"the problem with liberalism is that it satisfies so many people's needs so much of the time that they don't want to sign up for my revolution to return us to subsistence farming wait where are you going"

If it "satisfies so many people's needs", why do they need so many cops & prisons?

guy was like have you ever read this essay by this guy maybe you should dummy so i look it up and its not that long and i read it and i tell him yo this essay wants to return us all to subsistence farming and government by warlords and he did not respond

Hey, it worked for the Bolsheviks, so, you know, if your goal is victory for your faction at any cost, it’s not crazy.

I pity anyone who believes in only this possible eventuality, but let's pretend for a moment that it was true. Things like this are said from a place of incredible privilege, given how common hunger is even in the US.

Chuckles 🤭

The desire to be the guy from the history books by doing exciting things instead of nerd boring things, not realizing that back then most of life was about as exciting as eating cold grain soups and rolling a wheel around with a stick

“Subsistence farming”? I detect some bourgeois deviation from the true revolution to make us all hunter-gatherers.

maybe they're leaving to go serve food to people at the homeless shelter?

Crossposted from Twitter: I feel like this is specifically environmentalism, in a way, but changing the sentence a little definitely reveals a core truth of why quite a few people hate liberalism: When liberalism is secure, normies win and don't sign up for revolutions to any conceivable cause.