• subverted_per
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      He still makes shitty movies? I would have thought producers would have learned by now.

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    Fascism is a liberal solution to a liberal problem.

    The true, central tenet of liberal ideology is that those who privately own the means of production (and, let’s face it, everything else) must be protected by state violence while not being subject to it, while those who do not must be subjected to state violence without being protected by it.

    Strip away all the fluff that liberals claim liberalism is all about - the pretense at “democratic values”, the cynical (but very selective) distribution of “human rights” - and liberal ideology remains intact because it’s only that central tenet that truly matters to it.

    While this central tenet of liberalism provides the legal basis for the rule of liberal elites it has no inherent mechanism for the extreme violence that is necessary to enforce that rule - the liberal order had to invent that on the fly, first by institutionalising violent oversight over the working class through the invention of policing and, when even that didn’t prove adequate, the funding and enabling of ultraviolent paramilitary political groups and movements that, if necessary, could be handed the entirety of the state apparatus to ensure the destruction of any threat to liberal elites’ privilege and power.

    What Elon Musk and his fellow liberal elites are doing is no mystery.

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      No mystery at all but thank you for explaining and categorizing and labeling and tagging it all. It’s totally useless information but I bet you feel better knowing whose fault it is while providing no discernable insight into a solution.

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        Why is it “useless information,” liberal?

        Perhaps because it’s information you and your precious liberal institutions cannot co-opt in your quest to pretend that there’s anything “left” about you?

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          No. It’s just blame. You aren’t addressing any plight you are simply labeling it and attempting to place blame. That’s literally all you have. You are all caught up in the assigning blame so you can justify inaction.

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            Yes, liberal… I’m assigning blame. You know, that thing you and the rest of Liberal Inc. are too spineless to do because you’re desperate to pretend that Musk and his ilk are just “bad apples” that will magically disappear as soon as you “vote harder” and place a nicer Wall Street blow-up doll into the Waffle House?

            No, liberal… it’s the system that created Musk that is the problem - and you pretending it isn’t is worse than inaction - it’s collaboration.