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[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

I don't know. My elderly neighbor might be poor like me but his giant fucking Trump flag kind of makes me hope he dies because of Trump's policies, as well as miserable and alone.

I'll admit that's pure irrational spite politics. But the irrationality doesn't change how completely disinterested I am in joining forces with him against billionaires if he realizes he was wrong.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] itspatato@lemm.ee 18 points 17 hours ago

This is photoshopped… the picture was with mitt Romney and trump with his shiteating grin.. why the edit?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think "the left" is??

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'd love to see a poll of how people in the USA would answer that question.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Leftism is just a fat woman with pink hair yelling at me for no reason.

I'm not a Leftist, I'm a Pan-sexual Afro-Future Longtermist Egalitarian Social Radical Centrist With Kropotkin Characteristics. I believe in a single worker owned commune unfettered by the cloistered norms of a 50s era revanchist white colonialist culture. But also I reserve the right to think white women with pink hair are shrill and want nothing to do with them. That's why I voted for Trump.

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

As I live alone and pay $500 a month just to be able to see a doctor, I am more and more enraged yet disillusioned the older I get. This is not living—this is fascistic technofeudalism.

[–] r0bi@infosec.pub 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Messaging aside, be aware that this photo is edited, Musk wasn't originally in it.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Wasn't it Ted Cruz originally?

EDIT: ah it was Mitt Romney.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The only war is a class war.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

and what tool do we fight wars with?

guns.

[–] Sk3rgi0@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The only tragedy is our lives.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Speak for yourself.

[–] pcalau12i@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago

"this isn't right vs left, this is right vs left"

uh... okay?

[–] FinalEyes@lemm.ee 9 points 19 hours ago

No, this is Good vs Evil. Right vs Wrong. Truth vs Deception. But yeah, Billionaires are the dark half of those and develop extreme sociopathic megalomaniacal malignant narcissism apparently. How else can we explain it?

[–] saaaaagard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What these dumbasses don't realize is that they do rely on these things - every minimum or even low wage worker absolutely needs these services to make ends meet. These people aren't just evil, they're stupid.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] xorollo@leminal.space 3 points 18 hours ago

Medicare can't help a guillotine

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck getting partisans to buy into this meme, but it is correct.

[–] henry1917@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Left doesn't mean the democrats.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fight a class war, not a culture war.

And you, who thinks you are in the “upper class” by making 500k a year. You’re not, you are among the poor.

We fight the people who own billions, not you.

[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

500k a year is a doctor or something. Someone who actually contributes to society. That's someone who should be rich because of how hard they worked to get there plus how important they are to our society. Elon musk shouldn't get paid a fucking dime.

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[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean technically how they make that 500k matters. If it's all just being a landlord we are definitely fighting them too.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We'll burn that bridge when we get to it. Let's handle the people owning a thousand homes first. Then move on the ones who own a dozen or less.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I'd disagree. Though I understand where you are coming from. I'm not saying behead the petty landlords first. However, often times the easiest way to fuel class consciousness is on these easier fights. Obviously a mom and pop single property landlord isn't making 500k a year I'm not talking about grandmas that have a property as their retirement savings.

But these small petty bourgeoisie (think the dude on tiktok telling people how to make passive income) of 10-100 tenants are often the ripe conditions for the creation of tenants unions which can fuel class consciousness. They lack the power of large capital and the power of state violence in the same way. I think material support to these areas absolutely helps the working class.

But we might just be disagreeing on definitions here.

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