Just verification that they know their views are despicable at some level, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves.

Oh I think the capitalist “grown ups” as you say only concerned with quarterly GDP and their own individual hoards in charge are doing fine on their own. Don’t you?

They don’t need some idiot commie child as you say like me getting in the way of this great society’s trajectory. This bull is loose!

I lost, we leftists lost, and since the capitalists are destroying the very COMMUNal climate we rely on from one breath to the next, it’s too late for us to ever turn it around, as civilization hangs by a thread on the easy baby “just don’t shit where you sleep” climate mode we enjoyed and are eviscerating as we speak in the name of year over year metastasis.

What does winning feel like? Is it awesome? Do you feel victorious in your capitalist society?

(for me the main one are the tankie scum devs)

This right here is the crux of the problem and why the problem goes back so much further than the design and algorithms of platforms. We teach kids to focus on individual achievement, to celebrate the self, and we don’t teach empathy, something that needs to be taught young and can easily be taught but the west increasingly considers weakness and a dirty word.

When we fail to teach citizens of a society collectivism, because being a member of a society means you are part of a collective whether you decide to be a good collective that functions or one that operates against itself (herp derp competition!) that does not, you get communication between members like this.

“I hate these people fuck them they should me more like MEEEE” “their opinions suck because they aren’t more like MIIIINE” and we act as a bunch of petulant infants that resent each other’s very existence in OUR world.

If we were taught that it is our responsibility to lift one another up, if we rewarded people in society on the basis of who and how many others they’ve helped and not how much they hoarded for THEMSELVES, this wouldnt be as much of a problem. We could, now that we don’t have to survive in nature, orient our mindsets to the positive, which would have to be encouraged young. Instead we’re made to be like… This. A useful state for killing a rival in YOUR hunting area when there’s only enough game in the region for one tribe to survive the winter, not so much when trying to build a civilization up. And don’t get me started on the counterproductive mindfuck that is nation states and super serious imaginary lines between them, meant to protect hoards of INDIVIDUAL wealth of respective elites.

The problem is, how do you start such a virtuous cycle when everyone from the owners down are only concerned with “ME ME ME MINE MINE MINE?”

Then again you hate tankies, so go ahead and cuss me out for calling out the reality that capitalism, especially when it has effectively conquered the culture, turns people into selfish little gremlins more likely to shoot a stranger than help them.

Isn’t this like the quintessential Nazi skit to a T?

“He sot it vas funny. Iz it funny now? Vy aren’t you laffing?”

that one liberal

As a democratic socialist I think I am more annoyed by neolibs than the Fascists. I wish the Fascists were gone more, but the neolibs found a way to be more insufferable.

Fascists largely seem to know they’re selfish, hateful pricks and take a perverse pride in it. Note the shit eating grins and lazy circular arguments meant to provoke more than defend.

Liberals want to have their cake and eat it too. They have no problem with mass homelessness so long as it’s not in their backyard, and they like record profits even when it involves legal murder of customers, but they blow a microchip when informed that means they work against society and are also selfish fucks who want there to be winners and losers instead of everyone having full bellies. You cant be for mass homelessness, for basic needs not being met by some while others have too much and be a decent person.

At least the Devil is the Devil and not perpetually trying to find the new middle ground of greed and power and asking to be called a good boy or girl for it. I prefer sociopaths that announce themselves.

I mean, his voters will believe it.

They’d jump off the empire state building if the Administration told them it would pwn the libs.

I voted for Harris, just as I voted for neoliberal fascist light my entire life out of race to the bottom harm reduction. I’m 40 and have had no non-capitalist filth to vote For in a general, yes I primary, my entire life. Unchecked capitalism always leads to fascism.

Don’t pretend that the tide of fascism hasn’t been rising since Reagan with Democrats. Democrats take the same marching orders on the economy and have no problem with mass homelessness and industries like “Healthcare” killing their marks for sport. Democrats just shrug and call it market forces instead of pointing and laughing at you, which is better, hence why I vote for them.

You should MOURN every vote for them as I do though. Whether this happened in 2020,2024,or 2028, this was happening. The table was set and the Fascist’s “opposition” have done nothing but enable them and become more like them for half a century. Note how their fighting against this tide with furrowed brows and doubling down on hating leftists who have never had a shred of power in this country but are still somehow the big enemies as their esteemed opposition build concentration camps, lol it’s pathetic.

Next cycle the Overton window will have Democrats calling for more humane concentration camps in their march rightward into meeting the Fascists in the new middle. I guarantee it. After all, just as with our regular prison INDUSTRY, there’s profit to be made in such projects, and those profiteers will be happy to bribe both parties as usual.

Even IF there’s another real election, and even IF the neoliberals win, they’ll do NOTHING to reign in our robber baron profiteers destroying the world and our society, which will leave the table set for the Fascists to continue their work in another 4.

But hey at least we’ll burn not being socialists, amirite?

“Dad why do you take pills?”

I have crippling neck pain.

