You know what? Fuck this. I'm so godamn sick of seeing people say "we let this happen" as if we can just suddenly not let it happen. This happens because our current society is just a rebranding of feudalism, and to not give the rich their due on responsibility is downright wrong. We did not let shit happen, WE attempted to survive and got fucked, and continued to get fucked. I've seen this enough times now that everyone one of you reading this better expect to read it again the next time you or I see anything remotely close to "WE lET ThIS HapPen"
I want to put this edit here because I didn't expect your comment to get nuked after mine, and because you do raise a lot of good and productive points. I was drunk when I wrote this and it came with a lot of anger that I should have held back. I just think you should reevaluate the first part, other than that, you're spot on.
Have you seen what happens when people try to change this? I really don't understand how you can hand me the list of reasons why this isn't the case, then turn around and say it is.
The rich have massive wings of propaganda, the rich have the police to beat the fuck out of us for protesting, the rich have access to union busting companies, the rich live in a different world when it comes to access and laws, the rich can buy lobbying.
For us, money is a tool to survive, and we work tirelessly for it. For the rich, money is a tool to protect their control, and they do not work for it. They get to use their time to either relax or to plot new ways to fuck us. So again, no we did not let this happen.
It's easy to discount it that way but the blame is way more on the rich than it is on the other 99%, and if you can't see that it means you either are trolling, haven't looked, or are lying.
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This movie is one of my favorites because I feel Everytime I watch it, there’s a new corner of society that can be picked a part that isn’t easily noticed the first go around.
'There Has to Be a Fight': How Workers Can Start Winning the Class War in 2024 and Beyond ( www.commondreams.org )
The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states ( fortune.com )
Does anyone know about fluid dynamics?
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Never mind the incels – Fight Club is still a vital film about masculinity ( www.independent.co.uk )
A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? ( lemmy.world )
Fierce ( startrek.website )
Boop ( i.imgflip.com )