MountainMan [any]

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: August 13th, 2022
  • MountainMan [any]tothe_dunk_tank•I swear these people are a corporate op
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    2 years ago

    There's a time and a place for the first part. I was given a cigarette at about 9, and it was literally 11 years before I could even bring myself to touch one again(and I still hardly smoke or vape). That being said just chucking kids into life unguided is self evidently stupid. Especially in cases like eating habits, where the natural consequences will take years to be noticed and potentially be a severe medical issue.

  • MountainMan [any]topolitics•Interesting article that analyzes the logic of MAGA Communism
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    2 years ago

    Well this one is a doozy

    The premise of Al-Din’s argument is that Trump fundamentally and irreversibly changed American politics—for the better, if one believes in class struggle. Before 2016, the political landscape in the United States was confined to two choices—Democrat or Republican—that were situated along different points of a narrow establishment continuum. Anyone who didn’t pledge allegiance to the status quo (including communists) was relegated to the margins of the political system—if not regarded as an enemy of the state.

    With Trump all this changed. For the first time in a long time, a mass movement emerged that situated itself outside of the status quo—against the status quo, in fact. “This means that radical political distinctions, rather than simple differences of opinion, are now possible, even in the realm of our democratic state.

    Well this can be argued I suppose

    not only because the MAGA movement draws its support base mainly from the working class

    Entirely and provably false, no matter how you measure it. The militants of the maga movement have always been petite bourgeoisie

    [American communists] can join leftists in demonizing MAGA supporters as inherently racist, xenophobic, and so on, which effectively means siding with the status quo, or they can sacrifice ideological purity and side with the only mass working-class and anti-establishment movement that currently exists in America. There is no middle path.

    You must either embrace this bourgeois party or this other bourgeois party.

    it isn’t always clear what the movement aims to do

    Astounding that this would be the case of a "movement" which mainly exists of a Twitter trend

    [The maga movement] aims to overthrow the monopolists, the bankers, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Big Tech

    Evidence? Like what policy did Trump do or even mention which could possibly be construed as any of this