Every two days a new thread with hundreds of comments of a bunch of liberals doing the same fucking talking points about the election. It doesn’t even fucking matter but so many people are just so enthusiastic to be hand-wringing or smug or whatever their preferred flavor of insufferable is, presumably mostly because they’ve been acculturated by liberal media to the idea that Trump is the apocalypse despite the fact that we already saw how Trump bumbles his way through a term!

It’s just so bad, you can’t talk about it anywhere there without someone leaping down your throat to say the same shit you’ve heard before.

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]English
    45•7 months ago

    Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

    […]

    Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm

    you’re embarrassing yourself

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]English
        28•7 months ago

        marxists.org is an archive of hundreds of thousands of texts by influential sociologists, historians, political economists and political theorists. It’s not our “facts” it’s an argument in the form of a written text. Perhaps you should sit down and take the time to read sometimes and maybe learn something.

      • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]MEnglish
        38•7 months ago

        Everyone is biased, dipshit. Including you and the sources you get your news from. Not understanding something as fundamental as this makes your smugness even more embarrassing than it already is. Keep it up.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]English
        33•7 months ago

        Tagline material.

        Marxists.org is a collection of works on political theory. They aren’t really biased beyond wanting to preserve the works and provide easy access to them.

        The link is to something written by Lenin in 1917, referencing something Marx wrote earlier. I suppose you could say that Lenin and Marx were biased in the sense that they had strong views but that isn’t a valid reason to dismiss everything they ever said, and that ignorant perspective is just going to get you laughed at here.

        • EllenKelly [comrade/them]English
          13•7 months ago

          Tbh some of the translations could use work, but they are republishing work they didnt translate themselves

      • UlyssesT [he/him]English
        31•7 months ago

        Pointing to an obviously biased website is crazy

        Ableist concern trolling shit aside, what is your “nonbiased” source, asshole?

      • REgon [they/them]English
        29•7 months ago

        They’re quoting Marx which is being hosted on marxists.org, you brick.

        Also everyone is biased, objective reporting is literally impossible. Learn how to do source critique and text analysis instead of just gargling the same thought-killing propaganda you’ve been regurgitating your whole life

      • EllenKelly [comrade/them]English
        18•7 months ago

        Want to come over, I’ll read it to you directly from a book?

        space cadet

        noun

        1. One who shows difficulty in grasping or responding appropriately to serious or necessary concerns; a spacy person.

        good bit tbh, sorry anyone wasted their time responding to you

      • D61 [any]English
        14•7 months ago

        Tell me you’re an “enlightened centrist” without telling me you’re an enlightened centrist… bateman-business-card