@turbomander First of all. This song is Nero's theme, not Dante. So it would be about his peanits. WHITCH IT ISN'T BY THE WAY. NO NO NO IT'S NOT YOURE WRONG!
America…?
A moral compass…?
*clears throat*
The United States was built on genocide and ethnic cleansing
In 1898 it declared itself a ‘global power’ by crushing independence movements in the Philippines, killing at least 200k Filipino civilians
From 1912 to 1933 it occupied Nicaragua, violently suppressing nationalist movements
From 1915 to 1934 it invaded and occupied Haiti, essentially legalising slave labour
From 1916 to 1924 it done the same to the Dominican Republic
In 1945 it needlessly dropped two atomic bombs on civilians days before they knew Japan was to surrender, in a ‘display of strength’ to the Soviets
In 1953 it overthrew Iran’s democracy in an act of pure self-interest
In 1954 it overthrew Guatemala’s democracy leading to decades of violence
In 1965 it backed mass killings in Indonesia, enabling the murder of up to a million people
In the 1960’s and 1970’s it carpet-bombed Vietnam, killed millions, and poisoned the land
From 1969 to 1973 it also carpet-bombed Cambodia with similar effects
In 1973 it installed a dictatorship in Chile through a military coup
From 1979 to 1989 it armed and funded Afghan militias, destabilising the country for decades
In the 1990s it strangled Iraq with sanctions, devastating millions
In 2003 it invaded Iraq on a lie, leading to a million dead
In 2011 it destroyed Libya, turning a functioning state into a failed one where slave markets now exist
In the 2020s it continues unabated, funding and arming the Gaza genocide and more atrocities across the Middle East
This is not even close to an exhaustive list of US crimes
So, what’s very, very important to understand is not that the United States has lost its ‘moral compass’ — it’s that it’s lost its ability to rewrite history in real time because the internet exists
It has lost total control of the narrative
Or, in short, now we’re able to see what it really is, and always has been
Your question is built on two mistakes.
First, nobody serious thinks "communism = people own nothing, use no money, and just work for the state."
That is a cartoon. Real socialist projects still use money, wages, markets, and trade.
The difference is who ultimately controls the key resources and what they are organized for: private profit or social needs.
Second, "why does capitalist withdrawal matter" is like asking:
"If your lungs work, why does it matter if someone puts a hand around your throat?"
Capitalism is not just another country. It is the dominant global system that controls:
Shipping lanes and insurance.
Access to technology and spare parts.
Credit, currency, and banking.
Investment, trade networks, and markets.
When a socialist country is blockaded, sanctioned, and cut off from that system, it is not "proving communism doesn't work."
It is being deliberately strangled by the people who own the pipes, the ports, the patents, and the payment systems.
If capitalism is so obviously superior and socialism is so doomed to fail, here is the real question:
Why does your "winning" system need coups, embargoes, sabotage, and decades of sanctions to protect itself from a model you swear could never work?
If communism were truly powerless, you would not need to starve it.
You would just ignore it.
Consider, if you will, this peculiar Silicon Valley confession: “I worked for 36 hours with no sleep. Although I was dead, I also felt energized. I even fell asleep a few times while driving home in my Cybertruck, but fsd came in clutch. Happy thanksgiving.” People read this and say, “Wow, so crazy.” No. This is not crazy. This is ideology speaking in the first person.
Look at what he is really proud of. Not what he built, not the result. He is proud of his own exhaustion. He whips himself and calls it self-actualization. Before, the saint starved in the cave for God. Now, the engineer fasts from sleep for the billionaire.
And the best part, the truly obscene part, is the drive home. Here the machine steps in as what Lacan would call the big Other, the big adult in the room that keeps going while you collapse. You can be unconscious, half-dead, and still you are “productive,” because the car does the driving, the system does the watching. You close your eyes, the algorithm stays awake.
But notice the ideological twist: rather than confronting the absurdity of a society where one works until unconsciousness, the narrative is inverted. The same system that squeezes him until he is sleeping at the wheel also appears as his savior. This is pure capitalism. First it injures you, then it sells you the bandage, and you say thank you. You wreck yourself for one of the billionaire’s machines, then another one of his machines rescues your body on the drive home.
Which brings us to the “Happy Thanksgiving.” It is the final twist of the knife. Gratitude here is not for rest, or sanity, or enough sleep to drive safely. Gratitude is for the privilege of being exhausted in the right office, in the right hoodie, for the right man. You give thanks to the very structure that wears you down. It is like saying grace over your own burnout.
Thus the man who naps on the freeway is not a deviation. He is the ideal subject of our time. Half-alive, overworked to the point of being a public hazard, and then thanking the machine that keeps this madness just barely on the road. The system grinds him down, risks his life and the lives of everyone around him, and his reaction is not “this cannot go on,” but “I am so grateful.” In this one man in a Cybertruck you get the whole picture at once: exploitation, technology and holiday cheer condensed into a single, obedient “thank you.”