It drives me crazy cause operating within the system isn’t going to get you power either!! Look at allowable contours of Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Iran right fucking now - at one end genocide but feel bad to the other genocide by don’t feel bad. And the campus protestors, bless them, are mocked for “critiquing power” instead of trying to seize this rickety ass system that a thousand ways of moulding or shuddering YOU if you try to enter and compete within it.

It’s such a brainless take that’s unempathetic at its core. It dresses up agonised cries of anguish as crocodile tears to then conclude that all is fine, no thought needed.

just a reskin of the critical of capitalism while existing under capitalism meme

This quote either aged poorly or very poorly, and we’ll find out which in a couple weeks