#i hate participating in capitalism

[oca-rinn-a]

Hearing people talk about the need to build more affordable housing in the US makes me physically sick with frustration. The "housing shortage" is artificial. We need redistribution, not continued production. I get that the laws aren't there. They should be. I'm so tired of people pretending there aren't dragon-hoards of vacant housing. We don't need to build more, we need a revolution to let people fill in the spaces which already exist in their area. Not letting someone have a house that's been empty for years, just because they don't have money... I can't understand it. It's the most basic thing. Once you have shelter, you can start to come back to yourself enough to get the rest of your life together. *sigh* I understand that building more houses is necessary under this stupid fucking system, because a revolution is much more difficult and slow, and people need housing ASAP. I just get so mad thinking about how there are physically plenty of spots they could be (There are over 20 vacant homes in the US for each homeless person), and people are using profit and capitalist principles as an excuse to keep them from being there.

#housing #housing crisis #rich people are hoarding the houses and everyone is tired of it #the most construction that needs to happen is renovations to maybe split larger vacant homes into multiple units #fuck the market #fuck property tax #sorry i'm so annoyed #iT's CoMpLiCaTeD #only because we're forced to operate under this dumbass system #i hate participating in capitalism #i would rather learn to live without electricity than keep doing this

[shadybug]

i really just do not trust makeship. i feel like people should think more about where their merch is physically being made before hopping on a bandwagon, ESPECIALLY for something as complex and labor-intensive as limited run plushies.

makeship talks a lot about how much they take care of their artists and design/logistics team, but has nothing about their manufacturers on their website. all of their employees are remote, which is something they brag about on their site, so i'm certain they outsource the actual plush creation. given their prices and what i know about plush manufacturing, i don't have much faith that the people actually making the plushies are paid/treated well.

#jabberwockies #makeship #...not sure if i should put this in the tag but. i rly think a lot of people just don't think about it #rather than ignore it out of malice #so maybe this will like. do something #i don't want to be a downer and i'm not judging anyone who's participated in their campaigns in the past #but as an artist and also an amateur plush maker i think the QOL of people is way more important than having a plushie #no matter how unique and personal #also if you have more info i'm happy to hear it. it's just a real hmmmm situation to me #bc even places like mysterious (plushie dreadfuls) make a vague note of where their plushies are made and how the workers are treated #idk man. i hate capitalism

[gentlelarkspur]

Please look upon these hilarious mockup photos I made for the tshirt/sweater designs I'm selling over on Etsy.

Tag yourself, I'm the "no YOU hang up" vampire XD

#The cat print is actually based on my cat hank because I love him #gothic fashion #halloween fashion #mothman #support your local library #capitalism is a death cult #I'm tired of capitalism but I'm forced to participate so I might as well make cool shirts for it #indie artist #support small artists #animal artists #tshirt design #I just started the shop so there's almost no sales but I promise it's trustworthy #I've been in the process of getting this set up for months #anyway I chose the most ridiculous mockup photos I could #probably not great for attracting people on etsy but I think they're funny so oh well #I am struggling #please reblog #I hate asking for reblogs but I don't know how to get my stuff in front of the people that will like it otherwise

[magnuficent76]

So how does Meph go from Jonah to Mephisto?

OFHHHG OC QUESTIONS... ON MY TUMBLR ACCOUNT....

BUT OKAY lemme try to summarize ! Since this is a fan character, there might be bits of game lore that will be harder to explain, but hopefully this makes sense </3 big ramble under cut !

Tl;dr: Jonah was a factory worker who worked really hard and wanted to change the world, and then the world pummeled him to the ground ! He got so mad about this that he decided to become a cyborg about it (joking)

Jonah Caede was an extremely diligent factory worker at Hyperion (tldr of this company: it sucks ass and is lead by a egotistical space fascist) as a gun assembler. He lived an honest life at Pandora the best he could, and was quite the character considering all the horrible conditions he was under: Always very charismatic and positive, a real ray o' sunshine amidst all the violence on the wastelands. He always thought that, through a lot of work and dedication, he could change the place for the better.

Sure it was [extremely, horribly] rough around the edges, but all it needed was some dedication ! He lived in the planet for so long, and he just wants to see it be valued for something. He doesn't exactly like Hyperion's planning, or even respect the CEO very much, but if it helps the place he's willing to put personal bias aside.

