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  • WabiSabiPapi@lemmy.worldtoAntiwork@lemmy.mlWe need a guillotine emoji.
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    11 months ago

    scrub the influencer brainworms from your gray matter for one moment and produce a critical thought–

    engagement with what, exactly?

    the signal which carries no message is white noise.

    meaningless engagement is distraction, wasted bandwidth.

    an emoji is not a meaningful improvement to the material condition of the working class, or a threat to the status quo. It’s not even relevant to the abolition of work.












  • how seriously I approach ‘art’ is my prerogative. If one is not comfortable with criticism, they should keep their thoughts to themselves.

    how do you reconcile a position which claims to care about folks without enough to eat, with the line complaining about welfare (food assistance)?

    It isn’t even critical of the capital-owning class or the oppressive heirarchy which protects the institution of private capital, just an ephemeral ‘rich man up north’ (this is a reactionary dogwhistle, if you’re not familiar with the US)

    I think you’re not taking art (and I use this term loosely here) seriously enough.

    everything is political, especially to those not in the priveledged position to pretend aloof detachment holds any value whatsoever.

    the song is trash, at every level.



  • the song represents reactionary recuperation of revolutionary aesthetic, stripped of radical solidarity.

    it is pandering to the reactionary worship of ‘rebellion’ as a self-evident virtue, but the shallow analysis is crafted to manipulate populist outrage against individual actors without addressing the systemic factors which have lead us to this place.

    it bitches about “obese” folks “milking welfare,” and promotes the Proto-fascist conspiracies regarding ‘costal elites.’

    this ain’t it cuz.





  • WabiSabiPapi@lemmy.worldtoAntiwork/Work Reform@lemmy.fmhy.mlTitle
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    1 year ago

    capitalism has always carried the implied threat of starvation for those unable or unwilling to labor in order to enrich the capital owning class.

    this sort of vapid whitewashing/revisionism is just ‘maga’ for neoliberals, and is entirely devoid of substance.

    show me a period of prosperity under capitalism and I’ll show you a marginalized population subjugated.