A 22-year-old woman will face charges for holding up a sign that said “fuck imperialism,” while a man was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police van for asking who elected King Charles III.
No society can function without hypocrisy, no really, you have to lie to people to keep the state moving. Do you honestly think a president or prime minister could just say the truth about everything? “As president I promise that I’ll only assassinate maybe a dozen people, I’ll only kill 50,000 in a war, and Ill defraud the retirement accounts of only the bottom 3% of the country” people would riot.
Communists believe in a state, and I stand by what I said, lying to the people is necessary for a well oiled social machine to function, if lying is the carrot then the stick is truth. If there’s gonna be a treat shortage you sometimes need to lie to stop a treats riot. If greed is good then lying is holy. :Elim-Garak:
Typical reactionary pattern. When the bad people do something, it's bad. When the good people do something, it's good. The action doesn't matter, reassessing who is good or bad based on what they're doing is a waste of time, the only thing that matters is rooting for your team.
The British media elite shit a brick when anti-war protestors in Moscow were arrested for holding up blank signs.
Now the British state is doing the same thing they're all suddenly silent or actively supporting it.
:ukkk: The last week really has reignited my hatred for this country like an enormous bottle of paraffin on a previously just glowing barbecue.
No society can function without hypocrisy, no really, you have to lie to people to keep the state moving. Do you honestly think a president or prime minister could just say the truth about everything? “As president I promise that I’ll only assassinate maybe a dozen people, I’ll only kill 50,000 in a war, and Ill defraud the retirement accounts of only the bottom 3% of the country” people would riot.
Quite obviously I do not. I'm not sure what this comment is getting at.
:bruh: you're on a far-left forum. It's pretty much all communists and anarchists here.
Communists believe in a state, and I stand by what I said, lying to the people is necessary for a well oiled social machine to function, if lying is the carrot then the stick is truth. If there’s gonna be a treat shortage you sometimes need to lie to stop a treats riot. If greed is good then lying is holy. :Elim-Garak:
you don't have to lie if you're doing good things
well once you've killed the capitalists anyway
Typical reactionary pattern. When the bad people do something, it's bad. When the good people do something, it's good. The action doesn't matter, reassessing who is good or bad based on what they're doing is a waste of time, the only thing that matters is rooting for your team.
barbecue huh? :grillman: