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A giant callout tweet of the Communist Party of Venezuela from Ben Norton. Does anyone have more info about this party and how accurate Norton is in his assessment?
please repost this in the new thread so people see it, Iโm interested in hearing more about this
Some people on the news megathread have commented on this. I think it was weird for him to suddenly denounce the party out of left field.
The whining about authoritarianism is so annoying to me
Complaints about authoritarianism honestly feel so disconnected to actual on-the-ground problems. I do not understand how people have the ability to even begin to care about how authoritarian something is as conditions get more and more desperate.
โyo, can I have a living wage to support myself?โ no, because doing so would be imposing rules on business owners and thatโs authoritarian
โcan I at least have inexpensive or free healthcare so I can labor for you more effectively then?โ no, because doing so would force insurance companies to make less money and thatโs authoritarian
โfine, but please, letโs at least sort out the environment so humanity and massive numbers of species donโt die outโ sorry, but we would need to reduce the size of the fossil fuel industry and doing that is government overreach and authoritarian, also we could take solar panels from China but theyโre authoritarian
itโs really just the ultimate cudgel. you can use it against literally any idea that anybody proposes that require even the slightest amount of coercion or force, regardless of how good or bad or necessary it actually is. itโs become totally meaningless.
I messed up by choosing this nickname. I sorta want to put a DPRK thing as my profile pic, but that seems wildly offensive next to ButtBidet.
youtube has become complete garbage, like it freezes every 10 seconds nowadays and complains about my adblocker.
I was logged out when I opened the site and, for a second, I showed as u/GarbageShoot in the upper right corner
a bug? a feature? a threat? who am i?