[He was blinded with propaganda inside the factory and genuinely believed that this was the best course of action, he didn't know anything about the whole "murdering pretty much every pandoran no matter how innocent because CEO is a Space Fascist" thing]

Jonah had a brother called Archer, who thought he genuinely lost his mind chasing this ridiculous dream of "helping" this nowhere planet. Archer was a business man out in the system, and also extremely rich, so the idea that Jonah genuinely enjoyed living someplace so dangerous and so genuinely putrid made him so mad. He saw his brother get injured like a bajillion times (in which he had to help him pay for the expenses every time because Jonah Would Not be able to afford healthcare otherwise), and then saw him go right back anyway. He thought it was insane, and he tried talking him out of this shitty ideal world he lived in like several times, but it never seemed to work. Jonah was naive in his eyes. A real sheep that prayed for a better world that could not possibly exist. And at some point, they cut ties because of it.

Jonah was upset sure, but he didn't have time to be sad about it. He was working a lot of shifts, rising from rank to rank, promotion to promotion, even if it did kinda fuck him up. It was worth it, because at some point, he was manager of a whole factory. Not just a gun assembler, but a whole robotics chief engineer.

Wasn't easy, obviously– He gave up like half his life just to work– But it paid off well. It was not only safer work, but it paid so much better he could finally afford to relax. It gave him the opportunity to help the people around him like he always wanted too ! The factory got upgraded, wages were raised, there were plans on unionizing the workers, there were even whole city plans ! So, so many plans ! So many lives that he had the opportunity to help !

And then, it all came crashing down.

At some point, Archer came back.

Archer told the Higher Ups everything about Jonah, about his idiocy, how he's insane, how he has all these plans for the planet. To make it "better". Higher Ups obviously didnt like that much, as the plan was never to "make the planet residents' lives better" as much as it was "exploit the planet as hard as possible until it dies". They brought it up to the CEO, and he was MAD about it. So mad in fact he told people to go and kill him ! Ivan got paid a large sum of money, and Jonah was taken out by bandits to be executed badly.

[CW FOR A LOT OF VIOLENCE.]

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The plan was to cut his limbs all off ! And they almost did ! They got his other leg, and the arm, and some fingers. But for some miracle, something happened that allowed him to live. That same power that let him live for that long made it so that somehow, all the people around him dropped dead after one big flash.

Afterwards was a big blur. He doesn't know if he passed out and woke up cloned*, but everything still hurt. It was so unfair, and for what ? All he ever did in his life was try to help people and then he (pretty literally) died trying. Regardless, he made one last effort, and with the little energy he had he got teleported back to his house. And just guess what ? It was also just fucking gone. Blown up, presumably. And with his family nowhere to be found. He found a recording from Mel that was basically detailing how Hyperion showed up and was forcing them to get out, and how she was scared, how their children were scared. He never found out if they died, and just kinda was left there on his own.

So what then ? He didn't have anywhere to go. He couldn't go home, it didn't exist anymore.

[* In this world it's an option for people to get their bodies registered in a machine and then digicloned to their last "stop" basically]

From that day, Jonah kinda died. He didnt get the name "Mephisto" until some time later, but his old self was dead and buried beneath rubble. But at some point, something else came out of that grave and it was out for BLOOD.

Andddd im gonna leave it off there ! That's the story ! Jonah has a terrible no good awful time and then comes back wrong after !!! Yay !!!!!

#magocs #my oc stuff #original art #original character #my writing #oc questions #audience participation #oc: mephisto #< or jonah #cw: violence #can you tell this is about the inherently violent nature of capitalism and how even if you do everything right you cannot– #—help people. even if you try really hard. because the system is oppressive and awful #can you tell I hate capitalism yet #fan character #borderlands oc

[iero]

Already mourning the fact that there is probably no way I’m gonna be able to stay up to blog about the West Coast shows, as an East Coaster, because of work. </3

#personal #I know I keep saying it but there are definitely disadvantages to having to get up for work at 3/4 AM. #And I can't be one of those people who like sets an alarm for the shows LMAO. #Especially starting in Portland... 12:30 AM my time is when those shows start. #Even though I am gonna try and stay up for one of the LA dates and especially the last US date which I think is WWWY Fest right? #I hate having to participate in capitalism. #I'll be able to participate in the aftermath of it all mostly. #I stayed up to do it for the Shrine show and I had to work the next day and I FELT it.

