• the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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    10 months ago

    How can a person read this thing and not immediately know in their bones the author is lying to them? Is being an average American liberal like being a beaten and emotionally abused spouse? How else could one make their way through that venomous gaslighting "article"?

    • duderium [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Liberals benefit from this shitty economy. That’s why they believe in it.

      I mean, I call myself a Marxist, but I am also benefiting immensely from this economy right now because, while I despise capitalism and colonialism and imperialism and patriarchy, I’m not really doing anything about it. If these systems weren’t working so well for me (if, for instance, it became impossible for me to get food), I would be a lot more inclined to riot rather than to just whine on the internet and attempt in vain to convert my last few liberal friends to communism.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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      10 months ago

      How can a person read this thing and not immediately know in their bones the author is lying to them?

      being rich and comfortable and insulated

      Is being an average American liberal like being a beaten and emotionally abused spouse?

      it's when you still get the treats and the only suffering people you see are of the untouchable homeless caste

      How else could one make their way through that venomous gaslighting "article"?

      being rich and comfortable and insulated and wanting absolution for that whisper deep down saying you are murdering the world