PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on March 04, 2023, 04:58:40 PM
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https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1632004253169463298/pu/vid/480x270/VizAOwGE0LLG8Cn-.mp4?tag=12
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Haha! Wow.
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Here is a wonderful deep dive into that rant.
It’s very enlightening and I don’t dispute anything he says. My only caveat is that he speaks as an anti-capitalist where I point out that his own argument demonstrates that it’s fascism, not capitalism per se, that is the problem.
Like all anti-capitalist leftists, he bemoans the profits made by private corporations and the big salaries of the upper echelon within, but seems totally blind to the fact that the entire middle class is also invested in and profting by these corporations to the extent they have retirement accounts, mutual funds, etc. Corporate profits aren’t by themselves a bad thing.
The bad thing is when they mate with government interests to pervert and contaminate the natural process. Diverting profits to undeserving parties, pushing ideological agendas, and prosecuting unneeded wars. There is nothing wrong with maintaining a military industrial complex, in fact it is mandatory (peace through superior strength) but Brand demonizes it in entirety rather than drawing a distinction between basic readiness and malignant greed resulting in warmongering for the sake of excessive profit.
I want the MIC to profit, I’m invested in it. And I want it strong, I’d like to see it active on the southern border. But only to the extent of national self defense. Brand is spot on about war-venturing on the other side of the world deliberately drawn out to bring an endless money stream, which while I profit a smidge, the wealthy and the corrupt profit immensely AND… my own profits are taxed to recycle some of them right back into the scheme, funneling ever more into the pockets of the elite.
This is fascism, not capitalism. When will Brand come to that final realization?