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Cuz baby, I'm an anarchist (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Love that this is the standard for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

It’s not fair to call them bootlickers.

They are people who may be persuaded to apply a lingual polish to certain footwear if the poll numbers say it might help them lose by less than 5%.

To be a bootlicker would require decisiveness that liberals do not have. Otherwise they wouldn’t be liberals.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The closer I get to middle age the less time I got

Let's MOVE PEOPLE HORIZONTAL ORGANIZATION OR DEATH

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

No time for punctuation get rid of that apostrophe you poser

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

Spineless liberals ….

[+] [email protected] -13 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Liberals are the adults in the room trying to keep the conservatives from killing anyone they don’t like and the progressives from killing themselves or each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

Liberals are the true enlightened centrists here of course.

Where are these progressives that are trying to kill each other?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 seconds ago

Same place as the ones building an effective party or have a seat in government I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

They say never meet your heroes and they’re right.

I never thought SMCF would be spineless.

Pro tip for you adults: You have to actually win elections once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is more about who you’re choosing as heroes.

I would love to see progressives start a party or take over the DNC but that would require them to do something besides bitch about democrats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Be the change.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Luigi strain?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Idk I feel like liberals are responsible for enabling people like trump by always trying to maintain the status quo of capitalist growth and the illusion that access to marketplaces = rights. In the case of women, of lgbtq folks, of brown people, etc. I feel like they are half the whole problem. They are also in service to capital, and perpetuate the myth that you can serve your community with integrity while also taking in loads of cash from large organization as a politician

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I’d say liberals are less responsible for Trump than the people who voted for him or decided to not vote.

I do know women, LGBTQ folks and people of visible minorities were getting better treatment until Trump and the GOP stepped it back twice rather severely.

While I’m not against McCarthyism-Lennonism I don’t see it working on a large scale.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Those are fair viewpoints. I'm no marxist-leninist. But I will say, capitalism doesn't work on large scale either. So why keep it around?

Edit: in other words I think what you say is accurate but doesn't address the problems I brought up about liberals

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Because capitalism does work well for many countries but you have to keep the population educated much like you have to vaccinate against diseases.

America stopped doing both effectively a while back and now we’re seeing the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

The thing though is that, capitalism, when followed to the letter, causes this decline in education.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

capitalism does work well for many countries

At the expense of others, and usually only for a while.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If every couple of decades you get a right wing faux populist uprising somewhere, then it's not an abberation of the system. It's how the system cycles around.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That’s why I used the vaccine analogy because education is supposed to train the population to deal with issue like that before they get elected president.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

And yet, here we are. And not just in America. In much of Europe, they're celebrating being able to keep their right wing faux populist parties at bay. Just the fact that it got to the need to do that means something went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

🎤 “…and you’re a spineless lib-ur-al” 🎶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

As a suicide-surviving progressive, you’re not wrong.