masquenox

Sounds totes like a "classless" system, eh folks?

Yeah the democrats were weak when it comes to Gaza.

The Dems were not "weak" on Gaza - they very strongly supported their favorite little genocidal white supremacist colonialist project.

But, they didn’t say “the west bank is yours for the taking. Go get!”

Nobody "handed" Israel the West Bank - the IDF can concentrate on the West Bank now because they were too entangled by their abysmal failure to beat Hamas in Gaza.

largely peaceful anti-israel protests that were commonplace under the democrats will now get violently shut down by autocratic style policing

Good. The people doing "peaceful" protest needs to learn what "peaceful" protest amounts to one way or the other.

Also trump has an extremely pro Israeli track record

So does the entire US political establishment, including anyone the Dems will allow as a presidential candidate.

The Swiss? Those people known for their (supposed) "neutrality" despite helping the Nazis squirrel away all that stolen wealth?

Say it isn't so!

Thanks to neoliberalism I don't have any money to spend on these products anyway!

We (from the perspective of the capital class) are the pigs threatening to eat the carrot.

No. We (from the perspective of the capital class) are the pigs rejecting the carrot... therefore, it is only the fascist stick that can now protect the capitalist order.

Nothing new about this - it's essentially what happened after WW1.

Using your analogy, how would we achieve a less exploitative relationship with the capital class?

You're essentially asking how we stop a serial abuser from being a serial abuser.

There are two ways, of course. You either remove the victim, or you remove the serial abuser.

Somehow, I don't think the former is an option.

No, that is a choice that

Again, liberal. That’s not my “solution” - that is what your precious status quo will be doing anyway.

Believing a politician actually cares about you is like believing the stripper likes you,

Hey, come now... there's no need to compare those parasites to strippers.

This is true... but it doesn't change the power dynamic at play at all - merely the stakes for the individual involved.

You’re the real fascism enablers.

Keep telling yourself that, liberal... especially when you watch the liberals you vote for "reaching across the aisle" to your fascist cousins.

So your solution is to increase the genocide and hostility

That's not my "solution," liberal - that is what your precious status quo will be doing anyway.

Are you not satisfied with the completely predictable spoils of liberalism? The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer - and the only thing liberals will tell you to do about it is to vote for them in the next election ad nauseum.

The capitalist order only allows you to engage in two seemingly contradictory but, in reality, complementary, ideologies - liberalism and fascism. That is how it protects itself from you.

Inside this paradigm, no actual fundamental change is possible - it is only the measures that the status quo takes to protect itself from threats (ie, you) that really changes. Sometimes, when you're lucky, this measure might take the form of Keynesian economics - such as the New Deal, for instance. Sometimes, it's a brutal fascist regime. It all depends on what is most convenient to the status quo under given conditions.

You can tell which you are getting by seeing how good the carrot is.