I watched a stand up special of his a while ago that I've been looking to find ever since. At one point he says that if you want to change things in the US you need to sneak into gated neighborhoods and slit everyone's throats. The audience didn't seem into it.
That's hilarious, I wish I'd been the one person in the audience dying of laughter while everyone else clutches their pearls.
I know Burr has some dicier jokes that not everyone here would like, but I think he's been genuinely pulled left on his outlook. His older stuff is sort of random rage (which I still find funny), but now he has a clearer target for the rage.
More realistically, though, things will only change (for better or for worse) if certain incidents happen at rich people schools. I’m not saying it’s a valid tactic anyone should pursue, but they don’t care so far because they’re far away from any of the violence.
I think you could boil this down to one simple principle: materially enforce consequences on the bourgeoisie.
The main thing I have always got so frustrated talking to fellow Americans all my life was this notion that you can talk to these people, reason with them, parley with them. :vote:
There must be material consequences for wealthy powerful people, and until there are nothing will change.
Many liberals care about things that we dont care about. Civility. decorum. the rule of law. (There is an argument to be made that those things can be valuable in a civil society... I dont consider life under neoliberal capitalism to be very civil)
Isnt the thing that many libs only pay lip service to progress ? Like they dont want to upset the status quo to much. They dont mind the billionaires to much they just wish there would be more poc billionaires. Simply put Liberals even many progressive liberals dont want the same things we want. (Which regardless of which corner of the left you sit in is "true change" and not just some minor reforms)
I watched a stand up special of his a while ago that I've been looking to find ever since. At one point he says that if you want to change things in the US you need to sneak into gated neighborhoods and slit everyone's throats. The audience didn't seem into it.
That's hilarious, I wish I'd been the one person in the audience dying of laughter while everyone else clutches their pearls.
I know Burr has some dicier jokes that not everyone here would like, but I think he's been genuinely pulled left on his outlook. His older stuff is sort of random rage (which I still find funny), but now he has a clearer target for the rage.
Might not be the exact video, but this is the bit
Hell yes. In the one I saw it was much less expanded.
More realistically, though, things will only change (for better or for worse) if certain incidents happen at rich people schools. I’m not saying it’s a valid tactic anyone should pursue, but they don’t care so far because they’re far away from any of the violence.
I think you could boil this down to one simple principle: materially enforce consequences on the bourgeoisie.
The main thing I have always got so frustrated talking to fellow Americans all my life was this notion that you can talk to these people, reason with them, parley with them. :vote:
There must be material consequences for wealthy powerful people, and until there are nothing will change.
Many liberals care about things that we dont care about. Civility. decorum. the rule of law. (There is an argument to be made that those things can be valuable in a civil society... I dont consider life under neoliberal capitalism to be very civil)
Isnt the thing that many libs only pay lip service to progress ? Like they dont want to upset the status quo to much. They dont mind the billionaires to much they just wish there would be more poc billionaires. Simply put Liberals even many progressive liberals dont want the same things we want. (Which regardless of which corner of the left you sit in is "true change" and not just some minor reforms)