Terrifying. That’s the bar?

I wonder if anyone has ever talked about how difficult it is to challenge capitalist imperatives while capitalists own all the factories and their supply chains.

I’ve gone zero days since the 2024 election without seeing a liberal target fascists with insults that are oriented toward vulnerable groups. Jokes about old people being valueless, queer people being weak and deceptive, fatness as a sign of poor moral character. People who make these jokes also incomprehensibly claim that they challenge fascism fundamentally and not only when it comes for them.

This man is going to be singlehandedly responsible for an incalculable number of deaths (many of which will be addicts who are disproportionately excluded from access to medical treatmen) and he is in the position to do so by capitulating to an infamous pedophile, rapist, and failed business man. What kind of person would take the opportunity to assert that addicts aren’t to be trusted when talking about a man who is already RFK Jr.?

No, change in appetite and then taste is a side effect. I like certain foods significantly more now.

ADHD meds do kind of do this.

Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.

Could’a helped with his hundreds of millions of dollars instead of making Unreal Engine’s Smurfs and the Chamber Of White Saviours for the past twenty fucking years.

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Oh how gracious and civil of you.

What a telling term to use.

Yes. Deal with it.

Who’s stopping you? I pointed out the irony in Europeans, who constructed and benefit from the most brutal imperialist system in human history, presenting themselves as underdogs when threatened by other empires, all of which were targets of that imperialism.

My guy, I hate to break this to you, people were making these criticisms of capitalism over 150 years ago. I was referring to Black Liberationist critiques of privatized media expansion in the mid-twentieth-century US, but liberal/capitalist ownership over media and space that can be used to challenge this sytem has been a fundamental mechanism in its reproduction for much, much longer.

That would itself be enough to make fun of current events. But no, I was referring to the excessive wealth and material security members of the EU enjoy as a result of their ongoing colonialism. The EU was founded to safeguard the capitalistic interests of its wealthiest members and it operates in the best interest of those members. Corporations protected by its legal and economic framework continue the extractive capitalism Europeans have been engaging in for half a millennium. They overfish off the coasts of poorer – almost always formerly occupied – states, enforce mining and other resource extraction policies with the intent to push the environmental impact of their system onto the indigenous peoples in those nations, use their international legal system to pressure uncooperative global-south states into compliance, create refugee crises then commit genocide against refugees. Sometimes they even explicitly and overtly join in on US military occupation of these states in their countless military cooperation policies or straight up just committing their soldiers directly to invasion such as in Iraq and Afghanistan. I mean, you can’t act like you don’t know about how the EU has propped up the genocidal Israeli regime in Palestine after over two years of massive public demonstrations in the EU to challenge their state compliance.

Don’t even try to play stupid about whether this is the case, because I know for sure that you know about the Danish overseas territory primarily populated by the Inuit: Greenland.

You sitting here – in the wealth generated by all of this – and acting like youre a victim for something some vague, living ancestor did is itself a means to enact this colonialism. If the EU is in danger, good. It has to end like every empire does.

Your state will turn its violence inward before it prioritizes you over the colonialism.

You’re goddamn right I have a bad attitude about colonialism.

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Yes, these are all good examples of how these imperatives manifest in law and why they are so unsustainable. Capitalism is not capable of long-term planning because of this, it depends on an immaterial world to exist and therefore does not consider the reality of the world it exists in.

When they say it can do jobs, they aren’t actually claiming that it can, what they’re saying is that they can argue that it can, and that creates its own value. They’ve fired and rehired people, done layoffs, cut wages, cut salary and contract benefits; all of this makes labour cheaper, which validates that value and raises the speculative value.

Skippin a few steps there. Very Gowron strat.

I’m afraid the EU is also a capitalist system my guy. Consumer protections are nice, but have not prevented the issues I described above.