The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational. In socialism, they see a formidable foe.
The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational. In socialism, they see a formidable foe.
Fair enough. My comment was about people constantly calling everything “a distraction” from one specific crime. The article isn’t really meaningful to the comment I made. So not really a part of any of the discussion.
I would say you don’t understand what point I’m making because you are the very type of person lacking class consciousness that my initial comment was frustrated about.
I’m wasn’t really trying to educate anyone with it. It was more venting a frustration.
I’m sorry if I was defensive in my responses. Its usually right wing reactionaries trying to point away from class conflict to something else. It would be better if you have a specific question about what I said. Rather than me trying to “explain connections”. That’s too vague to really answer.
Seems like a rude characterization. To put it bluntly you were rambling and it felt pretty disjointed. And instead of understanding that you’ve blamed me for not getting it. I have awareness of the horrible power structure we live in. But you are the one who knows what you’re trying to say, I’m not really gonna comb back through all those paragraphs and then write 3-5 questions up. Is that what you expect? If I were you and had a cohesive point I could probably sum it up in 5 sentences max. Rather than expect another person who I’ve confused to coax the point out of me. We probably agree on a lot in reality but I’m getting a pretty strong vibe of “I read marx, you clearly didn’t and are therefore uneducated”. So I’ll take this as a lesson learned, I hope.
Man, that’s a lot of words to say “I don’t actually want to learn what you’re talking about”.
It’s not rude to point out what another person may not understand. That’s not stupidity. That’s lacking knowledge.
Stupidity is when someone is addressed with something they do not understand, take it as a personal attack, and then decide they would rather not waste their time to ask a single question.
You wouldn’t look stupid if you asked me something simple like “what do you mean by class?” I’d be very happy to clarify my definition of the word and move forward from there.
But it seems you are too stubborn to do anything simple like that. You’d rather be upset by a condescending tone that I can’t help but let out. If there is something I’m guilty of its definitely that.
Edit: Damn, when they delete all their comments.
Huh, funny. You blamed me for the interaction again. Yeah you’re definitely right about being condescending though.
If there’s anything of value to be learned here I certainly missed it. Not too concerned you’d consider this my fault. You wrote several paragraphs and said basically nothing.