I never didn't when I reached the age of reason and saw the social tolerancecelebration worship of unchecked avarice as the core rot in our civilization for what it is.
Im glad so many are finally overcoming their capitalist "greed is rational and your lessers have to lose for you to win" programming, even at this late hour as the capitalists burn the very world under our feet... and your grandmother who needs a hip replacement or chemotherapy alive... for another nickel on their sociopath hoards.
Do we want a society... And all the benefits that being an actual society with a functioning social contract entails? Or do we want to continue to be a bunch of temporarily embarrassed millionaires pathetic mark suckers at each other's throats tearing eachother down over scraps and false promises (hard work will be rewarded! Consumption will make you feel better! The odds are ever in your favor!) so we never look up at our owners?
I'm not even suggesting they be adjusted, because I'm not a sociopath like they are. Use an economic guillotine, confiscate their exploitation gotten hoards for the commons(yes nationalize essential industries like utilities and Healthcare so they're owned by society), reshape the economy to stop rewarding speculative gambling with exploitation gotten chips over honest labor and vocations like teachers that keep civilization running, obviously institute a maximum wealth cap as other people live in this society going forward to prevent recurrance, bring their ego scores to zero for their murderous greed, let them keep $20 and give each of them a set of literal, cheap bootstraps, and let them get a real job.
Bar them from forming any kind of corporate entities or investing in anything other than a standard savings account for life, just as people convicted of computer crimes are sometimes barred from operating computers as they've proven they're a danger to others with them.
I'd be shocked if half of them didn't take themselves out of the equation suddenly being subject to the same reality as their current livestock.
It's why them calling themselves Christian is a joke.
I'm an atheist, but was raised Christian, and unlike most of them, actually read their rulebook. If Jesus Christ of the New Testament existed, no one in the "Christian" right would be welcome in his house. It's not even about no true Scottsman, they don't try but fall short of their self-professed Lord's word. They literally, enthusiastically play opposite day with their self-identified Lord's word every single day and call it piety.
The Bible to them is nothing but a prop, thumping the book they don't read as they see it is literally just a means to be morally "on base," knowing themselves to be morally superior while having license to support any inhumanty, solely by virtue of holding that book they don't read, because they choose to willfully ignore any intrinsic sense of morality in favor of hatred and schaudenfreude they've been conditioned to need through for profit media and for profit prosperity gospel confidence scams.
Pathetic zombies, most of whom are beyond any hope of deprogramming, as they've darkly poetically developed a taste for human blood.
But serial killer tours are booming, there's like 5 different jack the ripper tour companies in London.
Like it or not, people appreciate the craft. Plus the most successful serial killers in history can't hold a candle to a lot of capitalists that get puff pieces in Forbes killing their customers to increase profit. And don't get me started on governments.
Serial killers are amateurs when it comes to mass murder. Rookie numbers. US schoolchildren have proven to be as good as the best of them by the numbers.
Serial killers are more like hipster artisinal murder craftsmen that want you to appreciate the intricacies of their methods.
As an anticap American, made so by our worship of greed and glut and sociopathic cruelty in the name of profit, I make it my mission at work to do as little as possible, and gum up the works at my greedy employer's as much as possible without it looking like I am.
I'm doing my part to stifle GDP! Are you?
(In a non-captured oligarchal dictatorship, if you wanted worker buy in, remake the tax code to punish corporations and incentivize cooperatives. That can't happen here, we're too captured, but theoretically)
At which point, I will roll my eyes, tear up my ballot, and go home. 24 years of voting for least worst, and phone banking for a primary candidate I actually liked in two campaigns to no avail will have been enough for me if the 2028 candidate isn't an economic leftist, because I already feel like a sucker and capitalism enabler.
The oligarchs were never not going to shoot the hostages for a tidy profit.
Agreed, but no one would be threatening to annex Canada or abolish income derived repayment for student loans either.
Even one being slightly less harmful is harm reduction. Both are taking us on a train ride to hell, and one going 65 is still harm reduction when the only other choice is a train ride to hell at 75.
