• jadedctrl@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I reckon that people become leftists out of compassion, but the dehumanizing rhetoric seems cool and edgy; so they slide into it, thinking it’s OK.

    Hate systems, not people. Don’t eat the rich, eat their money.

    • Zelsabriel@beehaw.org
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      I think that years of struggle just to meet basic needs leads to dangerous anger, resentment, and bitterness. Tbh billionaires are the ones who have rigged the system against us with decades of lobbying and most, if not all of them, would gladly see us dead in a cost benefit analysis if it gained them profit, so I have no problem with people taking pleasure in their misfortune. They made their choices and current public opinion is the consequence of that. No one gets to and stays at billionaire status off of pure merit alone…

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      Systems exist because people willfully build and maintain them. Extreme wealth inequality is not the result of an accident. It is very much by design.