We need more of these Gen-Z protests:
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We could all be happy and content but no, no, these greedy fucking parasites need to ruin the world...
Democracy is under siege. It is not retreat. Democracy has yet to begin fighting at all.
The Epstein class needs to go. The world can’t afford these parasites
We need to bleed the earth of some right-wing cockroaches every 80-100 years. It's time again.
Democracies have always brutalized the vulnerable to extract wealth and have hierarchical abuse - non-citizens, minorities, migrants, lower class workers, women, etc. The difference between liberalism and fascism is whether the in-group is expanding or shrinking.
When black people are murdered by cops and enslaved for self-medicating their anxiety, it is called the high point of liberal democracy we wish to return to. There was progress, after all.
But now white people are murdered by cops, and so the sky is falling.
It is, of course. But if you want a world without an "Epstein class", without greedy parasites, without racist exploitation, then we should not return to liberal democracy. We have to structurally abolish the hierarchies that allow there to be powerful people above scrutiny, and we should recognize no boundary of privilege like citizenship.
No, psuedo democracies have failed and are taking their natural course.
It's not democracy that's in retreat, it's the EuroCentric imperialist system in retreat because it is losing on nearly every dimension. And when the imperialists start losing, they lean hard into liberal power structures and abandon abstract liberal values, which the privileged members of those societies read as fascism. In actuality the control structures liberal societies apply to its oppressed members are the same as the ones they apply to privileged members when they are in retreat.
You want democracy? Overthrow liberalism.
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