• x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    10 months ago

    I’m sorry but “there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop” sounds like a great band name

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    46·
    10 months ago

    Fascists from the left? The left can’t get anyone more extreme than mayonnaise, what Democrat fascists are winning primaries?

    • m13@lemmy.world
      36·
      10 months ago

      It doesn’t say “from the left”. It says “from both parties”. Biden is the fascist from the other party.

      Democrats are in no way, shape, or form part of “the left”.

      At bare minimum someone on the left would be completely opposed to capitalism. They might be a mutualist, communalist, anarcho-syndicalist, anarcho-communist, etc.

      Democrats are Neo-liberals and support the status quo. Maybe not outright fascists like the Republicans, but they have more in common with Republicans than they do with anyone on the left and when push comes to shove they’re not going to oppose fascism, they’re just going to go along with it. “Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.”

      • spaduf@slrpnk.net
        37·
        10 months ago

        Biden is the fascist from the other party.

        Biden is in no way, shape, or form a fascist. Particularly in the context of a Trump ascendancy.

        • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
          24·
          10 months ago

          Yeah. I absolutely cannot square that circle either. This is a very, very thick supra-orbital brow take.

          • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
            7·
            10 months ago

            Can’t possibly figure out why some people won’t quibble on the mathematics of how much imperialism you can do and how much genocide you can enable if you still love democratic rights for the people that matter.

            The best nation on Earth. The Ubermensches, if you will. As long as they have the vote, it will all work out.

            But, hey, if you’re going to have choose between two fascists, might as well pick the one you have to cut to find it, especially when he’s the one that isn’t openly crooked and understands that investing in infrastructure is how to empower a nation.

            That is, after all, technically quite an improvement. You would actually be stupid to pick the worse choice of a forced dichotomy out of spite, or to forget that inaction is a choice.

            But, no.

            Why would anyone is this sub observe this reality?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      25·
      10 months ago

      Fascists from the left?

      Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve heard someone say “National SOCIALISM!” But I think this is more referring to the Kristen Sinemas and Robert Menendezes who spend more time finding ways to strangle Cuba to death and sell F-35s to Turkish dictators than to curb carbon emissions or mitigate the damage inflicted by COVID.

      If you know of a better way to describe what kind of ideologue sips $1000 btl wine in a cave full of corporate arms dealers while negotiating the finer points of our next proxy war in Latin America, I’d love to hear it.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          5·
          10 months ago

          Because everyone forgot to be mad about the Uyghurs somehow.

          If the Uyghurs had been on the other side of the China/Afghanistan border, we’d be gasoline bombing them while half the nation clapped.

          On the off chance that China does a Capitalist Revolution and all those western business interests discover they’ve got an opportunity to strip mine Hongshan Mountain for precious metals, its going to be Iraq War Redux over there inside a hot minute.

          Even now, folks from the NBA to Hollyweird have decided actually China is very cool and good, so long as they can keep selling jerseys and toys to middle-income kids and box seat tickets to traveling executives. All this shit is forever about the money. You can stack the corpses to the moon and it’ll still be about the money.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      17·
      10 months ago

      Adam Schiff vehemently opposes a permanent cease fire in Israel.

      California also just passed a plan to involuntarily institutionalize it’s homeless people.

      That’s just the news from today. There will be more hellscape tomorrow.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        Edit: deleted my original arguments because I fell for the dishonest troll ….

        I don’t know what you’re going on about, but this “today” news, best I can find online is two years ago

        require counties to provide comprehensive treatment to the most severely impaired and untreated Californians and hold patients accountable to their treatment plan

        Or this past October

        working closely with the city and county of Sacramento to build a tiny home village on Stockton Boulevard that will be a model for the rest of the state. Residents will be embedded in a community wellness campus specializing in substance abuse disorder treatment and mental health care.

        Neither of which bears any resemblance to the claim

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          Prop 1 that we just voted on is a plan to remove funding from outpatient treatment that’s highly rated by it’s patients. That money would be used to build and staff thousands of new beds for mentally ill homeless and veterans. The measure was largely sold as a way to clear the streets of homeless people.

