I hope to live to see the (putting it nicely) cargo cult that is this economic system destroyed for eternity.

You are incorrect on all points and I refuse to believe you actually live in Europe. You write like an alien who’s only had access to 4chan and /r/redscarepod

Germany is not like America. Everyone is entitled to generous social benefits.

This is patently false.

Merz is a fascist.

The whiplash of dreaming about resisting Americans in Europe and waking up to read this…

Imagine walking up to a Microsoft engineer and asking them what software their company’s servers run on

It’s not the sort of thing where we have clear statistics on. If we had statistics on the “Gen Z stare” then those would be of limited use due to the lack of historical data which could give us contextualised information in conjunction with contemporary statistics.

There seem to be only anecdotes. The above post marks my first hearing of such a phenomenon and I do therefore think not much of it. I would stipulate that any discussion around the “Gen Z stare” has more in common with folklore retold for nice musings than information which interfaces with the world as it is lived.

Simple answer: no

I never had the option to vote for something that fulfilled my needs even when I was promised that. Tell me again of the power of abstracting needs away into an average of the people. The only power I see in that is keeping more or less the same people at the steering wheel.

A little calibration for your future practice, if anything I am a narcissist.

Well thank you for your therapy session :) I appreciate it

Oh snap, what is this?!?! You psychopath!

your perceived property

You are insinuating that I view people as property. Nice attempt at an inversion. That is not the case, I consider anyone a friend that I can be one with. Friends can only be the people that you sync up with, I’m sure you’d agree.

Have you been a victim of abuse or trauma?

To the untrained reader this is an especially effective rhetoric tactic to attack the person you are talking with. You go show everybody how insane or mentally unstable I am for merely having read those theoreticians of the 19th century and applying the knowledge. Please read what Mr. Marx wrote in the last edition of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (and all of his other works, along with those of Bakhunin, Kropotkin, Lassalle, Luxemburg and so on. Extra points for reading every little critique people had against any theorist).

• To answer your question: I had a loving childhood

I think your values are sociopathic and destructive

I’d like to carefully disagree here. If someone took a friend from me, or abused them terribly without any apology, I would want them to die. I think this is a very empathetic and prosocial reaction which is not at all sociopathic. Think of the time female bonobos brutally killed a member of their cohort for killing a defenseless baby that truly couldn’t act in its own interest.

What is sociopathic however is that we salute them troops because they keep the country safe by squashing alleged threats. Only a minority stands to benefit from what we currently consider good, those who make the world work in concrete terms will never meet those beneficiaries. Workers have their lives exhausted and brains forcefed with shit for a section of people that would forever remain abstract to them. A prosocial reaction by workers would spell Armageddon on the current state of the world, and believe me, that is most likely what you are pointing towards but still are too scared to consider the full implications of.

I reject the notion of objective goods as that is a contradiction in adjectives and neither is it in my specific interests that everyone has food, water, healthcare, education and shelter.

It is exactly so that everyone does not know what “better” and “improvement” means. Someone who is of a more libertarian persuasion because they got lucky with Bitcoin might see talk about improvements and betterment that entails it being impossible to own a private recreational nuke as being inconsistent. Betterment in your case can mean that a small business owner has his property forcibly converted into communally operated MoP. Those that enforce change in their interest might see their concept of humanity warped beyond recognition in a most certainly traumatic process of historical necessity. It’s kind of like saying the immune system is a good thing, for the viruses it’s not and autoimmune reactions are a huge complication to the lives of organisms with immune systems.

With good and bad any further explication stops. Something is good. Okay. Why is it good? Because it is good. It nearly always plays out circularly like this, except if there is a scientific process of criticism that spawns from this line of questioning. The latter almost never occurs. All of morality, and much of ethics is circular.

What if one’s mental health issues come from being poor?

If we optimized for human happiness and quality of life instead of profits we’d have a far better world

Let’s respectfully leave the moralism in the church. We wouldn’t have a “better” world, whatever good and better are, we would have a world (an abstraction, I prefer the term “set of social relations”) that is in the interest of all that work, will work, and have worked to sustain reproduction of life, i.e. worked to continue to live.

Denazification was a formal effort. It was never the spectacular purge people imagine it to have been, nor was it ever meant as such.