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I'm going to go insane from having to explain people how their political beliefs work (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I don't even agree with your shit how am I better at it than you. How are you gonna jerk off over the rules based societal order and then claim you can ignore whatever highest court you have because you personally disagree. mfer you just reinvented feudalism again

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

will end up killing more people and increasing the net suffering of humanity, including people they may know; and when they see the lengthening waiting lines and increased mortality, they talk about how we need to solve this problem through common sense solutions etc etc.

Me telling my friends how fucked life is on SSI, watching them agree with how awful it is, and then realizing they think it’s some kind of accident marx-doomer

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I need to relisten to like six Chapo episodes to find where one of them mentioned the quote (paraphrasing) "The ideology of neoliberalism is one where there are many victims and no perpetrators" in the sense that people suffering is treated in all cases like a natural disaster, with total blindness to the idea that systems might be built for the outcome that they consistently produce, decade after decade, for the majority of people the impact.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

That’s perfect. If you can find the original please give me a ping.

A friend of mine (this one a Marxist) had their teaching hours unexpectedly and catastrophically cut right before the beginning of the semester. When they ranted to their graduate advisor, the one who was supposed to advocate for them at faculty meetings or whathaveyou, he replied, entirely unironically, and as if it excused his failure, by saying “Well, Hannah Arendt said that in a bureaucracy, no individual is to blame . . .” For some reason that didn’t help with rent.