I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
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@EdCates @johnzajac This is honestly one of my (least) favourite things about "liberal society". You can say to a friend "fuckin' gorgeous night we're having here, innit?" in earshot of a cop in a bad mood, and find yourself with a breach-of-the-peace fine. Or you can shit out one of the most hateful sentences ever uttered, but do it with the tone of civility, and you'll get published on the BBC News as a "respected author".
"Civility" is just shorthand for "a mechanism, defined in the moment, the absence of which becomes the excuse to silence those who have been traumatised by the systems which make rich people rich, less they say or do something inconvenient to those systems".
@McCovican @johnzajac Spot on.
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@McCovican @johnzajac Spot on.
Probably not a coincidence that the liberal also prioritizes paying the cop over funding NHS.
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@johnzajac In my case it's precisely because I'm a liberal that I hate AI. It makes it impossible for ordinary people to inform themselves or have meaningful discussions with others, and those are core to liberal politics. Also labour exploitation and environmental destruction are hardly aligned to liberal values, nor is using massive computing power to circumvent the rule of law and undermine democracy. If you're a revolutionary, fine, but your enemy is not liberals, it's the far right
USA Liberals and the far right, when the time comes, will always ally with one another temporarily when the alternative is a revolutionary winning. Because USA liberalism is founded on the contradiction of a "free country" that profits off of slavery
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USA Liberals and the far right, when the time comes, will always ally with one another temporarily when the alternative is a revolutionary winning. Because USA liberalism is founded on the contradiction of a "free country" that profits off of slavery
@individeweal @johnzajac I would also extend this to European liberalism (and to a lesser extent social democracy)
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