Maybe we will figure out life when we make the next country.

  • Skyline969@piefed.ca
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    2 days ago

    Is this a poorly constructed tankie strawman? Any liberal I’ve actually spoken to would much rather have significant taxes on the rich no matter who they are.

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      No. It’s a joke exposing liberals for holding terrible policy goals.

      Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, when First Lady and Governor of Arkansas, lived in the Governor’s mansion. The Governor’s Mansion “hires” prison slaves, mostly black, to work in the mansion. They had the power to end that practice, but they didn’t. She and Barack Obama oversaw huge escalation on SMOs when they were drone striking civilians. And when they created the conditions for a bloody civil war in Libya and then launched an unprovoked attack on it, and brought NATO along, they committed so many crimes against humanity it’s ridiculous. When the rebels they funded, armed, trained, and directed finally got the 70-year-old man who led the most prosperous country in Africa, they sodomized him with a bayonet in public and filmed it, which the administration was cool with. Clinton herself publicly gloated about it and shouted “We came! We saw! He died!” like a psychopath who thought she was Julius Cesar.

      But liberals still think she should have been president because it’s critical for us to have psychopathic commanders-in-chief who commit war crimes without a hint of shame that are women.

      I’ve covered some of Obama above, but let’s go back to Libya and acknowledge that Libya went from the most properous country in Africa to a country hosting open air slave markets now. But representation matters, right?

      Kamala falls to similar criticisms, although since she didn’t make it to the presidency and she was sidelined by the Biden administration she only managed do a little damage, shilling for the Israeli crimes against humanity and genocide Palestinians, confirming that immigrants and their children would be tortured if they tried to flee the bloodshed the USA created in their countries. She said this while the US was actively taking in white immigrants from Ukraine. On her campaign she made it clear that these things would not change. But we’re expected to believe that the reason she lost is because of bigotry and misogyny, which, while fair, requires the liberal to hold a position that can be summarized as “sure, Kamala was a genocidaire and child torturer who 100% supported the white supremacist patriarchal empire but so was every other candidate so she clearly only lost because the population is still harboring prejudices against black women”.

      This is liberalism in America today. “If Hillary had won we’d all be at brunch.” “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kamala.” It’s all tokenism and representation politics.

      Sure. Tax the billionaires. That’ll show’em! It’s not like they don’t literally control the majority of congressional decisions through strategic funding of the key people and parties needed to ensure their wealth is maintained. It’s not like they don’t have easily 5 years of warning anytime some major change is going to roll through the tax code and they can just maneuver around it.

      Reform is reform precisely because it keeps the existing power structure in place and revolution is revolution precisely because it removes the existing power structure and replaces it. The current power structure is the billionaires. Using the existing power structure to tax them is, by definition, not going to change the fact that they control society and all the key aspects of institutional power. Liberalism has run its course. It’s over.