delaunayisation

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[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you aware that Biden co-authored the bankruptcy bill that caused the entire student loan catastrophe?

And you're telling me that both sides actually do the same thing for the climate (that is nothing), just one side has a better PR?

We don't have time for the childish games of the oligarchs. Unless you realize that they all are your enemies and unless you organize in a unified front of the working class, it will all end in a catastrophe that will make WW II seem like a pleasant afternoon.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can say thanks to the authors of the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. Amongst them being Senator Joe Biden. A bill that he defended back in 2020 during his campaign claiming that he "improved it".

Both Republicans and Democrats want to have slaves, Dems just provide a longer leash.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope you all appreciate that Biden co-authored the bankruptcy bill that made it all possible.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That Pakistani flag is very ironic considering how Biden organized the coup there.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

lmao his family "suffered" because his father was a fraudster that tried to get rich on scamming the US government during the war. The stories about his blue-collar roots are as real as Kim Jong Un inventing pizza.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And you know what should happen? There should be actual primaries. But they're not even pretending at this point.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

If you're not in a swing state then your vote is about as valuable as spitting into a trashcan.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact that they've been running with one angle for some decades before it got exposed doesn't mean they couldn't have changed it. They're not that stupid.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why am I not surprised in the slightest.

And yes. All those propaganda efforts find very ripe ground with the imperial middle class. My favorite is how easily people fell for the idea of "supplier framework of greenhouse emissions" that makes it seem that it's all some ten guys collectively emitting all the world's carbon dioxide - simply because it exonerated all of the middle class' senseless consumption. It doesn't make sense under even the slightest scrutiny - but they simply don't care. It makes them feel good about themselves so they swallow the propaganda; hook, line, sinker, pole.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can assure you that after years of active engagement in politics in various forms I can differentiate between arguing and what is just using the privilege of entrenchment in the system to dismiss any opposing view as illegitimate.

Those people almost never engage with presented points. They prefer to construct their own strawman because then they can attack it with the well-hammered propaganda slogans. And if all else fails, there's invariably someone to accuse anyone who is to the left of them as being either a trumpist or russian troll for a thunderous applause.

 

I wasted way too much time arguing with liberals on the internet and I just need to vent my frustrations. They turned inaction into a virtue: they call it "pragmatism". Vote for Biden, don't question the genocide. They reject the "idealism" of action, critique or even the simple act of imagining the alternative. They consider themselves to be the adults in the room while they are nothing more than reactionaries themselves enabling the worst perversions of this capitalist-realist system.

It's so frustrating to see this, to see their smug self-sanctification when they just follow the line of the least resistance, when all the effort they put is into retaining their own comfort. They talk about "saving democracy" while attempting to squash any dissent, while being hostile to any alternative that is not a liberal democracy.

They react violently to anything that could imaginably threaten the system exactly because they are comfortable in it. They know that they sit atop the piles of corpses of those murdered for their baubles, the oil for their cars and gas for heating their suburban homes. And they find it unimaginable to ever sacrifice even the smallest of those comforts.

They wear slogans of human rights on their chests but whenever it's the time to walk the walk, they melt into the thin air, always finding an excuse why it's not the right time. Why Biden can actually violate the Geneva Convention, why all they can do in a face of the genocide is to shrug.

As it goes in Disco Elysium:

"KINGDOM OF CONSCIENCE – Moralists don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth."

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But how else can the corporate bureaucracy hold its grip on people otherwise? The metrics are as necessary as catehism for catholicism.

[–] delaunayisation@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It would be funnier if both sides wouldn't employ shamanism.

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