#complicit capitalism

[odinsblog]

Damn, I wanna laugh, but I can’t even front like this isn’t happening in America too. Capitalism is a bitch.

#politics #lol #united kingdom #the media is complicit #capitalism #uk #scarcity #manufactured scarcity

[hussyknee]

Whenever Brits are like "tea is our national drink, our culture, our personality, our mental health" I think of our hill country blanketed in a patchwork quilt of human suffering and ongoing violent colonialism and want to smash all their tea cups. Your genocidal leaf juice is nothing to be proud of. The present day tea pluckers are the descendants of the Indians you enslaved and they still live in unthinkable poverty in the line houses you built to house them like cattle. The families whose farmlands you robbed have been starving for generations. Every sip of your leaf juice is soaked in blood and you drink it like vampires.

Tea will never belong to you. It's our legacy of grief, and your shame.

Drink your tea and shut the fuck up.

#sri lanka #'but my parents were immigrants!' 'and you're living in a genocidal country that's still sucking the marrow from the global south. so.' #'but my parents were indians!' 'ok? drink your chai and think about the stateless south indian tea pluckers? what is your point?' #if you live in britain you enjoy the fruits of its empire even if you're at the bottom of the food chain #that's why middle class Asians and Africans migrate to europe even if it means they have to earn a living on minimum wage #you can't share a race and country with sue braverman and tell me that your origins can make you any less complicit #british culture #tea #british empire #colonialism #british colonialism #colonization #extractive colonialism #tourism #capitalism #indigenous rights #indian ocean slavery #slavery #white supremacy #knee of huss #food culture #cash crops #monoagriculture #ecocide

[mikarchive2]

What is being disavowed in the abjection of evil and ignorance onto fantasmatic Others is our own complicity in planetary networks of oppression. What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation. The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

mark fisher, capitalist realism

#we are all complicit but we are also #all innocent hope this helps have a nice #day #mark fisher #capitalist realism #capitalism #words #m

[news4dzhozhar]

#the US is complicit in genocide #the UK is complicit in genocide #the EU is a joke #yemen #money is all that matters #stop funding genocide #stop defending genocide #israel is committing genocide #israel is an apartheid state #israeli war crimes #israel is a terrorist state #israel is not the victim #this was never about hamas #gaza under siege #gaza under genocide #red sea #shipping lanes #capitalism over humanity #materialism trumps innocent lives #spread awareness #save palestine #stand up for humanity #ethnic cleansing #genocide #free palestine 🇵🇸 #illegal occupation #gaza under attack #collective punishment #what happened to never again #war pigs

[hoziersdirt]

I really feel crazy for still masking because I believe it's the right thing to do. I do not want to get COVID or unknowingly give it to someone else. This really shouldn't be so isolating and it makes me want to give up on everyone I know who doesn't mask.

Edit: But in the end I'm choosing to keep those friendships because they mean so much to me. And none of us are in a high risk group as of now. It still feels fucking awful.

#covid #fuck capitalism #masking #covid safety #friends #friendship #values #community #ableism #im still complicit af in so many things

[awkward-teabag]

Can't even mention that a store near me is clearly using abusing the TFW program because they refuse to pay little more than minimum wage in a high cost of living area (also you won't get benefits and you'll only be part-time) because the fascists and right-wingers will jump in to say it's about immigration and white replacement.

No, it's because rich white people want to hoard even more money and found an intentional loophole to both make more money (via paying employees less) and also have more power over employees, employees who may or may not know Canadian employment laws (or safety laws) and even if they do, don't have the ability or support to try to hold the company accountable.

You can absolutely criticize the federal government for keeping the loophole open but it predates Trudeau by decades and it was Harper who both expanded the program and added a way for companies to fast-track TFWs. It was also under Harper that companies started firing Canadians (or not hiring them) and then requesting permission to mass-hire TFWs instead.

But the way the right wing talks, you would think Trudeau started this whole thing and the poor multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies are being taken advantage of. Also that housing prices, lack of new developments, and zoning issues started with Trudeau and are the fault of mass-immigration he has a boner for instead of being an issue for decades and experts warning this would happen if governments didn't act ASAP.

Instead the neolibs and cons kept cutting back and kicking that can down the road, a can that started being kicked by Mulroney and the Conservative Party.