[artemisiatridentata]

single people who hate Valentine’s Day are corny. die in my arms

#like yeah we get it blah blah blah it’s a capitalist holiday #but like you could say that about Christmas too . #OR. hear me out. or you could not participate in capitalism but still show love to the people in your life???? #no one’s holding you at gunpoint and forcing you to be miserable on Valentine’s Day if ur single #personally I felt very loved by my parents today plus I treated myself to a new book & strawberry ice cream after work <3 #and I felt (gasp) HAPPY for all the ppl on my instagram posting their sweethearts #and I felt disgusted when I went to the grocery store the other day and was visually attacked by red balloons and flower arrangements galore #but did I think huh what an awful holiday? no. I thought huh what an awful capitalist spectacle #and then I showed love to my loved ones and wore heart earrings and complimented strangers <3 #anyways. ain’t no reason to spend the day being hateful and bitter lmao #like grow up some of us feel that way about capitalism every day

[clingylilhoneybee]

:(

#my cramps are so bad #I hate it here #wanna be snuggled up in bed #n get lots of cuddles #but nooooooo #gotta participate in capitalism .-.

[dixiedingo]

I'm whispering some laws aren't okay to muta like a banshee to a sailor

#love his content but on god I hate when he goes on his high horse of like #i follow ALL the laws #piracy in late stage capitalism hurts no one eat shit #(respectfully) #cool otherwise but man. piracy is contextual. just like all crime. and in late stage capitalism where all entertainment is behind a paywall #piracy is almost ethical becuade you're creating a level playing field of media participation for the layman yknow #you can participate for free!!! even if you're dirt poor!!!!

[kyriati]

I wonder if it's common knowledge that regular people have investments and are shareholders, and it's not ONLY the vague and mysterious Wealthy who have horses in this race

#idk over the summer i put some of my savings in an investment account #because it wasn't doing anything for me just sitting there #being slowly added to chunk by chunk whenever i got paid #and yknow fuck capitalism fuck the protestant work ethic i hate all of it #but like. i kinda get it now #i'll obvi never understand the truly rich #but i get being anxious because Number Didn't Go Up #wish that wasnt a source of anxiety or almost a necessity to participate in

[i-never-shut-up-ever]

TRAGIC REALIZATION: you have to stop leaving work early at any given chance and also actually pick up more hours in order to make more money. devastating.

#real #work #christmas #i hate capitalism #capitalism #why is life so unfair #i’m so fucking broke #but i don’t want to go to work #everytime my manager is like “okay someone can go home early if they want #i’m literally fucking out the door before they can finish their sentence #and as it turns out that does affect my paycheck #i am so fucking tired #i am literally so silly i shouldn’t be forced to participate in capitalism

[burberryharold]

why is finding a job so difficult ugh

#i hate capitalism #cant i just live my life in peace without participating in society

[apocalypse-shuffle]

HOBIE BROWN | SPIDER-PUNK (atsv)

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“Brand New Metal” (Hobie Brown & Fem!Reader)

| Hobie helps you pierce your nose.

| SFW, piercing description, needles

| Featuring almost the entirety of my own piercing experience. (Pic source: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) movie)

You pull away for what feels like the hundredth time in five minutes and Hobie’s hand moves outta the way even faster, barely a blur of movement before it’s back within his bubble of space.

“C’mon, Mama, I can’t do this if you keep jumpin’ away from me.”

You shift in place where your butt is planted beside the hard water stained sink. Shoulders dropping you rub your hands down your face.

“I know that,” you grumble.

Problem was, knowing barely qualified as a quarter of the issue, and whoever said knowing was half the battle clearly hadn’t been staring down the point of the thickest needle you’d ever seen in person.

You wave your hand to the metal rod with a grimace. “But look at the size of that thing, Hobes. That’s gotta be overkill.”

Hobie’s accent seems to get thicker as he hits you with a deadpan tone, full brows shading his eyes.

“This’s a twenty gauge needle. I’ve seen you ’old your guts inside you and still make time to bash in some fascists, this’s nothin’.”

In response you flip him off but Hobie - perfectly unfazed - only starts twirling the needle around two latex glad fingers.

His own piercings - of which there were plenty - glint off of the dim yellow lighting of his bathroom like a taunt. Or at least it feels like that to you.

“Look, I already told you piercings ain’t some crucial part of the scene, Mama. You don’t have ta do any of this. It’s all just boxes and labels, the lot of it,” Hobie points the blunt side of the needle at you. “And you know I hate labels.”

