• culprit@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    If you want to stake out incoherent political idealism as a form of wishcasting, go for it. Just don’t expect material reality to conform to your delusions. Liberalism has no claim on “the right to live life as you see fit” though. It is indeed the ideology of slavery and colonialism, and continues its exploitative conquests under the guise of capitalism.

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      3 days ago

      That is literally what liberalism is. The right to self determination, as opposed to the continued power structure of the monarchy.

      Now anti-capitalism…that there seems like some wishful idealism.

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        3 days ago

        Wishful Idealism is when you realize the system that is killing every human being on earth needs to be replaced

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        That’s what it advertizes, sure. But that’s not how it actually functions in practice. Just look around with open eyes please.

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          Looking around, I don’t see any kings.

          Exactly what it says on the box, perfect. No notes.

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            3 days ago

            Glad you’re happy to be ruled by genocidal pedophiles. Truly the heights of liberty.

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              It is preferable to genocidal pedophiles that also send you to the gulag for speaking, yes.

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                Lol just Sayin Shit, turning to projection as you guys always do when the reality of your monstrosity confronts you.

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                  I’m sorry I forgot you’re probably not allowed to say anything bad about Dear Leader from behind the firewall.

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                Drone strikes, ICE raids, the largest prison population on the planet, all this leaves you completely unbothered. Got mine, fuck everyone else, right? The true essence of liberalism indeed.

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                  Yeah, pretty much. If I preferred that plus the gulag, I would have stayed in the USSR post collapse.

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                    You lived in the USSR, and you are this miseducated? That seems highly unlikely. Liberalism is a helluva drug tho.

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                Source: Simon Sebag Montfiore, close personal friend of the pedophile oligarch pictured above and signatory to the recent “Israel totally isn’t committing genocide you guys” letter.