Damn, that sounds nice. Like I'm sure wherever you're from is also all kinds of fucked up (everywhere under capitalism is), but it sounds nicer. And like you could at least have some hope for things improving.
Bolshechick
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I break down crying about this shit at least once a day. There is so much injustice and cruelty in the world. I am constantly aware of it, it weighs on me at all times. I don't know what's wrong with other people, that they don't feel the pain of others, don't want to help, don't care.
Yeah that stuff never happens here. The university I went to didn't have a student union. I don't think we had political student groups at all even. Teachers aren't allowed to strike in the state I live in (no public sector workers are), and very few private sector workers are unionized.
Politics means hearing about what the Republicans or Democrats are up to on corporate media, then voting for one of them every four years (if you're really politically active, you vote in local elections, congressional elections, etc. In off years). Being into politics means you watch streamers or tiktoks that talk about politics, then you post and argue with people online and off. You don't do anything other than vote and talk - there is nothing else you can do, except maybe go to some useless match or protest (these are EXTREMELY rare; we had one here for George Floyd, it was crushed by the cops with gas and shit. And that's basically it).
Politics is something politicians do. You root for or against them, have opinions on what they're up to. And that's if you're someone who cares about it. Plenty of people don't pay any attention to it. The idea that you can do politics is completely foreign to the amerikkkan mind.
Bit idea: taking the comedy=philosophy thing seriously, and start going to mics and lecturing about Hegel until someone murders me
I think the US is led by people who are a lot more vindictive though
Well I'm a girl and a gay and I do like her
So, I think there's a lot going with all the anti-vax/other rejection of medicine stuff. But, I think at least part of it is that a lot of people have no real conception of how bad things were. How many people died or had serious problems due to diseases we've now eradicated or mostly taken care of. And that reminds me of the collapse of the Eastern bloc. People didn't understand how bad capitalism was.
How do you educate people on this? It doesn't seem like just reading is enough for people to really comprehend past suffering in a way that makes them want to keep up the institutions needed to prevent a return.
Lol
But also, I can't fathom the mindset of anyone who believes a proletarian state can wither away while capitalism exists, regardless of the state of the productive forces. Like, imagine if the Soviet state started withering away immediately. How would socialism survive, lol? You'd have to be a pure theory, no looking at practical matters kinda person
Damn, I think I at this point i actually prefer the old religious "humans are special and different from other animals cuz god have us the consciousness" shit to this new techno-religion "biological sucks, destroy consciousness and bring on the machines" shit. At least there were some Christians and shit throughout history that really cared about animals (and some other religions have been better). This shit is just anti-life completely