h.t. to “Sir George” @ The Anti-idiotarian Rottweiler
Gotta love ’em. Pseudo-liberals, that is. Easy pickings. See this article at The Telegraph. MQ is the lede:
Wristbands sold to raise money for a campaign against world poverty are made in Chinese sweatshops in “slave labour” conditions…
heh
The thing is, this is just the sort of empty-headed stuff that passes for “good ideas” among the Fantasist Class that thinks themselves “progressive” or “liberal” when in fact they are nothing of the sort. All the Fantasist Class consists of are these sub-classes:
1.) Reactionaries who believe the failures of liberalism can be fixed if they just keep banging their heads against the wall. (Oh, and getting more money to make the wall stronger and higher… )
2.) “Reality-based” idealists whose only connection to reality is that it supports them in much the way that alchoholics are frequently supported in their addiction by co-dependants.
3.) The plantation slaves, that is, those dependant upon the handouts of goods and services stolen from Empiricists and from Fantasist dupes.
4.) The cynical manipulators of #s 1, 2 and 3. This is the political class that derives its status, power and wealth from using the first three classes to steal wealth from those who produce it to buy influence with #s 1, 2, and 3.
It’s about time for the grownups in the Empiricist Class to just say No. No more money. No more buying of influence with the reactionaries, deluded idealists or plantation slaves.
Just Say No.
(And if they don’t get the message at the polls, then maybe it’s time for a Tea Party.)
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