https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1704093894647161094

The think tank bros are not okay. Props to this dumbass retweeting all the people calling him a fucking idiot though. Good bit.

The water cycle? Kind of ridiculous to think all those rivers are working together, most of them only care about their own flow. The idea that they all work together to prop up an ‘ocean’ is ridiculous.

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Unless they are gathering in dimly lit rooms and saying “we are doing capitalism”, it’s not real capitalism

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I would say that this is similar to how american liberals don’t believe in any form of racism besides someone screaming the n word while using klan robes, but I am not convinced that these think tank ghouls believe in anything besides filling their pockets

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they’re not lobbying in behalf of capitalism

But they literally are lol. 95% of the politicians and organizations they support denounce communism and champion capitalism, using the word capitalism. The remaining 5% are explicitly fascist.

That’s like me paying a bunch of money to a chef and saying “I actually don’t have a ‘personal chef’ per se. He just assembles an assortment of raw ingredients to create an elaborate source of sustenance.”

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I actually don’t have a ‘personal chef’ per se. He just assembles an assortment of raw ingredients to create an elaborate source of sustenance.

Literally liberalism in a nutshell, except they wouldn’t be this honest

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The truther-to-Marxian pipeline does in fact exist though.

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Having a vested interest in maximizing profit is apolitical sweaty, maybe you’ll learn that when you’re older

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“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

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how much could a bean cost, Michael… ten dollars?

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Brecht was cookin

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status quo warrior

Honestly I will start calling people Status Quo Warriors who call others SJW. Also SQW just rings better.

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It does seem to be “apolitical” awareness day on lemmy. Saw multiple threads on how the nonpoliticals want everyone to stop posting political memes

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