[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Most Americans at this point are a product of capitalist indoctrination via privately owned for profit media propaganda, and public schools defunded and in utter ruin by capitalist captured government to cut their taxes, despite still profiting directly from a pre-literate workforce to draw from that they just don't want to pay for.

And now, through the long laid, long paid for installation of capitalist interest to the SCOTUS through their Federalist Society judicial extremist group, they now effectively own our... I'm sorry, their judicial branch of the government we have to suffer without recourse or appeal.

...They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it...

-George Carlin, decades ago.

This is also why study of the humanities is under attack in academia, btw. Believe it or not, maximizing growth/metastasis/GDP isn't healthy as society's sole practiced value and pursuit. Gotta hurry, a few thousand greedy sociopaths aren't getting richer fast enough, herp derp.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 83 points 3 days ago

How do I move my mouth

Get creative.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The entire capitalist controlled media, and even K-12 curriculum informed by capitalist captured state governments is a hell of a propaganda pulpit, not to mention the vast majority of state and federal politicians who are bribed sock puppets preaching the false, self enriching word of Wall Street as the only truth, regardless of party on economic policy.

https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI?si=XM5uzKSNe_FK2DWq

You have to be able to... and still be willing to despite that constant force fed propaganda, critically think to rise above it. Yes, it's obvious to some of us, but most just want to follow the path of least resistance, which has been telling them their whole lives through our institutions that privatized, for profit healthcare is the pinnacle of freedumb juice, and a system where all citizens have access to quality Healthcare they can rely on regardless of their socioeconomic situation is evil commie marxist leninist socialism.

They don't understand the meaning any of those words, of course, but they've been taught through that same capitalist propaganda machine to fear them and rail against them, or again, they will lose their intentionally warped, incorrectly defined concept of freedom. Freedom of course having been warped in American vernacular to mean everything that makes our owner class wealthier faster.

"They must hate freedom"

-Literally any American movement advocating a policy that would increase socioeconomic equity or corporate accountability at this point, according to for profit domestic "news."

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thats a new spin to me. The only thing monopolies secure is their own existence.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Because "free markets, competition, being voluntary" are propaganda by capitalists using their owned media and purchased government to make its victims double as its defenders.

The goal of market capitalism is to end competition often by buying out up and coming rivals to kill the threat, manipulate the markets to your advantage using anything from bribery to cost benefit analysis of potential consequences/fines for sociopathic actions to potential profits, and conspire with your economic sector to coerce the workers you need into accepting less.

This is just expanded indentured servitude with a marketing team.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Capitalism is clearly going to death us first.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The Earth is 🔥burning🔥, by our own hands, and we'd still rather play team sports for greedy sociopaths than prioritize even doing it a little slower with cheap EVs.

The Earth will heal in a few million years once we've destroyed ourselves. ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

I guess Jon dyes his roots.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And there's no making it right. This is the world. At least for this year.

And it will be hotter next year, and the next.

Why? Toleration that led to celebration that led to worship of unchecked, insatiable greed.

I'd say maybe lets force the owner class to stop though revolution and dismantling of our needless consumer culture so our children and theirs have at least a minimally habitable planet for humans and the other surface dwellers we don't give shit one about to live on, but we're not going to anyway. So burn baby burn I guess.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Israeli warmongers like Netanyahu perverting what it means to "learn from history," and dishonoring the struggles of those that came before them by taking on the methods of those that tried to snuff them out to snuff out a different people. (and it wasn't just camps, they starved them in the ghettos they locked them in as well.)

The I'm sure intentional lack of self-awareness is darkly cartoonish.

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