Dec 9, 2022
ASAKIRant incoming after arguing with a leftist acquaintance about the mechanics of consumption taxes. Massive wall of text, sorry.
I feel like a portion of educated leftists in the West are stuck in a time loop. They spend a lot of time researching history, philosophy, reading up on what past leaders have done like Mao, Stalin, etc. have done and spend a lot of their time pretty much regurgitating their ideals and basically idolizing them in real life and online.
None of these particular people know how the levers of capital work in the modern world. They've never studied/learned about an ounce of economics. Or accounting. Or policymaking. Which is completely fine, but they treat it as something completely foreign to them and not worth their time.
How can you possibly fight against a force that you don't even understand? What will you do when a revolution or significant change does occur? I'm not saying all leftists should be accountants, or economists, or revenue agents, or policy a***ysts, but the number of educated leftists in the West who don't utilize their privilege maximally to at least have a cursory knowledge in modern business is staggering.
This is mostly coming from the place that the same acquaintance has chastised me constantly for going into a "business/capitalist field" as a leftist, but she does pretty much nothing in relation to praxis. She had the privilege of going to college, majored in English Literature, does nothing in terms of organizing, applicable knowledge or skills, or even just assisting the disenfranchised, but judges people within her own little book club. And has the gall to call herself a revolutionary agent.
Anyway, that fills my "serious post in this thread" quota for the year.
book clubs are praxis actually 🤓
-rich uni kids who cross the street when they see a blue-collar worker
if this thread ever had a reading club tho that'd be cool
- Dec 9, 2022·4 replies
who else doesnt care about sports anymore?
few years ago i was pretty into watching basketball and would watch the big soccer games, im trying to watch the world cup rn and its so f***ing boring bro, who are these people
id rather be skimming thru my little articles and maybe reading a chapter of gramsci or something
feels like i try and consume information 24/7, most of it doesnt stick and im not getting a deep understanding, even adderall doesnt fix this
what i do 
Dec 9, 2022fun guywho else doesnt care about sports anymore?
few years ago i was pretty into watching basketball and would watch the big soccer games, im trying to watch the world cup rn and its so f***ing boring bro, who are these people
id rather be skimming thru my little articles and maybe reading a chapter of gramsci or something
feels like i try and consume information 24/7, most of it doesnt stick and im not getting a deep understanding, even adderall doesnt fix this
what i doMMA & Pro Wrestling can still be fun
Dec 9, 2022fun guywho else doesnt care about sports anymore?
few years ago i was pretty into watching basketball and would watch the big soccer games, im trying to watch the world cup rn and its so f***ing boring bro, who are these people
id rather be skimming thru my little articles and maybe reading a chapter of gramsci or something
feels like i try and consume information 24/7, most of it doesnt stick and im not getting a deep understanding, even adderall doesnt fix this
what i doI was never really into watching sports as much as playing them, but I've gotten interested in F1 nowadays
- Dec 9, 2022krishna bound
you're mostly correct but i don't think this is unique to leftists, this is literally just 90%+ of the population across the entire political and social spectrum.I mean, this is largely similar to why at the same time conservatism has largely failed as an ideology.
read my posts in this thread arguing w/ OP from last year on more of what i mean (esp 2nd and 3rd posts and 2nd page post) - https://ktt2.com/conservative-thread-20-midterms-2022-32491254
I don't think it's unique to leftists, but leftists should know better. We tend to chastise the average educated lib/con because their ideologies are orthodox and it's easy to fall into either category (in the United States at least) without so much as cracking open a book or reading any sort of theory.
No regular person satisfied with capitalism is reading Friedman on their free time and came to a eureka moment where they realized their beliefs. They simply believe it through osmosis for the most part. But for them-- they are protected by the seat of capital, so they don't have to do anything to retain power. The liberals and conservatives in power across the board of many functions in society know how to operate the levers already. They just have to do it with their material knowledge and expertise.
An ideology like communism, in the US, is pretty much a heterodox thought currently. You have to go out of your way to know about it past surface-level knowledge and fibs. Most leftists are dedicated to learning about leftism-- they read theory, they discuss politics to a more significant degree, and they tend to have a more scrutinized outlook of the current system because of that.
But it falls apart when they don't really have a material understanding of the thing they're ideologically opposed to. They are up-to-date with current events, they know the system is not sustainable, but there's little in a position to do anything about it or even mitigate its destructive effects.
Dec 10, 2022krishna boundyou're mostly correct but i don't think this is unique to leftists, this is literally just 90%+ of the population across the entire political and social spectrum.I mean, this is largely similar to why at the same time conservatism has largely failed as an ideology.
read my posts in this thread arguing w/ OP from last year on more of what i mean (esp 2nd and 3rd posts and 2nd page post) - https://ktt2.com/conservative-thread-20-midterms-2022-32491254
Durkio one of my closest homies on this site but god damn he a dumbass
Props to you for having the patience to engage with him on that type of s***, I cannot lol
Dec 10, 2022fun guywho else doesnt care about sports anymore?
few years ago i was pretty into watching basketball and would watch the big soccer games, im trying to watch the world cup rn and its so f***ing boring bro, who are these people
id rather be skimming thru my little articles and maybe reading a chapter of gramsci or something
feels like i try and consume information 24/7, most of it doesnt stick and im not getting a deep understanding, even adderall doesnt fix this
what i do
this is arguably the most stunning World Cup of the century.- Dec 10, 2022fun guy
who else doesnt care about sports anymore?
few years ago i was pretty into watching basketball and would watch the big soccer games, im trying to watch the world cup rn and its so f***ing boring bro, who are these people
id rather be skimming thru my little articles and maybe reading a chapter of gramsci or something
feels like i try and consume information 24/7, most of it doesnt stick and im not getting a deep understanding, even adderall doesnt fix this
what i dosame thing here used to be into ball now i don’t care at all
- Dec 10, 2022·1 reply
gonna have some theoretical works coming out soon they’ll probably suck but will be curious for yalls input nonetheless.
Dec 10, 2022·1 replyPowerful
- Dec 10, 2022·1 reply
me writing my science reports
Dec 10, 2022Sir Realgonna have some theoretical works coming out soon they’ll probably suck but will be curious for yalls input nonetheless.
in- Dec 10, 2022·2 repliesWomanpuncher69
me writing my science reports
https://twitter.com/multiwhirl/status/1601398985503432704I am a MLMF
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Friedmanist
- Dec 10, 2022·1 replyspongebob
I am a MLMF
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Friedmanist
marxist-leninist-milf?
- Dec 10, 2022spongebob
I am a MLMF
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Friedmanist
didn't see the name in the quoted tweet and thought this was about milton friedman
- Dec 10, 2022Womanpuncher69
marxist-leninist-milf?
my favorite category on Marxvideos.com
- Dec 10, 2022
Told this world cup watch party they're soy and cringe for watching Globhomo's sports and they beat me up
OPDec 10, 2022·2 replies
Vox@snickarn here?
Update
What's up
- OPDec 10, 2022·1 replyeye contact
@op wya lemme make you an OP post pls
What's up
- OPDec 10, 2022·1 reply
Cudderwalks90% sure OP isn't on KTT anymore or is banned
Still here
- Dec 10, 2022
There was this old white guy on this flight I was just on that had on one of those “Rasta” hats with a pin in it that says “let’s go Brandon!”
probably a reference to something completely random but still lmao
Dec 10, 2022·1 replysnickarnWhat's up
Lol my main is banned I’ll get u in five days
- Dec 10, 2022snickarn
Still here
Wtf
- Dec 10, 2022
OP back
- Dec 10, 2022
lol