FunkyStuff

the slopleeeer

Nice to meet one of my fans. Truly, it was an honor to make the other 9.

Do you think there's a world where the lib took the time to actually paint something over the picture?

The alternative is unthinkable. The sacred institutions having committed heinous crimes is such a shocking concept, liberals physically can't wrap their heads around it.

What I mean is that when capitalists need rapid accumulation of capital and not long term political stability, they opt for fascism. Colonialism and primitive accumulation are the mirrors of fascism, they're the aspect of capitalism that's found on its temporal (as in primitive accumulation as the pre-history of capitalism) and spatial (colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy) boundaries. When capital has a mandate to accumulate the largest amount of surplus value it can possibly get, with either low possibility of labor rising in the opposite direction (or a high risk, which paradoxically pushes capital in the same direction, to salvage what it can and destroy labor as much as possible), it resorts to abandon its human face.

(he's trans)

That's why Hamas Garfield is coming to save him

I really enjoyed Tár (2022)

That's not the point being argued at all. Linus Torvalds is a bit of a lib (though he has said some cool things over the years, not enough to outweigh his attitude towards Russian maintainers); the Linux community is itself full of libs. I've learned to live with that. I accept that. Why must you be a little piss baby about the Lemmy community having lots of communists when we all can clearly see it was made by communists to make sure there was a space for communists to exist online?

Liberalism is itself not practical (liberal ideology taken to the rational extreme of practicality and efficiency is just fascism) so the trick is to become selectively aware of the fact your worldview means nothing can ever change when people want to change something you like. I mean, seriously, apply her thought process to any political issue.

Trans rights in 2005? Oh, sorry, it's hopelessly impractical and because most women don't support trans rights we'd just be alienating them; we need to be practical and compromise with the transphobes so we can get things done.

Climate change? Degrowth and net zero is not a practical path, it's simply never gonna happen. Most car owners don't support mass transit so these utopian urbanist ideas are just shrinking the coalition. The left has once again chosen a doomed cause.

Socialism? Worker ownership of the means of production isn't realistic. Most shareholders and landlords just don't support taking their property away. The left needs to let go of these tangential issues that have no future.

Dictatorship = one dude with a hat or moustache tells everyone to do funny dances (see: North Korea)

Everyone doing funny dances because their refusal or inability to do so would cause them to starve in the streets? And the system of social relations that keeps this situation going is being propped up by violent force on behalf of a constellation of powerful people who own everything? Democracy.

The obvious answer is that the Clintons are heavily implicated, but in a more general sense, the point of blackmail is to extort someone into doing something on the condition that you don't release the blackmail. That's why they got Epstein to connect with so many academics, celebrities, and other public figures. If they were to just release the blackmail, it would lose intelligence agencies all their leverage.