I agree with all of this. I admit this was kinda a vent post on my part and not totally materially grounded and was actually gonna delete it. I guess it just frustrates me how many people base their vision of the future on a romantic, pop culture ideal of a Final Conflict where elections are cancelled and other nazi ww2 tropes when the reality will probably be that all elected capitalist officials, regardless of party, work in lockstep to keep the working class in their place. I think we agree that most people ARE good and do just want to live in peace, they’re just forming a flawed model of the future using a flawed model of the past (fed to them by capitalist media).

this goes hard lol Lady Sovereign whom’s’t??? fr tho, fuck her.

You know what I’ve realized lately? Liberals across the anglosphere would rather spend their time fantasizing about a Civil War or Day of the Rope or WW3 or whatever because it’s a more fun and flattering projection than the much more likely reality of conditions in the Core becoming worse and worse and worse over the course of decades until it’s stopped by a cohesive revolutionary movement. It’s less hopeless to imagine a big dramatic conflagration where fascists either win or lose than it is to imagine a future where, regardless of which team is in office, the working class (and/or labour aristocracy) keeps getting steadily crushed with no obvious heroic rebel group coming in to rescue them, year after year, decade after decade. And, more importantly, it absolves one of any individual responsibility by imagining that eventually a Civil War will happen and either absolve the contradictions (good ending) or doom everybody (in which case it doesn’t matter). I’m willing to be wrong about all of this. But from I can see, the non-stop dooming about things like ecology and economic issues like AI is a subconscious way for people to tell themselves that “we’re fucked anyways” which means they don’t have to learn or do anything really because We’re Doomed. It’s easier for people to imagine the apocalypse than it is to imagine the end of capitalism, to quote some guy.

For all the concern trolling about muh crime rate done by annoying bougie people, I think it will pale in comparison to what’s coming. I think the AI bubble bursting is gonna be the flashpoint where all these other crises converge into one and give a lot of people nothing left to lose, even the ones with nice lifestyles who think they’re immune to it. Tons of people fell and never got back up after 2008.

When that happens the democrats are just going to see a bunch of pissed off, desperate people and sit on their asses and wait for them to crawl to them for help like they’ve been doing forever. That’s the beauty of liberal democracy, it’s a bear race where you don’t have to be the fastest, you simply don’t have to be the slowest.

It’ll blow up in their faces of course. Or maybe not, and they get to fritter away another 4 years and then do it all again.

Yeah it kinda just seems like “value comes from supply n’ demand!!1” type shit with some mysticism about how business owners are built different thrown in lol. Defining capital as just stuff that makes work more efficient sure is a… choice. I feel like so much of bougie business just boils down to “reduce cap-ex to make profits higher cuz it’s always cheaper to piss in the lemonade and charge the same price than do anything else.” And then Forbes writes like 4000 words on how innovative and august the capitalist in question is.

Z has this annoying, hangdog attitude (undoubtedly carefully cultivated to make him seem as likable and put-upon as possible) that Trump probably finds super fuckin irritating, yeah. I know I do lol

real parasites are far easier to exterminate, sadly

that’s just an average summer vacation for Jordan lol i feel like this happens every year. Bro’s body is falling apart like the end of The Substance.

lol yeah I was literally about to say, this shit is just The Enclosure of the Commons: The Squeakuel

oh you mean the Sahel Alliance doesn’t wanna be policed by a body that has totally failed to stop a blatant genocide and whom European officials outright stated was designed to punish “Africans and thugs like Putin”?

Because we’re all evil and hate freedom. Is that what you want to hear?