          Now how are they going to get homeless people who don’t want to leave to go into in patient treatment? Involuntary commitment.

          Furthermore because it’s being sold as a way to get homeless people off the streets it creates an open end political mandate to keep expanding the program as long as someone complains about homeless people . Since someone is making money, supplying, building, and staffing these places; there’s also going to be business lobby pressure to increase funding and program use for the foreseeable future.

          Tl;dr Prop 1 isn’t wanted by the patients, or the people who care for them. And it’s sold as an anti homeless measure. That’s really all you need to know to know it’s crooked.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      I gotta say I didn’t recognize it as a poem, but someone who needs to come back down to earth, and adjust their dosage

    • Skates@feddit.nl
      8·
      10 months ago

      I hate shit like this. I honestly do.

      Yeah my man, congratulations. Biden is better than Trump. Hear ye, hear ye, from the top of the terraces and down to your piss-infested alleys, you should know that today the Democratic party has found us someone you can vote for that is better than Trump. You’re welcome, mortals. Now hurry down to the booths and do what we want you to do. No questions please, there is no time for your theatrics. Just know that he’s better than the worst president you’ve ever had.

      You know what, how about fuck you? How about we let the country burn? I mean, it’ll burn for me anyway. Whether it’s that alt-right fucko, or your shitty party’s “moderate” alternative. But maybe with the other guy, it burns for you as well. Maybe when stocks go down because the orange clown shat out another retarded idea you’ll remember that you offered moderation when people asked for a serious leftist choice. Maybe when the Supreme Court continues to remove rights from women, minorities and oppressed groups they’ll get organized into a party that actually represents them and pushes for social change, instead of just being a shade less dark than their opposition. Maybe when the MAGA retards burn the fucking world down, some rich Democrat fuck’s house just happens to get caught in the fire as well, and they can live to regret pulling the wrong strings for so many years. Because there’s no fucking way the regular people get through any of this shit unscathed, might as well pull a few of the ‘immortals’ down with us and remind them that they too can bleed.

      So fuck right off with your shitty choices. You made the retarded decision to have Hillary as the opposition to Trump, you saw how well that went for you. You made the same mistake now, offering people another impossible choice. For once in your fucking life, accept responsibility - the Democrats have chosen who should represent them, and they have chosen wrong. If they lose, that’s not on the voters - that’s on the people who made the choice.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
        5·
        10 months ago

        I see a system that does more good than harm, I see people being held accountable for their actions by democratic institutions, I see the needy being given food and shelter. I see people like you advocating we burn down the gates and welcome in the Corporations and Helter Skelters to take what they want, kill whoever opposes them. Anarchy is not a kind place, it is not a solution to your woes. What is a clear as day fucking solution is the political party who, given the authority to do so, would easily solve all of these injustices without any need for compromise, but instead we’re trapped in a constant fucking deadlock between a government that half wants to serve the people and half wants to tear itself down because some fucking rubes think “BoTh siDeS bAd.”

  • Kayel@aussie.zone
    17·
    10 months ago

    That’s an excellent call to action. Do your laundry and stop genocide. Look after your house and your global family.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 months ago

    All I can say: a serious drug addiction condenses your problems and anxieties down to one. I recommend heroin. Not that pill shit, no, the good Taliban powder from mother nature.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      29·
      10 months ago

      Yes and no… mostly No. This train of thought depicts far more than symptoms of depression. Depression is a lot more than these kinds of thoughts.

      What this train of thought is getting at is that we’re acutely aware that the whole world is fucked up, but we also have to take care of our day-to-day lives. If anything, this train of thought speaks less to the symptoms of depression and more to the 1) powerlessness and 2) absurdity of modern living. We are powerless to stop global disasters, yet are more aware of them than ever before. And we are absurdly still tending to minutiae of life as if none of those things were happening, because that’s how life works, and the more you think about it the more absurd it gets.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Sounds like an anxiety disorder to me. They need to adjust their dosage and learn how to focus more on their immediate life

    • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I read that part as being a mashup of two disparate things similar to the rest of the piece. The CD seems to be announcing things more frequently, and there are places where the highways have no speed limits, both of which are more straws on the camel of anxiety.