Charles U. Farley on Nostr: As others are telling you, it does not. If it did, I would expect it to be people in ...
As others are telling you, it does not. If it did, I would expect it to be people in less privileged positions than yours defending incrementalism. But strangely it's almost entirely old rich white dudes.
I'm also an old rich white dude, and I can see clearly that it's not working. The world is cooking, we're on the verge of WWIII, millions are starving worldwide, the US is facilitating a genocide, and the major American parties are virtually indistinguishable from one another, particularly when it comes to foreign policy and immigration policy.
I used to totally buy into the hype that capitalism and "liberal" "democracy" were great for everyone. That's been gradually changing for a while now, but it was really watching Biden adopt a bunch of policies Democrats had been vilifying Trump for, then hearing crickets from Democrats, was really the last straw.
Then, after October 7, at the behest of a Zionist (now former) friend, I started researching Israel's history. Then I started researching the US's (and other western countries) involvement in oppression around the world.
We aren't the good guys. We're the bad guys. We aren't interested in helping anyone unless it ultimately helps us. And if they have something we want and their government doesn't play ball, we just overthrow their government and install our own. We don't care about "democracy". We tolerate it as long as it benefits us. Otherwise we're perfectly happy to play ball with dictatorships. And we'll install one if necessary.
There's no plan for climate change. It's all about maximizing profit opportunities. Which is why we're focusing on EVs and useless "carbon capture" projects and not public transportation and high speed rail. Our system *cannot* produce those things. No amount of incremental reform will get us there. I know because I've been being told it would since I was a child, and we're no closer today than we were then.
You want to think that you got where you are be cause you deserve it. That's a powerful motivator. You don't deserve it. I don't deserve it. We got lucky. We were born in the right place at the right time, to the right parents. Maybe we worked hard, but not harder than an awful lot of people who are much worse off than we are.
micchiato (npub1dap…2uyr) Jennifer (npub1cj0…u8ja) Mary625 Ceasefire Now ☮️ (npub1snp…59h3) Cheradenine Zakalwe (npub1058…8yln)
I'm also an old rich white dude, and I can see clearly that it's not working. The world is cooking, we're on the verge of WWIII, millions are starving worldwide, the US is facilitating a genocide, and the major American parties are virtually indistinguishable from one another, particularly when it comes to foreign policy and immigration policy.
I used to totally buy into the hype that capitalism and "liberal" "democracy" were great for everyone. That's been gradually changing for a while now, but it was really watching Biden adopt a bunch of policies Democrats had been vilifying Trump for, then hearing crickets from Democrats, was really the last straw.
Then, after October 7, at the behest of a Zionist (now former) friend, I started researching Israel's history. Then I started researching the US's (and other western countries) involvement in oppression around the world.
We aren't the good guys. We're the bad guys. We aren't interested in helping anyone unless it ultimately helps us. And if they have something we want and their government doesn't play ball, we just overthrow their government and install our own. We don't care about "democracy". We tolerate it as long as it benefits us. Otherwise we're perfectly happy to play ball with dictatorships. And we'll install one if necessary.
There's no plan for climate change. It's all about maximizing profit opportunities. Which is why we're focusing on EVs and useless "carbon capture" projects and not public transportation and high speed rail. Our system *cannot* produce those things. No amount of incremental reform will get us there. I know because I've been being told it would since I was a child, and we're no closer today than we were then.
You want to think that you got where you are be cause you deserve it. That's a powerful motivator. You don't deserve it. I don't deserve it. We got lucky. We were born in the right place at the right time, to the right parents. Maybe we worked hard, but not harder than an awful lot of people who are much worse off than we are.
micchiato (npub1dap…2uyr) Jennifer (npub1cj0…u8ja) Mary625 Ceasefire Now ☮️ (npub1snp…59h3) Cheradenine Zakalwe (npub1058…8yln)