“why?”

I’ll tell you when you’re older.

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Good news, you’ll never have to feel the ick of an equitable economy or being part of a society that prioritizes the wellbeing of its citizenry over GDP here in the west.

Phew amirite? Enjoy capitalist paradise! Participation is voluntary*

*voluntary participation subject to dying in the gutter of exposure and capital defense force brutality if poor citizen fails to volunteer for capitalist exploitation. The owner class reserves all rights to kill you anyway if you threaten quarterly earnings estimates such as drawing on Healthcare benefits you paid into when you need to use them.

Nah.

We think we’re that powerful, but there’s an entire domain of creatures we can barely reach that utilize geothermal energy that will just keep plugging away out of our sphere of influence.

Surface and shallow water life is and will suffer greatly until we burn ourselves out and are no longer a threat on the scale we currently are, but humans are even egotistical in this topic. We couldn’t come close to sterilizing this world, even if it magically became as important to us as fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value.

We are a nuisance, but we aren’t the first evolutionary nuisance the earth has dealt with. We have no mastery over this world as much as many like to believe so. A nuclear detonation possesses a tiny fraction of the power of a volcanic eruption.

Hitler deserved to be murdered before he offed himself.

If you agree with the above, all that’s being discussed is degree of horribleness.

I’m going to respectfully disagree with your edit.

Just to be clear, respectfully to you, not the dead corpo slumlord CEO lady.

If you want to believe me calling them the peak of capitalism by capitalism’s own inhuman metrics is a compliment, knock yourself out.

Are you kidding?

From the perspective of capitalists, Boeing is the fucking dream. They can innovate fuck not at all, they can bury inconvenient data AND the people who know it with impunity, and since they’re too big to fail in literally the cronyest capitalist industry on Earth, American War, the government not only won’t lift a finger, but will actively print money to give to them to let them keep doing all of the above in perpetuity.

Boeing is the capiteeliest of capitalist success stories. You didn’t think modern corporations actually believed their own propaganda about free markets deciding profit and success based on herp derp honest compertition? Thats just the bullshit they drive into kids minds when they can’t yet muster questions or concerns to ruin their lives and forge them into wage zombie husks. Capitalists want to win, preferably at the gunpoint of their captured governments, because actually prouducing products/services that people actually want is for suckers.

I know we are not monkeys and are closer related to apes.

I know monkey has been used as a racial slur.

It just sounds better than ape.

That said, I think if used holistically towards the entire species, and I do myself included, Monkey ticks all the right boxes because it immediately cuts down our species’ unearned God complex about being somehow above just another animal mutation cohabitating on this world. We aren’t, we’re just the shittiest conceivable roommates.

We crow about our vocal chords. We crow about our opposable thumbs. But really, our species should just go down as monkeys/apes with a runaway ego mutation, nothing more. That’s hitting us where it hurts, our inflated sense of specialness and self-importance, literally the only remarkable trait about us.

Hope they find happiness together!

Wow they stopped maybe 5 whole people from competing in games that were supposed to be about bringing the world together that’s turned into just another shouting match between petty assholes taking the entire concept to hell.

Sports are games, fun little doofy things primarily for children that adults can like too. The shouting matches about doping, the doping itself, “no fair no fair they’re cheating,” and the massive paychecks for professional level sports are why I don’t give any of the bullshit the time of day and never will.

Leave it to humans to remove from a concept the entire reason for that concept’s creation in the first place: fun.

Fuck competition for competition’s sake. Cooperation should have been our species business. The minute both teams/players aren’t smiling and laughing after the game, the game has lost all meaning and has become a shitty game that shouldn’t exist. That goes for you NFL, NBA, and yes, even the Olympics.

Come back when it’s about the world coming together again and not geopolitical medal count competition screeching.

As an American, good luck trying to offend me about how loathsome the US and it’s people largely are.

There’s a small class of people who civilization has put in absolute power based on how effectively greedy and sociopathic they are. Did you expect such people to be ethical and moral and decent with their exploited hoards as they sit above those that would regulate, judge, and police them? Then greed, sociopathy, and willingness to exploit their brothers and sisters to death for an extra nickel shouldn’t have been made the metrics for societal power that they have. It’s wealthy people who think rules and laws are for their little peasant capital batteries.

The wealthy elite have always been largely pedophilic. Didn’t start and certainly didn’t stop with Epstein as just one of their facilitators.

Don’t like it? At least be against and vote against capitalism and rampant economic inequity. Otherwise 78 choices of cereal are more important to you than children not being raped by rich people just because they can.

They’re bored, have infinite resources, and by the nature of their insatiable greed and sociopathic treatment of those they exploit feel the need to test their limits and taste that which most consider forbidden. That makes it more desirable to them, not less.

Society should check, temper, and commit such people for everyone’s safety, instead they own the government, and freely fuck kids and teens when they aren’t being literally infused with their young blood to try to live longer. Enjoy their “free market.” Hey, at least we aren’t socialists amirite?