🇮🇹 Alex L @[email protected]

there is something very sinister in the re-branding of anti-capitalism as anti-consumerism. anti-capitalism focuses critique on the capitalists, the ones with power in the system. anti-consumerism centers the consumer and their habits, shifting blame away from the stewards and beneficiaries of the system towards those implicated in it through no fault of their own.

@leah

This is basically the comics version of "The Social Dilemma": both started telling the truth about surveillance capitalism and then linked this to Trump and similar.

It can't be more wrong, you all are in an information bubble and a global propaganda effort that is going on for centuries. Propaganda leads to cognitive dissonance and you need these "theories" to understand why people are mad at their politically correct governaments and media.

Since this post is getting boosted a lot today, for those wondering how it's going, it's going GREAT, it has also arrived on satellite TV and support one of the only two Italian war journalists in Ukraine:

https://www.byoblu.com/2022/03/23/byoblu-arriva-nello-spazio