• footfaults [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Why is there such a fucking fixation on food and restaurants by the most terminally online morons I have ever seen in my life? Why the fuck are we spending time on the stupidest fucking ideas in the world while the planet burns and the billionaires still exist

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Having a worker prepare a black bean burger for you on your way home from your job is the same as enjoying a $4000 gold leaf pizza with a party of CEOs, sweaty.

        • GuerrillaMindset [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          this is basically just "politics" in general as it's played as a game (by all our generous "representatives" and all forms of talking heads).

          politics is only real in terms of the nitty gritty day to day experiences of people, the grandstanding and debating and ideologizing is just a game to manipulate people and then some of the dumber manipulated people think that learning politics is a way to be smarter and then apply that to their own bad thinking to justify their shitty opinions.

          this is a broader thing i've noticed in the past 5 or 6 years since trump and everything. everybody is becoming "political" now but all it really means if all the stupid people i've known my whole life who didn't give a fuck about politics suddenly have opinions about everything which makes them feel involved and invested but really they don't even know what the fuck they're on about like 75% of the time. they've been tricked and swept up into something different than what they thought they were getting involved in. it's just a show.

          "politics" as discourse is a disease. the only politics that even matter at the end of the day is class war and until that is sorted then the rest is just details we get no real control over. there will be real social (not political) discourse when the masses have a say and when they aren't being constantly manipulated and lied to. education is important and maybe one day in a socialist world we can imagine that but until then politics is a cancer and literally is a distraction from solving social issues.

          it is like a finger pointing at the moon, don't look at the finger or you'll miss all the heavenly glory.

      • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        When I see shit like this or patsocs I'm not even half-joking that shit is just fed nonsense straight up. I don't think it's specifically the CIA though, more likely domestic agencies. Seriously nobody could be this stupid, this is just mystifying and delegitimizing the left.

    • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Because there is a kernel of truth in an otherwise very silly argument that has resulted in a lot of people drawing very incorrect conclusions that then upset other people, who ignore the kernel of truth because of the wheelbarrow full of horse-manure that has completely obscured it. Then everyone got mad that the discussion was happening, which has transformed the conversation into a meme which continues to reinfect leftist spaces because of the cheap pleasure derived from bashing one another on top of the head for having dumb ideas, while pointedly ignoring our own dumb ideas.

      Except me. All of my ideas are brilliant.