When I look at what Christianity teaches it almost feels like it was a designed religion with the purpose of creating a perfect ethical system (at least the New testament stuff) but in a totally idealist framework. And the whole perversion of it by the evangelicals just shows why you can’t build a “utopia” off of idealism
I always liked Chomsky’s answer to this, which was something like “if the work is really that undesirable to everyone, then maybe we could distribute among the population to ease the overall discomfort from it”
That is assuming it’s not a job that requires years of specialized education or training to be competent at it
Yea I think the best we can hope for from “slop” is for it to funnel people into the leftist pipeline. If it’s not entertaining people won’t watch it, and I get that because sometimes you’re not in the mood to watch or read some theoretical work.
Right wing slop already serves this purpose, with the people who consume it not even aware it’s right wing
Thankfully it only took the lightest of pushback to tell him he was wrong, but my hopes aren’t high for the average person to identify nazis
Actually had a real live person say the Elon Musk sieg heil wasn’t actually a sieg heil because Kamala did it before.
I knew this would be the result of the media downplaying it but damn, feels bad seeing it for real.
Fr, I hate how the only solution people can come up with for improving healthcare is “competition”
There are alot of posts dunking on libs (deservedly so) but I can’t help but think that its because the fascists have basically gotten everything they wanted and the liberals are just easy targets right now due to them not having a stable ideology.
Not trying to defend these people, but shitting on them doesn’t really make me feel any better about the situation. It just illustrates more the powerlessness of the left and the strength of the right.
Word. I’m getting Barron Trump thirst traps and Elon sieg heiling
History isn’t predetermined, but I’ve been reading about the history of fascism and I imagine it will be somewhat similar to what happened in Germany in the 1930s.
We’ll see more inflation, workers rights repealed, the proletarianization of the “middle class” especially those not unionized. Government will probably intervene when some companies start collapsing, but it will never nationalize these companies ensuring that the profits are always private. There will also be need of a scapegoat for all these crises so lots of violence against the poor and minorities unfortunately
ngl, I had this realization when he took office in 2017. I genuinely thought the president had limited powers because of how limited Obama was in passing good things, but then day 1 Trump disproved that
Just seeing posts of people showing off Chinese city infrastructure is making me want to move to China. There was even a video going through a poor neighborhood and it looked better than some rich neighbordhoods I’ve seen in the US
Any books you would recommend?
The youth shall become socialists 
I agree, that’s why I said it’s only somewhat effective
The only somewhat effective way of countering carbrain is by travelling to different countries, and experiencing decent public transit for the first time. Still, there are people who do see it and are stuck at the idea that it just can’t be implemented in their own country.
I almost lost my mind once when someone was telling me that a train is less scalable than a car. Like dude, do you think paved roads just spontaneously burst out of the ground?
I do like how the TikTok ban disproves “the free market leads to better quality products/services because competition”. If it was true then the competition would force American companies to innovate or improve their own products to compete with TikTok rather than lobby banning it. But capitalist owners know this isnt true, the government knows this isnt true, only the brainwashed MBA’s and tech bros believe this lie
If a socialist or any one who is even remotely left tries to gain power
Oh god, I’m embarrassed for him
At this point I believe the democrats are deliberately trying to boost Trump’s approval rating.
Why? So they justify their own right wing turn? They want to work across the aisle? Idk pick whatever reason you want.
I guess normalizing Trump does ward off any revolutionary potential in the population, so maybe it’s not so farfetched.
The media is complicit in letting fascism rise. They are downplaying it so that to the average person that doesn’t follow politics won’t think much about it.
I think to the average person, they think when fascism comes it will be obvious. They probably don’t realize that fascism in Germany and Italy arose from economic conditions not psychological ones so it’s not even a possibility in their mind. They also wouldn’t get that in Hitler’s time, people would defend him as well as they are doing Elon. There’s also maybe a bit of denialism because believing in the truth is just too horrifying for them.