cringe and/or lame

cringe

imagine a society not dependent on individual charity (with wealth expropriated from the working class) for improving material wellbeing.

does a ‘nice’ king justify monarchy?

no. power centralized in the beaurocratic state apparatus is also oppressive. electoral politics are a sham, and democracy is impotent when the capital owning class can simply buy influence.

if 9 people vote to kill the 10th, is that just?

your position presupposes that capitalism can serve to improve our collective wellbeing, when it is fundamentally an oppressive heirarchy enforced through violence.

news flash: if you do not own capital, capitalism’s essential function is not to improve your material condition, but that of the capital owning class.

edit: civility

argument through analogy is a logical fallacy, I’m not going to engage that.

you’ve yet to convince me that further entrenching capitalism (which requires scarcity to the extent that it will create it where there need be none, and demands endless quarterly growth within a limited system) is a solution to the environmental destruction to which it contributes.

it seems to me as though you would like to eat your cake and have it too.

private ownership of capital is a race to the bottom, leading inevitably to unsustainable extraction of natural resources. The latter won’t be halted or reversed without abolishing the former.

we need power to be distributed horizontally, not continue to be concentrated in fewer and fewer actors.

the non profit industrial complex serves to launder the reputations of the ownership class without meaningfully addressing oppressive systems or threatening the status quo.

“victims of ideologies”

big enlightened centrist energy

is an ideology just defined as any set of beliefs besides your own? lol

I hope you get to experience the growth in empathy to look back and feel ashamed of this interaction.

good luck. 👍

textbook.

are you capable of engaging beyond trying to insult me?

ps: you’re working for the ownership class when you attack the working class. you are literally a tool, upholding oppressive heirarchies which weaken our capacity to wield collective power and achieve liberation from the rich you claim to be so concerned with

“And the obese milkin’ welfare”

“…if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge round”

as if fat people and social welfare programs are the problem.

your head is so full of neoliberal brain- worms that you cannot recognize a leftist criticism. you’re literally defending bigotry/ reactionary entryism.

You had a chance to describe all things wrong about this song to every one.

I have, with very specific language. you’ve simultaneously accused me of not explaining myself, and of using ‘big words,’ which by your own admission you do not understand. maybe you should focus on understanding my argument before trying to refute my position. attacking me personally, accusing me of anger/ irrationality, is not an effective argument.

you’re projecting a lot of your own discomfort and lack of understanding/ context onto me.

disseminating reactionary populist entryism masquerading as folk music is not a great look.

are you capable of critical thought, or do you simply consume whatever appears on your plate?

how seriously I approach ‘art’ is my prerogative. If one is not comfortable with criticism, they should keep their thoughts to themselves.

how do you reconcile a position which claims to care about folks without enough to eat, with the line complaining about welfare (food assistance)?

It isn’t even critical of the capital-owning class or the oppressive heirarchy which protects the institution of private capital, just an ephemeral ‘rich man up north’ (this is a reactionary dogwhistle, if you’re not familiar with the US)

I think you’re not taking art (and I use this term loosely here) seriously enough.

everything is political, especially to those not in the priveledged position to pretend aloof detachment holds any value whatsoever.

the song is trash, at every level.

furthermore, I suspect OP is an authoritarian and likely an accelerationist; no ally of the global working class.

the song represents reactionary recuperation of revolutionary aesthetic, stripped of radical solidarity.

it is pandering to the reactionary worship of ‘rebellion’ as a self-evident virtue, but the shallow analysis is crafted to manipulate populist outrage against individual actors without addressing the systemic factors which have lead us to this place.

it bitches about “obese” folks “milking welfare,” and promotes the Proto-fascist conspiracies regarding ‘costal elites.’

this ain’t it cuz.

reactionary pandering

je suis l’etat-man