It’s because tankies aren’t communists, they’re authoritarians.

This photo is actual nightmare fuel. 😫

I think that’s the point, just like with “a few bad apples”, the original intent of the saying has been subverted to help those in power keep the rest of us down (if you just do this impossible thing, you’ll be just like us! Why don’t you just do that impossible thing already, you useless lazy bastard? And so on. It’s part cognitive dissonance to make themselves feel like they’re “self made”, part gaslighting convincing us we’re just not trying hard enough).

For starters, I’m not a dude. I also don’t have a list for you because I have never spent any of my time thinking about how to make other people dance, nor how others might make me dance (drunk or otherwise). If we somehow ended up at the same party and you (or anyone) pulled a guitar out, I’d get up and walk away from the area (as I’m sure at least a few people did in every single one of the times you mentioned, you just didn’t notice).

So like I said - you do you, but know your audience. You’ve obviously found plenty of “your” people, just enjoy that, but not everyone likes the same things you do, and that’s ok. Suggesting getting people drunk so “everyone” enjoy what you’re doing? Not so much.

Vegan Madras curry with rice (also, it’s 6am, I fell asleep at some point yesterday evening and only woke up again a couple of hours ago, chronic fatigue is a bitch).

Well at least it was consensual

Says the only person who left the room alive.

I’m not saying it was or wasn’t (E: or that the death was planned or deliberate, though that is a possibility, however unlikely), or that consensually doing drugs together and having sex is wrong in itself, but the chem-sex world is absolutely rife with rape, coercion, and abuse, so to just assume it was consensual is a big leap.

I will remember survivorship bias

The just world fallacy is another one worth remembering, in the context of your post, but also generally.

Also

If hard work led to success, then a poor person working three jobs should be rich.

You got George Monbiot’s quote almost exactly word for word:

He didn’t have to work three jobs to pay rent, but he is set up as a rags-to-riches story, using elbow grease and grit to become the mogul he is.

Lastly, you’re right, but it’s important to remember what he does have, and why - privilege, and lots of it (being a white man from a rich background, with a supportive family to boot? They all put his starting points miles ahead of most others), which he is given by white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, which is why he (and many others, even without the billions, privilege is one hell of a drug) will never work to end those systems and work towards creating a world where everyone has equitable access and opportunity.

Capitalist propaganda.

“Aspiration” to be more precise, it’s one of the ways capitalists convince large segments of the public that they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires, who just need to pull their bootstraps up hard enough, and they will make it, like the people in the programme did (conveniently they never address things like racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism, and other barriers that many people have to face just to survive, never mind thrive, and the fact that all of these barriers are artificial and created by people who benefit just as much from dividing society up and pitting us against each other, as they do from selling us rags-to-riches bullshit to get us to work harder to make them money).

My advice: you do you, but find your audience lol that definitely wouldn’t work in every crowd… 😂

Saying hes a racist purely off of a product price is the equivalent of the pet eating ohio comments.

Jfc, you Nazi apologists are fucking wild, comparing a white supremacist openly broadcasting a Nazi dog whistle, to a bunch of immigrants who literally did nothing to no one but were still made a target for violence by those same white supremacists for the sin of existing while being Black is vile beyond belief.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

but maybe just to get in the headlines again…

…because he knew it is a Nazi dog whistle.

So he’s either a Nazi, or he knows enough about Nazis to know how to appeal directly to them, and is happy to do so for publicity (so, an enthusiastic collaborator with Nazis at the very fucking least).

You really should examine with yourself why you feel the need to jump to the defence of a Nazi.

Hierarchy creates inequality, it’s just how it works.

Always and every single time, it doesn’t matter how nicely you dress it up or try to convince yourself that if it was you (or your personal “leader” of choice) it would somehow be different. Inequality is literally built in to the structure.

E: I just had to come back and show some appreciation for “be the change you want to see in the world - follow someone else”, I know you didn’t mean it, but the irony is just too good…

Of course he is, they always do.

The Paper Billionaire Argument

Wealth shown to scale

Oh, I was just making an observation, I’m definitely with you on this, a proper block would be much better,.

Not defending xitter, but that’s exactly how it works on lemmy, isn’t it? If I block someone I don’t see them anymore but they can still see and reply to me.

We also have a tendency to allow only sociopaths and psychopaths to lead us, and we gotta nip that in the bud, but most people who aren’t like that don’t want to lead.

I wouldn’t say “allow”, but either way, you’ve hit the core issue there on both counts - leaders. Hierarchy creates inequality, it’s just how it works. It’s why any cult of personality is dangerous and bound to maintain an imbalance.

This mostly focuses on management in the workplace, but applies just as much to leadership rolls in general: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/colin-jenkins-deconstructing-hierarchies-on-the-paradox-of-contrived-leadership-and-arbitrary-p

the original UN article

Someone linked it bellow: https://archive.is/MObDZ

The FEE article is garbage, but the original is like a broken clock, it makes a couple of valid points, but it doesn’t strike me as being written by an anti capitalist, but by someone who wants to reform capitalism.