Socialists: This society is better than what we had centuries ago but we can make it much better still and end all poverty and hunger.
Capitalists: This society is the best we can achieve. This level of poverty and hunger is acceptable
The media: Why are socialists so negative?
A California man caught covid at work. He infected his wife who ended up in ICU. So he sued his bosses. The largest lobbying group in the US got involved. The court ruled against the man because a victory would mean “dire financial consequences for employers.” Is it clear yet?🧵
the dichotomy between master morality and slave morality will hold up and even gain new importance in a classless stateless society is what I'm saying. the little syphilitic proto nazi creep should have read Marx with more care, he could have really done something with that idea.
If you remove the dimwitted(especially for 1870) idea that humanity will always need a poor, toiling majority, most of Nietzsche makes sense and is good. A liberated communist society will have to choose between being a world of freed slaves or one of masters with no slaves
the actual guy Nietzsche was very much committed to the dimwitted idea in question and was therefore a wildly reactionary figure beloved of dead eyed wall st traders and actual aristocrats. feel like it's important to highlight that lol
forgive me if I bomb your timeline with random thoughts, my shit posting alt is limited and the brain goo has to go somewhere ANYWAY do you ever think about how capitalism sort of assumes scarcity to function properly? seems like growth in productivity might DOOM IT or something
we rarely introduce our own emotions into political rhetoric but I just want it on record somewhere that it really makes me SAD how many communists like Stalin and dislike Trotsky
did u know that james cameron was at the bottom of the ocean looking at the titanic when 9/11 happened. it’s true. when he came back up he stepped out of the submersible and his assistant somberly approached him and said “sir. 9/11 happened”
"14 more data centres are under construction, 40 more (40!) have planning permission, and those 40 alone will demand more electricity than the 82 operating now"
We will never decarbonise fast enough if we let this happen.
https://t.co/0w8MVZNFHr
Last week because I criticised the government's sham forums, Micheal Martin said we would put a jackboot on people if we were in power.
This morning, Gardai hauled off protesters for opposing his war on neutrality.
The dialectic really slaps you in the face if you leave a political account alone for a while and come back. Like oh I appear to now be mutuals with several fascist accounts cool thanks 2023