SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 4 months agoThey prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and sloganslemmy.worldimagemessage-square246linkfedilinkarrow-up1562arrow-down1111
arrow-up1451arrow-down1imageThey prevent liberation by selling you back your chains with populous rhetoric and sloganslemmy.worldSaltyAmerican@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square246linkfedilink
minus-squarechaogomu@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·4 months agoYou said “the west” as if the other major option not “the west” wasn’t a totalitarian dictatorship. Also, local councils and assemblies exist in the US, and they have power, but not quite enough.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months ago You said “the west” as if the other major option not “the west” wasn’t a totalitarian dictatorship. And they’re correct, Westerners are just programmed to treat it as axiomatically true that foreigners are ontologically evil
minus-squarechaogomu@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·4 months agoDictatorships are not their people, that’s kind of the point.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoDid you reply to the wrong comment, because that has nothing to do with what I said.
You said “the west” as if the other major option not “the west” wasn’t a totalitarian dictatorship.
Also, local councils and assemblies exist in the US, and they have power, but not quite enough.
And they’re correct, Westerners are just programmed to treat it as axiomatically true that foreigners are ontologically evil
Dictatorships are not their people, that’s kind of the point.
Did you reply to the wrong comment, because that has nothing to do with what I said.