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I love this channel, and starting my day with this video, it put me into this amazing open-hearted place where I long to unite with others to build something better whereas I am much more prone, normally, to angrily wish to tear the capitalist's world down.

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

    so this sounds fun and all, but have you considered that whether or not this is hippie dippy, there's an argument to be made that "warmhearted leftism" is tactically expedient and possibly even our most plausible shot at fixing this hellworld?

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Surely the people who've committed the lion's share of the world's resources to ensuring their continued comfort at the cost of untold black and brown lives just needed more hugs. You're either ridiculously privileged or hopelessly delusional or both.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Or perhaps the people who did that did so not because they were born between an arbitrary set of years but rather were in positions of power over capital and incentivized to do so by the horrifically broken system they lived in, all the while other people in that same generation suffered the consequences as well (like, you know, the black and brown people you just mentioned).

        That would require some material analysis though. Much easier to just assume everyone between the ages of 50 and 75 just need the wall.

        • Commander_Data [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          You crack me up, man. Hellworld exists because people made conscious decisions to make it this way. They aren't victims of circumstance. They knew what they were doing.

          • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I'm not defending the people who did it, I'm saying that you should call them the self serving capitalist shit bags they are instead of labeling them by their generation. Newsflash: millennial capitalists aren't any better, greatest generation capitalists are just as evil, and if capitalism still exists in 50 years there'll be some gen alpha Bezos feeding workers into the Soylent machines.

            Whining about generations is idealist nonsense.