Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
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This is my theory, europe saw the devastation of ww2, they saw how it killed and maimed millions of people of all classes, and really by necessity they built a progressive society out of the ashes. They needed universal healthcare because everyone's job got bombed, they needed workers rights to vacation because there weren't enough regular jobs for people.
US never had that, we went from wild west to wealthiest country in the world with little transition and the same wild west economics of 150 years ago still runs the country today.
The shitty thing is we actually were on the path to being on par with European post war countries when it comes universal healthcare. It’s just that anytime FDR or Truman tried to implement it, universal healthcare got shot down by greedy and racist politicians. We also used to have a much more inclusive and well funded welfare state and banking/investing regulations, but Republicans over the last 50 years voted to get rid of them.