Lol I love that pane 3 just skips over all the important bits. “Yeah so I’m just in possession of capital as an a priori part of my existence which you don’t have, please don’t focus on why that is the case, maybe I got all that money from making pie charts really good, who knows.”
Yeah and that all starts by telling a former CIA spook Vanderbilt descendant in an interview on a corporate news channel that the Soviet Union was good, actually.
It’d be better if she never sat down with clowns like this, but I genuinely don’t know what you think the strategy should be when talking to a dumb dumb mainstream virulently anti-communist organization like CNN.
Edit: lmao downbears don’t mean I’m wrong, clowns.
Ah we’re calling bigotry “satire” now, that’s clever.
What i find amusing and illustrative in this argument is replacing “draw Muhammad” with “saying the n-word” and it being the same fucking argument.
ok look i literally do not give a fuck what is offensive to your religion,
drawing a picture of some guysaying the n-word is not immoral and anyone who suggests that it is can eat my entire ass
Basically we’ve got a lot of americans on this site who rightfully feel guilt at kicking disadvantaged people in their own country, but fuck off about caring about the disadvantaged people in other white imperialist countries, they can suck my dick if they don’t like it.
never actually protesting, voting, donating to any causes, or contacting their representative
Lol that’s it, those are the only political actions one can take, everything else is not politics. Oh you thought you were productive trying to organize your workplace, well when’s the last time you sent your congressperson a letter, huh?
Economic systems don’t have any moral content to them dummy, that’s my entire point.
Especially in the context of historical materialism, the outcomes are entirely predecated on contexts in which they are pursued. The outcomes related to socialism are for the betterment of humanity and a more livable natural world, that’s why we should pursue it. But that’s all in the present context. 700 years in the past living under feudalism, the context might be that building industrial capacity under capitalism would be better for humanity. Or 700 years in some glorious future there’s the possibility that socialism is a reactionary position to stop the final implementation of communism.
Doesn’t mean I’m wrong. This isn’t a comic book movie.
Counterpoint: “good” and “bad” are childish liberal concepts that materialists shouldn’t be using.
People who don’t live in New York just WOULDN’T GET what it’s like to buy things from a convenience store, because those only exist in New York and no where else on earth.