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The fundamental difference between the left and right in the global north is their preferred mechanism for controlling the global south. Some folks are partial to IMF loans and global grant programs and some enjoy planning coup d'etats and military occupation but there is fully no "side" of mainstream western politics that wants to leave us alone.
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@AppleAmps white reddit communists when they realize their Kindle Paperwhite they use to read pretentious “theory” on was manufactured by slave labour 🧏

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@AppleAmps

The fundamental difference between the left and right...

what Left?

Oh you're talking about the "Social" Democrates...

...but there is fully no "side" of mainstream western politics that wants to leave us alone.

Yea no dice there, the spice most flow and value has to be extracted. All for Capitalism.

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@fiore @AppleAmps i mean there’s nothing wrong with being a little pretentious i think

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@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins @fiore @AppleAmps i mean i see that but moreso when i see the word ‘pretentious’ i interpret it as someone who unabashedly enjoys “higher” forms of art, or “higher” forms of interpreting art, i.e. someone who really likes modern art or someone who really enjoys film analysis

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@shroomie @fiore @AppleAmps there's a valid use to the word for people who desperately want to ape the truly great visionaries and so throw all the signifiers of intelligence and being cultured at you, but don't have anything that goes deeper, but most of the time it's used by people who can't tell the difference between the genuine article and the wannabe to disparage both and anyone who even aspires tk be more cultured. The unfortunate reality is most people (me!) striving to be cultured will spend a long time in the pretentious side of things before finally being able to get past it, and some never do (probably also me).

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