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And no, the 6.134258 shares of Apple in your 401K don't make you an owner, lol.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Yup. It's not about the "gays vs the straights" or the "left vs the right" or the Romulans vs The Federation. It's about the rich vs everybody else. It's a class war. It always has been and the rich use the media they own to make you think it's a culture war. To keep you fighting with other so you won't figure out where the REAL source of your pain comes from.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

bourgeoisie vs proletariat

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, those are some of the words the owners convinced the masses are SCAWY and EVIL, and only spoken by people that want to take your money when you're a millionaire/billionaire one day.

Because clearly if you succeed, you would never want to have some of your success taxed to repair/improve the commons like roads, schools, and HEALTHCARE of the society that provided the conditions for your astronomical success in the first place.

That would be ridiculous. How can you expect to buy a pet mega yacht to keep your first mega yacht company, while buying an island, while buying up smalltime entrepreneurs that would compete with you, while space touristing, while building your luxury climate change bunker compound if you can't suck entire nations dry?!

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's still very important to recognize the impacts of racism, sexism, homophobia, and more. White supremacy, cishet supremacy, and patriarchy are additional axes by which the overall contradiction of bourgeois vs proletarian is waged. You can't erase that. You have to acknowledge it within the broader class war. Historically, class war has been waged the fiercest by those most marginalized by it, uniting and making significant social progress is necessary for Socialism.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

And no, the 6.134258 shares of Apple in your 401K don't make you an owner, lol.

Thank you for saying this. It's very frustrating when people act like having retirement savings makes you like billionaires.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So left. That's what leftism is.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

While globally true, it isn't what the United States heavy handed Democrat party is at all. They work with Republicans to deny class struggle exists while they bicker on social issue symptoms. A for profit media amplified left/right freak show designed to keep us distracted and hating each other over relatively petty social issues so the owners can bleed us dry in peace. They've made us so divided on so many lines we can barely see straight, all to facilitate profit/growth/metastasis at all other expense.

The handful of spoiler candidates the DNC despises and undermines more than Republicans notwithstanding, the owner's succeeded in legalizing political bribery in the US, and thus we have an economically right-wing neoliberal party and a "put undesirables in concentration camps" party to the right of them.

A leftist movement either needs to steal the DNC infrastructure out from under them and force the neoliberals out as Trump did with the GOP by out-hating them, or we need to somehow make a third party work.

Because the DNC and the RNC are high on Corporate bribe money. Their values align more with one another than their voters. They will do all they can to undermine this movement, and will cooperate on that like peas and carrots.

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 (Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-and-nancy-pelosi (Nancy Pelosi 'Making Calls' to Undermine AOC's Bid for Top Oversight Role)

Alternatively, we can just continue to be comfortable having our children murdered solely to increase quarterly earnings of cheering profiteers that would consider your dead child less than human if they bothered to think about them at all, which they wouldn't.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

"Democrat" is not synonymous with Left. Most Democrats aren't leftists

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

The US democrats are a far right party. The US doesn't allow any left-wing party to reach the public sphere, because its far right country.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

While globally true, it isn’t what the United States heavy handed Democrat party is at all.

??? Democrat party was traditionally center-right and now is far-right