that got you here, maybe blame yourself for not organizing and putting down those who do as part of the problem.
They’ve already transitioned to copium that Trump can’t run again and only he is popular, not his racist, homophobic, imperialist policies.
Which is why it’s fine, they’ll run a Biden reskin or a Hillary reskin next time too.
Saying that China isn’t perfect and isn’t communist
What part of this was too hard to understand? I know it’s not perfect, it doesn’t have to be. That doesn’t make it not socialist.
It’s legitimacy doesn’t come from being perfect, it comes from being overwhelmingly popular with its people, which you ignore while pulling your melodramatics.
I’m arguing against people saying that china isn’t perfect ant isn’t communist because it has billionaires, by pointing out the class character of the state and the political apparatus that regularly clamps down on the capitalists (unlike any capitalist state).
I’m also arguing against libs saying big gubmint bad bc it’s too communist. China is a socialist country, I never claimed it’s a perfect utopia, you just don’t have any angle of attack with facts so you have to put up a fictional one you can throw your “nuanced” platitudes at.
Others replied with the evidence you were asking of me, and you blew them off. Were you gonna suddenly read it if it had been me instead of them? I find it unlikely.
“I won’t bother to provide evidence because you don’t believe me without evidence”
How do you twist yourself up in knots to not even get in the general vicinity of an evidence-based position and not wonder "damn, do I really not know shit about the stuff I’m so loud about "?
Who gives a shit about purity tests? Y’all are literally all over the thread going “oh but is it perfect? Thought so, tankies”.
Also I swear the amount of small business owners I know in Singapore who agree they live there for a better life is wild if you know anything about the authoritarian lean of Singapore.
Maybe because what business owners consider “less authoritarian” is being better able to exploit your workers? I don’t know how many different ways one can explain this to you
They’ve been on the cusp because they’ve deliberately not developed one, because the ambiguity itself was what they deemed strategically beneficial. Now that the Zionists are threatening invasion and floating around the idea of nuking Iran, a confirmed deterrent might be a better strategy.