It’s on all our heads, or do you think you’re blameless?

People get mad at Bernie because they expect better and are disappointed it took so long. No one expects better of Beto.

But even so-

Like, if Beto O’Rourke said Gaza was a genocide, you wouldn’t see all these Lemmy comments saying “TOOK YOU FUCKING LONG ENOUGH YOU PIECE OF SHIT” or whatever.

-you absolutely woud lol

You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.

Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.

If a worker is slinging slurs there should be ways to stop them, but that doesn’t mean we have to empower private enterprise to have even more control over our lives. The boss shouldn’t be the one that gets to decide what counts as hate speech.

You’re the one that said private enterprises should not have to honor the tenants of free speech. You’re defending the oligarchy even as you mock it.

This functionally means that the majority of worker’s lives are under undemocratic and totalitarian rule by private enterprise.

Why even admit that?

I think Israel being in the European Broadcasting Union actually does have something do with Europe.

You’ve been trained well.

The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra performs with the IDF Orchestra.

At this rate Trump is going to unify Korea.

He really is the peacemaker. 🥹

They control every branch of government, they can already do anything they want whenever they want.

I’m not advocating adventurism, but let’s not pretend they need help.

They were gonna do what they wanted to do anyway.

Unfortunately

Debatable

If driver’s licenses were invented today they’d be a public-private partnership.

I know what you’re saying, I’m just raising the class question. There are “good” reasons for the rich to use capitalism, after all.

Poverty is a necessary component of capitalism. It’s not arbitrary, it’s calculated.

How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?

Are you confusing me with someone else?

And now you’re insulting me.

What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?

I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!

These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.

Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.

And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.

We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.

Is anyone arguing at this point?

It’s not decentralized. There’s no argument.