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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago

the people in the epstein files

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

Thanks to Epstein files we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Western liberal regimes are run by the depraved pedo oligarchs.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 0 points 2 days ago

Thank God for wholesome Western conservative elites

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Liberalism consists of two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on wholesome ideas such as individual freedoms and democracy. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.

As a result, liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. Thus, the talk of freedom and democracy ends up being nothing more than a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.

Conservatives are just a different flavor of liberal ideology because they uphold the same fundamental liberal values as self professed liberals.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago
[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

and a good opportunity to educate people on what liberalism is :)

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Assuming they read it, ofc

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

one can hope

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Liberalism as an umbrella contains conservatives.

[-] Astrius@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Me. I run it.

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

I am, and all I can do is apologize

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Alright, boys! Grab your torches and pitchforks!

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Not even one downvote for this shit heel? I'll change that!

That's for... Everything. You monster.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Lizard ppl 🦎

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Running Society is an organization of individuals enthusiastic about running. Check it out: https://runningsociety.de/

[-] Willoughby@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago

Society is broken in a non-sustainable state of rolling over profits from developing nations so the imperialist libertarians colonizing them with sweatshops can keep the ball rolling forever.

>civil war

welp, pack it up, guess we're off to "next third world country"

[-] Foni@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I think reality is the most terrifying option; nobody is in charge.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago
[-] Foni@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Because there is no solution, a James Bond will never come to kill the evil ones at their meeting on the dark side of the moon, there is simply no culprit to exchange for someone competent. It is only us, one after another, without order or concert added, who are to blame for all this shit

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Government often claims monopoly of force, that-is the biggest and only gang in a region. Our technologies of government only intersects with some aspects of life. This infrastructure of justice for example only maintains that grip if it can produce a narrative of consistency, any change probably invokes fears of the loss of monopoly of force, because it inevitably leads to the (sometimes temporary) necessity of self-organisation or self-government, which can be scary in the example of justice production.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Because it means chaos, anything can happen, no order

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

What if Susan buys one toilet seat too many? What if NASA floods the ISS with yogurt? What if people collectively decide to pinch their nose at the same time?

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I actually think this is partially why notions of secret societies and global control is so appealing throughout history

It’s truly scary to many people that nobody is running the world in some manner so they just have to believe it’s masons, jews, catholics, tech libertarians

SOMEBODY, so I can sleep at night knowing it’s all under control in some way 😴

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It’s actually kind of a nonsensical chaotic mess of random people exercising control at every conceivable level of society

There are certain instances of control you can trace and track through time and space like when persons with incredible individual power do concrete things we generally feel confident knowing who did what in those cases but even then it’s limited to the specific events in question not some enduring notion of global control

But if you look to the trump administration or something it’s basically every single person exercising whatever control they can get away with and not really having any loyalty or shared goals/purpose

Trump doesn’t care he likes watching all his underlings fight among each other for power so really nobody is running anything there

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago
[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Why is running society?

[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago
[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Whoever is running it is probably also ruining it

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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