The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Anteater]

Lol **** the gulag. Just get rid of the megacorporations.

[OccultHawk]

We are all prostitutes
Everyone has their price
We are all prostitutes
Everyone has their price
Everyone!

And you too will learn to live the lie
And you too will learn to live the lie
And you too will learn to live the lie
Everyone has their price

Aggression!
Competition!
Ambition!
Consumer fascism!
Consumer fascism!

We are all prostitutes
Everyone has their price
We are all prostitutes
Everyone has their price
Everyone!

Capitalism is the most barbaric of all religions

Department stores are our new cathedrals
Department stores are our new cathedrals
Our cars are martyrs to the cause
Our cars are martyrs to the cause

[Zhanteimi]

Originally Posted by elphenor

dismantle every hierarchy

Based on what authority?

[OccultHawk]

Working 70 hours a week in a sweltering kitchen isn’t any better than Ivan Denisovich had it.

[DwnWthVwls]

Originally Posted by elphenor

his messaging that UBI is cool because gov can't be trusted is extremely detrimental and shortsighted

Idk seems pretty honest to me. The only thing I trust the government with is things that we share a common interest in like not starting a nuclear war.

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Idk seems pretty honest to me. The only thing I trust the government with is things that we share a common interest in like not starting a nuclear war.

Keeping our water and air clean for future generations comes in at #2.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Anteater

I only want to vote for Yang because I hate him a lot less than the other Democrats running and he's not a doofus like Trump. He's also the only person who has extensively documented what solutions he'd actually bring to the table if elected. He doesn't flip flop like Bernie or is pushing to be some kind of non-technical centrist like Pate Buttplug or Beta O' Cuck.

^ Have you had a change of heart that I missed out on, Anteater? Back in the hot and heavy days of The Trump Thread, I couldn't imagine you writing something like that.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Have you had a change of heart that I missed out on, Anteater? Back in the hot and heavy days of The Trump Thread, I couldn't imagine you writing something like that.

Not really. The only reason Yang has any chance at all is because Trump became President. He's been a good shakeup to the status quo, especially after two prior elections where China attempted to interfere and nobody seemed to care.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Anteater

Not really. The only reason Yang has any chance at all is because Trump became President. He's been a good shakeup to the status quo, especially after two prior elections where China attempted to interfere and nobody seemed to care.

^ That's a relief - I though for a minute I'd lost the one person who is willing to respond to my political rants!

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Working 70 hours a week in a sweltering kitchen isn’t any better than Ivan Denisovich had it.

^ 70 hours a week is brutal, though I think I'd rather be in a hot kitchen than in Siberia. If I remember right, a typical workbreak for Ivan D was a mug of boiling water which he drank while squatting on a bit of permafrost that the authorities had designated as a building site. I may not've worked construction in Siberia, but I have waited, in mid-winter, at windswept London bus-stops for over half-an-hour at a time, so I can imagine how Ivan D must've felt.

[OccultHawk]

Once you reach the point where life is severely degraded you’ve entered the threshold of Ivan Denisovich. The refusal to recognize the devastating nature of American capitalism on its lowest tier employees serves to make the reading of Solzhenitsyn exactly half as valuable. And I say half because there’s two lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn: 1) the value of perseverance and 2) the nature of oppression. Not understanding that the kitchen or factory or Walmart has become your gulag is to have completely missed the second point and undercuts the universality of the literature. It’s applicable to what I am witnessing. Our willingness to accept and recognize this horrific truth is to render Solzhenitsyn still relevant.