If someone wants to rewatch the scene
Holy crap I recently found this article about a bug’s life and thought it was hilarious
https://fee.org/articles/how-a-bugs-life-revealed-the-immorality-of-socialism/
It seems to be endemic in certain US circles to confuse Communism with Authoritarianism (which is what that link does). Yes. Stalin was an (evil) authoritarian, and his massacres were done under the banner of communism, but so was Hitler (and so is Drumpf) neither of whom were (are) Communists.
Why are the two things so regularly conflated by Americans ?
Because decades of propaganda has conditioned us to do so. They couldn’t attack communism because the ideals of communism are actually great to 99% of the population, so instead they painted communism with the blood that people abusing communism shed and told us all it was the nature of the beast.
i need to rewatch that movie reminding myself of the parallels between ants and wage workers
Burning down supply warehouses doesn’t stand up to corporations. It enriches different corporations while people who rely on those supplies suffer. If you want to stand up to corporations you need to unionize and enact legislative reform.
Hate the game, not the players.
LMAO, liberals be like “you can vote yourself into prosperity and wealth” 🤣
Hate the game, not the players.
Exactly. The game has no rules, as proven by corrupt, fascist, pedophile billionaires. So if they don’t follow the rules, why should anyone? Why are you hating on that player?
People have been following the rules like good dogs for way too long, while being raped in the ass by corporations and billionaires. Time to show them we have teeth too.
Anything goes, including burning down multi-billion dollar corporations. So that something better can rise from the ashes.
Why can’t I shake the feeling you are a wealthy cunt afraid for yourself?
Why not both? If you look to history, people died trying to unionize and fight for better working conditions. They literally sent thugs to brutalized and kill workers who just wanted better working conditions. This is what you get when people are at their wits end.
If changing the rules fixed the system, the U.S. wouldn’t be where it’s at today. It’s not so easy to change the rules when a few people own all the media and have spent multiple decades consolidating media and power buying up judges and bribing people to write the rules in their favor.
Hate the game, not the players.
“The game” is rich people brutalizing humanity to squeeze an extra dollar. The game wouldn’t exist without the players.
The game is logistics which provide necessary supplies to millions of people. Key players are squeezing extra dollars because morons would rather burn down a building than talk with their peers about doing something to change the rules.
While i agree with you that things should be solved by civilized means, in enviroment where workers have no rights, union busting is normal and politicians dont get changes made, what else there is to do?
I can hate both the game for having shitty rules, and for the players that are exploiting the shitty rules when it would be so easy to just play respectfully by acknowledging that the gaps in rules cause problems with the structure of the entire game and I should more equally distribute my resources if I don’t want anyone of the other players to start flipping the board over.
Human nature doesn’t allow an idealist fair society without any rule enforcement. We have to collectively make them, and a bunch of arson is not going to accomplish that because we’re always going to want warehouses an we’re always going to want bathroom supplies.
Human society doesn’t exist where humans are priced out of society.
When your bathroom supply warehouse refuses to meet the societal needs of the people you hire to run it, your warehouse is a clear and present danger to the very concept of “society”.
Your exploitative warehouse is able to underbid responsible competitors, drive them out of business. To remain in business against you, they also have to adopt exploitative practices, and put pressure on other warehouses to do the same.
The solution to this downward spiral is surprisingly simple: remove your undue influence from the labor market, and circumstances improve for both your responsible competitors and society. Government can do that better, but arson will work in a pinch.
The rich won’t stop killing us if we ask them nicely. All progress has involved threatening the lives or property of the powerful.
No progress has involved that. Ever. All progress has come from legislative reform.
the french revolution was famously not about porcefully taking power from those in power
Civil War?
More progress came from the blade of a guillotine than has ever come from legislative reform.
Ah yes, legislative reform that emerges from nothing but the powerful suddenly deciding to be nicer.
In an autocracy like China that would be true, but in the western world they mostly practice Democracy.
On the assumption that lobbying, bribing, gerrymandering, institutionele capture, legal capture and the general disfunction of first past the post systems don’t get in the way.
