Cowbee

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Tell them sharing is caring. Ez pz

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Delusions of self-confidence in their skills due to having an in-demand job. Once supply meets demand and their wages fall to the norm, tech bros won't have that insane level of confidence in having "won" Capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No, radlibs, I don't want a "strong republican party" as an opposition to "keep us in check." The ones I love and care for aren't privledged enough to play with that kind of fire. I want cooperation and a movement for leftist organization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yep, it tries to do the whole anticapitalist thing, but also not being a leftist power fantasy. It's still possible to walk away with an extremely liberal message of "unchecked Capitalism bad, but checked capitalism good." Still a good game, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's when they call you a republican bot, lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unfortunately not as much as you would like. There's plenty of chances to blast corpo rats, but CEOs and whatnot? Nah. Ironically, in many endings, you accidentally reinforce the issues as people take advantage of your actions for power plays.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

FOSS is a good way to convert techbros to leftism.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Nationalize internet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Not just mods, but the entire Capitalistic model.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I call those people radlibs, they radically support the establishment dems and firmly reject any suggestion of movement towards the left. One of em asked me if I would rather move America to the left and enable genocide and a Trump victory, or vote Biden, and when I said I'd do both, vote Democrat and make grassroots change to the left like unionizing, they told me I had to choose.

Wtf is that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Only thing I disagree with is the idea that leftist change was more possible 20 years ago, Capitalism's instability and inherent structural flaws only make themselves more apparent and severe as time goes on, and with that comes potential for change. The left is larger than ever before, and is constantly growing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

The difference here is that for leftists, liberalism is still evil, just that fascism is far more so. Biden would still be considered the lesser of two evils in that instance.

Talking down to leftists as though their complaints are illegitimate and pushing a narrative that "Biden is good, actually" just furthers voter apathy, the correct way to engage with leftists is to point out how voting as a leftist is loss prevention. Because voting will never move America to the left, leftists must work on the ground to build grassroots movements, unionize, organize, protest, and more, while voting Democrat to keep fascists out of office.

Telling clearly passionate people that their criticisms are invalid and that their problems don't matter is an extremely privledged position to hold. For many people, the status quo itself is bad. People can't afford to just vote Democrat, they already can't afford many necessities and are already being targeted by fascists.

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