this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
484 points (90.3% liked)
Political Memes
5502 readers
1941 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
She’s definitely not as bad as these other fuck bags. That is for sure. But she still represents how and why the system we live in is broken.
She is just as selfish tho and I think that’s the real issue.
How does she represent a broken system? People, of their own free will, pay money to go to her concerts. Are you saying they shouldn’t be allowed to do that?
I get the issues around for example Amazon and its algorithmic price fixing and monopolistic behaviours, or with oil companies destroying the environment. But all this woman does is go around playing music that her fans love.
Well, the communists who usually want to kill the billionaires would say "yes, they shouldn't be allowed to do that, because money shouldn't exist and she should be touring for free." They want to abolish money entirely and run the world off "the love of the game" alone.
To them, all voluntary transactions are inherently exploitative by virtue of "money," if it exists someone will have more than someone else and thus a hierarchy is born, whether they're actually exploitative in any other sense is of no consequence, simply having "more" than another in any capacity is enough.
McCarthy called. He wants his personal privately owned red scare back.
"Communists want to abolish money" is ridicolous. And the straw men of going from abolishing billionaires hoarding obscene wealth to "everyone should be doing everything "for free"" is the size that it could feed an entire farm.
Well if they don't want it they should stop saying they want it.