The idea that “suffering builds character” is 100% capitalistic propaganda. Telling someone that they are experiencing hardship “for their own good” or their own personal growth is bullshit because it makes it seem like there is morality and purpose behind suffering. People don’t need to be poor, to struggle to put food on the table, or worry whether or not they’re going to have a roof over their head at the end of the week just to become “better” people. You know what else builds character? Surviving. So don’t act like the excess food, water and shelter that we have would be wasted on people who need it just because people working themselves to death is a capitalistic requirement.
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COMRADE TEEN VOGUE?? HELLO???
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“I do a little role-playing with [my class],” Brunt tells Teen Vogue. “[I tell them,] I’m the boss, you’re my workers, and you want to try to take me down. I have the money. I own the factory. I control the police. I control the military. I control the government. What do you guys have?”
His students usually blink at him, he says, totally clueless. He insists that they actually have something huge, that he, as the boss, will never have: “It’s always just one student, whose hand shoots up and goes, ‘We outnumber you!’” Brunt says.
He then introduces Marx’s distinction between the proletariat – the working class as a whole – and bourgeoisie – the ruling class who controls the workers and profits from their labor. The tension between the proletariat and bourgeoisie make up the class conflict, or class struggle, he explains.]
Amazon is like a real life version of a corporation from a dystopian sci-fi.
[1st image: a headline reads “Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Mansion Renovation Plans Include 25 Bathrooms And Twitter Has Questions”. the source is brobible.
2nd image: a tweet from @robwhisman “amazon warehouse i worked in had one bathroom that was a good quarter-mile walk from most places on the floor. scanners notify management after a couple minutes of inactivity. knew one guy who literally refused to keep hydrated fearing termination for excessive pee breaks”]
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[image description: a tweet by rosamund lannin that says “I want to get the same slack your racist uncle does, like instead of ‘oh, he grew up that way, he’s very traditional’ can i get ‘oh, she just believes in a future that doesn’t depend on white supremacy or the gender binary, it’s fine’”
Lush drops ‘anti-spy cops’ campaign
“heartbroken cops” fuck off
They suspended the campaign for staff safety. It’s more dangerous to criticise the police than it is to be a police officer spying on people FFS.
Everyone who says humans are naturally selfish is trying to justify their own selfishness and lack of compassion
It’s always these exact people who go on to say nonsense like “inequality is necessary” and “why do people deserve food and shelter?”
*cop voice* listen buddy, i don’t make the rules, i just enforce them arbitrarily in a manner benefitting white supremacy
Convincing You That Nothing Better Is Possible | Current Affairs
For centuries, the right has relied on the same tactic to preserve the status quo: convincing people that a better world is simply impossible. They tell us that while it may look perverse to have a society in which some people eat $2,000 gold-flake pizzas while others die from being unable to afford medical treatment, it is simply The Best We Can Do, and it is futile and naive to protest. If you are revolted by the fact that Jeff Bezos can’t think of any way to spend his money except by starting his own space program while his warehouse workers toil in misery, you simply do not understand basic economics, which says that this is fine and natural and inevitable. If you find it gross and unacceptable that there are homeless people sleeping in front of empty luxury condo buildings, you’re naïve, irrational, unrealistic.
Albert Hirschman, in his book The Rhetoric of Reaction, looked at conservative arguments throughout history to show that they consistently make appeals to the same notions: perversity, futility, and jeopardy, i.e., Proposed Reform X is against God/nature, it won’t work, and it will threaten existing progress. The arguments are made consistently regardless of whether there is any evidence that they are true. This is how a “war on the imagination” is waged, and people become convinced that it isn’t worth dreaming of anything radically different than the status quo. So when teachers are being paid so little that they leave the profession, we are told that the only options are to let unqualified people teach or import teachers from overseas. And when our public schools are underfunded and dysfunctional, we have a debate over how best to turn the schools into effective job-training programs.
Convincing You That Nothing Better Is Possible | Current Affairs
The problem isn’t that “the country is divided” the problem is the increasing acceptance of fascism as a legitimate political position. Framing it as a problem of division puts those who want to kill the poor, LGBT people, and poc on equal moral footing with those who would like not to die.
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