Harm reduction means there's no good option. You can argue accelerating towards collapse with Trump will make things better faster than limping along until capitalist climate change forces it in 20 years or so, but you never know what you'll get on the other side, could be an iron fisted military dictatorship with Don Jr. As the permanent figurehead.
Sometimes, providing clean needles so the heroin user doesn't ALSO get HIV is better than not. Something that works as a metaphor, and also a social policy position our two capitalist owned parties do disagree on in practice. That's something the owners allow us to have an opinion on, as thats a poorie problem that doesn't meaningfully effect their profit expectations. No skin off their nose.
If someone made noteriety by placing remote triggered explosives in multiple victim's bedrooms, and set them off at exactly the same moment, would they become known as a parallel killer?
I think the United States, culturally, is on track to have about as much hope in positive change as your average Russian.
That's what happens when you have a supposed generational leader calling for an age of positive progressive change culminating in... a heritage foundation conceived plan to further enshrine private insurers and the profit motive, the core blight, into our broken healthcare system. Then have his party never stop bragging about doing so. The DNC still acts like we should be thanking them for using their super majority to do... That.
Yeah, at this point, this government is too captured to hope for anything but pain rationally, at least on the timescale of human lifespans.
Unfortunately many don't take the next step, look at nations that do serve their people like the Nordic model, and revolt for a government that serves them in similar fashion.
Because you do have to be a completely blind, willfully ignorant sucker to still believe our vote can do more than let us tread water.
Agreed, but once again, the elephant in the room is not being able to afford to have children. Neoliberals stand in the way with Republicans on human citizens being able to afford a family with one child.
It's an important social issue, what I'm saying is almost all social issues are heavily informed by and often exacerbated by economic policy that ALEC had more say in than the American people.
It is when both parties get the same orders from the same bribers on economic policy and merely war on how to or if to address some of the social issue symptoms, the ones that don't effect their briber's quarterly results.
Example: they war over forced births, but abortion is often an ECONOMIC decision, and the markets have demanded 2 breadwinners the last few decades to make moar from themselves, which is antisocial and antifuture. You won't hear either party calling for a single income for most to all being able to support a family. That's a matter of economic policy. That's a choice. There would objectively, naturally be fewer abortions without coersion if economic desperation wasn't defended here by both parties, no threat of state violence required.
No, our choice is on the social issue of forced births? No forced births? Your choice lol... Then get back to work, battery.
To be fair to them, we're just delaying collapse. It is a choice.
I agree with them that there's no saving this constitutional structure. In one sense it's cowardly, because there's no escape from this capitalist slaughterhouse hellscape without collapse. Collapse is necessary. Trump will certainly usher that in faster.
But Im too much of a softy to let the blood that always has to spill be on my hands.
This country was irreparable since Reagan, a zombie nation oligarch piggie bank. My vote was a cowardly one for a few more years of quiet orderly slaughter, NOT peace.
But we lost, so the slaughter will be loud and bigger than it's ever been, so maybe it's time for revolution if we want our kids to have anything left.
Because in 4 years the DNC WILL anoint someone to meet Trump's economy in the middle, and even I may not be able to stomach voting for that.
I voted for Harris. I voted for Biden. I voted for Clinton.
I still wouldn't warn a single one of them if they were about to get hit by a bus.
Its harm reduction. They don't solve anything. They just keep us treading water sinking slowly whereas Republicans start taking a hammer to the hull to open up new holes.
I never didn't when I reached the age of reason and saw the social
tolerancecelebrationworship of unchecked avarice as the core rot in our civilization for what it is.Im glad so many are finally overcoming their capitalist "greed is rational and your lessers have to lose for you to win" programming, even at this late hour as the capitalists burn the very world under our feet... and your grandmother who needs a hip replacement or chemotherapy alive... for another nickel on their sociopath hoards.
Do we want a society... And all the benefits that being an actual society with a functioning social contract entails? Or do we want to continue to be a bunch of
temporarily embarrassed millionairespathetic mark suckers at each other's throats tearing eachother down over scraps and false promises (hard work will be rewarded! Consumption will make you feel better! The odds are ever in your favor!) so we never look up at our owners?