I really went down the ancap rabbit hole, but the whole time I was thinking the end goal was promoting equality and the government was getting in the way by rigging the market for the ruling class. Which, you know, it is, but really doesn’t change anything about the injustice of owners taking all the profit.
Genuinely everyone has a story about talking to one exactly like this. It’s like they put a chip in their brain to prevent making the connection.
I read that to the tune of ‘Shaft’.
I can’t do anything about the evil billionaires. They already own the politicians and I can’t compete financially with that.
If we replace 100 of the blatantly billionaire and corporate owned politicians by voting in 100 who seem uncorrupted and idealistic and full of passion then most of them have sold out for personal gain before the election is even done. Within a year or two something like 98 of the 100 will have sold out their ideals for monies.
So what can I do? I can blame immigrants and brown people. Sure, it doesn’t actually help, but seeing goon squads in the street beating brown folks with batons and shooting innocent women for no reason at least puts a smile on my face. I can’t change the world, but I can at least find a bit of happiness in it. <3
Well the billionaires own the media. Left wing media won’t even let their journalists be activists because this would “conflict with objectivity.” Meanwhile, right-wing media just parrot narratives (favorable to privatization / big business) and call every sensible progressive policy “woke”.
Left wing… media? What’s that?
I’m trying to list all of the well-known news organizations that have a large reach, aren’t owned by a large corporation, and have large private endowment or some other form of complete financial security not reliant on the government or any of those large corporations.
I’m sure they’re probably some in the world. Maybe. But I can’t really think of any in the US.
Can anyone help me out here?
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But I think they own all of that now, don’t they?
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Liberal doesn’t mean left wing, it means pro-capitalist, anti-communist. The US tolerates no public leftist presence.
from what my sibling who did poli sci taught me, a lot of those stances are logical conclusions of the explicit property rights stances (liberal theory promotes personal, private and public property, whereas communism (if i understand it correctly and let me be clear i don’t) does away with private property. i’m not well read enough on the subject to say specifically where or how).
we really need different word in english for [member of the communist party] and [believer in/promoter of communism].
For an even better analysis than you could ever get in a university class, I highly recommend reading Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history for a more detailed history of what liberalism is. Even from its very foundations and founding authors, it was white supremacist, pro-slavery, anti-worker, pro-colonialism, pro-workhouse and prison, etc.
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I agree except on housing. That I will place the blame squarely on NIMBYs. Corpos only account for like 9% of housing/rental stock. A majority are mom and pop landowners with 1 or 2 properties in their portfolio. These homeowners lobby against development to protect property values.
There is no “left wing media.” “Left wing media” is a myth.
The only left wing media: BAMSE
bad ass malfunctioning sexual education?
Not everyone is Swedish…
i just been to the ikea a lot. the names start to make sense after a while. except for billy who would name a dresser billy.
I would
my billy dresser is much more of a will or a jim is all i’m saying
There’s a bit.
Online, mostly. More written and audio than video.
Please share
Yeah but it usually gets brought and turned into right wing media
Not just Americans. Right wing all around the world is doing the same thing. Even here in Portugal, same rhetoric from Chega.
I have a friend here in the Netherlands who blames leftist policies on all problems here, in spite of us having right-wing governments for 20+ years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
we in Italy have people (and right wing politicians) constantly saying that all the problems are caused by the left in 20 years of govern but in the last 30 years, most of the time it was right wing parties in power or if we had ““left”” wing parties they were in coalition with right wing ones so you couldn’t even call it a left government
And we should also talk how we barelly have a left because it’s mostly center left and center
Literally the whole “just get rid of billionaires” crowd when someone says that no one needs more than a million. Everyone thinks they will become a wholesome decamillionaire
I just want a livable community that doesn’t make my kids sick.
Okay, abolish capitalism. There is no way of satisfying your needs, which includes surviving climate change, without changing the fundamental structure of society.
Why did I start reading this to the tune of SpongeBob Squarepants and why did it kinda work?
Uh, yeah, why do you think billionaires buy up all the media?
It’s such a sad state of affairs, my local next door forum is full of things like, headlines of people getting slap on the wrist punishments for sexual assault of a minor and then people responding with “this is what socialism is doing to this country”.
Umm yeah, I’m sure mandami winning mayor in new york this year is why this bright red state, with a bright red state senate and bright red state house of representatives has had such lax laws that haven’t been updated in 30 years.
Okay, but is it really Bright Red? What if there’s an enormous fifth column of hidden leftists who are actually making things worse? Please consider that I don’t actually like half the people in my government. And anyone I don’t like is a Secret Socialist. While anyone I do like is red in tooth and claw fighting a Rambo-esque insurgency against armies of invisible tankies who want America to fail.
Yep. Social security is terrible. Grandma is why everything is terrible right now. Not Musk or Altman or Theil. Grandma and her entitlement to money she worked for, for years.
Supreme doublethink.
