Jon Stewart unironically tells Tucker Carlson that the reason why the US can’t have clean functioning subways or cheap grocery prices like they do in Moscow is “the literal price of freedom”
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
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Democrats sounding like 2000s republicans over there. “You want life to NOT be a luxury, what are we a bunch of freedom-hating Asians!?”
As an aside, I kind of need to wonder what people who wrote and reviewed that line actually imagine the “freedom” in question is when it is set against the many having a materially better life (which is a little bit of an exaggeration, but Stewart doesn’t substantially challenge Tucker’s claim there either). Like, they never specified what Navalny was killed for beside merely being “opposition” and some insinuation of him being against the invasion, so is their line “We need shitty conditions so we can have the right to protest war and be ignored by our government rather than killed”? It’s very difficult to make a coherent argument out of what they are saying even if you grant them a bunch of their blatantly false premises.
In the 2000s, at the very least Republicans would say that ‘freedom’ is for the bourgeoisie. Affordable housing = telling porky what to do = bad.
But here, it inadvertently plays into chuds trying to blame California’s woes on insufficient racism or god economically punishing them for being too LGBT friendly. They’re saying that civil rights makes things expensive.
Yeah I was so confused when I first heard this. And then I thought about it and it’s like, this whole statement is shoddily built on anti-Russia vibes.
Paraphrasing “The civilizational (???) battle was between capitalism and communism after WWII. Russia was the enemy.” A revisionist statement considering the US sent forces right after WWI in an attempt to put down the Bolsheviks.
Then it bleeds into some bizarre statement that Tucker and other right wingers think that the systems in athe US and Russia are the same… it’s because they are! Both are capitalist states. Liberals love to divorce from reality and act like an authoritarian country can’t be a capitalist country. I guess it’s another demonstration why the term is just a neoliberal invention to make it seem like the baddies are really different from the good ol’ US of A.
