Kept seeing this clip of Barry Sternlicht laughing about a “nice little recession” so I thought I’d share.
For what it’s worth, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone hoping for a recession. My stepdad told me this and I don’t understand why he’d want that.
According to him the only way to combat inflation is for us to go into a recession. But wouldn’t that cause a different form of chaos?
I’m uneducated on inflation vs recession but I know for a fact through lived experience that inflation sucks, and I’ve heard recession is also shit so why ask for one?
Anyway if this doesn’t belong here please let me know so I can post it somewhere else, I’m still getting used to what posts belong in what communities.
@SpaceDogs These fuckers aren’t even bothering to disguise their contempt for “the little people” anymore, are they?
I feel like they’ve become extremely explicit with their contempt for the working class this past year alone, outright stating their motivations and plans and yet so many still either turn a blind eye, refuse reality, or comply with the capitalists. It’s gotta be due to generations of propaganda because looking back the people weren’t nearly as obedient and patriotic.
For my family, they see how we are treated but have the attitude of “that’s just how it is” and when I argue against that they get mad at me.
@SpaceDogs I don’t the term “capitalists” is what you want here. I think it’s “oligarchs” or “wealthy fascists.” And it’s not just the working class they despise, it’s women, LGBTQ folks, the disabled, the elderly, the poor, people with different religion or skin color. Let’s be honest, it’s white Christofascists we need to worry about. And they hate EVERYBODY. Even the other species we share the planet with.
Anything else is just sugar coating and taking the focus away of the class struggle, which is the one that fundamentally matters.
Its not about religion, gender, sexuality, or any oppressed minority. It’s all about the capitalists, the rich minority that controls the means of production, artificially seeding dissent in the working class so that we fight between each other instead of against them.
It is all about the capitalists, and they use religion and stupidity to drive fascism into trying to crush intellectuals and revolutionaries that could actually create better conditions for everyone.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Oligarchs, wealthy fascist, and the agenda setting christofascists are all capitalists. We’re using the term we find most appropriate. We’re in a class war and capitalists are the enemy.