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  1. I mean, this is factually correct. They make it sound nefarious with "a single group of people" but it absolutely is true that capitalists control every aspect of society regardless of whether the president is red or blue.

  2. I mean, Bill Clinton was a regular at Little Saint James. It's funny to me that it's just democrats listed, like come on guys we know that rich people have engaged in pedophilia so at least some of them are dems lmao.

  3. No, dumb maga bullshit

  4. No, dumb maga bullshit

  5. No, dumb bullshit older than maga

  6. No, Alex Jones bullshit. I think the single greatest argument against this is just how ineffective every school shooting has been to create gun laws. Like why would they keep doing this if it never results in stricter regulations?

  7. I don't know about specific videos but Ukriane absolutely has openly lied about tons of shit in this war so I'm pretty comfortable saying they've blamed tons of shit they've done on Russia.

  8. If you incorporate a Nazi militia into your national military, does that make you a Nazi sympathizer? Like I don't think Zelensky himself is a Nazi but geez this question is hedging a lot.

  • quiet [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The bourgeoisie has a common class interest but they’re not ruling together in the sense that they’re meeting in some dungeon every night to dictate the world’s events.

    I hear this line a lot but I think it's probably giving up a bit too much ground. Individual bourgeois do meet and conspire to defend their individual interests, and they're often class-conscious enough to directly militate for their class interest as well. And at the very top, in bourgeois democratic government you have delegates of bourgeois interests meeting in Congress and acting out the results of their back-room dealings for public display. It's a conspiracy against the public at every level, and there's no need to concede the language about dungeons.

    :parenti: wrote a book and gave some talks about this. Here's one:

    "I mean do you think there’s actually, do you think there’s actually a group of men sitting in a room? Who sit there and are plotting these things, for some reason? Do you think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room?" Because somehow that image is supposed to be very compelling, you know, it’s so improbable, and I always say "oh no no they don’t sit around in a room. They meet on carousels and they talk to each other that way. Or they go skydiving, they all lock arms, what do you think they are talking about when they lock arms like that? That’s where they meet." Of course they meet in rooms! Where the hell else you think they’re gonna meet?