Didn’t watch vid lol, but of course it’s a process and not likely to be a singular event, but for me, watching the film version of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine freshman year of college in class (4 years ago) was pretty fundamental. I vividly remember sitting in that class, feeling familiar nationalist defensiveness turn into a new rage and disgust for America. I was suspicious of unfettered capitalism and liked Bernie prior to that, but was still entirely a reactionary with mostly shitty social and political beliefs.

In my experience, seeing the course of world history through an actually critical lense for the first time made a much more holistic image click into place. I feel like a lot more things regarding society and economics that I was confused about began to make sense after that

Fuck you, the way everyone is so hyper-critical online has been so annoying to me lately. Every single earnest post attracts a swarm of intellectuals ready to condescend. The reality is though, marxist-sandersism, or whatever I’m describing that you’re laughing at, is not a laughably shitty explanation, you’re just being a dick. What would you say to the coworker after they accuse you of supporting Stalin? Say yes he’s le epic and based? Yeah that’d be very normal and not laughably awkward in reality. Yes this was a wild overreaction but like I said I’m sick of everyone just cumming themselves at how clever they are for cringing and loling at everything earnest

You’re right - swap out Marx for something like “the fact everyone knows to be true, that there are rich fucks controlling politics and the economy instead of the people as intended”

So, you’re a communist?

I’m gonna take this seriously like ur a coworker or stranger, u guys critique me

Nah not like that really, more like… original Marx stuff combined with Bernie Sanders. It’s not that radical when you get down to it, essentially that most resources should be democratically controlled instead of by a single weirdo like zuckerberg.

Probably wouldn’t go on that long unless they continued to seem with me

Ask any normal person this question and they’ll look at you like you have a third eye. Everyone is so engrossed in their own lives, between working 60 hours a week and trying to keep everything else together. Thinking about this shit is a waste, a childish obsession to them. And it’s not hard to see how it seems that way to them, having energy/perspective to think about shit not obviously directly related to their daily lives would be a privilege.

I dunno, I guess I buy the docile American meme. No one fucking cares unless they’re weirdos that read too much news. And no one will unless their daily routines are dramatically interrupted, and that probably won’t happen.

I have a friend I argue with about this issue all the time. He firmly believes that we can be excited about tech advancement because eventually singularity will inevitably end scarcity and there will be no way for anyone to hoard that power. 🤷‍♂️

What was the response like to your fliers, if u don’t mind my asking? And do you have a cheap solution for printing out hundreds of pages?

“you know Q anon? Yeah well landlords are actually part of the pedo cabal too. So would you like to join a tenants union patriot’s club?”

I think we live in a combination of 1984 and the freaking Matrix, dude