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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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[โ€“] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I kinda disagree with this a little. These things are interconnected. While we shouldn't let stuff like race and sexuality divide us, we shouldn't ignore that some groups have been fucked over more than others and part of dismantling the system is seeing what parts are rotten. Red lining n shit.

[โ€“] Allonzee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm not saying to ignore them, I'm saying we have a common enemy using those differences to exploit and murder us by amplifying every division except owners vs workers using for profit media and captured government, encouraging us to fight one another over them so they can do so.

Note the absolutely confused and terrified tone the for profit media is going through right now when they're perfectly fine when 10 kids get gunned down. That's just another wedge for division, gun control, for them to stoke as no one that mattered, to them, died.

Im saying that until we pause and dethrone the owners, they will see to it those secondary divisions remain entrenched and heated to keep us weak, and therefore they are the primary threat that must be the priority to solve literally any of our great national blights.

We cannot begin to heal... Any division... Until the instigators that keep stoking them for private profit are defeated and made subject to society, government, and regulation again instead of controlling them.

Reigning in our sociopathic, murderous late stage capitalism is step 0 to any positive change. They are the gatekeepers. Or get comfy with everything continuing to decline until collapse. It's hell now. It will get so much worse with them running government and controlling mass media.