i think this is supposed to mean "i am speaking from 20 years of experience" and not "hey i just figured out this extremely obvious thing"
I like to imagine he was looking over his notes on all his students for the past twenty years and came to a sudden and shocking realisation.
I think the best leftist approach to crime is "the best way to reduce crime is to reduce poverty." This covers a lot of the same ground as the OP, but does a better job of setting you up to have a more productive discussion.
Ya know how Red Son got flubbed? How about a reboot of batman who’s really into harm reduction and gets the ire of other wealthmen (irl supervillains) because he injects all of his money into welfare and gets lambasted as an evil socialist through MSM to the people he’s trying to help. So he learns from his comrade, Ra’s Al-Ghul how to assassinate capitalists.
Instead of a rich guy who spends all his money on building a suit of armor to disfigure the poor.
That's kinda what Bruce Wayne does at this point (minus killing anyone), unless the writer for a batman story has a hard on for Mark Millar batman stories, especially Dark Knight Returns.
The whole “SJW” thing is such a projection when the reasons for most of the detractors to this statement boil down to “but muh justice” or “But I’ll FEEL better if we locked everyone up!”
How much more are we losing on as a society because the ruling class marketed cruelty as catharsis?
Like my FIL telling me how he's starting to think that inflation mostly hurts poor people.
Some people take a while to reach lol
While I'm tickled by the idea of him only returning to this important, good and thankless work every day for 20 years to figure out the impossible riddle of why these people are incarcerated, I suspect he may just be a good person who kept doing this for moral reasons.
I could have saved him 20 years lol
It is extremely challenging to explain privilege to the privileged Privilege is not just about being very wealthy. I grew up in a poor community but we weren't the poorest. I had more life opportunities than my school friends and as adults we have different lives. I am still not wealthy, but the gap between us has certainly widened. Not because I'm smarter or more hard working, I am not.
Most people are there because our society is poorly run. The politicians have failed us with their greed.
The politicians have failed us with their greed.
No. Please stop with this "greed" bullshit. The system is running exactly the way it was designed to run. Cruelty IS the point.
When all politicians in similar systems, proceed to systematically succumb to greed, the problem is in the system
The politicians have failed us with their greed.
When you put it this way you imply that swapping the greedy for those who are not greedy would work.
Liberals analyse the world using idealism. Marxists analyse the world using materialism.
It will not work, because greed is not the cause, you're making the mistake of performing an idealist analysis instead of a materialist one. The idealist analysis lands you on "change how people think and things will get better" whereas a materialist analysis lands you on "change the system and it will change how people think".
The problem will never change without changing the system. No matter how hard you try.
cancer doesn't fail on any moral level. It simply is.
a misfolded protein is the most efficient structure a protein can be in.
there are billions of dollars being churned around in running for congress, and they're getting a salary of like, 200k a year. good luck running for congress without representing some very deep pockets.
I don't judge cancer. It's just efficient at growth, very efficient, and in a way that is unhelpful.
I don't think the system is evil, i think it needs treatment.
i think the system is evil
Yeah, almost all of what hexaglycogen wrote is true and well said, but the system can be evil at the same time as all of that. We can say that its evil because of the harm that it causes and the cruelty of its effects, but we likewise have to call cancer evil for the same reasons. The claim of course is that the system (like cancer) is not evil because it has no conscious intent, it just is, an amoral thing devoid of consciousness doing what it does. But even though that's true on the whole, the capitalist system unlike cancer is made of components where many of them are beings with intent, conscious human individuals aware of the harm they do, in other words: evil people. The system selects for them, rewarding sociopathy, embedding itself with that evil even if as a system it has no awareness. In my book, that makes it more than fair to call the system itself evil.
There is nothing wrong with denouncing American plutocrats like Bezos and Gates for greed, but we cannot stop there: we must understand that the system of exploitation is not held together by any individual’s vices. As Lenin put it, “The capitalists divide the world, not out of any particular malice, but because the degree of concentration which has been reached forces them to adopt this method in order to obtain profits.” [10] If one of them had a major change of heart and stopped pursuing ruthless accumulation, they would quickly be ousted by stockholders for endangering their investment. In the unlikely event that their stockholders were cooperative, a competitor would swoop in and relieve them of their commanding market share. This is not apologia for Bezos, but we need to understand that there is a talent to being a capitalist exploiter, or else we will underestimate our enemy. The market selects for profitability, and it selects well — it just doesn’t select for environmental responsibility or decency or who can bring the most benefits to the greatest number. From Marx, to Lenin, to Deng, we can observe a baseline level of respect for the enemy: “Management is also a technique.” [11]
On my view, the core Marxist insight is the following: Feudal lords were the masters of Feudalism. Capitalists, however, aren’t the masters of capitalism. They are merely the high priests of capitalism. The master of capitalism is Capital itself.
An alternative thing to consider: they were selected for their roles because of their greed.
They are lieutenants of this society, not generals.
Only took a day for meeee
Literally when you see beau lines in the incarcerated toe nails and understand what that means, there's no other explanation as to how they ended up there. Poor diet can cause mental issues just as well as physical, and often times the poor are desperate as well as emotionally drained.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