#as a 90s kid i grew up with warnings about healthcare and housing and how we needed mass immigration or a massive baby boom #because of the utter lack of federal support and an aging workforce #the systems were already being strained to their limits and there literally weren't enough millennials to replace retiring workers #*or* bring in enough taxes to fund said systems when the system needed it the most #not even increase funding just keeping the same funding that was already not enough #also the right conveniently ignores (or doesn't know about) the extremely predatory recruitment industry #that targets people overseas while lying and charging large amounts of money to bring tfws to canada #you could even blame chretien for expanding it to include 'low-skilled' workers which is what companies are abusing it for #hell even trudeau sr for creating it in the first place even though it was originally made for high-skilled or niche jobs #but no the blame is always trudeau jr with a ton of racism and brownnosing capitalists #because all these problems sprang up suddenly under him #and in no way did harper start/expand/not end/be complicit in any of this /s #though i guess for some of the fascists it seems that way 'cause they weren't personally affected by it until now #and companies have stopped trying to pretend they aren't grabbing as much money as possible because fuck anyone else #even though it's been like that for decades and capitalism itself encourages companies to skim money off the top #while not having the checks and balances to limit just how much #for that you need governments to regulate things and that doesn't work when you have leaders who are anti-regulation #and who believe in trickle down economics #just... the whole thing is not happening in a bubble and involves multiple people and both the neolibs and cons #because it's been building for decades #but you can't bloody say that because the moment you mention housing/jobs/healthcare and/or tfws #you get inundated by fascists who think you're one of them and hit you with some of the most unhinged shit #or who don't even care about you and just want someone to rant at about how it's the evil left's fault for everything #hell you can't even say you don't like trudeau because same thing: fascists think you're one of them or someone to bring into the cult

[mothkraft]

every day i think abt how diego and hot pants come from working class upbringings compared to johnny and gyro being closer to the upper class...like gyro existed in a bubble with a silver spoon up his ass for most of his life and diego has lived in poverty most of his and man the audacity of johnny and gyro just to despise him based on pretty much nothing

I'm just full of too many thoughts and rambles and no art and grrrrrrr

#diego brando #steel ball run #like i don't think in a million years araki thought about that #but no wonder johnny is seething for no good reason in regards to diego #some ex-farmhand more or less competing at his skill level? at his brother's? #him? against a joestar renowned breeders of horses and a racing history #this no name from the middle of nowhere #and i also think about how gyro's complicit with capital punishment #only changes his mind when suddenly there's a kid involved who's innocent #like damn gyro it's almost like the criminal justice system doesn't care if someone is 'guilty' of a crime #it's almost like just killing people is wrong :( #what a privileged life he's had #johnny's had a mixed one for sure after his brother's death and his father's abusive bullshit #but diego? had to scramble and struggle through every day of his life to get somewhere #anyway i think hot pants and diego should be communists in love together

[hoths]

why are some people still pretending its just men exploiting womens insecurities through the beauty industry when its literally mostly other women. oh these poor insecure women they cope with their internalized misogyny by opening “skincare” clinics, pumping insecure girls full of filler, and conning their customers into hating themselves 💔

#beauty standards are a capitalism problem? always have been. #its also disingenuous to pretend a) it hasnt been affecting men because hello? hair transplants? b) its mostly men when anyone #can be complicit so long as theyre greedy and to me the greedy women are no longer victims #c) ‘well its men who are making women think they're only their looks/men who created these insecurities in the first place’ #are you actually that out of touch? women contribute if not generate a massive amount of self-hatred capital #d) women are one of the most populous oppressed groups of course theres also proportionally more of them oppressing each other #h.txt

[dandylion-s]

The hunger games is insane because you read it as like a 14 year old and think wow these rich people are insane and then you grow up and learn a bit about economics and Realise™

#we're all the rich people we're all complicit to a degree #even when you don't want to be #because that is the condition of capitalism #the hunger games #but like the first time i met a really rich person #they spoke exactly like a capitol person

[samaspic31]

Infinitely exhausted by anticapitalist art having its wings cut off and getting watered down, or even turning ironic by needing capitalist structures of distribution for the artists to be able to eat. Im gonna lose it. And that’s even in the rare case of authors having gotten to the bottom of the end of their reflexion and research of capitalism and its consequences-

#art school is frustrating. living in capitalism is hell. there is no escape and im going mad #even crafting doesn’t help #i applied for retail job today and i feel bad even about being complicit in the sale of overpackaged shit #also malls are depressing #sam speaks

[odinsblog]

The outcome of elections is just a game to NBC. It’s Les Moonves all over again.

#politics #ronna mcdaniel #journalism #the media is complicit #media bias #authoritarianism #authoritarians #republican fash #capitalism

[ugisfeelings]

i can't do this gentrification discourse why are y’all pulling up dictionary dot com trying to one up each other 💀

#qq #opened twitter to find someone self-described as a ‘non-gentrifyer’ call a tenant union organizer complicit in displacement like girl. What #i do think we should understand the disposessive effect of gentrification as driven primarily by capital/real estate developers #which actually then allows us to build a politics of solidarity for housing rather than obsessing over the moral agency of tenants/renters #also hate the weird tendency to essentialize certain neighborhoods as ethnically/racially homogenous in the 'past' #when so often that was never the case!!

