[identical castles and ships are facing eachother, one side with EU colors, the other side with USA colors]

[EU side]

  • OUR BLESSED EUROPEAN UNION - Our enlightened union
  • Our glorious lobbying democracy
  • Our noble asymmetric trade deals
  • Our heroic Frontex

[USA side] THEIR BACKWARDS UNITED STATES

  • Their barbarous federation
  • Their wicked technofeudal oligarchy
  • Their primitive imperialism
  • Their brutish ICE

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  • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    2 months ago

    I can’t even think of a cynical support remark for this, your comment took me on an emotional rollercoaster first of despair and emptiness that then gradually turned into a cold, burning hatred…

    It’s an accurate write-up that takes you back to the bleak, cold truth about capitalism:

    The Deserter: The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world… (he’s silent for a second) You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know.
    You: What?
    The Deserter: That the bourgeois are not human.

    (If it’s inappropriate to quote Disco Elysium here, please tell me)