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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup things continue to get significantly worse, and I’m told one of the same two things

1.) “I’m sure children who died in factories during the Industrial Revolution would agree with you”

2.) “Unfortunately that’s just how the world is. I was like you once”

I really don’t know how else to say it. Like I can acknowledge the fact that I’m privileged and want to use my privilege to try and do something about the flagrant injustices around, but that comment is usually left with a snide response as well.

I keep shouting from the fucking mountain tops that the only way to make change is to build solidarity in your local communities, but fucking DNC plants are dropped from the sky it seems telling people to invest that energy into calling their representatives and VOTING. Which has yet to do jack shit materially

And surprise surprise. The same ghoulish developers and builders keep coming in to gentrify everything in fucking sight, corporations start outsourcing factory jobs leaving hundreds unemployed, rent increases astronomically all while millions of people are fixated on an election that is effectively kayfab

When you think of it like this, the DNC is so so fucking evil. They have a robust network of organizations that they could theoretically use to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. But of course they fucking don’t, too busy posting about how the latest ruling or whatever has made them sad.

They’re going to do such a shocked-pikachu when trump 2.0 is elected and opine about “the state of our country” or some shit while completely ignoring their role in all of this.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The children who died in factories in the 19th century did fucking agree with me we have the fucking letters and they think August Willich was a lib.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And Willich challenged Marx to a dual for not being radical enough, so that's really saying something

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everyone ships Marx/Engles but no one reads the deep lore of 1848 and ships Engles/Willich

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My inner lib wants you to know that two ships can be true at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

3 actually. Marx started a slanderous rumour that Willich was gay (possibly he was bi, it's hard to say) because he suspected he was making moves on Jenny.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bring this shit back. Cornel West needs to fist fight Biden immediately

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The finger on the monkey paw curls and we see Cornel West on stage with Joe Biden exchanging fist bumps as he endorses him as the real Bernie sanders progressive

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

choosing to read this as Joe endorsing Cornel

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As his new vice-president candidate glee

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

lmao a second Joe Biden VP tenure after being President would be so funny

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

blob-no-thoughts I'll leave you in peace