The post is not an indictment of recycling per se. Rather, it points to the absurdity of promoting individual contributions while ignoring the carbon footprint of corporations and the obscenely wealthy.

Honestly this place can feel empty without them

Strategy of capitalism. You have to shoot for short term hail-marry profits at the expense of, well, every thing else.

I really hope we as a people can get past our Cold War / Red Scare phase and embrace more collectivism in our culture and government.

How can we ever get to the point of eating the rich if we can’t even block traffic without turning people away from the cause? The former is far more disruptive than the latter.

Mass protests in other countries have shut entire cities down. That’s what it takes. If your sentiment is the popular one (and it appears to be), then Americans will never get to a place of actual resistance. I guess people just aren’t mad enough yet.

By what metric is capitalism the “least worst” system? Most of the people who defend capitalism have to sell their labor and own zero capital. The result is a two-tiered system where the obscenely wealthy exist right next to a vast majority who don’t have enough savings to survive a minor emergency. This is the situation in rich countries. The ongoing exploitation throughout so-called “third-world” capitalist countries also speaks against capitalism.

Moreover, if socialism is such a bad system, why did America fight tooth and nail to stop it? Diplomatic isolation, trade embargos, propaganda, political assassinations. It is because socialism actually threatens the profits of the wealthy. The west can’t exploit the land, labor, and resources of nations that place the workers in charge of their own workplaces. Maybe if the most powerful country in the history of the world wasn’t working against it the system could prove its worth.

it is much more challenging to explain why not releasing Epstein files supposed to be a good thing.

Fair point. There’s also the Pizzagate Republicans which I assume overlap heavily with MAGA

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised. It’s all one big party for the rich and powerful.

There will be a lot of blocked traffic if we ever bring back the guillotines. Just be honest and say you don’t want to be inconvenienced.

Funny how after all the blatant corruption this is the issue that splits the MAGA cult. I guess Trump really isn’t untouchable. Maybe the Biden administration should have pushed to release the Epstein files before the election. Maybe they thought that would read as too politically motivated?

The global south would disagree with you.

Its working out pretty well for the wealthy in colonialist countries though.

Online liberals will joke about eating the rich but get mad when protesters block traffic. Online liberals will joke about “the guillotine” but argue that destruction of property counts as “violence”.

Democrats should have released the Epstein files before Trump was elected. If Republicans not releasing the list implicates them in protecting pedophiles, then the same is true of Democrats. They all fly to the same literal/metaphorical islands.

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My partner suffered a lot of abuse in previous relationships and my own flaws (some perceived, some very real) triggered her. She “psuedo” broke up with me about three times. We got couples therapy and did a lot of work. It was hard but a few years later we’re now happily engaged.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will ever release the Epstein files. Yes, this is a case in which “both sides” applies. I don’t understand why we didn’t pressure Biden to release this shit before the election.

Exactly. Democrats had the presidency and a majority in Congress. Everyone talking about Republicans (rightfully so) while ignore Democrats doing the same fucking thing is why leftists hate liberals. They all go to the same island: metaphorically and, in this case, literally.

Everyone talks about MAGA being sheep while they themselves never criticize the dominant narrative of their echo chamber.

In other words, capitalism is in no way necessary for human civilization.

This is why I don’t understand “Make America Great Again”. We have literally never been great.