• @[email protected]
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      Because the owning class works tirelessly to keep segments of the working class fighting against each other, in America our important arguments are over whether a green m&m is sexy or why does the potato head toy have to have a gender.

      It’s absolutely ridiculous…

    • @[email protected]
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      Because the organizer most of the time will themselves be the elite class. And if not them, the next generation will

      • @[email protected]
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        I remember in the 80s how often the FBI got in shit by sending in agents under cover to flirt and bang all the chicks. Many got pregnant. The goal was to get information at the start. But eventually turned into subterfuge of the groups to direct them to do such radical shit they couldn’t grow and become actual threats. I can’t imagine the shit they get up to now. I assume any group big enough to get attention isn’t natural

  • Jo Miran
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    I wouldn’t want to eat beef from a cow treated with steroids or one with mad cow disease or an old cow minutes from death, so why would I want to eat Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Warren Buffett?

    • LinkOpensChest.wav
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      What? No lol

      There are entire societies and movements based on not letting this happen. Sounds like projection

      • Dadd Volante
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        There are PLENTY of dumb Muricans who make less than 30k a year who think their big break is coming.

        Television and radio have been fueling American “exceptionalism” for so many decades that many DO believe that they will join the ranks of the billionaire class.

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          I dont think this but I know if I do get one, I’ll just get a financial advisor to help manage it. Aside from that my life would stay the same as I don’t want family and friends hounding me for cash. I am happy with my situation but would like to get a family of my own sometime and somehow get a place for us to live in. I just want to be financially responsible and be paid a liveable salary amount

        • Night Monkey
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          Guess I’m that dumb American. Made between 30 and 50k my whole life and I have a fully paid off house and 4 paid off vehicles on an acre of land in the country. And I’m in my early 40s. Life is good. Being rich and being wealthy are two different things. I consider myself wealthy.

        • @[email protected]
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          On a personal note, I don’t know anyone who has ever expressed this, and I’m getting up there in age.

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              I think the take away is that the younger generations no longer believe this. It’s a dying sentiment.

  • Cosmic Cleric
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    Instead of subtly advocating for violence, maybe we should advocate for the election of persons who will make laws that will protect those who labor, as well as advocate for stronger unions.

    I think the world has enough violence going on right now, that we don’t need to advocate for more.

    Edit: Just realized which community (ty ‘no banana’) I was posting my comment to.

    So, never mind, I guess. /shrug

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      that’s not working out. time for a new plan… i’m not saying it has to be violence. and i’ll keep voting. But it’s getting to the point where just voting isn’t enough cause they keep changing the rules… again, doesn’t have to be violence. But i’m just saying, i don’t know what other option there is. Fuck the rich. I’m not gonna eat em, but i’ll be happy to watch others do it.

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        that’s not working out. time for a new plan… i’m not saying it has to be violence. and i’ll keep voting. But it’s getting to the point where just voting isn’t enough cause they keep changing the rules… again, doesn’t have to be violence.

        All shitposting aside, honestly what’s needed is for all of us ‘peasants’ to track the votes of each elected representative, via the Congress app or otherwise, and then network together via the Internet whenever any of them are running for office; to compare notes. Something like an NRA rating system for gun owners, etc.

        Because when it comes down to it, a lot of time people are either lazy or don’t have the time to properly investigate the people they’re voting for, and end up voting on a whim or a feeling.

        • @[email protected]
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          Most people seem to vote on “the other side is worse”. Elected officials are alright I guess, but it would be nice to be able to have your own say in complex issues you feel strongly about rather than letting some pampered career politician make decisions that will never effect them.

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            Elected officials are alright I guess, but it would be nice to be able to have your own say in complex issues you feel strongly about rather than letting some pampered career politician make decisions that will never effect them.

            Fair enough. But if you feel they are ineffective and or pampered, then you vote them out.

            If you can’t vote them out, if the majority is disagreeing with you, then you have to look into the reasons as to why.

            Most people seem to vote on “the other side is worse”.

            When you see them cutting funds on education, you have to think not just how that affects everyone in that moment, but what does that do to the next generation, when they grow up and become voters that just vote the other side is worse.

            I truly get the frustration of feeling held hostage by the popular mindset, but we live in a society where we all get a voice, and I don’t think we have figured out a way of telling someone they’re being nonsensical with their vote and ask them to reconsider, without them getting emotional and overly combative about it. That’s a hard nut to crack.

            And now these days we have to also fight bots and shills who are purposely being intellectually dishonest to sway thinking to shape a narrative that is positive to just their interests, and not to argue to a solution that is just for all.

            Without truth, the center does not hold.

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              That’s not how a two party system works though, is it?

              You choose between “more of the same” or “something horrendous”. Otherwise you might as well have thrown your vote away.

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                That’s not how a two party system works though, is it?

                Depends on which of many parties you are speaking of.

    • @[email protected]
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      no long ago my country got into a plebiscite, the 1% richer only needed to introduce fear using lies and falacies to break it down (owners of the newspaper). They told people this: with the new text anyone could lost his houses, it will change the flag, the national anthem and a lot of nonsense that never was written on the new text. Now almost sure we’re coming back to the old one. And yeah people tried to fight back the poison, but didn’t work.

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    For the same reason that some foreign workers are able to immigrate to a country and are so successful they end up in the 0.1%

  • @[email protected]
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    because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks

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      It’s actually fairly evident they’ve convinced both halves of the middle/working class that the other half has it out for them.

  • @[email protected]
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    It always bothers me on labor day when I see stores open. I work at a desk 4 out of 5 days a week that is the extent of my “labor” and yet I get a day off.

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    Love a good shit post, lol. And it actually gets me thinking how something like 70% the world’s wealth is held in the top 10% 🍽️ 🤤

    Of course you need to make a monumental amount of money compared to the rest of the world, so we’re willing to make that sacrifice! Just 10% of people in the world! 😂 I think it’s $32k USD a year salary to be in the global top 10% of earners. And oh… $60k USD to be in the top 1%

    So I’m kinda curious, OP, you on the menu?

    Note this calculator is from 2019, so “deflate” accordingly

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      Ooh that’s cool.

      I can save four lives per year for only 13k USD? Thats amazing. Thats actually slightly less than the cost of an average uncomplicated vaginal birth in the US.

      Global wealth disparity will never be solved until we either achieve post-scarcity or a workable one-word government that’s not based on capitalism. There’s too much old word racism, colonialism, and natural resources aren’t equally divided. As a result there will always be global wealth inequality. We literally have to advance as a species.

  • Armok: God of Blood
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    Because you, dear reader, probably can’t even pull together the motivation to make a sandwich most of the time, let alone take up arms and put yourself in harm’s way.