commiunism

The shooter was trans, and some media + lots of online spaces are already spreading mental illness narratives. Wouldn't be surprised if this is going to get used against trans people in general, it's sad.

"Vote blue no matter who" crowd on their way to solely blame (realistically) 50-100k leftists who abstained either due to their views on electorialism or Palestine.

I've seen so much braindead shit online about the loss and "what could be done different", like statistics showing that if only uni educated people voted then Kamala would have won and people supporting this idea, making lists of every leftist who said they wouldn't vote to punish them later or something, prohibiting MAGA voters from voting ever again, etc. These same people then proceed to cry fascism.

Yeah, buying out competition and lobbying to try and make your business more monopolistic is somehow a special kind of "evil" (I love moralism) and definitely not something that's allowed and actively encouraged by the system where the goal is to get as much profit as possible. But sure, it's a personal failing.

Heres a radical new idea: what if every single business owner, regardless of their wealth, is exploitative and therefore "evil" not because of their personal choices but because of how wages and profit works on a systemic basis? Workers do all the labor, the business owner gets all the value from that labor and abusing the fact that they own the means of production, they only pay workers a flat wage which is meant to merely "refresh their labor power". Its textbook exploitation and the basis for how capitalists get their wealth.

Though if you're gonna moralize capitalists, I'd argue small business owners are more "evil" than any other strata - they don't have the capital to fail and recover or start anew, so they're constantly on the verge of bankruptcy which would have their biggest fear come into fruition which is not becoming homeless, but getting a job like the rest of unwashed masses. They have legal exemptions in terms of discrimination, they're notoriously shit to work in because you get worked like a mule, and historically they've been primary supporters of Hitler, Mussolini, even Trump given their precarious economic position making them reactionary.

Good thing there's no billionaire class then. You suddenly don't turn evil or exploitative after going from $999.999.999 to 1 billion

that'll show him!

unironically yes, that one comment pushed me to post this

French method is how we got in the situation we are in, it literally led us from the rule of aristocrats to rule of capitalists

It's more of a critique of the "just do something" culture. Killing one farmer will just result in that farmer getting replaced with an identical cog in the machine, it also won't magically inspire all the sheep to kill their oppressors as seen historically with humans - that kind of thing is only found within books.

Pretty much the only kind of effective action if the goal is to change things rather than merely feel good in the moment is organization, but it is a slow, tedious and dangerous process - it's not something that can be achieved immediately or individually.

Then the sheep mounts a resistance by doing the best it can (killing the farmer or shouting very loudly), see that whatever it has done hasn't changed anything and that nobody is joining or paying attention to it, and then it's an express ticket to meatpacking plant or worse.

Mounting a resistance is much harder than "just doing something"

Nothing as fun, but just a heavy corruption scandal. The director of the school was apparently pocketing a lot of the money from school funding initiatives, and offloading a lot of the purchases that were supposed to be done onto the last year students. I remember our class being chosen to buy new furniture for an entire classroom in the name of "giving something back".

Sorry, whenever inflation gets mentioned the maggots in my brain force me to make a sonic inflation joke