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— Leuchtspur d. Wahren (@Hegelsgeist) November 19, 2022Euthanizing the poor is just capitalism finally being honest about itself. After all these years of falsely pretending to have real solutions to the problems it creates, it finally presents a solution entirely in alignment with its values that actually works.
Capitalism's answer to "What about the poor?" has always been "They should work harder," and its answer to "What about those who can't work?" has always been "They should die quickly." But until now it's always been spoken wordlessly in the policies enacted and the societal structures put in place. Now it's just right there, completely undisguised. It's refreshingly honest.
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Landlords don't "provide housing", they restrict housing. The housing already exists; landlords just make it much harder for the people who need it to access it.
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Why is AP continuing to protect the anonymity of the US official who fed them a fake story about Russia attacking Poland? This is a very important question that demands serious answers. If government officials know they can get brazen lies anonymously published in the press and still have their anonymity protected after those lies are exposed, they will with 100% certainty continue to do so. Why wouldn't they? There are no consequences.
It's obnoxious and unacceptable that the mass media currently hold random social media users to higher levels of accountability than powerful government officials who circulate lies that can start wars.
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Western politicians, pundits and celebrities circulating the false claim that Iran sentenced 15,000 protesters to death is a good example of the way fact checking and journalistic responsibility go out the window when it's a claim about a government the US empire wants to remove. It's also a good illustration of the point Glenn Greenwald is always repeating that the largest and most egregious purveyors of misinformation in the western world are not Russian trolls or conspiracy theorists but the mainstream western political/media class.
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Again, the most important thing for a westerner to understand about Iran is that it's none of your f*cking business. The less western "help" Iranians are getting, the better it is for Iranians. Demands that you "support the Iranian people" are only ever made in bad faith. No material benefits come from you tweeting "yay Iranian protesters" with the relevant hashtags. All that happens is you draw more western attention to Iran, along with the support for interventionism that inevitably comes with it.
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Advocating peace and criticizing Nazis to trigger the libs.
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