• BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s always funny to me how western media tries to frame this as a bad thing.

    “Not even their elites are safe from their government!” Oh no, how terrible that they face consequences for their actions like the rest of us

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      “Not even their elites are safe from their government!”

      sicko-wistful

      Some lanyard brains do freak out about how scary it would be to have a government that no one could have immunity to, as if to imply that they are, or will be, in that choice select group of oligarch fucks.

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      That was one of the weirdest parts of a really awful interview Zizek did, “The most dangerous place to be was on top” under Stalin and that this was worse than what the Nazis did.

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        lmao the higher ups have more power, therefore more responsibility and culpability for wrongdoing, therefore they are more severely punished. What a fucking mystery that the people who did the most wrong had the most power?

        What a fucking astute observation by brain genius Zizek

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        I struggle to even say Zizek is a misguided socialist. He’s a cranky without useful analysis. The only two things he’s done well are his ramblings on consuming anticapitalist media and making Jordan Peterson look dumb.

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          He has had some interesting and even insightful things to say, but most of that is well in the past now. Now he’s just the court jester of neoliberalism.