It's awesome that politics has reached the point (and it's obviously been like this for a while) where the events and the motivations of the people behind those events and forming a systematic view of the world isn't what's actually important, it's just a bubble of terminally online people in western nations who are forming followings/fanbases/cults/whatever around specific personalities on websites.
Like, we, as broadly working class or maybe precarious middle class capitalist subjects living in America, have absolutely zero impact whatsoever on what goes on in Ukraine and Russia and China and so on, even theoretically through the classic lib shit of "You should do more than just voting! Write to your senator! :so-true:" as that is so pointless that it obviously isn't worth the effort of even mentally considering it let alone actually doing it.
So all we have left is to just suffer at our workplaces under corporate totalitarianism and then go home and post online like "Wow, it looks like Dunglebungle655 had a great few sentences on the Ukraine situation on Twitch! This is so much better than JooperJoop92's take. And man, have you seen RedPongle444's meltdown yesterday where he said that Putin might have a point?! It's a freaking oligarchy, sweetie! Doesn't sound like a left take to me! I give Dungle a based rating of 95% (the whole scandal he had earlier was kinda embarrassing but he's making up for it), Jooper a based rating of 25%, and Red? Honestly probably a fed, so fuck him and his subreddit!"
I came across a person who calls themself a capitalist communist, and they were serious about it. They even wrote a paper about it during college class which I know about it because they got into fights with a teacher over it.
Was it just outright Nazbol shit or was it some kind of bazingabrained "Capitalism is when you have freedom and some people are rich and most are poor, and communism is where there's no freedom and everybody is poor but at least there's equality, so what we need is communism but with more freedom and where everybody is middle-class!" thing
It talked about giving everyone an equal chance in a hierarchy for example the government would mandate who is rich or poor on a certain week, and why this could be a classless society because no one would be really be rich or oppressive because the government would give everyone a chance.
Its sort of like the war draft system, but for deciding what part of the hierarchy you would be in for a week.
This is a political idea you have when you first gain political consciousness at like 15 years old and hold that as a viewpoint in order to express that you're capable of being politically imaginative (AKA not a sheeple) to your peers, but then a week later go "nah, that's fucking stupid actually"
That's weird, but at least it wasn't quite as stupid as :melon-musk: 's "ironic unless" take that Marx was a capitalist because he wrote a book about capital and that the good kind of socialism is the one that makes the rich richer.
I'm imagining those went like every single other time I ever saw some douche student try to argue with a professor and I'm enjoying the thought of a classroom full of people getting annoyed and telling the student to just shut the hell up already
where the events and the motivations of the people behind those events and forming a systematic view of the world isn’t what’s actually important
No political analysis literally just vibes. He pretty much says he FEELS Russia is like an abusive husband. Really these kind of leftists doing this kind of analysis where they characterize the US as their dad and Russia as their estranged uncle would be doing not only everyone else a favor by stopping, they'd also be helping their damaged psyches.
It's awesome that politics has reached the point (and it's obviously been like this for a while) where the events and the motivations of the people behind those events and forming a systematic view of the world isn't what's actually important, it's just a bubble of terminally online people in western nations who are forming followings/fanbases/cults/whatever around specific personalities on websites.
Like, we, as broadly working class or maybe precarious middle class capitalist subjects living in America, have absolutely zero impact whatsoever on what goes on in Ukraine and Russia and China and so on, even theoretically through the classic lib shit of "You should do more than just voting! Write to your senator! :so-true:" as that is so pointless that it obviously isn't worth the effort of even mentally considering it let alone actually doing it.
So all we have left is to just suffer at our workplaces under corporate totalitarianism and then go home and post online like "Wow, it looks like Dunglebungle655 had a great few sentences on the Ukraine situation on Twitch! This is so much better than JooperJoop92's take. And man, have you seen RedPongle444's meltdown yesterday where he said that Putin might have a point?! It's a freaking oligarchy, sweetie! Doesn't sound like a left take to me! I give Dungle a based rating of 95% (the whole scandal he had earlier was kinda embarrassing but he's making up for it), Jooper a based rating of 25%, and Red? Honestly probably a fed, so fuck him and his subreddit!"
I came across a person who calls themself a capitalist communist, and they were serious about it. They even wrote a paper about it during college class which I know about it because they got into fights with a teacher over it.
Was it just outright Nazbol shit or was it some kind of bazingabrained "Capitalism is when you have freedom and some people are rich and most are poor, and communism is where there's no freedom and everybody is poor but at least there's equality, so what we need is communism but with more freedom and where everybody is middle-class!" thing
It talked about giving everyone an equal chance in a hierarchy for example the government would mandate who is rich or poor on a certain week, and why this could be a classless society because no one would be really be rich or oppressive because the government would give everyone a chance.
Its sort of like the war draft system, but for deciding what part of the hierarchy you would be in for a week.
This is a political idea you have when you first gain political consciousness at like 15 years old and hold that as a viewpoint in order to express that you're capable of being politically imaginative (AKA not a sheeple) to your peers, but then a week later go "nah, that's fucking stupid actually"
That's weird, but at least it wasn't quite as stupid as :melon-musk: 's "ironic unless" take that Marx was a capitalist because he wrote a book about capital and that the good kind of socialism is the one that makes the rich richer.
Spinning a wheel to see who gets a mega yacht this week and who can't afford insulin
My best guess was that it was :melon-musk: style gross misunderstanding of socialism, and capitalism for that matter.
I'm imagining those went like every single other time I ever saw some douche student try to argue with a professor and I'm enjoying the thought of a classroom full of people getting annoyed and telling the student to just shut the hell up already
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No political analysis literally just vibes. He pretty much says he FEELS Russia is like an abusive husband. Really these kind of leftists doing this kind of analysis where they characterize the US as their dad and Russia as their estranged uncle would be doing not only everyone else a favor by stopping, they'd also be helping their damaged psyches.
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:chomsky-yes-honey: :virgil-phone:
Why are these voices currently the dominant voices? Have they ever not been? How does it end?