☭ Blursty ☭

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Cake day: May 4th, 2022

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  • Were all Nazis bad people and to blame for their actions?

    Are all oligarchs responsible for their actions?

    KKK members?

    Sure you can make an argument of some kind of diminished responsibility due to low IQ intelligence, general ignorance etc. But ultimately we’re talking about grown adults with the capacity of free will.

    Ask yourself what it would take for you to exult in the mass murder of tens of thousands of little girls? What could people tell you to make you behave in this way? I don’t think they even think of themselves as blameless because they think of themselves as supreme. They are entitled to cause massive harm due to being better, chosen, Übermensch etc.

    It doesn’t much matter to the kids who are crying because they’ve been told that their arms won’t grow back, that someone who supports this happening to someone else tomorrow is starting to have doubts and might feel bad in the future.

    This trade off of “bad feelings” versus the brutal physical impact of someone’s actions is a common feature of settler colonialism in particular. We see it with the “loyalists” in Northern Ireland, with the Americans’ about Vietnam (except only in movies), and it pervades Zionist supremacist propaganda today.

    To blame, means to be responsible for. Are people responsible for their actions or not?




















  • A couple of things come to mind with this. Firstly, this reshoring has required a colossal subvention by the state. The money printer can currently go brr all day long, but if every reshoring that was needed required such intervention then this would not be feasible, especially considering the balancing act that’s currently needed to counter inflation. Dedollarisation that’s continuing apace further threatens this model. Already we have Trump recently threatening states that plan to trade in non-dollar currencies.

    The reason for the deindustrialisation in the first place has not gone away. The inevitable march towards the export of finance capital being of primary importance to the imperialist state will continue. This seems to be a panicky flagship example. Root causes have not been addressed, and won’t be.

    But at the same time I do take your point that we’re probably overstating the situation. I hope not by much.