Jon should reveal himself as a Hillary lib and make both sides fight
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
131 points (99.2% liked)
the_dunk_tank
15897 readers
1 users here now
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I tried listening to Jon Stewart's podcast where he had some young environmentalist on and the vibe I got from him is pure hopelessness. He more or less exists in the same reality as us but sees absolutely no possibility of things ever changing.
The entire time he was gone he was trying to get the federal government to pay for 9/11 first responders medical bills and was denied every time.
If you consider him being gen x and developing his political consciousness in the end of history and weatching everything slowly degrade then rapidly degrade that perspective is easy to imagine
Yeah. I suspect he's, at one point, come to the conclusion that a revolution is the only way but then he was like 'nah, we'd totally lose that'. The young environmentalist he was talking to kept pointing out all of the things we need to do are contrary to the interest of capital so we need to combat them. His response was something like 'We literally don't have time to overthrow the capitalists, so we have to negotiate on their terms.' The problem with that is they have absolutely no reason to negotiate with us unless we can threaten them in any way.