• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Capitalist apologia is perched forever upon the shoulders of anecdote. Never forget that. Its all they got. They have no systemic analysis. Its just anecdotes all the way down. That's shot. Here's the chaser:

    Here's some jackoff kid doubting his father's anecdotes because they kill his jerkoff session. Cry me a fucking river. Sorry you got to disappoint your father and your humanity at the same time in exchange for some upvotes. Great priorities on this one. You can tell he's a real problem solver.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Capitalist apologia is perched forever upon the shoulders of anecdote.

      This statement is so powerful I believe even Micheal Parenti would pause for a moment of contemplation.

      • cokedupchavez [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        thats something ive been thinking about. idk if its anecdotes neccessarily, but its has to be a common denominator for everything outside the core. their system is fundamentally flawed and the only thing that works is the core that sucks up from everybody else, why dont it work for them when it does for us? so all these explanations really are just ugly characterizations of the other. really hit me during the eurozone crisis. they refused to believe the euro was bad, so it had to be lazy greeks. corrupt african dictators. communist destabilization in latin america. islam. obv related to intersectional theory but it also manifest in other bizarre ways

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yasha Lavine has this concept of the "weaponized immigrant." Basically how the core picks and chooses who's able to immigrate here. How they invariably favor the exiled bourgeoisie and anticommunists and ensure they get face time and publishing deals.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Also that shit just causes brain drain. The global south pays to educate people, then the west just sucks them up like some nightmare imperialist vacuum machine.

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              and people try to act like the fact that 140 people got shot trying to flee the GDR for nazi-run West Germany somehow invalidates the project

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Seconded. Gotta remember to add this quote to the rotating site header thing. I love it.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Capitalist apologia is perched forever upon the shoulders of anecdote.

      "And then we said, 'Okay, Comrade Stalin, you can have one spoonful'... and then he ... and then he..."

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        we need a two-parter for Stalin and his spoon like we have :stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2: