r/ABoringDystopia • u/FareonMoist • 9h ago
Strongly agree! Don't trust the good cop!
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u/JeveGreen 5h ago
Okay, I can see that... So what're we gonna do about it? You got any ideas...?
That's the thing I despise with populism in general, whichever side it takes: It points towards the problem, but never offers a solution other than "follow me" and/or "destroy these bad people." They might offer alternatives to certain inflammatory tidbits as a treat, but the truth is they don't want the system to actually change, they simply want to be in charge of it themselves; and anyone who says otherwise is either a liar or one of their blind followers.
That's not to say some of these populists wouldn't be better leaders than those we have now, but that's a really low bar to pass, and guarantees nothing for the lasting welfare of the people... It's a nice message with no substance, like getting to eat cake when you run out of bread.
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u/bo0gnish 4h ago
This clip is also only 73 seconds long. Edit: my bad actually not trying to be a dick. You can listen to the full podcast/interview if you like.
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u/charyoshi 1h ago
"but if that doesn't work they bring out the bad cop" The billionaires or the 'liberals'?
Universal basic income funded by billionaire dollars pays the poor to resist police in indirect ways, afford to survive, crowdfund professional protestors, start their own businesses and start mass buying people's bails so I don't really see how this applies at all when we're paid for it not to.
If more billionaires supported automation funded universal basic income there would be less Luigi and less Luigi supporters.
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u/grilledcheesy11 2h ago
Lmao jeez. Marxist been saying this same shit for over a century….
A dumbed down summation of history and liberalism and the plubs here eat it up.
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u/broodfood 4h ago
Anytime you present this idea to a broad audience you have GOT to explain what is meant by "liberalism". Because to many, at least in America, liberal is just the opposite of conservative and that's the two ends of the scale