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

why do you even consider yourself a socialist at that point? like, you look around at the immense suffering capitalism necessitates and you think "hm, we should stop that," but then you look at the empire built by and for the class that the whole system is designed to keep in power and you think that somehow they accidentally created a good, progressive global hegemon?

fuck i'm actually reading it and their reasoning is "yes, the US might not be perfect, but at least it crushed any possibility for international communism with brutal efficiency!" you're just a liberal man. you're just a normal liberal. your politics are not significantly different from those of your lib parents. you would knock on doors for kirsten gillibrand's campaign if she said please.

A single mom working at a bar contributes to drunk driving accidents, alcoholism, and domestic violence, but you'd never call out the workers as being the problem there, right?

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

They're just Keynesian chauvinists in DSA clothing.

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

Keynes and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Keynes was the OG "I can fix her" dude but it was for capitalism instead of a problematic partner