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[-] deft@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 days ago

I don't think people are butthurt it gets pointed out. The stupidity of how and the bias of what is the problem.

People out here trying to act like the US is the only one who has done this. Many of these people try to act like other countries don't court soft power, that this campaign to dissuade voting every election isn't intentional and that the solution is to just let millions of people suffer so armchair activists can pretend they told you so.

So it's fucking stupid to cry capitalism at every turn when the issues are actually larger than capitalism and many of them actually aren't from capitalism. Power structures in general, representation, honest and truthful information, greed for control and money. Those issues are way fucking bigger than capitalism, they're basically timeless human struggles.

Calling it all capitalism and throwing yourself in a fit over it is childish. The fuck is this 2010? People actually do want to push society forward not just make a new boogieman and act like if that's gone we'll have a utopia.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That makes sense. I am well aware it is not just the US and a worldwide symptom of the worship of money over human beings.

I agree that we need too move forward, but we can't if people don't know what is causing the problems. People have been propagandized to so much they don't know where the truth begins or ends anymore.

[-] deft@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

Definitely. It's that class war shit, information control is the bread and butter for those bastards. If we undid capitalism new people would just find more ways to game the system against the majority.

But also fuck capitalism

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah the old socialism vs. capitalism debate needs to die. Not that socialism isn't worthwhile, its just we are not going to get there anytime soon. We need a new paradigm that capitalists can accept so we can move beyond our current leverage economy.

[-] deft@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

People need to understand political terms and social terms aren't broad.

Policies can be capitalist in a socialist government. Governments can engage in a socialist movement and still be fascist.

They're more adjectives than nouns.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Not only not broad but they can mean very different things depending on where you live.

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