If these are my last words on the public internet, I would like to say that Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, while crossing the boundary of what can be considered tasteful, is a pretty funny series.

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Yet so many aren’t “stopped.”

Yes and this is the case for the vast majority of investigations in organised crime. You don’t see mafia networks not being completely dismantled and people there getting away. You don’t see cops protecting other cops when they transgress. The whole Epstein thing is a pattern that repeats in all of society, on almost all levels.

I cannot help but notice the parallels between Epstein and Plastic straws in media. On one side you have the outrage regarding Epstein, on the other you have systemic facts that enable Epstein that also cause a lot of other uncomfortable realities. You have plastic straws that most can do without, where it’s easy to say “we don’t need this” and then you have an entire economy centred around single use plastics where straws are only a minute subset. We could say this is just barking around the lowest common denominator and I find it insulting that the science of economic critique has its language, aesthetics and politics appropriated for tabloid-level engagement farming.

Now, where am I committing the sin of apologia of shaving cuts when I am rubbing salt in the wounds otherwise covered by garment?

Who the fuck am I apologizing for. Where did I say “umm ackchually epstein wasn’t as bad”. I am saying that framing the whole thing around epstein, even when just using him as a foot in the door, does nothing but further the magical thinking around epstein being some sort of ultra-cunning puppetmaster, which he wasn’t.

Ok.

[From the article]

He wanted to divert attention from the Epstein scandal and secure a quick victory to restore his tarnished reputation

This is incorrect, the Americans want to control key areas in the middle east with natural resources to keep their position within the economies of the world. Trump himself states this quite openly, in different contexts too. See Venezuela.

But like a compulsive gambler who keeps losing and has reached the point of betting his house and car, thinking that the next hand will let him recoup his losses, Trump is doubling down and preparing to escalate the war

This implies that Trump is the entity making decisions. Wholly incorrect as well as it ignores geopolitical advisers with connections to the arms industry and pressure from oil companies.

Already, the crisis in public education funding is giving rise to a student movement the likes of which have rarely been seen in English-speaking Canada. Walkouts have taken place at a number of universities and high schools in Ontario, and there have even been student strikes in Nova Scotia and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

Not a worker’s movement, those are students who don’t go to school. This doesn’t really tell us anything interesting about the class antagonism.

A similar leadership crisis is also plaguing the labour movement. The struggle of Air Canada flight attendants is emblematic of this crisis. Rather than capitalizing on the immense mobilization and fighting spirit of its members to carry the struggle through to victory, the union leadership called off the strike and deferred the decision to an arbitrator, who imposed a contract that did not meet the members’ demands.

This is the best the article has to offer. A tiny blip within class struggle, not a general strike or any other sort of action that could be deemed disruptive to the functioning of the economy. Honestly, it’s beautiful that there is this specific instance of workers trying to get something at all, but as mentioned this is nothing particularly significant when looking at the last 50 years or so.

The article seems to culminate in what appears to be an ad for the RCP. The RCP posits itself as the alternative to those goddamn malfunctioning unions, as the viable representative of workers when put into relation to all other expressions of worker-self-action

Epstein, Andrew, and a lot of people in their circle were stopped tho?

good or evil

We can not make science out of morals.

Trump is based sunni warrior confirmed

I am sorry, this reads like gibberish to me.

What? I am sorry, they did not get away with it, why else would you have news cycle upon news cycle dedicated to the case?

I am not just describing that. Jeff Bezos subscribes to longtermism, he is not an accelerationist, but he is destroying the world.

Something like that very vaguely happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_&_Wishart

the lie that “capitalism is inevitable.”

It was inevitable in the development of class society, at least when we look at history. So that is not a lie. If capitalism is inevitable, what is there to be afraid of? Capitalism is the state of the world. Similarly I can say, “communism is inevitable”, which I adhere to.

To deepen this whole thing let’s consider capitalism as historically progressive from the standpoint of a 16th century someone. Capitalism was needed to create the worker and the worker as a class. Capitalism gave us Marx, Fourier, Lafargue, Kropotkin and all the others that knew or at least felt that the story doesn’t end with capitalism.

Heads of state of influential world superpowers absolutely have a disproportionate effect on the development of the world for decades and even generations after their time in office.

That is what it looks like. You don’t see the strategizers, funders and victims that enable these decisions.

If you can’t see that, then I guess you believe the world is purely deterministic and human choice doesn’t matter.

On a, well, deeper level I cannot refute determinism, but I don’t believe in it as a method of considering the world as I don’t know everything and everything needs to be known to be a successful determinist.

so then I guess you’re also a nihilist who says we shouldn’t vote

Yes, democracy as a principle does not create new structures within society but reproduces the status quo. I’d advise to look at how people actually push change forward. That happens simply by joining a cause or leaving it. No voting necessary. In addition to that there are quite a few absurdities in democracy, like letting people vote on who gets to be killed. Stalin was a democrat in that he sent goons to villages and then let the mob decide who gets sacrificed. Democracy is too despotic for my taste, it certainly fulfilled none of my needs as a prole. Please don’t call me a nihilist though, I am older than 16.

or fight for climate action or even resist fascism

Oh yes, let me resist a system like fully ramped up fascism that I have no avenue in fighting because there is no workers’ movement. Genius idea.

I guess we can’t hold anyone in power accountable for the results of their decisions, because that would be “great man/woman” fallacy, right

Sure. They could be reformed if they are forcibly proletarized, fully expropriated and such. At the same time I adhere to no particular moralism around this, if they are held to account as you say then that is something people ought to do with no expectation that one ought to join in.

That’s a part of the lie that “capitalism is inevitable.”

Incorrect. Capitalism was practically everywhere in the 70s when Neoliberalism came onto the scene. It was already there. Neoliberalism is a logical development within capitalism as capitalism reaches the highest possible productivity achievable with it.

There is nothing super special about Neoliberalism when you look at the way the world was before the new deal and Italian fascism.

but if we didn’t have Reagan or Thatcher

Great man/woman theory.

I don’t think the “depravity” needs to be highlighted. Workers know the depravity they’re forced into by heart.

Why the heck call it the Epstein class? Why fetishize this person? Why not simply call it the capital owning class?

I hope to leave people like you behind when someone attacks:)

How I know someone is not a Marxist: They create classes out of thin air.

AKA “Let me destroy the world now for a hypothetical future”-ism