Fuck governments and all their supporters.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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I would say it's ironic that someone was using a reference to an indigenous people who were fighting against a fascist colonial state as a username and arguing in favor of fascism, but actually nerds missing the fucking point with literature is the norm, not the exception.
Who is arguing in favor of fascism?
anyone arguing to keep a system of fascism. whether they consider themselves a fascist, or not.
OK, tell you what, when you can provide a plan in detail that describes how your local county hospital (not the entire country or anything, just one facility) will keep the lights on, clean water flowing, waste collection and disposal handled, sanitation supplies and other logistical needs met, emergency room staffed and operational, blood bags and critical medications in stock, and long- and short-term patient care needs met while you are busy "fucking" the current system (and presumably establishing a new one) then you might be worth listening to.
Until then you're just an angsty teenager making extreme accusations that only serve to highlight your very tenuous grasp of reality.
You have no idea what you're talking about in practice, or what the human cost would be.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project (Archive version)
The plan probably involves bears.
the economy is made up. you're so brainwashed by capitalism, that you think it's the system that's keeping those things running, and not the labor of the working class. only the rich depend on capitalism for existence.
I don't care if you listen to me or not, just stay out of our fucking way, bootlicker.
Of course it's "made up", that does not make it irrelevant or inconsequential. All of human language is "made up" too. That's some real "Im14andthisisdeep" shit right there.
I didn't say a damn thing about capitalism. Don't project, and don't put words in my mouth.
I'm talking about logistics, administration and coordination, things that require "the system", or at least a system of some sort in order to function properly.
Of course it's labor that makes it happen, but when it comes down to it a hospital does not and will not manufacture its own resources (exam gloves, IV bags, water, electricity, etc). Those things must be produced somewhere else and brought to the hospital when needed, which means someone has to do the administrative work of deciding how much and how often, and how to get it from point A to point B. That administration is "the system" that you're so keen to break, without a plan to support the needs that are currently sustained by it.
If you can't bring yourself to address the pragmatic details of your ideas then they belong in the bin alongside the venture capitalists. No amount of name calling on your part will change that.
it's inconsequential to me. I didn't bother to read any further than this, capitalist pig. you're dismissed, so fuck off.
You are a very angry person, aren't you?
I just don't value champions of the oppressors as worth more than a bullet.
Why are questions about logistics and human lives "tools of the oppressor" are you a wallstreetbets ape fighting FUD?
if you're going to use quotation marks, at least make sure you actually quote the person, you knob
A simple yes would have sufficed. I was clearly shrimpy paraphrasing.
Ooh, threats of violence now. Classy.
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