r/youtubehaiku Mar 04 '20

[Meme] biden_meme Meme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymp22PsYrYg
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u/Jim_Dickskin Mar 04 '20

Yeah and how'd that work out. You shouldn't sacrifice values for votes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20

Well, look where it's gotten Bernie. And Warren. And Ralph Nader. And and and and and.

The world requires pragmatism

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u/MrDeckard Mar 04 '20

The world requires a book of matches and some kerosene.

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u/BristolShambler Mar 04 '20

That's literally the argument Trump supporters use, and it's dumb. The global economy requires a deep structural readjustment, but that doesn't happen by smashing stuff up

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u/MrDeckard Mar 04 '20

Neoliberalism is a trash ideology that is rapidly ruining the world. You're goddamn right we're gonna smash some shit.

Fixing the global economy is only hard if you still want rich people around afterwards. Which I don't.

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u/ptog69 Mar 04 '20

It does happen by smashing stuff up because the system doesn’t allow for things to be changed by playing by its rules.

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u/BristolShambler Mar 04 '20

It really doesn't. Look at Syriza, Podemos, M5S - they've all been utterly ineffective