it's a religion

>>89823
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politics is like a sports game for most people, if you actually think they put any effort into thinking through their positions youre wrong. they just want to see their team win, its tribalism and nothing else. and most effort you put into thinking about this stuff will go to waste anyway because you have very little power but people still act like what they think matters, it does but not nearly as much as they think it does. they just dont have anything to do in life and focus on most boring and dead end stuff to spend their time on its sad

>people being silly on the internet
>how could this be happening??

why call it libpol? i hate shitlibs

>>103051
sorry

lemme try to break the chain of thinking down:

>>106544
aw man i didn't realize it'd cut off lol. anyway:
>almost every country in the world is oriented around market economics
>market failures happen all the time, sometimes catastrophically
>whether or not you perceive the laws of market economics specifically as basically natural or not determines whether you'll view these as symptoms of an inherent imperfection in the way the world works or an inherent imperfection in the way market economies specifically work (not mutually exclusive but you get the drift)
>market economies also seem to have a tendency to bifurcate between people who optimize by selling their labor power and people who optimize by hiring others' labor power and the latter seem to, in general, get hit less hard by, and often even gain from, market failures
>this is the basic insight Karl Marx made
>we might conclude from this that the latter group are the primary beneficiaries of market economies, and that the laws of market economics are set up primarily to benefit them
>therefore action to take economic power away from said group and putting it in the hands of the group who sell their labor power is necessary to advance that group's interests
>Morpheus what if i told you some countries have already done that.jpg
>mainstream press and scholarship seems especially biased against these countries
>given that press and scholarship in most countries are subsidized by the labor power-buying group it is intrinsically plausible that these biases are primarily the result of said group's self-interest and only secondarily because of any failures of those countries
>given that those countries are now led by the labor power-selling group we should look to them for leadership
this is more a steelman of the rationale that tankies use than an examination of the psychology that goes into it (in Western countries it's almost entirely social proof and depression lol), i didn't even get into the Third Worldism that's central to most tankies' understanding of the world

>>106544
Let's think step by step.

But wait,

The tankies are the least threatening thing to us, op

>>89823
you’re not allowed to solve your problems might as well have a cool aesthetic