“It was real. I’d seen it. I’d seen it in reality.” • The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone – everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed." And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world." “You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know. That the bourgeois are not human.”
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The only difference between now and what it used to be is that the mask has been taken off of US politics. Who you see in Trump and the entire Republican administration is who this country has always been. Regardless of whether it’s Democrat or Republicans, they’ve always been war hungry, serving only the CEOs bankers and Wall Street while tossing us occasional table scraps, so we didn’t get too loud in our grumbling.
The only effort that Democrats have put in is trying to put that mask back onto US politics and back to business as usual. Once the mass comes off it can’t be put back on
LeonineAlpha@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Disco Elysium?
LeonineAlpha@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Da
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Hell yeah. I need to do a replay one of these days.
Here’s my favorite quote:
"TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD—FOR NEW PEOPLE IT IS TOO LATE FOR US
WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS”
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 25 minutes ago
That’s not entirely true. We had a brief period after WWII until the 70s when the middle class actually existed, the rich were taxed at 91%, and unions had leverage. This has eroded quickly since the dawn of neoliberalism.