Hello Ketene posted:

lol

Teal posted:

The tragedy of the radical left is that the emotional baseline of regular leftists isn't to want others dead.

Killing people is bad so as a socialist you have to construct a pretty complex justification for why someone deserves to die, which may hold up fine when shitposting on some gay dead forum, but doesn't offer itself well to driving you to a (probably suicidal) murder. Even as you push the socialist thought to absolute extreme the only remaining justification is "wellbeing of the many comes before wellbeing of the few" and that's pretty hard to act on when you aren't even sure bombing the fuckers would be helpful in the first place.

Meanwhile the more radical right thought gets the less reason to not murder people there is; the weak deserve it, you're always doing the society a favor by removing whoever you deem unworthy even if simply because some able to kill removing someone unable to defend themselves means the strong defeated the weak, which is always good.

To be able to murder in volume, the left waits for people like Stalin and Beria who're outright ill and insane and happy to internally justify the need to kill through paranoia or basic sadism.

Meanwhile on the right, people like Breivik need to be only a little deranged to convince themselves that murdering kids en masse is the right thing to do, because the kids are already lost to ideological rot and you're essentially doing them a favor by putting them down.

Tubgoat posted:

It's not the doctors making these bad decisions or profitting from them, it's whatever loving private company, which, to my mind, is infinitely worse.

skooma512 posted:

America is less the land of opportunity, and more the land of perceptions.

We want you to perceive that prices are low, so we hide the tax till the end and make you tip servers. The sticker price is low though!

We want you to perceive that college is solely about merit, only the best and brightest go to the top universities. Even though everyone suspects this is not really the case, that it's really just class proofing and it's generally only the rich and well connected at these schools, they're still shocked when the truth comes out. Prestigious schools are kind of a potemkin meritocracy. They went to the good school, so they must be qualified to lead us and hoard all the money. It's more of a class signifier than anything else, that's why they say college is about "connections" and not knowledge.

T-man posted:

any situation where we don't have enough people on board to literally just ignore the rich in their bunkers and take/use/distribute the means of production they'll just mow us down and go back to business as usual

people have leftist revolutions, had leftist revolutions, will probably continue to try to have them, but the enemy is global, well organized, and willing to do anything -- and they have a volunteer army of magabombers, bootlickers, and other true believers

the guillotine must be in your heart, your assumptions and understandings about the world, and be a part of your very nonexistent soul if you want to really get away from the tendrils of capitalist indoctrination

they just need to wait out the game, we need to get like 90% of the board without tipping them off, playing from last place with a team that's probably 50% plants and 150% in love with arguing

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Jesus, this temperature garbage has spread to another thread. Kindly knock it off.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I don't believe that there are rural areas so spread out that couldn't be solved by a determined-enough mass transit network.

T-man posted:

are you really claiming "maybe a global supply chain will be unsustainable" is the same as "trans people eat bark for hormones"

it's like talking to toddlers with phds in misreading people

CharlestheHammer posted:

what is with this weird torture thing people keep bringing up. I havent seen it so is it some kind of weird projection

CharlestheHammer posted:

why do you want to see people suffer

T-man posted:

nerd


never stop posting it's the only way to socialism

dex_sda posted:

I don't dispute that, but so is dating outside of them, and that's something that feels rare in hollywood

dex_sda posted:

They're still practical and utilitarian, don't let the brainwormed bougie people buying watches for 500/1000/10000 bucks poison that idea

T-man posted:

just send me several handfuls of cash with a blue background, you might need to sell a few organs to afford it

i will spend it on many handfuls of ounces of weed.

GalacticAcid posted:

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1230432908030218240?s=21


there was a time I would have laughed at this but now I’m just broken

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Those schools exist exactly for those failsons

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The thing is about politics is that it was never about how 'smart' you are, it's about whether they appeal to you and appear to have something to offer

Liberals have completely forgotten this and are now completely blindsided by how all the young kids hate them and want Bernie because they've spend decades offering literally nothing but empty platitudes and can barely even be arsed making empty promises

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

there's absolutely a middle class still, it's just that everything's backslid so much that this now seems unattainable to so many

middle class is owning a home large enough to comfortably have a family in, probably even housing at least one grandparent, and being able to afford a yearly vacation. ofc adequate healthcare is assumed for this household, as is food security

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lmao

Koishi Komeiji posted:

https://twitter.com/scttdvd/status/1232447346769661952
"Houses are like living breathing things and need compassion in the form of repairs. Also, this does not apply to humans."

exmachina posted:

Uhh the properties class were generally royalists, parliamentarians usually made money in trade i.e. smuggling

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1235848812691771392?s=19

SpelledBackwards posted:

Warmachine posted:

I can take solace in the fact that these fuckers will starve to death with a can of tuna in their hands should they ever manage to drive the world into the ground.

chaleski posted:

Ayn Rand called anyone who used social programs a parasite and she herself used Social Security and Medicare late in life, so she wasn't entirely wrong

World War Mammories posted:

there's a nerd-rear end joke about the numidium in here somewhere

Cup Runneth Over posted:

My stance imho

We could use more of his kind of class traitor

Cup Runneth Over posted:

I fail to see how abandoning your class for another is not the very definition of a betrayal but you do you man, I'm not gonna stop you from guillotining anyone who's ever had a net worth over a billion

Flesh Forge posted:

this is known as "pulling the ladder up behind you" and it's terrible

Flesh Forge posted:

lol I also come from a computer toucher background and yes, that's exactly what it is. you might justify it as doing what you have to to survive in america but it's not something to be proud of at all.

Flesh Forge posted:

for any of you that have never worked in corporate american IT (and probably a lot of the rest of the world too idk) there are literally ARMIES of IT people in big companies who reach a certain level of responsibility and then pull the ladder up behind them so no one else can follow. they're also called "empire builders" and again, I guess you can justify this kind of thing to yourself as doing what you have to to survive, but it's at the expense of your fellow workers, you are definitely not ~sticking it to the company~. if they want you gone bad enough, they bring in a company like Accenture whose entire loving business model is this thing of empire building, and simply replace whatever process you carefully crafted with something newer and more expensive.