“Yeah, Hobes, the whole of Camden knows. Besides, I want it cause I think it looks nice not cause of capitalism’s agenda to make us buy shit instead of looking at whatever human right of the day they’re doing away with,” you shrug and Hobie’s mouth twists to the side for a second before he’s shrugging too.

“Great. Point’s been made then. Pick a struggle.”

“Fuck your struggle,” you frown. “It’ll hurt.”

“Hn,” he scoffs and shakes his head. He’s giving you this narrow look like he’d let you keep this back and forth up for the rest of the day without any complaints though. “Fake ones exist for a reason.”

“Fake ones won’t give me the satisfaction of a real piercing though.”

“The lie that we need to feel pain in order to be worthy of livin’ is also capitalistic propaganda, Luv.”

Now it’s your turn to give him a look; face dropping and one brow rising.

Hobie chuckles.

“Fine.” He grins, sharp. “We both know I know exactly what it is you’re sayin’. I just can’t tell if being an accomplice to yer masochism is fair to me.”

“You wouldn’t deny a woman her creative outlet, would you?”

“S’pose not,” Hobie agrees, taking another alcohol swab and disinfecting the needle again for extra measure.

He eyes you up and down and you smile, fluttering your lashes at him and kicking your heels into his cabinet doors. You needed Hobie to be the one to do this. For one, because you were not going to be able to do this yourself, and for two, because he was really the only person you trusted to puncture a literal hole in your body.

You take a deep breath, now if only you could chill the hell out.

Hobie shakes his head, wicks flopping around and knocking into each other languidly.

“Yer one ‘elluva reluctant participant to this for someone agreein’ they’re a masochist,” he nods to the needle while brandishing it like a knife. He knows you're full of shit, but he’s not about to make your decision for you. “You gotta stop flinching every time light just glints off the needle if you really want this.”

You lock eyes with him, sitting up to your full height and trying not to back away from the metal rod. “Maybe I’m just waiting for the adrenaline rush to kick in.”

“Pretty sure that happens after the pain, yeh?

A huff and your fingers curl over the edge of the counter and squeeze.

“Just…get it over with, Hobie.” You take a deep breath. “Please?”

“Alright alright, don’t get your knickers in a twist,” Hobie eases a hand around your jaw and raises the needle. “You know I’ve got you. Now keep still.”

Another deep breath from you and Hobie meets your eye for a second time.

“On three,” he grunts. With your head in his grasp you can’t physically nod so you use your eyes to convey your agreement.

Hobie takes a breath to start the countdown and you inhale with him. You’ve gotten your ears pierced before, you could do this. It was fine. Plus you’ll have a few seconds to prep yourself before he gets to number three. You got this. You both exhale.

“Three,” he states.

Without a second to spare the needle pierces through the squishy cartilage of your nose and your breath catches in your throat. Instantly tears well in your eyes and your face heats up something fierce - like somebody’s holding a blow dryer on the highest setting up to it with zero mercy. Your joints pop, grasp on the counter growing tighter in your attempt to keep yourself from jerking out of Hobie’s hold. The sheer need to not garner an actual injury from the metal is almost solely what keeps you in place.

This wasn’t like an ear piercing at fucking all. Fuck this septum piercing and fuck Hobie too. What the fuck?

“Ow! You motherfucker!”

NOTES: Hope you enjoyed!! I only wrote his accent clearly some of the time; you’ll have to forgive me. I was confusing my damn self, okay? I did my best.

Also what I said about how adrenaline works isn’t really correct so don’t take that as gospel.

Edit: Had this labeled gn!reader on accident at first y’all, that’s my bad. Sorry for any confusion.

btw: if you’d like to leave a comment I’d very much appreciate it. this is a sideblog tho so I won’t respond.

#hobie brown #spider-punk #black!reader #black y/n #hobart brown #hobie brown x black!reader #hobie x black!reader #spider punk x black!reader #black female reader #platonic!black reader #hobie brown & black!reader #hobie x reader #spider punk x reader #hobie brown x reader #hobie brown & reader #across the spiderverse #spider man across the spider verse #atsv imagines #x black!reader #spiderverse imagine

[yourtongzhihazel]

Striking, marching, even parliamentarism (at specific points) are all methods of class struggle whose primary purpose is to build proletariat class consciousness and worker power. However, they are not a substitute for socialism nor a solution to capitalism and they are consistently hampered by the capitalist superstructure. At a certain stage, these methods of class struggle will no longer be effective strategies and must be discarded in favor of other tactics. Revolutions were not won through marches and strikes alone. The culmination of all organization and class struggle is the socialist revolution. Thus, the ultimate goal of building proletariat class consciousness is the formation of a revolutionary party and its associated armed wings in order to pursue the goal of upending the bourgeois state and the construction of a DOTP.

