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      13 days ago

      Right, right, they voted for Trump to tear down a fundamentally white supremacist society.

      Yay you.

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    when you destroy something many use, you should have a working replacement ready to plug into the space

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      Hard disagree. Else, there would never be any revolution, but history shows otherwise.
      Or, as Marcuse put it, the prerequisite for radically rejecting something is not that you have to know what will come afterwards, but at first, you’ll enter a process of rejection of the existing situation and during this process of rejection, you’ll gradually free yourself from shackles and figure out what is to come next.

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    Good luck with that. A couple of weeks without hair appointments and the million Karen march started right up with the assistance of the monied interests that really run this place. The people in this country are more willing to sacrifice others than to undergo the inconvenience of changing their hair appointments.

    The people of this country claim to want positive change, but the change they really want is more lethal police, more tax cuts for the rich, more deportations, more punishment, more violence for those stepping out of line, and more jail slaves.

    America will never get any better without first even partially living up to its “melting pot” “community” and “brotherly love” rhetoric, and there’s not even a slim fucking chance of that ever happening in my opinion.

    We hate each other, we hate ourselves, and we accept politics that vibes well with the pervasive notions that the poor deserve their shitty lot in life, that people who don’t look, sound, eat, live, or pray like us are terrible, that women should be in the kitchen, that education is for nerds, and that rich people and famous people are inherently better than us.

    I’d post quotes of George Carlin explaining twenty years ago that we should stop voting for rich people that don’t give a shit about us, or Vonnegut saying how the poor hate themselves in this country in a book he wrote decades ago but the only nerds interested in such things have already seen, heard, or read them.

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      Tankies just want social-democracy without the democracy part (a social-autocracy), and often have the same exact work moralism as hustle bros. We libertarian-socialists, on the other hand, are your friend.

      We tried to get things better by working with liberals. They only wanted our votes. And lately they’ve been giving us less and less reasons to do so, and even less for the less politically literate. If the democrats are going in the direction they’re currently, their only saving grace next election will be that they won’t do further harm, because they were been told by some people they were “too far left”.

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    Well go on then. Bunch of leftists protest voted or didn’t vote. Y’all got what you wanted, an expedited collapse. So go on then. Your turn. Burn it down.

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        Exactly. It’s a pipe dream for petulant toddlers who don’t like the very hard work of fixing the broken system with a broken system.

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          It’s a pipe dream

          Really? Is that why they’ve spent trillions throughout the last century on capitalist and fascist propaganda every year to convince you it’s just a “pipe dream?”

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              That’s a rather silly thing to do - create an entire military-industrial complex to crush a mere “pipe dream.” That is, unless you are suggesting that they know perfectly well that it’s most definitely not a mere “pipe dream?”

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                  They’d better hope then that nothing bad happens to their precious military-industrial complex, then, eh?

                  You know, like losing their access to the imperial holdings that supplies it with cheap fuel, cheap resources and cheap labor?