Where's the lie? One minor lie, I'd imagine not all the world's elite are pedophiles ala Q, but a lot of them are!
That thing will be used to say Leftist = Qanon, horseshoe theory confirmed 1000%
Yeah no shit lol. It's funny how the left gets it, the right comes close to getting it, while liberals are and will forever be clueless.
Normal conservatives are like dogs, because they can often detect tone without comprehending substance.
They have moments where they come close, I've seen it but they just default back to "capitalism is good, satanic leftists are ruining the world".
By that metric libs are much much closer because they correctly identify racism, queerphobia, sexism, inequality, etc as problems, they just don't have a structural explanation.
Edit: if you tell a conservative "the world is built with blood, and genocide, and exploitation", as Comrade Socko correctly points out, they would "good"
I always just say "Every good lie is based in a truth, Qanon isn't lying about the pedophiles, it's lying about who those pedophiles are"
They are either pedophiles or propping up a system that empowers and protects pedophiles.
And as some comedian once said, literally no one is like "well I'm not personally attracted to kids, but you know, I get it!"
God, I just want someone to upload the entire song so I can airdrop that shit in places without it being an immediate slap in the face for libs.
I want the slap in the face to take a moment.
Here, enjoy: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTyYcC49FSKcrk4hrSNSCvXnWzLnYbY7G7D9C7Gsg7rCD/Bo.Burnham.How.the.World.Works.mp4 (maybe upload it somewhere else, I don't have my computer online all the time)
Bo always kinda leaned in a direction of someone too online, but his lighting direction was totally on point for this special
I agree with other commenters here, there are many among the liberal elite who would on some level accept the Marxist critique of capitalism. They do this insofar as the critique in questions stays focused on the evil character of a select few instead of the system itself. Where the "scratch a liberal fascist bleeds" truism begins to show is in the vehemence with which the liberals will balk or outright oppose any serious attempts to advocate for the overthrow of capitalism or the imperialism which upholds it (especially in the United States). On a side note, I'll admit I can't stomach anything that gives off "theatre kid" or "broadway musical" vibes, so Bo Burnham is generally gets a #yikes from me lol.
I can’t stomach anything that gives off “theatre kid” or “broadway musical” vibes, so Bo Burnham is generally gets a #yikes from me
Have you seen this? It seems like he feels the exact same way.
Netflix
what,
Are they trying to pull off a whole coopting of radicalization itself?
Bo Burnham isn't Lenin. His shit is good but probably won't really radicalized anyone in any meaningful way. Libs eat this kind of shit up as well. You can express what's wrong with the world with absolute clarity and get away with it, you only get trouble when you bring up solutions.
You can express what’s wrong with the world with absolute clarity and get away with it, you only get trouble when you bring up solutions
Someone wrote a comment here about Harry Potter and how liberals are brilliant at making fiction about all the problems the world has but then include absolutely none of the real solutions to those problems in their fiction. They can interpret the problems of the world but do nothing to resolve them beyond restoring the status quo of problems in the world existing.
the sign of a radlib is someone that says all the things said above but doesn't identify any meaningful solutions. Usually just bullshit reformism and petitions.
Yup. And that's a huge huge market right now. People are lining up to be buy radical aesthetic and rhetoric sold by capitalists. Which is kinda good, it means that there's enough radlibs to be worth marketing to. A few will take the next step, the rest may follow suite as material conditions decline. Who's to say really? As annoying as they are radlibs are capable of being useful and further radicalization.
The lining up and buying situation is kinda what occurred to BLM, the movement was co-opted by capitalists and was just turned into an aesthetic and something to sell products for. My expectations were diminished when I saw that happening. But radlibs are very receptive to radical messages and just need to be made aware and educated about systems outside of capitalism.
IMO we're not at the point where we can really evaluate that movement. None of the conditions that created that energy have changed, and it's still there under the surface as people of colour are still getting murdered by cops constantly.
Exactly. This is pretty much the struggle of the modern first world left. To draw the conversation away from culture and towards the material.
Okay: They're murdering everyone and the capitalist world is built on the back of genocide and slave labor.
Not Okay: Maybe pick up a gun and go fix it.
A gun and a book and something helpful. Gun is very late stage, most of America is not that radical yet and the state isn't destabilized enough yet.
The order is really Organize > Books > Guns with the first two being interchangeable depending on if you're organizing from scratch or joining an organization.
I'd switch organize with book. You maybe don't need to read theory to join an org but you definitely should if you're trying to start one.
Thats the most effective order. you're point of liberals being allergic to action still stands. I think they would turn a socialist in given half the chance because "eww scary they are sooo mean".
I don't think Netflix cares one single bit about the political content of the special. They just want people to watch it and make them money.
I would say the CIA or whatever does, and don't tell me they can't pressure Netflix if they don't like what they broadcast or whatever to millions of people.
you're vastly overestimating how much people in power are afraid of the slightest bit of leftist terminology with no call to action or even making the problem
