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  • knowing that piker was groomed to become a media personality in a way similar to how justin timberlake was groomed for stardom via the mickey mouse club makes me envy him and chomsky already literally spent decades explaining to americans how the careers of media personalities are artificially boosted so long as they’re effective at capturing & co-opting progressive movements like piker is – hopefully unwittingly – doing.

    history teaches us that you have to practice leftism in the right ways to succeed like the chinese, north koreans, vietnamese and cubans are doing and history also teach us us how to fail through various examples of leftists leaders and movements that chose to ignore history only to have their efforts end up being captured by the epstein class.

    piker fits (a little bit too well) into the latter group and history says that all of his efforts will only go to feed into the liberal/conservative ratcheting effect in the same way that all centrists do without realizing it.

    ratchet goes brrr








  • no one said that the epstein class is not powerful and the fact that the nagging has to exist proves that here is no morality police anywhere.

    also, history has already given us the benefit of hindsight to teach us what works and how to unfuck ourselves as a result and both it and the nagging agree with each other on what americans can do as individuals – right now – to start effecting change.

    Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.

    please consider going back to reddit – it’s clear that you’ll be much happier there since you fit in so well with them.









  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml250 years
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    The nagging is the bare bones minimum that we could do and, as such, it has little impact by itself. (but could if everybody did it).

    Couple it something like protesting like Americans used to do during the civil rights era – ie the opposite of no kings rallies – and you get the same winning combination that Mexico had in 2017 – which lead them to permanently breaking up their own political duopoly and giving them president Sheinbaum.

    I’m not a fan of the nagging partially because it’s a last ditch effort but I can appreciate that’s the only step you can take to get people to do what morality, responsibility, and basic human deceny requires them to do.

    The other reason I don’t like nagging is because it’s clear by that point that you will not be convinced by reason or logic. Instead, history proves that nature has a way of forcing things and either climate change or catastrophic economic bubble is going to do a better – and significantly more painful – job than the nagging ever will do.