taking a course analyzing documentaries and their theories of change, prof is pretty cool.
Anyway today we watched the Knock the House Down documentary about how AOC won her primary. Afterwards we had a discussion afterward, I said something about the nauseating impotency of the film's narrative of change and how it creates a hagiography of the underdog and equates winning a primary with accomplishing change, yadda yadda yadda
enter This Motherfucker
This motherfucker starts talking when I mute about how he's actually the inverse and actually it's cool to defang leftist politics and frame it as moderate policies and how he """"works in politics"""" and, Hexbears I shit you not, he says "and to prove it, I have this" and turns on HIS ELIZABETH WARREN ZOOM BACKGROUND and I lost my fuckin mind. I just can't believe there's a guy in my class who's straight out of a 2019 chapo bit.
He must pay for his stupidity.
No matter how much he cries, whatever tears he conjures up - it's not enough.
Cus they're the only ones who can afford to go without crippling debt.
Electoralism is pure poison for the mind. Even ordinarily reasonable people otherwise capable of seeing through the political BS become like this the moment someone turns the electoral button on.
It’s like the biggest scam and ploy of the ruling class. Opium for the people.
As the Official Hexbear Old, I want this story to be fake but I know it's real and that kinda bums me the fuck out.
Loool i have come across this "framing leftist policies as moderate to get more support and abandoning scary words like communism" is good and effective argument in here too. Although the said user hasn't posted for a while.
It’s a good argument (for america), you just have to leave them unyielding, not gradual descent into “workers get non-voting representative on the board”
