My father in law said that we should all not use gas this winter to own Putin. When I said that 1) we can use other sources of gas without financially destroying ourselves by implementing leftist measures like seizing profits for example and 2) why should we suffer for a war we have nothing to do with, he replied: ‘go tell that to the Ukrainians! No gas would be a heaven for them compared to their situation!’. To which I replied that with this rhetoric, only one person in the world can complain because there is always someone worse off than you.
This is coming from a self proclaimed elitist leftist. Europe is fucked lmao.
I swear it’s the greatest marketing ploy that capitalists have people convinced them paying more for gas than gold and being cold over the winter is somehow helping Ukrainians. It is helping the energy sector make a literal killing in profits while the most vulnerable part of our population is sacrificed again after all they’ve just been put through. It is also helping US finance capital in picking the bones of Ukraines wealth clean. It is not in any way shape or form helping any average Ukrainians.
It’s also crazy how alienated people are from the real economy and how divorced politics has become from economics that people still do not realize gas is needed for more than heating. The industry needs it. This industry is now not viable anymore and will consequently shut down sooner rather than later.
The media has really broken peoples brains. My mom watches MSNBC ALL the time. One time I was visiting with her and I was shocked at how terrible the content on there was!
My mom thinks that Putin is the richest man on earth and that he can hide all his wealth for some reason? They think Putin is like super-Trump or something.
It makes me sad sometimes. I know we laugh at lib buffoonery, but my mom is such a sweet person…I’m sad she believes such nonsense.
My father in law said that we should all not use gas this winter to own Putin. When I said that 1) we can use other sources of gas without financially destroying ourselves by implementing leftist measures like seizing profits for example and 2) why should we suffer for a war we have nothing to do with, he replied: ‘go tell that to the Ukrainians! No gas would be a heaven for them compared to their situation!’. To which I replied that with this rhetoric, only one person in the world can complain because there is always someone worse off than you.
This is coming from a self proclaimed elitist leftist. Europe is fucked lmao.
I swear it’s the greatest marketing ploy that capitalists have people convinced them paying more for gas than gold and being cold over the winter is somehow helping Ukrainians. It is helping the energy sector make a literal killing in profits while the most vulnerable part of our population is sacrificed again after all they’ve just been put through. It is also helping US finance capital in picking the bones of Ukraines wealth clean. It is not in any way shape or form helping any average Ukrainians.
It’s also crazy how alienated people are from the real economy and how divorced politics has become from economics that people still do not realize gas is needed for more than heating. The industry needs it. This industry is now not viable anymore and will consequently shut down sooner rather than later.
The media has really broken peoples brains. My mom watches MSNBC ALL the time. One time I was visiting with her and I was shocked at how terrible the content on there was!
My mom thinks that Putin is the richest man on earth and that he can hide all his wealth for some reason? They think Putin is like super-Trump or something.
It makes me sad sometimes. I know we laugh at lib buffoonery, but my mom is such a sweet person…I’m sad she believes such nonsense.
Yes it’s sad but infuriating. We have to keep on explaining things as its the only thing we can do.
But then there are some well read people that simply refuse to listen or read our theory. I’m more mad at them than the average proletarian.