Another good thing to point out. If you have the time to interact with those communities, it’s demonstrably populated primarily by bot-like content. Even more, moderation tends to be more opaque and aggressive against leftist comments or posts.

You sound so desperate for me to not block you dude.

Very important to point out with this that Reddit has gotten markedly more fascist in these past three years – which is saying something – even while there is inexplicably a large number of people who call it “left-leaning” on the platform itself. It is safe to say that a high amount of “user”-content is bots of some kind, and that platforms that have high numbers of bots tend to become more conservative and fascist.

“… I don’t feel superior to anyone… . … evoked some feeling of shame from you isn’t my problem.” You can’t even pretend to be an honest person without trying to suggest other people are less morally pure than you. This is not a simple life, it is a dishonest one. I will not be responding again, obviously. There’s no conversing with people who lie to themselves.

It’s difficult to read this and not feel less empathetic toward you. Such desperation to feel superior without any clear indication that you are invested in actually embodying a set of morals yourself.

If you care, you should take the time to explore inconvenient explanations for why this happens and refuse satisfaction with actionless answers.

This is a good question to ask. This person is not very critical of what they’ve said and is clearly satisfied with liberal (as in liberalism) explanations for people’s behaviour.

Their point is that people are just fundamentally bad and that is why these companies make profit despite an apparently universal condemnation of their actions. It’s shallow, inaccurate, and is only useful to feel morally superior to some imagined decadent group that they believe is the source of this problem.

I think it’s a bit self-indulgent to consider that this is big-brained or world-shattering to people. You’re just repeating the dominant explanation for why these companies can make profit despite their immorality, it isn’t challenging or new.

You’re a bootlicker. Go lick some boots like you want.

“no u” Shut-up, chud. Go lick some boots.

It’s important to make a distinction between liberals who strive for moral purity through performativity, and people who value human life by recognizing the inequalities in labour and material security under capitalism. Narratives that reproduce the idea that people are just fundamentally impure and can’t stick to their values only strengthens liberalism’s claim to morality.

Dude, you can’t be satisfied by bites of moral superiority, it isn’t useful to you. Class solidarity doesn’t mean that they have solidarity with you because they strive for unity or whatever, it means that they have solidarity with people in the same socioeconomic class as themselves. Yes, they are self-interested and they exclude people who are not in their class from positions of power within the state. They correctly identify that most Americans have been neglected functional knowledge on how their system works – both literally as in the state and philosophically/sociologically as in how ideas work and why certain people subscribe to certain values – and make use of a “two-party” system to occlude their common interest in capital and hegemony. Democrats and Republicans do not differ on fundamental principles of how society should work, and they share those principles with anyone alive who hoards wealth because they all are in a class that is constructed through wealth hoarding, that’s the solidarity.

That someone can work for either party without missing a step demonstrates that there is not a fundamental difference between the two in a very funny way.

I mean, that’s a very good demonstration on the common values of these supposedly different groups. Their class solidarity is strong.

I notice you didn’t mention the lack of democratic rights for a particular group of people in the United States after there was challenge to the monarchy. Y’know, as the revolution was happening, slave freedom petitions were already pointing out the obvious contradiction in a democracy where most people couldn’t vote. The US has legal routes to forced labour and denied democratic rights today extending back to the 1860s.

It has never been democratic as you are using the word, it has always wielded the idea of democracy to the benefit of its privileged class though.

You are a chud though, the talking points all over your profile could be AI generated they’re so typical. Might be even.

I don’t know why you’d expect me to take that seriously. It’s bot-like to just use a web term without even knowing what it means.

What’s the point in that if you all think you know everything without learning how to learn? They’d just make up more nonsense.

Right, can you tell us where and how you learned about what these political philosophies are and how they have developed historically?

“Secret cabal” as in capitalism and its imperatives sure, pretty out in the open though.

Yeah, that’s what the law is. Im curious about the mechanics of this, this certainly is not a new issue and AI could feasibly make mass surveillance necessary to enforce such a law easier. If that’s the case though, what kind of process would exist to confirm the person’s qualifications? Just some examples but that is more of what I’m talking about.

Arbitrary laws as a form of suppression is centuries old here in NA.

It’s a catch-22 for diseases. Nothing can survive my COVID-19 immunization, cell-reception, autism beam, and cancer-defiant aura all at once.

Genuinely curious if anyone has info on how something like this is enforced.