• TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Damn, I have to wonder what it's like identifing with George Orwell and taking his criticisms at face value. Also gotta love the citations for meaningless bullshit, but not a single one for any of his COVID claims.

    Like, yes, when the state has given up it's entire industrial capacity, the private sector steps in and uses crisis as an opportunity to consolidate power. That being said, this isn't some radical restructuring within the U.S. just an acceleration of already existing trends. Also, some nurses quit because of vaccine mandates, despite the fact that they are already mandated to take every other available vaccine, but far more quit because they had become swamped with work and completely burned out.

    Like, I know this kind of guy, who talks to working class individuals and then thinks we should tail them on cultural issues, but if we tail the working class on these issues we will simply become libertarians, because that is what they have been primed to believe by billions of dollars of propoganda. If we were to listen to them exclusively, there is no class conflict, simply competition between individuals. That doesn't mean you can't listen to their concerns, but if does mean that you have to figure out where to nip this ideological horseshit when organizing, not simply nod and repeat it back to them.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Like, I know this kind of guy, who talks to working class individuals and then thinks we should tail them on cultural issues, but if we tail the working class on these issues we will simply become libertarians, because that is what they have been primed to believe by billions of dollars of propoganda.

      Sort of like how mines will keep an elephant in a cage. If conditions start becoming dangerous, the elephant will eventually become poisoned well after everyone dies. Then they'll know that the air is toxic and can evacuate.