• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    we are all still living in a capitalist hellhole where money is king but also scarce, and no one has time or money for a dignified life.

    it’s not about the individual’s ideology, but what’s collectively forced upon us. it’s not surprising people are greedy and ignorant in a system that rewards it.

    though being a big asshole doesn’t make you a good leftist when it’s all about fighting back, contradictions are common and have to be dealt with and ultimately material conditions determine how the fight is gonna be.

    again, this can improve once we don’t have the source of that problem anymore.

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah I agree but people aren’t going to fight back. Not when you can succeed by being an asshole. Removing capitalism also didn’t necessarily remove the ability to be an asshole either, it just shifted how you could be an asshole.

      Humans are kinda shitty animals I have very little hope for us. I’d love to be proven wrong but so far everything I’ve experienced shows that it doesn’t really matter, it seems like humans have selected for the most aggressive and anti social traits and those people tend to rise to the top.

      As I said maybe there will be a global revolution, but I highly doubt it, and even if there is one I don’t think it will be the smartest kindest and most compassionate people who end up leading it.

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        2 hours ago

        my brother in christ, people are already fighting back, hard. the fact msm doesn’t show it should be telling for anyone paying half attention, most lack of knowledge about most successful action is carefully engineered too.

        i’m assuming you are from the western imperial core, and that’s why you don’t see it, but if you are not it’s just a matter of joining them and start seeing for yourself. history shows again and again in a very straightforward and concrete way our lives improve quite a bunch every time we push back against capitalism. removing capitalism removes the systemic incentive for being an asshole.

        i’ll say it again because it’s worth drilling into: it’s not about the character of individuals but how the system is collectively set up. mistakes and assholes and all manner of contradictions will always exist, a society where they are the ruling class doesn’t have to.

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          28 minutes ago

          Lol you shouldn’t assume too much about me because you have no idea what I’ve done to fight back. Let me tell you it’s a lot. I’ve met world leaders from all sorts of countries that have all sorts of systems they all used me. I admire you’re ideological commitment but I just don’t have that anymore sorry.

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          Anyways Peter Thiel was near my house, I told some of the “hardcore woke leftists” where he was they could of gone and shot him. They didn’t do shit.