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minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·1 day agoYeah. That’s kind of America’s whole thing. Making money. Exploiting everything. Americans are the Ferengi. Defending America = defending capitalism = doing whatever they can to make American, capitalist companies more profitable. I don’t hate capitalism. Don’t get me wrong, but I generally don’t like capitalists.
minus-squareTiger666@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoCapitalists are what makes capitalism capitalism. How can you hate one without the other?
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoThe same way I don’t hate Christianity but most Christians drive me up a wall. The concepts can be good, valid and even the best option in some cases, but the way it’s weilded can be dramatically different based on the person wielding it.
minus-squarewpb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·22 hours agoNo one is immune to propaganda
Yeah. That’s kind of America’s whole thing. Making money. Exploiting everything. Americans are the Ferengi.
Defending America = defending capitalism = doing whatever they can to make American, capitalist companies more profitable.
I don’t hate capitalism. Don’t get me wrong, but I generally don’t like capitalists.
Capitalists are what makes capitalism capitalism. How can you hate one without the other?
The same way I don’t hate Christianity but most Christians drive me up a wall.
The concepts can be good, valid and even the best option in some cases, but the way it’s weilded can be dramatically different based on the person wielding it.
No one is immune to propaganda