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  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlLemmy liberals:
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    Liberals are not conservative. They are against misogyny, bigotry,racism.

    So right-wing Female supremacists, Trans supremacists and Afro-supremacists.
    That’s your problem there.

    If all of them are complacent with rampant problems in liberal democracies like:

    • Campaign fraud
    • Worker exploitation
    • Imperialist propaganda
    • Bribes
    • Blackmail
    • Inside trading
    • Usury
    • Private gambling institutions
    • Landlords
    • Consumer good poisoning
    • Monopolized rent consumer goods

    Then THEY’RE NOT LEFT-WING!

    And the US hasn’t had a left-wing party, not even a social democratic one, since the 1990s,
    as social democratic parties only seem to thrive if there’s a socialist nation to look up to
    and the Soviet Union fell apart as it lacked resources (coal) to do anything against the US petrodollar scheme,
    That’s why Bill Clinton had been called a Repubic-lite during his reign
    and Obama never delivered on his “Hope & Change”.

    The only semi-left-wing ideas I see coming from US contemporaries “progressives”,
    is that they’re pro-green, because that at least will help people have the resources to go left in the future.

    The right stands for a ruling merchant class and a gatekeeping judicial class.
    The judicial class has noble ideas for itself as a ruling class,
    but they need campaign money in order to be elected as a ruler,
    which the merchant class has in spades, but want their favorable laws for them to be implemented in return.
    And thus the merchant class becomes the ruling class and the judicial class their gatekeepers.
    That’s what the right-wing stands for, unless they’re even more regressive
    and long for a kings and priests to rule over them.

    Centrists, social democratic wing like FDR, try to curb the power of the merchant class,
    but a true left wing will replace it with a ruling engineering class and gatekeeping scholar class that will replace liberal democracy with a people’s democracy that can focus on creating a classless society,
    because only a people’s democracy can tackle the issue of campaign fraud,
    which is systemic in a liberal democracy.
    And this systemic problem becomes larger and larger the more a society automates
    as it causes the power of merchants to be more and more concentrated.

    The US democratic party is only slowly returning to become a social democratic party
    with Zohran Mamdami firmly in the democratic socialist side.

    But looking from the outside, the US is like the Star Control II Ur-Quan alien race, where the US democratic party plays the role of the Kzer-za that wants the rest of the world/galaxy enslaved and the US republican party playing the role of the bloodthirsty Kohr-Ah that wants the rest of the world dead. The only thing missing in the US is a civil war between the two.








  • We’re still living in it.

    I would in fact state that the worst years were around 1997 with the release of GoldenEye 007 until 2006 with the release of the Nintendo Wii. All I remember of that era were shooters, shooters, shooters, space shooters, racing games, racing games with shooters and shooters. It was the era that went from decent 2D graphics to bland and ugly 3D graphics and all the creative effort went into realizing the 3D graphics.

    The video game industry is not like the movie industry, comic book industry or the music industry that are slowly dying because people stopped buying physical copies of them.
    And the lack of interaction of movies and comics is slowly making them outdated.
    The music industry has become the concert industry, which has turned the small crowds of celebrity worshipers mixed in people wanting to do drugs, sex and/or rock’n’roll into pure crowds of the biggest celebrity worshiping fans.
    And even that is probably dying due to AI.



  • This is the way I see it:

    Primary sector: Agriculture - Sickle - Manufactures edible goods
    Secondary sector: Industry - Hammer - Manufactures non-edible goods
    Tertiary sector: Service - Mop - Helps people through transporting goods, repairing goods, cleaning, healing organisms, cashiering and catering.
    Quarternary sector: Authority - Pen - Provides Law and Order through Government, Justice, Police, Education, Political, Media and Mental support (Psychiatry & Religion)
    Quinary sector: Finance - Banknote - Gambles
    Sextary sector: Automation - Cogwheel - Destroys jobs

    As the service sector is large and sextary sector petite bourgeoisie than the service sector I suggest the following:

    Mop and Pizza Box

    I do think we’re not there yet though.
    Both objects are accurate but I feel like we need something more aggressive to show that we’re revolutionary.
    Hammers and sickles are both tools that can be used as weapons.


    [edit #3]

    Changed Judiciary to Authority.
    Changed entertainment media from service sector to authority sector so now all media is in the authority sector, as plenty of entertainment shows have tried to and sometimes successfully driven people to adept to their political world views or even driven into political action.

    [edit #2]

    On second thought, perhaps I’ll replace syringe with pizza box. It evens out the sexes, both mop and syringe are practiced most often by women (cleaning lady and nurse), while transportation of goods is more often preferred by men as carrying goods can sometimes be physically demanding.

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    I changed the Syringe to mop in the Tertiary sector as suggested by mech,
    although I have to say that nurse is very common job,
    which is why I chose the syringe.
    Same goes for delivery person, but I’m betting on it being automated away faster than nursehood.

    I crossed out cogwheel as a symbol for the proletariat as I realize that I consider a subsector of this (engineers) to be one part of the ruling class (the other being scholars) within socialism and thus not the proletariat.







  • Clickbait.

    And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

    It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

    It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.


  • I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
    I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
    We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
    Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
    I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.