Vaush fan argues that the US military makes the world a better place, even though it commits a genocide every 10-20 years and forces third world countries to submit to its corporations. Gets upvoted. pic.twitter.com/24fgjIHJBX— Troop Exploder (@BadEmpanada) June 3, 2023
why do you even consider yourself a socialist at that point? like, you look around at the immense suffering capitalism necessitates and you think "hm, we should stop that," but then you look at the empire built by and for the class that the whole system is designed to keep in power and you think that somehow they accidentally created a good, progressive global hegemon?
fuck i'm actually reading it and their reasoning is "yes, the US might not be perfect, but at least it crushed any possibility for international communism with brutal efficiency!" you're just a liberal man. you're just a normal liberal. your politics are not significantly different from those of your lib parents. you would knock on doors for kirsten gillibrand's campaign if she said please.
A single mom working at a bar contributes to drunk driving accidents, alcoholism, and domestic violence, but you'd never call out the workers as being the problem there, right?
Because they're slightly annoyed by capitalism cutting into their own lives, usually just healthcare and education. Maybe violence/crime and homeless being visibly part of their communities/media, too. Maybe social depression and consumer goods becoming increasingly junk.
They have a handful of really specific issues (you know which ones) and they will not budge an inch left of that. They pick up the socialist rhetoric because that's where the energy's at for tackling social injustices on social media, but it's just tidbits of rhetoric, they not going to actually study marxism or take anything to heart.
why do you even consider yourself a socialist at that point? like, you look around at the immense suffering capitalism necessitates and you think "hm, we should stop that," but then you look at the empire built by and for the class that the whole system is designed to keep in power and you think that somehow they accidentally created a good, progressive global hegemon?
fuck i'm actually reading it and their reasoning is "yes, the US might not be perfect, but at least it crushed any possibility for international communism with brutal efficiency!" you're just a liberal man. you're just a normal liberal. your politics are not significantly different from those of your lib parents. you would knock on doors for kirsten gillibrand's campaign if she said please.
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Because they're slightly annoyed by capitalism cutting into their own lives, usually just healthcare and education. Maybe violence/crime and homeless being visibly part of their communities/media, too. Maybe social depression and consumer goods becoming increasingly junk.
They have a handful of really specific issues (you know which ones) and they will not budge an inch left of that. They pick up the socialist rhetoric because that's where the energy's at for tackling social injustices on social media, but it's just tidbits of rhetoric, they not going to actually study marxism or take anything to heart.
They're just Keynesian chauvinists in DSA clothing.
Keynes and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Keynes was the OG "I can fix her" dude but it was for capitalism instead of a problematic partner
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