Anti-Synthesis

[dukealien]

Anti-Synthesis

At this juncture
racists  call themselves anti-racist
anti-fascists act as fascists
social media are antisocial
those called brave are slaves to fashion
and peaceful demonstrators
burn, loot, and murder--

is this what Marx meant
by thesis and antithesis?
If so, I don't much care
for their synthesis!

[alonso ramoran]

As I understand it through the lens of dialectical materialism, the synthesis is the world ushered in through the conflict of a thesis and antithesis. It's a natural process of history that captures change, not something that Marx invented. Naturally, humans change and are always in motion in every sense of the word, like everything else in nature. We're not special.

There's a lot of nuance missing here, and I think I can display this most effectively and without a bias of political ideology on your comment about social media breeding anti-social behavior. It's true, but it also connects people from halfway around the world and tunes people into each other's struggles. Like everything, it's just a matter of how it's used. If it's used to be constantly ironic and reactionary behind an avatar, then, yes, social media can be alienating.

[busker]

This didn't age well...

[alonso ramoran]

This didn't age well...

[dukealien]

This didn't age well...

Oh, I don't know... apparently the Capitol break-in squad thought Congress needed clipped a little (or were just out to break things, or had been paid).  But now we have an actual Mostly Peaceful Demonstration (there were at least half a million in DC demonstrating against the steal non-violently) that phrase has suddenly vanished.

It will be interesting to see what the fraud cities do with the money Congress is about to shower on them at the expense of the rest of us.  It will be billed as "reconstruction" of riot damage, but unless they pay off BLM, the rioting and looting will just continue and their populations of actual working people will vanish.  They'll still be vote farms for the fraudulent, but outside their bunkers they'll all look like sets out of "Escape from New York."  To paraphrase an old truth, once you have paid the BLM geld, you still must get rid of the BLM.  And with no police (that being the only thing Congress and the fraud cities won't fund), they'll just have to keep paying BLM.  More, all the time.  Because there's no end to it without an end of cowardice.

[busker]

This didn't age well...

Oh, I don't know... apparently the Capitol break-in squad thought Congress needed clipped a little (or were just out to break things, or had been paid).  But now we have an actual Mostly Peaceful Demonstration (there were at least half a million in DC demonstrating against the steal non-violently) that phrase has suddenly vanished.

It will be interesting to see what the fraud cities do with the money Congress is about to shower on them at the expense of the rest of us.  It will be billed as "reconstruction" of riot damage, but unless they pay off BLM, the rioting and looting will just continue and their populations of actual working people will vanish.  They'll still be vote farms for the fraudulent, but outside their bunkers they'll all look like sets out of "Escape from New York."  To paraphrase an old truth, once you have paid the BLM geld, you still must get rid of the BLM.  And with no police (that being the only thing Congress and the fraud cities won't fund), they'll just have to keep paying BLM.  More, all the time.  Because there's no end to it without an end of cowardice.

Anything’s better than the clown show of the last four years

[dukealien]

Anything’s better than the clown show of the last four years

You will, I suspect, find that remark ages very, very poorly.

[busker]

Anything’s better than the clown show of the last four years

You will, I suspect, find that remark ages very, very poorly.

Possible. Things might get worse until Donald Trump is banished to Greenland.
So that we don't forget, here's a distillation of the genius of the man: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/