Nukes will be used again one day. And it will not be pretty.
The boot of capitalism is on our necks, but I’m not sure my countrymen are worth fighting for. Americans may be too far gone. Maybe I should just leave.
Many of us are doing in secret and in public. Help us out where you can, and take action. If you leave then please drum up support wherever you move to and help from there. It takes us all. Have hope we are winning together!!
The desire of intelligent, hardworking people to just live their lives and be left alone means we’re eternally condemned to be ruled by those who are absolutely unfit for the job. Anybody smart enough to be a good leader wouldn’t have the job.
No amount of peaceful protests and organizing peacefully will result in any amount of meaningful change. The only way to get this rat fucked world to be not ratfucked is to fix it by force in a very violent and bloody way.
Why do you think the super wealthy are so keen on robots and AI? When even the police officers can’t “have had enough” there is no rebellion possible, ever again.
Most people are complete idiots and will rather burn the world for a bigger flatscreen TV than to save it for their children.
- The most meaningful reforms, like large-scale climate action, won’t happen until citizens present a credible threat to the owning class’s dominance, making reform the appealing compromise.
- The owning class, at least a large section of it, along with loyal reactionaries will wage violent open war before ceding power leftward. They have the option to decide if a peaceful road forward exists, and historically, then tend to mass murder citizens instead.
It’s all getting worse and I can’t see any way to stop it.
Well, not all of it but many parts that will unfortunately affect me.
Capitalism made almost everything the same big pile of shit. No matter the language and culture, in the end, it’s the same shit.
Talking to Normal students in high school and in university in Australia (considered to be an imperial core country). I realised these people just really don’t give a fuck.
Most people don’t want to gain class consciousness, they think the current system is the best they can ever have and they wouldn’t want to risk it. Or they just refuse to reconise capitalism as the root problem.
Most people are too buzy with what ever that is happening near them that tragedy someone else are suffering on the other side of the world is just not important enough for them to take any action to try and change it.
Unless capitalism serious affects their ability to feed themselves or ablity to distract them from their misery (religion, social media, hobby etc), they won’t be bothered to do anything.
Evil is inherent to the world. All light casts a shadow.
I think there’s not that much actual evil, as in pure intent to inflict pain and suffering. There is a lot of focus on short term, personal gain though. Sounds the same, but the latter has a purpose and can be controlled using that purpose.
I think evil is an underlayment, not mere will to harm, but the force that moves towards destruction. The distinction of actual evil against some psudo-evil is false, a way that it hides itself. When we deny it it’s because we fear its nearness, as we should, because it is even within us, and good doesn’t always win.
But OP was asking for cynical takes.
Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.
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Humans are the cause of almost every problem on the planet and wont and don’t deserve to survive the great filter. The universe is better off without us.
That UN Climate Change but-don’t-touch-our-oil-business conference a few days ago.
Catharsis. As on the individual level of “get it out of the system”, the angst and anger also needs to be let out in societal level. Seeing as where the world is heading, the Pandora’s box has already opened and there is no way of putting back the angry genie. It will become worse before it gets better.
If I had access to all of the televisions and radios in Imperial America, I would get somebody famous like Zohran Mamdani to read a paper detailing how the upper classes not only facilitated the rise of Fascism in Europe, but also profited from the Axis’s war crimes and survived the twentieth century almost completely unpunished. At the end, he would say something like ‘As I speak, hundreds of thousands of workers are going to seek and despoil the upper classes with the understanding that there is no other way to make them pay for their crimes, and that this course of action is far more preferable to leaving them unpunished.’
I suspect that few people, if any, would take action.
