final-thread.bsky.social
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I kind of feel like the greatest propagandistic effort in the world has been in convincing people that the military itself isn't a separate and malignant interest.
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Well it's not supposed to be. It's all for a few weapons contractors, the military and many other interests who syphon the blood and money of everyone else.
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israel needs iran to get more money. Playing the game until they actually do get hit. Just seems unsustainable.
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It's poking the bear for a strike here to get the public to revert back to where it was 20 years ago. That's all I got for where we are at right now.
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It's like ok, america will forcefully set them back a little to open the door for more........ diplomacy?
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Caught a little bit of abc coverage of this. They said they just struck secondary sites to "set them back" a little. What's the point then? Get ready for a lot of tactical expertise.
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Oklahoma is up 7 points in the series.
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Maybe not the best time but he pops up for me every once in a while.
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UBI was a lob to any true leftist and everybody whiffed and spun out of the park vomiting all over on the way.
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Bernie not taking it on was a red flag.
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How yang would've handled israel is a wild card. He has demonstrated he's a bad actor many times but having bernie in that position may have irreparably damaged the left. Yang was a snowball in hell to win and another snowball to pass ubi but the push is vitally important.
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I got mine jack. I'm a marxist-leninist-reaganite.
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It's a market-based solution that will raise the cost of everything. Workers should seize the means of production.
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Or even then at the very least no longer be considered on the left.
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People should care about the causes that affect them the most but it really shouldn't be a lot to ask that they don't stomp on everyone else.
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All you need to be on the left is just have people in your social group confirming it. No basic knowledge of the world you live in is needed.
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And... just the fact that this even has to be pointed out.
"Get a job!" isn't funny or some jab back at privileged people. It's crabs in a bucket conservatism and shows a lack of desire for a systemic transition.
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This is what I mean when I say everyone is too conservative.
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"Get a job!" Just like everyone else.
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What does the left say?
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Kidnapping people. All the conspiracists wildest nightmares. All of that. And to here people be stern about how there's no justification for such a thing at all is just flummoxing really.
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Went back and revaluated some of this. I neglected prisons and criminalization. Talk of "innocent" people being raided. The naked racism taking center stage over the underlying fucking problem of raiding people.
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More specifically inequality and merit being embedded than capitalism I should've said.
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I'm just not cut out to continue the critique of capitalist ideology that is deeply embedded in every facet of our lives. Universalism really is the antidote and so few are receptive because of how virtuous capitalism has made its adherents as well as many of its rebels.
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How many times have you heard the following sentiment expressed: If they can do this to so and so what do you think they're doing in the fields and underpasses?
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The ability to intellectualize and philosophize all of this with ease?
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Perhaps it's the age old disconnect of the privileged? The know-it-alls who know who's oppressed and who isn't.
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It's funny how those who are the most eager for conflict seem the least interested in winning.
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Leftism then fades more and more and seems nothing more than an establishment goal post that tightens against any hope for change. A constant plea for only the deserving as determined by capitalism in the first place.
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If there's still a minority that suffers in poverty your politics aren't liberatory.
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They're always a lie, both in form and function. A universal distribution should be what's called for first so that needs can be truly addressed.
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More universal support and less lionizing of labor is the true way forward.
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What brought us here again, politically?
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Technocracy may be better than what we have but doesn't it presuppose an ignorant and exploitable mass to prop it up?
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Getting a mass mobilization of workers in key industries to start implementing policy sounds great. What would get that to happen? What's to prevent them from becoming a new technocratic establishment?