[roxyandelsewhere]

this isn't a diss on anyone, it's just an observation of a general trend, but it's interesting how the notes in my post about scorsese's film foundation's free screenings of restored old movies are full of anti-marvel people, and i know this because so many people mention marvel when they reblog the post. it's interesting because it's part of a debate on cinema as art vs marvel as the star and symbol of movies as just another branch of capitalism, the crux of that debate being marvel's power to make itself dominate our view, earshot, brainspace etc. and then marvel keeps popping up in comments about fully unrelated things because they're the other side of that debate. i don't think this constitutes free advertising but that brainspace they can force themselves into? we're doing it ourselves now. i get the urge to say that stuff, i really do, but i'm not sure how the art of cinema can win against the omnipresence of marvel if efforts towards preserving and sharing it are a middle finger at marvel first and a world of cinema outside of it second. we need to be better i think. it starts with us

#once again this isn't directed at any specific people bc i've done my fair share of taking opportunities to trash marvel and the mcu #so i'm complicit in this too #but idk. i feel like it's important to be aware of them and how they do things in terms of being aware of that side of capitalism #but sometimes a good way to do our part in fighting it is to not think about them or consider them at all #if one of the big issues is that cinema outside marvel should be more discussed and appreciated and shared etc #then we should enjoy it for its own sake. enjoy the movies we like and learn about others for themselves instead of in opposition to themcu #idk if i'm making any sense but basically if you're against something being everywhere #and when you go outside of it you're framing it in your mind as Being Outside Of It. then it's still on your mind #it's still everywhere #if you frame a good thing as mainly opposition to a bad one to counter its massive power. you're still giving it power #part of me thinks none of this is that deep but with the levels of insidious propaganda marvel does and with the budgets they suck up #it kind of is #carolina talks #also everything i've said has nuances and different cases in other situations. i don't mean it as a blanket statement about politics #or whatever #i mean in the case of this particular debate this might be something to think about

[bloodyke]

he xuan for the ask game

hes NOT evil or a bad person everything he did was reasonable and justified stop making him out to be a ruthless asshole who unfairly hurt sqx for no reason in fact he went EASY on them smh he xuan my poor little glub glub

#answered #i was gonna put work better as a dynamic bc i am mentally ill about beefleaf but tbh i think hes very compelling on his own #even tho his story is completely entwined with sqxs #im just saying when someone causes the horrible deaths of everyone you love and ultimately leads to your own horrible death #you're allowed to hunt them down as a ghost king #and when you find out your best friend is the brother of that guy and all of the good fortune they have is actually YOURS that his brother #stole from you (leading to your families deaths) and then you give your bff multiple opportunities to go against their brother and #stand up for what is right and they DONT do that and instead stand by him even tho they know what he did #then hes now complicit in the whole thing #AND AFTER ALL THAT HE XUAN LEFT SHI QINGXUAN ALIVE AND UNHARMED IN THE ROYAL CAPITAL #listen im just saying he could've also killed sqx for this but DIDN'T #sorry for the rant in the tags i am very defensive about hx being made out to be the villian when hes the victim in the situation #also to clarify this is NOT hate on sqx either i love them so much and i want nothing but the best for them but you know.....

[nobody-cared-then-either]

Our leaders are complicit

They'll bomb whole families and kill children and say the blood isn't on their hands because they are doing it in "self-defense."

They'll starve an entire country and bomb humanitarian aid workers to death for trying to bring starving men, women, and children food, and make it look like an "accident."

They'll kill anybody foreign who stands in the way of their Empire and call them "terrorists."

They're not going to be any nicer to me and you just because we're "citizens" of their Empire.

They'll throw any of their own "citizens" who protest what they're doing and dissent to genocide into prisons and hospitals and call them "lunatics" and "drug-addicts."

They'll let us starve and go homeless while they spend every last fictional dollar in the National Treasury on more bombs and more industry.

They'll let us go without healthcare and deprive us of our rights when we are sick or when we are injured. They'll outlaw being disabled and forbid us from mixing with the ableds.

They'll work us to death and kill off as many of us as we can and replace us with machines and call this "progress."

The Empire is going to be the death of us all.

#anti fascism #Empire #fuck imperialism #industrialism #military industrial complex #police state #capitalism #spilled poetry #protest #poets on tumblr #fascist propaganda #propaganda #misinformation #narrative #narratives #we are complicit #us complicity #lemmings

[lovelornlovethorns]

what irks me is that people will justify their hatred by saying "carbon emissions" - which like, fair enough me too - but refuse to look at why they feel so strongly against her. like do you feel that about steven spielberg? do you feel the same hatred against travis scott? do you understand how she's the perfect lightning rod for those conversations, for media attention because of what her celebrity text is? how you are so eager to find a flaw in her person because you're angry at the status quo and how asleep people are? guess what her fall from grace would not change one thing about the way the 1% do things. she isn't the domino you can tip over that's gonna wake people up

#you don't resent her #you resent capitalism and the laws that allow people like her to be so privileged #direct your energy to the right place #i gen think people should realise they dont dislike her they just dislike how much she's loved #because it's proof of how compliant and complicit people are in the system #im high so this prob doesnt make any sense #hashtag love #taylor swift