He’s made himself and his cronies incredibly wealthy by toppling a country and stealing its oil.

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There’s a reason the US government systematically assassinated its leaders and did everything it could to dismantle the black panther party.

They were a genuine threat to capitalist hegemony. No movement that filed permits and politely marched has *ever* accomplished its goal.

They 100% get it my friend.

Read *real* history about Germany, Italy and Spain.

Liberals *always* side with the fascists rather than dismantle capitalism, nothing less than a socialist revolution to save this country. There is no going back. There is no “normal”.

We’re end stage capitalism now

This is exactly right.

I came to this country as a small child. We lived as refugees in someone’s basement while my dad found work.

I bought into all the lies. The melting pot, the American dream.

There’s a reason the right is trying to prevent real history from being taught. It’s horrible.

Nazi Germany.

This is exactly what the brown shirts did in the lead up to the Nazi takeover.

It’s also similar to what the black shirts did in fascist Italy.

And just like those examples, capital either stays silent or actively supports the fascist take over.

It absolutely did not.

The civil rights movement had m armed and militant support.

The exact same with the Indian liberation struggle.

Peaceful protest by itself is *easily* ignored.

Without the threat of direct action, those in power *never* cede ground.

I suspect we’ll start seeing these make their way south. Unofficially.

This times 1,000.

I’m surprised there haven’t been any vocal advocates for OTP (one time purchase).

I’ve resisted as much as possible subscribing to anything.

We need a right to use offline too.

It’s to the point where folks don’t own physical things either, see right to repair (or modify).

A good portion of the straight, white, coders I’ve know have been hard core libertarians.

Historically they’ve been valued more than other employees at tech companies. The “I pulled myself up by my bootstraps ”vibe is strong.

I’ve come to appreciate it more as an adult.

As a kid, in 1979, the several minutes sequence showing the Enterprise was close to where I started to check out.

It was vaaastly different than TOS.

I remember. Before they had immigration officers “la migra” but Bush swooped in with his fascist sounding homeland security and also created ice.

Libertarianism is conservatism with unsettling opinions about age-of-consent laws.

""The essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations."

In other words, people aren't inherently good or bad, they become who they are based on material and social conditions.

Cruel societies breed cruel people.