You can see this in a lot of the pro-immigration/globalist discourse—it’s moral to help people from other nations, it’s immoral to care about effects on local communities, border integrity, or national sovereignty. There’s a complete lack of empathy for blue collar labor which suffered job losses and industry shifts due to outsourcing; they were just told to learn to code.
Big tech leftists and liberals are especially disingenuous because they know that corporations need to be taxed more, but they never actually say that, all the while making inane memes about capitalism. Socializing big tech is only going to centralize power for the government, which ever party is in power. Instead, it’s probably more advantageous to break big tech up into pieces that are still useful to the economy, but don’t allow them to offshore operations easily.
People used to just make “freeze peach” memes when conservatives were getting blacklisted from hosting sites, or were taken off Twitter. Meanwhile leftist propaganda about violence against police has always been left up without moderation, even before Trump ever became a politician. Social media in general is softly permissive towards enabling leftist extremism, and search engines used to feed into that too before conservatives cried about “alternative” viewpoints. No one took that seriously before Trump came into power in 2016.
I am well aware about how disingenuous conservatives can be, but imagine if a Democratic presidential candidate was removed off Twitter like Trump, it would have been decried as the end of democracy itself. Meanwhile leftists are left pearl-clutching if you say they’re authoritarian.
If instead everyone all along the political spectrum was less interested in tribalism, we’d all be better off for it.
The government didn't force those people to leave their jobs, we don't live in a communist society. Blue collar jobs went away in America because we possess a free market economy. If your labor is not competitive on the free market, your employer has no reason to hire you.
I cannot empathize with these positions because you seem to think economic shortcomings are a political issue. The past 80 years of globalism macroeconomics should be a gigantic flashing warning sign that reads "EMPIRE POLITICS DON'T FIX THIS" as a warning to anyone who thinks that invading China will make American manufacturing attractive somehow.
America is not beholden to creating wealth and jobs for the rest of the world at the expense of its own future and safety.
Competitor nations need to show some willingness to work together, and not expect one country to be endlessly magnanimous while being endlessly critiqued for everyone else’s problems.
WarOnPrivacy•3mo ago
(video is almost always a poor fit for me. consuming the content this way helps.)