mortemtyrannis

In episode '2F09', when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something?

They’ll release a gamer version of these robots with RGB don’t worry.

On Lemmy you can advocate for violence against literal Nazis.

Not really, it’s a nice sentiment to be encouraging and educate people who are not familiar with leftist politics but that belies the truth that it does take effort on both sides (teacher and learner) to become educated about why they benefit everyone.

I think everyone could learn this school of thought but it is a lot harder than being a fascist propagandist.

The meme is making the effort required to be educated or a fascist equivalent when they are not.

Being a fascist is intellectually easy.

Got a problem? Blame migrants Can’t get ahead? Blame Jews Can’t afford a house? Black people got too uppity

It’s a one trick pony, all problems are caused by someone else and I’m perfect.

Understanding the systemic reasons why women still aren’t paid the same as men or why a disproportionate amount of African Americans are incarcerated is hard and requires a lot of foundational groundwork to overcome the huge capitalist propaganda machine.

Yeah these are the future death camps.

A succulent colon meal?!

Can you explain what exactly a police officer does to ensure there is not a power shift?

• To be clear I’m talking about the structure of the police. If you’re asking me what individual officers do day to day to maintain power structures I’d point to any example of racial profiling, use of force, selective enforcement and the concept of property protection.

• I ask you, who benefits the most from tax payer funded security for private property protection?

How do you think the proletariat class does not have awareness that they are a lowest class worker who is trading their time for profit?

• This is reasonably self evident through the rise in right wing political parties who are voted for by people against their own self interest and who advocate for the externalisation of the problems with capitalism by blaming a subset of the proletariat, ie migrants.

• How do you explain the rise in inequality and decline in living standards if not for the failure of our current economic system?

What does a police officer do day to day to impact this, seeing as your sentiment is police incidentallyhelp sometimes from this I take you mean a majority of police work is for capitalism.

• Yes, police are tools of capitalism.

I would have thought if there was such a strong focus on protecting capitalism, they would for example be strongly enforcing illegal tobacco, they are not.

• I think you’re conflating capitalism with commerce or the economy. Protecting capitalist interest does not entail protecting markets it’s instead ensuring the power of society is maintained by those with capital. A specific example would be the lack of consequences for those people involved with Epstein.
• How do you explain those lack of consequences if capital does not equate to power and police are beholden to those interests?

Most protests that I am aware of are generally around environment, human rights. I haven't seen a protest around proletariat low SES rights, why do you think that is?

• The fundamental cause of human rights breaches and environmental destruction is capitalism so there is a strong argument to be made they are one and the same. However if you reject that, I would ask whether you’ve never heard of a protest for workers rights? Were you alive during the Occupy Wall Street protests?

• Finally, ca you conceive of a world without police forces in their current form?

Police are the violence enacted by the state to protect capitalist interests.

While they incidentally help in sometimes solving crime, this is not and never was, their true purpose.

Making sure the proletariat do not gain class consciousness and making sure power can not shift from capital is their job.

When people say ACAB it means that because they are tools of the capitalist elite they cannot definitionally be anything other than bastards who are ignorant of class consciousness or are willing participants in their own abuse at the hands of capitalists using them because it gives them some kind of proxy power.

And then they’ll start putting the American Japanese in internment camps!

I think the piece of shit view of Patton is over rated a touch.

He didn’t acknowledge mental health and that manifested in his treatment of soldiers he deemed as cowards but within the context of his time it was pretty acceptable.

He certainly was no statesman and had the diplomatic skills of a brick through a window however he was effective as a general and had the respect of many of his troops. As a leader he was effective.

From an imperialism perspective he has nothing on MacArthur.

TL;DR most people wish they were Patton when they should really want to be Bradley.

ICE is as American as political violence and providing safe refuge for Nazis.