rubpoll [she/her] @ rubpoll @hexbear.net

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The French Dispatch

They're genuinely astonished that the majority of us don't want to die for the preservation of their creature comforts.

You need to remember that liberals see millions of children in sweatshops as a victory. The children should be grateful that capitalists have created the conditions where being tortured on an assembly line is the best option available for the global poor.

Economists are the new feudal clergy, they only exist to justify the current ruling class.

The wealthy are wealthy because God / The Market is rewarding their value.

The poor are poor because God / The Market is punishing their laziness.

Economists treat the modern economy the same way Abrahamics treat God - as an unpredictable, fickle monster that you can't ask anything of.

You can't blame God / The Market when it punishes you, you can't directly control it or tame it, but you can offer it incentives at most and be grateful for scraps.

God / The Market doesn't exist to serve Man. Man exists to serve God / The Market.

People screeching about this are the same people who support gated communities.

Every American researcher works for advertising companies, even if they don't realize it.

I get called a tankie all the time.

I know enough about history to know it takes the top left to achieve the bottom left, and to protect it from the entire right-wing.

I support crushing fascists with tanks.

Communism is when there's too much food

Zelenksy tried to surrender. Boris Johnson derailed those talks to keep the war going.

If your goal is to prevent deaths, surrendering would have been the ideal yeah.

Zelenksy tried to surrender to prevent further deaths, and Boris Johnson refused to let that meeting happen because NATO isn't finished using Ukranians as crash test dummies.

The creator of this comic is a self-described pro-sweatshop neoliberal, which explains the "woe is me, I'm too smart for my own good" delusions.

China and India: 🤝

If you're not an Anarchist in your 20's you have no heart.

If you're not a Tankie in your 30's you have no brain.

It's the closest thing we have to an anthem for the human race.

Such a bizarre dark comedy. Only saw it once when I was like 12, and it completely seared itself into my brain.

Where did we go wrong?

The bad guys won the Cold War.

I can't imagine what it's like believing that the omnipotent ruler of the multiverse cares about you more than others, enough so to rig random things in your favor.

"Oh yeah, me and the all-powerful creator of reality are besties. Sometimes He makes two sodas fall out of the vending machine for me because He cares about me that much. He also rigs sports games for my favorite team because I asked Him to really hard."

Narcissism doesn't even come close to describing that thinking.

Democracies all over the world are ready to fight to the last Taiwanese child soldier!