Why Democrats Lost In Virginia Is Painfully Obvious

[Seanchaidh]

There's much more money to be made off people who believe corporations, of all entities, are pushing marxism, like you, than there are money to make off of Marxists.

Indeed. Why on earth would corporations want to promote this?

 

[gorfias]

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There's much more money to be made off people who believe corporations, of all entities, are pushing marxism, like you, than there are money to make off of Marxists.

Power is more important than money. You use money to obtain power.
Corporations have an interest in dividing us. If poor people, not tribalized, see what they have in common and work together for a better society, they can affect change the divided will fail at.

ITMT: are you both writing today's global corporations have no interest in maintaining and even strengthening ties to Communist China?

 

[Hades]

Power is more important than money. You use money to obtain power.
Corporations have an interest in dividing us. If poor people, not tribalized, see what they have in common and work together for a better society, they can affect change the divided will fail at.

ITMT: are you both writing today's global corporations have no interest in maintaining and even strengthening ties to Communist China?

Don't you think that this idea you have is more in line with the left? Yeah, for the lower class its way more beneficial if they were all to work together, for the black and the white worker to jointly make the same demands to their boss. And knowing this is why the elites on the right are so quick to try and convince the white population that minorities are competition or even a threat to them. The interest of a white and a black person should align completely so that's why racist ideology get introduced to prevent the two from aligning.

But these racists ideologies and culture war gibberish typically come from the right.

 

[Cheetodust]

ITMT: are you both writing today's global corporations have no interest in maintaining and even strengthening ties to Communist China?

Tell me you don't know what Marxism is without telling me you don't know what Marxism is.


Hey man, lemme ask you real quick, do the citizens of China own the means of production or do they sell their labour? Is there massive wealth inequality where the owners of capital hoard most of the country's wealth through private profits?

Corporations have an interest in dividing us. If poor people, not tribalized, see what they have in common and work together for a better society, they can affect change the divided will fail at.

Conservatives really love ALMOST getting the point. That there, that's a Marxism right there.

 

[tstorm823]

The meme is "The last capitalist we hang will be the one who sold us the rope". There is no claim there about capitalists wanting to help.

You mean to say that communists will use all the tools of capitalism to eliminate the opposition? Remember like 10 posts earlier when your point was that there's no communism to be found among corporations?

 

[Seanchaidh]

Remember like 10 posts earlier when your point was that there's no communism to be found among corporations?

Not precisely how I'd phrase it, but OK?

 

[MrCalavera]

Power is more important than money. You use money to obtain power.
Corporations have an interest in dividing us. If poor people, not tribalized, see what they have in common and work together for a better society, they can affect change the divided will fail at.

Careful now, that sounds like a communist talkin'.

ITMT: are you both writing today's global corporations have no interest in maintaining and even strengthening ties to Communist China?

Corporations never had interest in strengthening communists.

 

[tstorm823]

Not precisely how I'd phrase it, but OK?

Corporations are another sort of "rope" with which to hang people.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Corporations are another sort of "rope" with which to hang people.

Galaxy brain

 

[Fallen Soldier]

Power is more important than money. You use money to obtain power.
Corporations have an interest in dividing us. If poor people, not tribalized, see what they have in common and work together for a better society, they can affect change the divided will fail at.

ITMT: are you both writing today's global corporations have no interest in maintaining and even strengthening ties to Communist China?

Sounds like a Marxist thing to say.

 

[Agema]

Power is more important than money. You use money to obtain power.

Power is wealth, wealth is power.

 

[Hades]

Galaxy brain

Galaxy brain activaaaaaaate!!

 

[gorfias]

Sounds like a Marxist thing to say.

Power is wealth, wealth is power.

First you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the women! Scarface!

 

[Schadrach]

So there are several points to make. Firstly, in most educational systems, parents cannot just opt their kids out of parts of the official curriculum. That isn't "evil". That's the standard. How exactly can you have a standardised test/exam process if every kid is learning different stuff according to whatever their parents want?

I mean, my high school had a student request to opt out of reading one book in 11th grade English lit because he was a specific breed of religious weirdo for whom the book would be problematic. The book was Dracula. So he was assigned a different book and had to read it and do parallel assignments to the rest of the class. Given the teacher for this class had a lengthy list of books he basically did in rotation from year to year, and a fair few of them were going to be offensive to *someone* I imagine he had a set of alternative texts and assignments ready for when this sort of thing happened.

Given this only applies to sexually explicit instructional materials, I can't imagine it's going to effect a lot of assignments.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

See, everything is sex
Except sex, which is power
You know power is just sex
You screw me and I'll screw you too
Everything is sex
Except sex, which is power
You know power is just sex
Now ask yourself who's screwing you

 

[Buyetyen]

First you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the women! Scarface!

Money and power are joined at the hip and money is not the only way to get power. Power is very fluid and a relative thing. One can also gain power through fame, expertise, political or social influence and a number of other factors.

 

[Trunkage]

Corporations are another sort of "rope" with which to hang people.

I mean, I think its a mistake to think that corporations can't exist in Comminism. So, I find a lot that moot anyway. And just getting rid of the profit motive won't solve every problem

 

[Silvanus]

I mean, my high school had a student request to opt out of reading one book in 11th grade English lit because he was a specific breed of religious weirdo for whom the book would be problematic. The book was Dracula. So he was assigned a different book and had to read it and do parallel assignments to the rest of the class. Given the teacher for this class had a lengthy list of books he basically did in rotation from year to year, and a fair few of them were going to be offensive to *someone* I imagine he had a set of alternative texts and assignments ready for when this sort of thing happened.

Given this only applies to sexually explicit instructional materials, I can't imagine it's going to effect a lot of assignments.

Yeah, parallel texts is one thing. Usually the curriculum will contain several alternatives, the exam boards will design papers that could be answered by any of those, and teachers will then choose which to teach. I myself opted out of what the class was reading during English Lit so that I could read Orwell and Burgess instead, but it was still in the curriculum.

And just getting rid of the profit motive won't solve every problem

Hell of a lot of 'em, though.