ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

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Cake day: September 25th, 2022

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  • If all it takes to provoke the NYPD is to say what everyone else already knows, and what everyone else was supporting you for saying, what value is there in continuing to walk on eggshells around such fickle and unpopular people compared to just continuing to say the popular thing? They weren’t gonna be on a socialist’s side anyway, they work for the landlords.

    Now that they know he can be bullied, they aren’t gonna stop. They’re like wild animals, you can’t show weakness












  • Okay, let’s place the blame on the individuals. Now what? We imprison them in a neverending cycle while ignoring the conditions that created them? That would be like mopping up the blood forever from a hospital floor while doing nothing to suture any wounds. The problem with a myopic moralistic view is that it is incapable of actually changing anything, or even understanding how things come to be. All it tells us how to do is sit in judgement of individual ripples, not examine undercurrents.


  • Capitalism happens to reward this kind of behaviour but it doesn’t “cause” it.

    Capitalism absolutely pushes people into these behaviors in the same way that being born and raised in Israel pushes people into becoming genocidal nazis. People are products of their environment, and the core feature of capitalism is that it must continue expanding until it controls every aspect of the environment.

    Edit: ML users don’t seem to have a concept of nuanced political discussion.

    “Nuance” is not a code word for “you people just don’t understand that I’m right”