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.
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Unless they are gathering in dimly lit rooms and saying “we are doing capitalism”, it’s not real capitalism
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
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.”
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
lmao
Capitalists can’t be supporting capitalism by being selfish and fucking others over for their personal gain!
He’s done it again, a take even dumber than the last. Truly a sight to behold.
Not capitalism per se just capitalistic interests per se.
Missed the forest for the trees
Plants are, in my experience, almost comically apolitical. They only care about their own photosynthesis. The idea that that they all work together, as a kingdom, to prop up the forest, is… not plausible.
I’ve studied fish and I can say with absolute certainty that they are not capable of forming schools. They only care about their own bubble and how close they are to the adjacent fish, striving to keep a minimum distance to each other. On the whole they cannot possibly move as a school. That would require a conspiracy of an uncountable number of fish, an implausible achievement for a creature with a brain the size of a pencil tip.
apolitical
I already knew this meant “status quo warrior ashamed of sounding right wing” but recent interactions with federated Lemmy users have really hammered in what a bunch of bootlicking sycophants for capitalism tend to call themselves “apolitical” or “nonpolitical.”
“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
how much could a bean cost, Michael… ten dollars?
“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
This reminded me of a passage from that Conspiracist Manifesto released a few years ago. It was, uh, not great, but this quote has always stuck with me:
At this point, it would be foolish to ask whether they are conspiring, the 1% who hold %48 of the world’s wealth, who attend the same type of schools, places and people everywhere, who read the same newspapers, succumb to the same fashions, bathe in the same discourses and in the same sense of their hereditary superiority
Of course they breathe the same air.
Of course they conspire.
They don’t even have to plot for that
Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
Also Epstein island, there’s that little gem
Damn that’s a nice quote, shame
George Carlin has a nearly identical quote out there somewhere, which I’m sure is what the “conspiracist manifesto” is ripping off.
It was likely written by some French anarchist nerd, so idk if they would care who Carlin is lol
The guy doesn’t even admit that capitalism exists, apparently. There’s no evidence of the bourgeois class doing anything.
My man you are literally head of political economy at a think tank. What is there to think about if there are no people manifesting effects economically!?!
??? A business owner paying an employee minimum wage and seeking a profit from this exchange is a specific action taken by specific individuals.
This person is like a fish saying water doesn’t exist if they see no actions performed by capitalists. Or their entire job is being as obfuscating as possible.
Capitalism is just an invention by Karl Marx. It doesn’t exist. We simply live in a society. That’s all there is to it.
How dare you summon the Unspeakable Name, you’ve doomed us all /s
Assuming he’s not stupid and/or lying, looks like he’s so annoying that despite being a think tanker, no business association is willing to invite him to any ! meetings.
He’s the “head of political economy” at one of the oldest British neolib think tanks lmao
we obviously just imagined the chamber of commerce and every other business lobbying group
I can’t get a business person to read their emails or attempt to understand their business even when a fuckload of money is on the line. The idea that they could have their mind changed about their desire for ownership and exploitation to live a fulfilled life in a world where we all suffer less is laughable. Their buy-in is incredibly solid. The idea that they’d strike a deal with a union more quickly than they would a CIA-backed mercenary group charging 20k to make the problem go away is ahistorical
If they only care about their business, that in and of itself makes a political statement. Absence of care defines politics as much as presence of care does
Wow, no blue check. I assumed this was a viral attempt.
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.
how do all the birds know where the flock is going? nature really is a mystery
Even at the lowest local level, governments grovel at the feet of businesses, dare they be seen as hostile to commerce
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
- Warren Buffett
I am a man who has never heard of emergence before.
