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redblue farce (quokk.au)
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A trolley problem meme captioned "The two party system" showing a person at a lever who can only change the color of the trolley from red to blue while it runs over a long line of people.
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

If wolves control deer by biting them, the deer will not control the wolves by biting them back. And there is no peace to be had between wolves and deer.

Please stop using analogies. They're having the opposite effect. Wolves and deer live in symbiosis.

I'm gonna have to call it quits here tbh. The moment someone calls me an idealist... I know they're not picking up a word I'm putting down.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Sure, thanks for the chat. IDK how these got split.

    But boy I can't help it...Wolves prey upon deer. That's not symbiosis. Maybe you can say they find a kind of "balance" in their perpetual struggle, but symbiosis requires mutual benefit.

    To drop the analogy, working people don't benefit from capitalists. Capitalists exploit working people. There's no peace to be had between capitalists and workers, we are in perpetual struggle. Capitalist republics try to find "balance" in that struggle, so that capitalists can perpetually exploit working people.

    And sorry, if you're not an idealist, are you a materialist? You didn't seem like it, but maybe i missed it.

    Anyway, good luck, have fun!

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