because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks
Not just that they suck, that the other side are monsters wanting to corrupt them.
Gritty agrees.
Ranger fan, but I’d follow Gritty into the war against the rich.
Bruins fan, so would I. Hell I even own a Flyers jersey, there’re just too cool, and I’ll wear it into battle with him.
Not a hockey fan at all and so would I 🫡✊️
They would taste horribly. Let’s just decapitate them and use as compost. Then they would be of some actual use.
The French did that just fine. Look at where they are today.
The wealth inequality in America today is worse than France pre-revolution.
We are long overdue, bring out the guillotines
Fact check? Really curious if this is true
It should about right, but the French revolution was generally speaking not about income inequality. The women’s march on Versailles is the most economic influenced part of the revolution that I can think of. That was primarily about not having enough food.
The parts of the revolution that we like to think of as being “the” revolution were mostly about getting basic human rights. The two most important treaties were “the rights of man” which is about… well, the rights of man, and “what is the third estate” which is about the importance of the peasant classes to the nation and their lack of political power in relation to it.
As for the major events: The storming of the Bastille was about political prisoners (ironically there were none in the Bastille at the time). The tennis court oath was about voting by head rather than by acre. The sans culottes, the girondins, and the mountain were all about giving the people more of a voice. The murder of Louie was a direct response to the flight to varennes, and the terror was just the mountain losing it’s grasp on political control and doing whatever it took to keep it. Even the guillotine itself was designed to give peasant criminals a clean death. Before it was invented nobles would be put to the sword but peasants would be hanged.
Everything I’ve just said is personal opinion, but my source for all of it is season 3 of Revolutions by Mike Duncan
Well thanks for all this great info! Interesting how most things in history we boil down too simple things.
Because everyone is just hoping to someday becoming rich and joining the upper class.
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it
You go first, we’ll follow yeah?
… Surely, sooner or later, it will occur to me to do it?
Literally the point of the quote…
George Orwell: Hey Karl can I copy your homework?
Karl Marx: Sure just change it enough so it doesn’t look like you copied it.
George Orwell writing 1984:
more like Orwell and Yevgeni Zamyatin
I didn’t know that Karl Marx invented the concept of revolution, neat!
Because they’re too busy hating each other over whose great grandparents oppressed who or who the other voted for.
So the other side votes for politicians who directly make the rich richer, and you think we should stop bickering so that they’ll join us in eating the rich? Something tells me this plan might hit a snag.
Sorry, you think both sides don’t make the rich richer?? Lol, at least one side is honest about it. Lots of conservatives are blue-collar workers. Youre basically saying you refuse to join up because they won’t vote for making the rich richer they way you prefer.
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.
Peasant uprisings are so much work though 😩
Because they can’t organize in the right way
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We tried that, but money seems to prefer the company of other money, and is better at organizing than people.
Sounds like the money should be eaten
“You first. (then I’ll see if it snowballs).”
Mmmm rich people
Maybe they’re saving it for sweeps.
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
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?
Tough ass meat ngl
Because few break the conditioning imposed upon them to act. Those that do rarely are able to unite others.
