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.
Supreme doublethink.
I agree, buy that’s not how you use that meme
fun fact, you can literally use meme templates any way you like
Woah, who’re you? The Joker? We need some structure in our lives!
Well sure
Because they don’t believe those three questions are actual problems. Billionaires will enslave them and they’ll still blame us for it instead…
I am starting to feel like the gun toting hillbillies we have made fun of for 30 years are more than our opposition.
I read that to the tune of ‘Shaft’.
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
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”.
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?
Oh, I’ll help you out here.
According to conservatives, the answer to your question is the “mainstream media”.
But I think they own all of that now, don’t they?
Well yeah, you know that, I know that, but they’re never going to know that.
Liberal doesn’t mean left wing, it means pro-capitalist, anti-communist. The US tolerates no public leftist presence.
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].
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.
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I agree except on housing. That I will place the blame squarely on NIMBYs. Corpos only account for like 9% of housing/rental stock. A majority are mom and pop landowners with 1 or 2 properties in their portfolio. These homeowners lobby against development to protect property values.
There is no “left wing media.” “Left wing media” is a myth.
The only left wing media: BAMSE
bad ass malfunctioning sexual education?
Not everyone is Swedish…
i just been to the ikea a lot. the names start to make sense after a while. except for billy who would name a dresser billy.
I would
my billy dresser is much more of a will or a jim is all i’m saying
There’s a bit.
Please share
Yeah but it usually gets brought and turned into right wing media
Online, mostly. More written and audio than video.
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
I just want a livable community that doesn’t make my kids sick.
Okay, abolish capitalism. There is no way of satisfying your needs, which includes surviving climate change, without changing the fundamental structure of society.
Why did I start reading this to the tune of SpongeBob Squarepants and why did it kinda work?
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.
Legitimately know a person who told me all problems in the world and the reason my life isn’t better is because the poor ruin everything and steal your stuff. Hard to find a way to even talk after that stupidity slap.
Not surprisingly they are addicted to fb, x, and YouTube manosphere channels. Imagine if we had no internet, we’d have a lot less of these folks.
Or tv. Maybe humanity just needs a global two week vacation disconnect.
I just can’t understand how easy people fall for propaganda and do absolutely 0 research on their beliefs. If even a fraction of humanity had critical thinking, imagine how good life could be.
In Germany Social Media is used as one of the best ways to propagandise many youths towards conservative / officially known as right wing parties. I knew way to many people who said so much sht just because they found another nonsensical post on (e. g.) tiktok. It just pains me to believe how many young adults, that can vote, were fed full since childhood with this kind of bull. And never forget middle aged men that either went to war or only training and based their hopes on this kinda sht. They never fail to disappoint.
