We live in a capitalist dystopia

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
Citizen
They'll expect you to use your downtime productively.

"What do you mean you didn't get X done?! You had all night to dream about it!"
 

Pocket

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Yeah, any law against boycotts is so unenforceable they might as well be passing laws that ban having liberal thoughts. Oh wait, that's literally what a law against boycotts is, because the only thing that differentiates a boycott from any other buying decision is what motivated it.
 

Pocket

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Wow. Just straight-up reigniting McCarthyism in one of the world's more progressive countries. I mean, I guess there's precedent for it; the original McCarthy was a contemporary of the president who oversaw the highest income tax rates in US history...
 

Anonymous X

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OK, I haven’t read too extensively on that issue, but the SGP is a really minor and pretty extreme party (revolutionary socialist, and not like the more mainstream socialist Die Linke, which is represented in federal and state parliaments and several state governments), and the WSWS is an openly Trotskyist website, and its reporting is pretty sensationalist to say the least.
 

Spin-Out

i cant take it anymore im at my limit
Citizen
WSWS is a tankie/campist rag that shills authoritarian regimes, constantly shits out excuses for Russia's invasion/genocide in Ukraine (despite the fact Putin's Russia isn't remotely socialist and is in fact a far-right fascist government) and has repeatedly denied the Uyghur genocide is even happening. hug those red fascist bootlicker dickheads.
 
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Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
Citizen
FB friend:
There's really no such thing as "passive income" when you think about it. It may be "passive" for you, but SOMEBODY out there is working hard for that income.

It's weird how people can understand wage theft, but only when it happens on a small scale. They all understand it when a restaurant manager takes all the wait staff's tips for himself. But when you scale it up to a huge corporation underpaying its workers while doling out billions of dollars in shareholder dividends, people don't understand the concept anymore. Their minds can comprehend it when it involves 6 people, but not 60,000.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
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That's because there is a well defined number of zeros involved in which rich people have spent DECADES propagandizing the poor to literally stop thinking of it as "theft" and think of it as "well, they're rich, so they earned it.".
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
Not just decades, literally all of human history. The entire concept of working for other people is letting your earnings be stolen, because only those who personally do the work deserve to get any benefit from it. And people aren't ready to believe that the entire world is a lie, and that their own lives have been without purpose because all they've succeeded in doing their entire careers is create more capital for those who didn't deserve it at the expense of their own.
 
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wonko the sane?

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Fails premise: none of those people, or the programs he mentions are liberal creations.
 

MrBlud

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Neoliberal isn’t liberal.

It’s neat wordplay like how North Korea is “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea” despite being a totalitarian state lead by a mad king.
 

NovaSaber

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wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
No it wasn't, because part of the strike was over the rights. As in "actors own the rights to their likenesses and voices and will get paid for their use even when created by machine" kind of rights.
 


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