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"Capitalism is how we get the tendies." Our new comrades amirite?!
Guess we'd better abandon the sub then, since one guy is being too epic online. You can't join our aesthetic club unless you're like us!
Imagine thinking that capitalism is defined by anything to do with capital; clearly it's defined by trade, that's why it's called capitalism.
I don’t like lizard. I have monke. Make monke punch lizard with kid. Purest, simplest form.
I'm sure that one poster represents every one of the 5 million people there and instead of inviting people who can be converted here, letting them fester and be reinforced as 'enlightened centrist non-political capitalists' is a great option.
People absolutely should help guide that class consciousness that is emerging as we should make sure they don't fall into chuds hands, but not invite them here.
Beatnik explicitly made it as a containment comm. Nobody's coming to swarm this site anytime soon.
Or really just any indication that we've opened the floodgates to capitalism-loving redditors because we created a comm for the GME drama.
I've been thinking about the radicalization thing all day. Here's the issue. You have a group of frustrated people, alienated by capitalism. Yes there's some very comfortable people on r/wsb who are just playing a game. I'm not talking about them. There's also a lot of kids who aren't going to know what they are for a while. Then there's the schlubs who thinks they can gamble enough to pay off their student loans or get momma's hoof surgery.
We know we're not going to get $2000 checks. We're going to be lucky to get $1200 checks by April. So there's no help coming. These people are up against a wall, they've resorted to gambling.
If this shit works out and enough people make money off GME, even if it's not lambo money, then that will be a problem. These people who have been abandoned by their government will suddenly get a few hundred dollars and realize how great capitalism is. They will think that the government can't help them, and the only way to meet material needs is to participate in capitalism on this level. To put money into their hands is a powerful thing. It's meeting their needs in a way no political party or government has been able to do. This will be a barrier to radicalizing them against capitalism. You won't be able to tell them to abandon the panremovedo game that just gave them money in favor of waiting on the government to do stuff.
Obviously we understand what getting money from line go up really means. We can contextualize it and engage with it without turning into a capitalist. But some struggling person who just got in on this will only see cash in their hand.
It's funny this is happening. Under Trump we got socialism (obviously I'm using that word this way for effect), twice. We get checks from the government. Under Biden, no checks but the free market meets our needs. They really are opposites. Contradictions. They themselves are contradictions and are contradictions of one another while existing in a contradictory world.
Good post, hopefully the inherent ridiculousness of the situation will help to mitigate that. Also what was panremovedo supposed to be??
"the issue isn't capitalism, we're just not doing capitalism hard enough. We need to deregulate the markets, the freer the markets the freer the people!"
Free market proceeds to ban sales to the little guy over an app - "ILLIGAL! MARKET MANIPULATION!" Legit, how hollow brained are some of these people? That's exactly what regulations are supposed to prevent.
The word we carries so much weight that Brian Shaw would blush. When we beat them, it's because there's class consciousness that can help define the deep, empty alienation. It's clear that it exists when you feel ecstatic about a hedge fund going under. That viscera wouldn't exist if you had never been introduced to the idea that there is a class of people rigging the game. It doesn't take a lefty meme to convince people to jump on the gamestop train, they just get it. If not class, then who is the we that took on wall street? Unless they feel some supernatural connection to posters exclusive to r/wsb and believe they are solely responsible for the short squeeze, then we probably means that there is a side they are on. Apolitical is lazy and lacks introspection into what is right there in their face plain as day - who exactly is we? Whose interests are antithetical to we?
There will be some people who can turn out good, but others won't be great. https://twitter.com/champagnesocia8/status/1355026145813659649
Still, we should make sure there is a socialist response to this.
