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Netanyahu

I'm pretty sure he came to DC and got applause from Congress during a floor speech last time. Didn't he?

Oh, sorry, I'm thinking of a different international war criminal we love even more.

So hard to keep track of them all.

I think if you lack critical thinking skills but have all your material needs met, have a non alienating job that is satisfying, and aren't constantly seeking answers for why your life sucks (that the media loves to provide in the form of lies), you're probably going to be pretty happy.

I guess my point is that it's not necessarily the lack of critical thinking alone. It's the combination of that with people's material circumstances.

Basically I'm just describing that I see it through a lense of dialectical materialism.

It's why I want racist or homophobic idiots to also have free universal healthcare, education, and a fulfilling job. Because I don't think you can solely "educate" away the conditions that lead people to look for answers to their poor conditions. Answers that Twitter Nazis and media outlets are happy to fill with xenophobia and bigotry.

White working class people definitely still have privileges and advantages. But you can't educate away their feelings of "well, my parents owned a house at 19 and lived off a single salary. I'm driving for Uber and have 3 roommates". And the bigotries are there to offer them reasons for why it's not their own failure and (most importantly) why it's not the failures of capitalism.

You can quote me on this. Not only will this not work. They won't even actually implement anything to a degree that would even be able to make a difference.

Source: Democrats saying things and not following through for my entire lifetime.

I work at Microsoft and they just did massive layoffs all of this year. Last round I was layed off. 9000 of us in the last round.

I say this, because, I think people might associate tech jobs and education with being more liberal and pro immigrantion. This is not the case at all. The liberals are being offered fascism as a means to deal with their unemployment and will accept it with open arms as their material conditions decline. Most people I know from my job would absolutely join ICE for the paycheck as the tech sector lays off more and more people.

I'm sure we are seeing this in other industries as well. But just sharing for mine. ICE is going to look like an attractive job for a lot "middle class" Americans to be able to make rent. None of them are having class conflict conversations either. These people have next to no idea of what is going on.

We will not just get the hogs joining ICE. You're gonna see a lot of liberals start to justify it as their livelihood starts to get connected to it too. This is how fascism works.