When is parliamentarism a valid strategy? When the voting of a candidate or policy is materially useful for organizing and agitating. For example, labor unions called for a vote against proposition 22 in california in support of "gig economy" workers, i.e., uber or doordash drivers. This law would classify these workers as "contractors" instead of as employees, barring them from receiving benefits and labor protections (the law passed btw, if you're wondering why I hate california). Another example is when my union voted for a local council member in order to block the construction of amazon warehouses in order to make unionization efforts easier. What are the differences between these actions and, say, voting for biden? These were actions which were directed by organized labor who had clear actions and goals which were directly affected by said legislation/policy/politician.

Remember: the ultimate goal of all forms of class struggle is the socialist revolution and the upending of the capitalist mode of production. Strategies and participation in politics should always be in service of this goal. Beware of opportunists, distorters, and renegades who proclaim themselves to be in service of these goals but whose agitation's only material effect is the defanging and neutering of proletariat revolutionary energy. In the short term, our goal is to build worker power through organizing and unionizing and to build class consciousness through agitation and education.

SN: AZ47

#mmp #AZ47

[reasonandempathy]

The weird radical/revolutionary politic larpers on this site are so allergic to political pragmatism I swear lmao. I am definitely left of the Democratic Party and I am certainly voting for Joe Biden in November. Not because I like him (I don’t). He is absolutely horrific on Gaza and that’s only the top (and priority considering there is a genocide going on there) of a list of complaints I have about him. I even voted uncommitted in my state’s presidential primary (the Pennsylvania one; I had to write it in) to protest. However, I’m still thinking pragmatically. Trump has said things that make me credibly think he will be worse on Gaza (insane that being worse on Gaza than Biden is possible but it is unfortunately), and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Project 2025, the potential for him to appoint more deeply conservative justices, more of his aggressively screwing over poor and middle class people with his tax policies. And does anyone else remember the spike in hate crimes after the race was called for him in 2016? Before he was even inaugurated? Whether people vote or not in November we will still have to deal with one of these two men in office come January unless all of the internet ancom larpers overthrow the government by then (doubt), so I’d rather deal with the one who will be marginally less bad and who didn’t try to overthrow the government. Can’t have your revolution if nobody’s alive cause you kept pushing off politically participating because there was no perfect option. 👍

Political pragmatist anon, sorry for ranting in your askbox but I feel like I lose brain cells watching these people talk. The other day I saw someone say Biden is bad because Roe v. Wade fell under his administration… even though the reason for that was Trump appointed justices. 💀 (2/2)

Fucking insane. Sincerely.

It's a completely, flatly binary choice for anyone with a brain stem and sincerity. It's distilled into the two below images:

Where all major third party candidates are even on the ballot

How many electoral votes the largest of those (green party, a.k.a. Jill Stein) would win if they won every single state they're on the ballot for.

They are literally, legally, incapable of winning the election. They are not on enough state ballots to win and Jill Stein would need to somehow win California and Texas to even "win" all the states they're on the ballot for. Which, again, would still not be enough to win the presidency and throw it to the currently existing Republican House of Representatives. Which would put Trump in office.

It's that straightforward. That simple. That BLARINGLY obvious to literally everyone except these people.

On the one hand you have:

Significant and continuous support for Israel and it's genocide

Record levels of pardons for low-level drug offenses

the gearing up of the strongest anti-trust regime since the early 20th century

the most aggressive NLRB I've seen in my lifetime, with massive wins and institutional changes to help workers

Including getting Rail strike workers a week of sick-leave that gets paid out at the end of the year, which is better than NYC and LA sick leave laws

Millions of people (not enough) getting student debt forgiveness

Some trillion dollars (not enough)of investment in renewable resources and infrastructure

Proposed taxes on unrealized capital gains (a.k.a. how billionaires never have any money but can still buy Kentucky, Iowa, and Twitter)

Effectively an end to overdraft fees

The explicit support of leftist world leaders like Lula de Silva. Who he has explicitly worked with to expand worker rights in South America.

