that is all.
Liberals ruin that word
9 times out of 10 when I see someone talk about "democracy" they're trying to justify Western chauvinism and/or bombing brown people
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich— that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty”— supposedly petty— details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc.,— we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.
—Lenin, State and Revolution
Lots of words are tells that the person saying them thinks they're in a movie, being some rando but going on about democracy is a big one
Honestly I think it's worse, they don't think about themselves as movie stars, they all figure they're temporarily embarassed elder statesmen (including the women and the nonbinaries)
That's what I mean, but should have clarified: it's like they all think they're in a Hans Zimmer or Aaron Sorkin joint. Temporarily embarassed elder statesmen syndrome for real
Agree'd and appreciated but I still think is what separates the two is every second dude thinking of himself as John McClane never actually gets into that situation, it is very obviously a fantasy, ever self proclaimed elder statesmen seems to think they sit at the table with the big dawgs
please dont ruin Hans Zimmer for me by telling me he directs libshit
You, Virgin; temporarily embarrassed elder statesman
Me, Chad; temporarily embarrassed last person alive on Earth
And when that happens you all better look out. Because then my ideology will reign supreme as it was always meant to!
why is this objectively correct take in badposting?
Death to America
Counterpoint: anyone who says “well akshully we’re a republic” is literally a billion times more annoying
