No one’s trying to “make you depressed”.

Working class apathy is absolutely a goal of the capitalists.

when you pirate software but have a mouthful of gummies

I believe in organizing. Unionizing. Then voting. When we’re united we can all agree who to vote for first. Until then the voting thing doesn’t seem to be helping in FPTP countries.

It’s because most of the people there are from countries that do not declare themselves a democracy.

Nah I only grind aluminum and plastic near my food prep station, I don’t solder there.

^this right here, this is the type of comment the capitalists would pay bots to spread.

stop trying to make me depressed with 10 year old news.

Jesus, am I supposed to be doin all that shit after soldering with leaded solder? I just wash my hands with regular ass soap like I just pooped.

I believe the left vs right terminology is only useful at getting the working class to attack each other. We should be using phrasing like “rich vs poor”.

Yes I know that ends up meaning right vs left, but my god the right are so much better at branding and propaganda and manipulating people’s minds, it’s time we learned from that.

“Horseshoe theory” is the idea that I don’t really care if I’m being killed by Hitler or Mao if I’m being killed.

I like to spread that message, along with a helping of “there’s no point in voting, it’s all rigged anyway”, in right wing message boards.

Yeah! Ya fucking Latvians!

and the human concepts of “hours” and “minutes.”

Please don’t, it will make converting all my measurements very tedious.

People around here really don’t like being reminded that the West actually fought the Nazis.

Can I see those stats?

There’s a lot of sexism and racism that is tolerated or at least appears tolerated because there’s no visible pushback.

Could you define sexism/racism? It’s gotten to the point where those words are like “woke” and can mean anything to anyone.

Like if you’re talking about someone saying that someone is genetically inferior/superior because of their race or sex, then tell me so I can go tear them a new one.

But if it’s anything other than that, then I genuinely don’t care about your version of “sexism” or “racism”, and I think the general public is starting to learn that you use those words to mean everything from the KKK to being impolite.

Eh, I think this place is populated primarily by cis white men

Maybe that’s because of your own prejudices.

This article implies something about the whole world, though.

Where? Where does it do that?

Like it or not, more and more places are replacing common sense with capitalism.

That is so fucking vague and meaningless, why don’t you just smell your own farts instead?

I don’t understand why everyone buys the whole West vs East thing. They’re clearly on the same side.

The whole thing was their idea.