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  • The 2nd Amendment is a joke, realistically. Like, it’s cool having guns, but we live in a surveillance state. All the people that are hardcore “I’d die for my country” are usually pretty nationalist, so they mostly support the surveillance state. We have all the bread and circuses, too. But as that changes, maybe the public might do something?

    I don’t know. I’m shocked at how he’s just been allowed to do what he’s doing. But I don’t know what I as an individual can do when there’s not an ounce of class consciousness in America, other than slowly educate people. That also assumes anyone will find the time to organize outside of their 40-60 hour work weeks. Or that certain outside forces won’t intervene. Maybe it’s not as much common knowledge outside the US, but subversion tactics by the 3 letter agencies are in practice on basically everything that challenges the status quo, from the KKK to any real left-wing movements.

    Please do stop respecting our copyright system, though. It’s absolutely laughable what corporations get away with here.




  • Demonise is a bit strong. They’re just offering an alternate interpretation that’s more negative than yours.

    I think it has some merit. A lot of people are forced out of a work/life balance. I’ve tried to stay out of careers that demand my whole life, and I still get sucked into doing nothing but working from time to time. That’s life.

    I can appreciate the fact that Beatrice has clearly stopped caring about the corporate machine, and that the author is trying to convey that we could all be the same, while still recognizing that the implication of the comic is a little half-baked due to the fact that the real-life financial capabilities of the working class are usually decided by how much they brown-nose and eat shit at work.

    This sets two people up as enemies when one could be teaching and the other could be learning. Instead, they’re locked in a battle of semantics. The comic has a little bit to analyze, I think. This discussion could even go further.