• Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This explains why the religious nutbags in the ruling class are attempting to bring The End Times,

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Even if there’s a working class revolution, things are still completely fucked.

    The biggest issue isn’t who is in charge, it’s the fact that humans are fundamentally incapable of cooperating across large groups.

    We couldn’t even get the population to wear masks during a global pandemic killing so many people that hospitals needed to bring in refrigerator trucks to store the bodies.

    But those same salt of the earth workers are going to negotiate climate controls with China?

    Yeah, right.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The biggest issue isn’t who is in charge, it’s the fact that humans are fundamentally incapable of cooperating across large groups.

      I’m not so sure that this is an inherent problem with humanity so much as it is a symptom of our current political and economic systems and culture.

      Take you pandemic/mask example for instance. Pretty much everyone was on board with masks, social distancing, etc, until a few weeks/months in when it got politicized. Conservative leaders saw they could rile up their base by take a stance against the science. And they took advantage of our cultural preference for individualism where we could instead have a more collectivist culture.

      These systems and cultural norms aren’t inherent to humans. It’s inherent to our shitty half-democracy, capitalism, etc.

      But those same salt of the earth workers are going to negotiate climate controls with China?

      The oil lobby pays shit loads of money to propagandize the population in the exact same way the tobacco industry did it. Start dealing with that, and the workers won’t buy the bullshit propaganda anymore.

  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    Too bad most progressive left leaning people who this comic is talking about don’t own firearms to fight the ruling class.

    And if you’re reading this thinking of rebuking with “there’s a lot of liberal gun owners”, the reality is that most of pro gun culture is monopolized by right wing Republicans and not only do they outnumber you by an alarmingly high order of magnitude, they side with the boot lickers and cops who protect the ruling class.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      thats the sad truth of it, they ain’t massacring us because we ain’t a threat. but back when we were, in not-so-distant past, workers were murdered for disrupting and striking.

      they don’t care about climate change beyond how it affects their power. they will not just repent and hand the world over.

        • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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          5 months ago

          Yes and no. We don’t have school shootings so that’s a plus. I guess not having guns is the cost of that, which is pretty fair. Some people are allowed guns, but you need a special license for it.

          Edit: also we actually have stronger unions and more strike action even without guns. They don’t actually help outside of a revolution. If anything we have less police violence because we don’t have guns, so the most of police don’t either. As a police officer you have to have special specific training to even handle a taser, nevermind a gun.

          • BaroqueInMind@kbin.run
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            5 months ago

            Sounds like a great role model to follow. Since you never mentioned what country you are fucking talking about we all will assume it’s a random one. So let’s just say, you’re talking about Mongolia.