BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]

I’d forgotten about the tattoos!!!

this sort of thing always reminds me of how the Warren campaign sloganized the phrase “big structural change.” But it was so hollow even to her supporters that they started chanting “big structural bailey” around a massive inflatable dog using the name of Warren’s campaign show dog

It’s the billionaires, the ultra wealthy who think they can play god that are the problem.

They are a problem. But the deeper problem is the system that creates them. What they are critiquing is the adoption of anti-capitalist messaging without any anti-capitalist substance to back it up. This has been used by others in campaign posturing but led to no action, or worse - directly opposite action like Fetterman.

It’s good that people are responding to vaugely anti-capitalist messaging, but without post-capitalist solutions to back it up, it’s just co-option of the working classes dissatisfaction getting redirected into maintaining the status quo

big 2018 John Fetterman

That’s the vibe I’m getting too. I feel like the word “oligarchy” is just being used for marketing here. None of this “oligarchy is the enemy” messaging says anything beyond that. Its just endlessly finding phrases so they don’t have to say capitalism or talk about it in any meaningful way.

I’m kind of an old and email was never used for regular chat at like any time lol

Maybe I won’t use it for anything except getting people’s contact info in these situations.

This is exactly what I did. I posted like three pics of my dog, and put it on private and never really use it except for that purpose.

I have never used any social media before or had an account on anything else, but something changed and people started treating instagram like a phone number, which is weird to me but that’s the way it is now.

Don’t feel like you must do this, but just wanted to say you’re not the only person to do no social media, but felt the need to open an instagram

Yeah, what could smol bean president of the united states possibly do

They’ve already been doing that for like a hundred years. We’re ruled by fail children who have no clue how any of this works

I also have a plan to crush UK economy:

wow great list!

Great recommendation. Blackshirts and Reds is a great place to start. I’ll add on Principles of Communism https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm as a great place to go from there.

Thats the only thing I’m really upset about. Fuck that guy

well then its all been worth it

Yeah, that’s a big one. Search engines had been getting worse, but the decline was turbocharged after all the LLM hype. Search engines are practically unusable now

I think the bigger problem is that each answer it gives basically destroys a forest

Stupid tankies. Don’t you see the trolley problem clearly proves that genocide is fine

Cecil Rhodes was a racist piece of shit

I can’t think of a single Rhode Scholar who isn’t a complete neolib ghoul carrying on Rhodes legacy of barbarism and exploitation. Not exactly a group of people i envy or would want to be a part of

It seriously took you 17 days to come up with this bamger

I understand why you see things that way because you’re a liberal and not a Marxist. Reform makes sense if you come at these problems from the perspective of liberalism. The problem is that the it really isn’t an issue of systems feeding into each other - it is the system- liberal democracy and who controls and why it exists in the first place that’s the issue.

You bring up good questions about why liberal democracy looks different in Europe than the US. There are a lot of reasons for that, but what matters is that liberal democracy performs exactly the same function in Europe as it does in the US. It doesn’t matter if theres one party or twelve, ranked choice or first past the post. I’m not argueing that one or the other isn’t better, i just don’t think it matters whether the system of bourgeois rule is slightly better or not.