orioler25
@orioler25@lemmy.world
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 23 minutes ago:
“It used to be that people would get rich enough to affect their own nation… .” When? Where? There has never been a world where borders are a real thing that insulates one state from another (I assume you mean state, “nation” as the imaginary common identity makes even less sense). This is not a matter of a few individuals making this system function poorly, the purpose of this system is to generate wealth for a privileged few.
European imperialism/settler-colonialism and the capitalism that emerged through it has always functioned this way. It was funded by individuals with systemic privilege that afforded exceptional wealth and was realized through the exploitation of poor Europeans disadvantaged in those societies and the genocide of indigenous peoples all over the world.Thousands and thousands of nations were targeted for genocide by people who would never even step foot on the same continent as them. Wealth concentration may have improved the conditions for settlers in some places, but that wasn’t for the betterment of the state or nation or whatever you have imagined here. Workers and farmers with relatively high material security and wealth were allowed that level of power because it maintained a racialized and gendered hierarchy that was necessary to effectively carry out the violent extraction of wealth for the most privileged in society. That was in no way universal; there hasn’t been centuries of civil recognition and labour rights movements because most people flourished under this system.
There was no break in how this society was organised that allowed these exceptionally naughty billionaires to exist, that amount of wealth concentration is not new and is only possible through a system that devalues life.
I wonder if anyone else has made the observation that a global revolution is necessary to prevent capitalism from killing as much as it desires… 🤔
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
Jesus, I see that word so misused on here but someone using it when I ask where I said something two comments above is pretty hilarious.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
Where do I say that?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
Jesus how dramatic. Please explain liberalism for me so that I know what I’ve gotten wrong here.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
What’s “righteous” about this?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
American liberals would sooner say that the nation is impure than that nationalism is pathological. Many of them literally identify with the state as part of or representative of themselves. Guilt and shame are American rationalisation staples, “I feel bad, but I’m not going to stop.”
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 3 days ago:
Bazzite’s been working pretty good for me. Was honestly easier to set up too, and fights me less, and runs smoother, and also doesn’t spy on me.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 3 days ago:
Joke’s clear, it just only makes sense if you’re privileged.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 3 days ago:
Lovely, romanticizing gendered labour. You guys know poor people have always been around, right?
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, libs have been very open about homophobia and ableism since Trump was elected and they had a crisis that warranted a suspension of the performance. Statistically, we know most men in the US are complacent or perpetrators of sexual violence and a significant amount – even the majority in some places – fetishize youth and teen women. For Americans, it really is more reputation destroying to have done queer shit than to be a rapist pedophile (this includes “ephebophiles,” sorry).
- Comment on They Wylin' 2 weeks ago:
It actually makes more sense tbh. Being queer is far worse to fascists than being a pedophile rapist. This is especially damning when the person he sucked off is prominent in the conspiracy theories he depended on for the past decade.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 2 weeks ago:
Jesus god and more pre-rendered graphics.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 2 weeks ago:
Learned a new thing men are insecure about.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
Read the comment bud.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
Except, John’s enlarged Dodge Ram makes him statistically a greater danger to everyone and their kids. In daily life, John is a more relevant danger to me than pretty much anything else. If John is in the USA, the children at this school are most likely to die of a car collision – with increased fatalities correlated with popularity of trucks like John’s – or a firearms incident, funnily enough also subject to a statistical correlation with light truck ownership. Between 19 and 24, vehicle collisions are the number one cause of death regardless of gender; only beat out by poisonings and suicide as you get older. Again, light trucks are correlated with higher rates of fatalies. If you’re in those age groups and don’t have a substance abuse or mental illness disorder, John is the most likely thing to kill you in your life.
People like John are apathetic about the casual brutality of such a vehicle, that is in fact the point of the hypermasculinity molded into it. I don’t want him around me, and I don’t want him around my kids. He chose to be dangerous and individual rights doesn’t mean you can threaten others with impunity. That’s why neglect can land you with murder or manslaughter charges.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the fujoshis own Trek actually.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
Exactly what the fuck do you think you’re referencing?
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
History of banana and why it’s cheap.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 weeks ago:
You can’t buy a house because $2.5k per story pays the mortage for the landlord and the rental property.