TheJesusaurus

Rick and Morty

Well said

And I’ve sat through a thousand of them

This is what I think somehow a huge amount of the “good ones” still don’t get about the state of America.

It’s not going back to normal after this, just because you clearly trump out and put some well polished suit in the office who talks nice.

Until this situation can’t simply happen again whenever a sufficient cult of personality comes along, nobody is going to trust the united states as a government, or trust it’s institutions again.

Whatever happens domestically within the US is pretty immaterial tonus all out here, you can all try to go back to normal, but the world out here is already leaving you behind

Good luck

It took unified international pressure to force SA out of apartheid. If they had a giant bully watching over them who smashed everyone’s economy that looked at it funny, South Africa would still be an apartheid state id wager

For real, you can drive a Ford pinto

It’s important the people don’t see your post and think that it makes even a single lick of sense

Lol. Unlike yourself?

Who’s pampered lives are you talking about exactly? The black kids in the school to prison pipeline, living in food deserts?

The day labourers and farm hands working to the bone for pennies because their immigration status makes them easily exploitable?

The women being forced to give birth, in a society that charges you money to give birth. And then demands you return to work the next day? Is it any of those?

What about burnt out corporate cogs who ostensibly make a “good living” because the number is higher than in the past, and they have paid vacation, even though they can’t use it and 2/3rd of their paycheque goes to pay for someone else’s mortgage? How about them?

Teachers making poverty wages while working free overtime and feeding, clothing and supplying the less fortunate kids in their classes out of their own pockets?

I mean, I’ll happily admit to you that Taylor Swift’s life isn’t a hellscape, since you seem taken with her. But she still lives in one, it’s just that she has the means and resources to ignore it.

Is it Taylor Swift existing that invalidates critique of capital? Or is it that were better off than the past? Or something else perhaps?

We’ve almost always been “better off than the past” at every point in history, when taken on a long enough timescale over enough people, even before the advent of capitalism. Similarly, there were filthy rich robber barons who exploited people and became rich beyond imagining in the past too, and also predating capitalism.

So, what is it?

Where are these people moving out of poverty more than ever before, specifically.

You are absolutely fucking tedious.

Oooooooh good try, but you see unless the person you are doing it for is your boss (the question I actually posed) then it’s meaningless.

The question was. Who are you doing this for

You also keep saying the same shit over and over again, including “benighted children” for some reason.

Nobody is comparing anybody to the past. The present is better than the past because of the hard work of humans to make it that way.

I’m not sure who you are or where you come from, but most of the west is indeed a capitalist hellscape. Yes, it’s very different to being literally enslaved to mine lithium as a child in the Congo. However, being told you have it a lot better than Congolese slaves while you effectively have no real agency over your life, that you will largely spend grinding a meaningless job to afford to survive in a society that can comfortably feed and house and educate everyone, is a hellscape.

Whether you ever want to admit it or not, your entire argument is just that hellscape is too mean a word to describe indentured servitude, because slavery exists

I asked who you were doing it for. Not who’s paying you, dumbass.

I can’t imagine why someone would be voluntarily carrying water for billionaires

So, because things are better than before, we must accept the status quo? We can’t want to improve further? Especially nothing that while we might be better off than the past, inequality is rising, governments are cracking down on freedoms and we don’t feel were being given a fair shake at life when compared to those who own the land we all live on?

No, it would be like the king saying “feudalism is bad” and then you saying “AND YET YOU HAVE A CASTLE WITH 2 TURRETS! HMMMMM CURIOUSSSS”

feudalism is bad. That’s still true if you personally benefit from it.

White supremacy is bad. I personally benefit from it. If I were to criticize the way white supremacy has shaped society as a white guy with a corporate job, are you going to then tell me “well you should shut the fuck up, you have it great what are you talking about!”

If Warren buffet tomorrow said capitalism is bad, he would be correct despite being the CEO of capitalism

Who are you doing this for man? Do you think if you post enough reactionary nonsense your boss is gonna give you a raise or something?

So, who is allowed to criticize the status quo, ever? By this logic, only one person on planet earth is entitled to criticize capitalism

You’re allowed to be critical of capitalism even if you dont have it worse than everyone else on planet earth. Shocking I know.

This is huge “hmmm, yet you participate in society” energy and is exactly the kind of thing the owning class want you to think like, probably has been paid for and spread by and for capital

You absolute fucking pillock

Flaky European friends… The ones that stuck with Ukraine after the US abandoned them?