Oof, what we did in Vietnam to the Vietnamese people was already unbelievably evil and unforgivable, but we even betrayed people that risked everything to help us? Wow.
My heart breaks for all the people who died in that terrible war: the innocent Vietnamese who merely wanted to be free to self determine and also the young boys that the US sent to their death for absolutely no good reason.
I have had multiple employers tell me that my degrees make me overqualified, so idk, apparently having a degree hurts as much as it helps these days
The “work yourself to death” is a stupid boomer concept. It’s a hugely negative aspect of traditional masculinity.
At least for boomers, loyalty was often rewarded with promotions, bonuses, and generous pensions. But these days companies will work you to death and then fire you for a 0.0001% boost to their quarterly profits. They’ll fire 10,000 people just so the billionaire shareholders can earn 1% more.
Ideally, if the politicians actually believed what they told their votes, then yes, they would do it that way. But… Trump was best friends with Jeffry Epstein. Nearly all the Maga billionaires visited Epstein’s island. The Republican party is full of pedos, sex traffickers and Nazis.
There’s a lot more than the 3 listed above, the ones I listed are militant in their belief that Russia and China are Marxist-Leninist utopias.
Hexbear hates Russia. They call Putin a fascist dictator / capitalist all the time.
No one on Hexbear calls Russia or China a Marxist utopia. Pointing out that the CCP is using their power to build highspeed rail, nuclear energy, tons of public housing, and huge solar projects might seem like glazing, but I think those projects are worthy of praise. If the US built 40000km of highspeed rail, entire cities of public housing, tons of clean nuclear power plants, etc then I would be overjoyed to praise my country for doing something good.
Supporting genocide is true tankieism. Anyone who isn’t critical of the US’s funding of genocide or the military industrial complex are the true tankies.
Hmm, I shit on Russia all the time every chance I get and as far as I know I was never warned about it, even on lemmy.ml
I am not sure I agree that the old rule was replaced. Before, the oligarchs ruled from the shadows by controlling political campaign finances and lobbyists. But now, the oligarchs are so powerful they are ruling directly. The country is still heading in the same direction (relentless growth of power disparity between the rich and power) just at a quicker pace.
FDR was the last US president that fought for the working class. Every President since Reagan has overseen policies that have weakened the working class and transfered power to the rich. Republicans were far more aggressive about it, but liberals still did it at a slower rate.
Power disparity derived from wealth disparity inevitably leads to unchecked corruption.
Late Stage Capitalism is a malignant cancer on both society and the planet
In what way are possums pests anywhere?
🥵 That’s hot. Not nearly enough, but still great news
Masks are sort of like condoms. When someone tells you that you don’t need one or that you shouldn’t wear one then you absolutely do need one.
When did the french become such insatiable bootlickers? As long as billion dollar corporations are still making billions then they should be told to kindly fuck off.
He knew lead was a very dangerous neurotoxin and he just didn’t care. Capitalists destroying the planet for profit is such a boring evil.
Aye, we need a new system.
This grosses me out the most. He isn’t even having romantic relationships with the mothers where a spell of passion ends up with children. No, in a few cases, he literal went up to his own employees offering to pay them to be single mothers for his own demonic ego.
Wealth cannot be detangled from power, so yeah, this is dead on.
We can have democracy or we can have billionaires, we cannot have both
I know why they did it, because it was the only way to ensure that the tsar dynasty wasn’t reinstalled… But killing innocent kids will never sit right with me.
Too true. Queue meme:
“Capitalism Horrors persist, but so do I”
I pray they do so peacefully, or if they refuse, that we can do what we must without losing our humanity.
The Soviets are a cautionary tale: they were forced to slay monsters and demons to gain their freedom, but somewhere in the process of slaying monsters they became monsterous themselves. That isn’t a critique of communism, but rather that war can turn men into demons.
I am worried that this could be bait. Elon can see that the entire world is turning on him, but if violence escalates then Trump could use it as justification to declare Martial law.