FunkyStuff

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If your job resulted in the design, testing validation, construction, streamlining, or otherwise indirect contribution to a weapons system that is actively killing children in Gaza as I write this comment, why should I consider the reasons you had to take the job? Should I also refrain from shaming an organ trafficker or a mafia capo?

edit: ah sorry, checked your profile and literally every single comment is concern trolling. Won't waste my time here!

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

looks like i am right and u are wrong, as always berdly-smug

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you feel about going into academia? I'm not in physics but I have a similar predicament (I have more options though, not just bombs) and I considered the idea of continuing studies, getting a PhD and just being a professor so I didn't have to worry about ethics, but the lack of opportunities to organize labor + the fact I'd probably just be training students to go work for defense companies anyway convinced me to just try to find a more benign job in industry.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

Department of Defense should be called Department of Ethnic Cleansing.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

internet-delenda-est These people would have my whole family killed for a $200 raise and then tell me I'm the bad guy when I say the American military industrial complex is one of my greatest enemies, including its workers.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's nothing incorrect about this comment but I get the feeling you're getting something backwards. Dems weren't getting anyone closer to revolution, but Trump is. Under the past few Democratic admins, most of the US were complacent and they just put their faith in the imagined progressive forces of the Democratic Party to make things better. Under the Republicans, way more people get radicalized and start to look for solutions outside of electoralism. That does come with the flipside that the Republicans are more brazen about crushing dissent and arresting protesters, but Democrats also happily use the surveillance state and the militarized police against the left (see: Palestine encampment crackdowns last year).

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Do you think we think revolutions just... happen? That we aren't working incredibly hard trying to find allies, build the labor movement, build the indigenous movement, the queer movement, the anti-racist movement? That we're not trying to bring those struggles together under the same revolutionary banner? I understand you might not see much of this as being related to leftists because socialists and communists often put aside their specific political labels when it's time to organize, but I guarantee that if you go and do something real (not voting) you'll immediately start coming across the communists. That's what a communist does, in practice.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

So true, bestie, everyone who disagrees with me and cites their sources are irrational. True rational enlightened thinkers just call their interlocutors tankies and log off.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm at least glad this one was receptive and open to confronting evidence that contradicts years of moral licensing to bury their head in the sand and pretend we live in a good world.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bailing out the banks was an actively bad thing. That's what gave the banks the power to barrel through with the rampant foreclosures that annihilated PoC wealth.

This is like saying FDR was great because he saved capitalism from destroying itself. If they had done nothing at all it would've been better in the long run because the crisis would have destroyed capitalism and we could finally move on to a system that puts human need above the acculumation of endless wealth.

Besides, this is completely ignoring the pillaging of Libya that took place under Obama, where Libya went from a forward-looking (yet flawed) democratic country to a failed state ruled by human trafficking operations and various statelets that control oil fields. It's the only place with open air slave trafficking markets. It ignores the occupation of Afghanistan that also took place under his watch. The expansion of the surveillance state, Guantanamo, the US-Mexico border camps, the support of Israel during 2012's Gaza bombings, the drone strikes in Pakistan and several other atrocities.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, that system is pretty cool. I like it. You should keep in mind, though, the social relations of production that undergird political reality are much more impactful over the outcome of elections or any other political process, than which specific voting system we have. If the world switched to proportional approval voting tomorrow, it wouldn't change the relationship between the international imperialist institutions, the workers of the imperial core, and the workers of the periphery. >80% of productive labor would still be done in the periphery, imperialism would still just find ways to quiet dissent and destroy its opponents.

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