Has capped (some, not enough, only a tiny amount really but it's something) some drug prices, including Insulin.

Reduced disability discrimination in medical treatment

Billions in additional national pre-k funding

Ending federal use of private prisons

Pushing bills to raise Social Security tax thresholds higher to help secure the General Fund

Increasing SSI benefits

and more

vs

Said Israel should just nuke Gaza and "get it over with"

Personally takes pride in and credit for getting Roe v Wade overturned

Is arguing in court that the President should be allowed to assassinate political rivals

Muslim Ban Bullshit, insistently

Actively damages our global standing and diplomatic efforts just by getting obsessed with having a Big Button

Implemented massive tax cuts on ich people, tax hikes on middle class and poor people, and actively wants to do it again

"Only wants to be a dictator for a little bit, guys, what's the big deal"

Is loudly publicly arguing that the US shouldn't honor its military alliances after-the-fact

Tore up an effective and substantial anti-nuclear-proliferation treaty with Iran

Had a DoEd that actively just refused to process student debt forgiveness applications that have been the law of the land for decades now

Has a long record of actively curtailing and weakening the NLRB and labor movement, including allowing managers to retaliate against workers, weakened workplace accommodation requirements for disabled people, and more

Rubber stamped a number of massive mergers building larger, more powerful top companies and increasing monopolistic practices

Fucking COVID Bullshit and hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths

Openly supporting fascists and wannabe-bootlicks ("Very fine people" being only the beginning of it

It's really not fucking close.

#biden #trump #gaza #palestine #politics #original content #union rights #realism #2024 election #jill stein #rfk jr #cornell west

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

i just really hate trends man like y'all don't have brains that aren't just the pure satisfaction of participating in capitalism like christ achieve some consciousness

#capitalism #criaturas #pp #animal abuse

[eastgaysian]

okay here's one post i have to make. Finally racism confirmed real in succession. other people have talked about this before but it is a huge blind spot of the show not to acknowledge the intersection between racism and capitalism, and the excuse that the characters are the 1% and the 1% are vastly white is pretty weak. the fact that the show sidelines its existing characters of color while every now and then broadly gesturing towards race makes this worse, especially as the show more directly focuses on fascism and just Doesn't bring race into it. like i don't even think race is totally absent as a concern of the writers but it's clearly not a priority. i think a lot about how mo's widow is a filipino woman

anyway. ken and rava's conversation in this sense doesn't really qualify as, like, revolutionary in terms of succession's commentary on race esp since it's a discussion between two white parents about their brown daughter without her present. the point of interest to me really is that kendall completely fails to recognize racism as a systemic issue, much less that he works for and is trying to sustain a company that actively works to perpetuate that hegemony. his questions are why was sophie on the street? why wasn't rava there? in the same episode where he calls matsson homophobic for saying the numbers are gay. socially aware king

it's not particularly revelatory to say that a rich white man doesn't grasp the concept of systemic racism LOL but i do think it's more than that for kendall, and i also think this trait is something his siblings don't share. it's like how he doesn't realize he's in a position of power over anna and she was pressured into attending the recny with him, and his adoption of a faux-feminist stance in s3 while continuing to treat women like shit. kendall's whole concept of Everything, including systemic social issues, goes back to logan. there's no system outside of dad. the doj doesn't find the cruises evidence compelling? that's because they're scared of logan. logan's the source of the evil in the world, therefore opposing him is inherently progressive, leaving kendall with even less of a coherent moral framework after his death. and he's completely unable to process the idea that he could be participating in and benefiting from the greater racist or sexist system, because that's fundamentally incompatible with his logan-based idea of his own identity.

i don't think roman or shiv or even connor share this particular nearsightedness. roman 'we do hate speech and roller coasters' roy knows what's going on but he doesn't really care and he doesn't believe it can be changed (or, maybe more accurately, that there's any point in trying). he doesn't buy into fascism on the ideological level, exactly, but the spectacle appeals to him and he does believe it's profitable to align with it, so he's perfectly happy to do so. i think he's the most similar to logan in this regard. and shiv and connor have actual political ideologies, even if they're far from being meaningfully opposed to fascism, which requires a base awareness of the fact that We Live In A Society and That Society Has Systems In It. for kendall it really boils down to logan and logan alone

#chalkboard