It’s a good place to post

I thought this was a bit, but now I’m starting to wonder whether you’re actually mad about it

Solid point. I’ll change it to what they call the album instead, because Boots is worth it

Made me do a double-take too, but that’s what Wikipedia calls The Coup

But I’m the one who reported you

If you want it to feel less absurd, you could think of it as one small flareup in the Satire Struggle Session that’s been simmering for at least a couple of years

Do you endorse the terroristic forces of unionism which threaten our upstanding bourgeoisie’s hard-earned (by whom is not important) stockpile of yachts?

They leave out the fact that the company was Ender’s Gaming the driver

Is it because their views are essentially the status quo already and they have just fully internalised the capitalist propeganda?

That’s pretty close imo. I’d just add that most of them have never set foot outside of capitalist propaganda

Every part of their media diet is bourgeois media, because naturally the owning class owns that too. The views presented to them with any degree of fidelity are necessarily non-threatening to bourgeois rule, and they make up the range of views that people feel are normal. Conservative bile is acceptable, and liberal outlets for empathy such as charity and saying to are too

Meanwhile, in much of the west including the US, it has been outright illegal in recent history to be left-wing. Even now that it isn’t explicitly illegal in the US, we have Stop Cop City protesters being charged as an anarchist terrorist conspiracy