• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    It’s not about the gays vs straights or blacks vs whites or the Romulans vs The Federation. It’s about the billionaires vs everybody else. It’s a class war. It aways has been. And life is never going to improve for most of us until we figure out where the REAL source of our pain comes from. Like George Carlin once said:

    “That’s the way the ruling class works in any society. They keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money.”

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      10 months ago

      I think, on average, we’re too dumb as a species to keep it in mind. I would hate to say we deserve the system we’ve got, but here we are.

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      10 months ago

      Why do you stop at billionaires, and not include the politicians and the people that hold power?

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        10 months ago

        Politicians are part of the state, which is shaped by the economic system which, in most of the world, is currently capitalism.

        The root of the problem is class society and the capitalist system where the ruling class are the capitalists. So it doesn’t really matter who the politicians are until the economic system, and thus the ruling class, are changed, which can only happen by organizing outside the capitalist political system whose only purpose is to protect capital.

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      10 months ago

      And life is never going to improve for most of us until we figure out where the REAL source of our pain comes from

      Yeah! Consensus reality!