Cimbazarov [none/use name]

Since the western “middle class” do not own as much capital as the upper class and have to make most of their living off their labor, they don’t have as clear a path to retirement. Owning a property that appreciates in value is instilled in them as the path to financial freedom.

I think it has to do with the fact that no alternatives are ever presented (pensions are attacked and defunded, social security defunded etc.) so they can’t even comprehend a world where you don’t have to accumulate as much as possible before you hit retirement age.

The media is complicit in letting fascism rise. They are downplaying it so that to the average person that doesn’t follow politics won’t think much about it.

I think to the average person, they think when fascism comes it will be obvious. They probably don’t realize that fascism in Germany and Italy arose from economic conditions not psychological ones so it’s not even a possibility in their mind. They also wouldn’t get that in Hitler’s time, people would defend him as well as they are doing Elon. There’s also maybe a bit of denialism because believing in the truth is just too horrifying for them.

When I look at what Christianity teaches it almost feels like it was a designed religion with the purpose of creating a perfect ethical system (at least the New testament stuff) but in a totally idealist framework. And the whole perversion of it by the evangelicals just shows why you can’t build a “utopia” off of idealism

I always liked Chomsky’s answer to this, which was something like “if the work is really that undesirable to everyone, then maybe we could distribute among the population to ease the overall discomfort from it”

That is assuming it’s not a job that requires years of specialized education or training to be competent at it

Thankfully it only took the lightest of pushback to tell him he was wrong, but my hopes aren’t high for the average person to identify nazis

Actually had a real live person say the Elon Musk sieg heil wasn’t actually a sieg heil because Kamala did it before.

I knew this would be the result of the media downplaying it but damn, feels bad seeing it for real.

There are alot of posts dunking on libs (deservedly so) but I can’t help but think that its because the fascists have basically gotten everything they wanted and the liberals are just easy targets right now due to them not having a stable ideology.

Not trying to defend these people, but shitting on them doesn’t really make me feel any better about the situation. It just illustrates more the powerlessness of the left and the strength of the right.