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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

It had everything to do with human greed.

As long as there is the suggestion or possibility, no matter how remote that anyone of us can become enormously wealthy, we won't want to change the system.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

That's right, they aren't going to overcome their irrational fears. They'll have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future until it becomes normal and they realize the sky didn't fall. I actually had hope that we were on the verge of a strong progressive wave, but then millions of people decided not to show up because Harris wasn't perfect enough for them. So basically fuck y'all, and good luck with the whole People's Front of Judea vs the Judean People's Front deal. The thing about MAGA is they fucking show up, and they're gonna keep showing the fuck up. Idiots need to figure out that you don't make change happen by turning away when your ideal options don't appear on a menu so you can click on one and go back to scrolling. /end rant

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[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I love how people act like their knowledge alone somehow makes them better than their peers, just utilizing knowledge to appear aloof, or above it all, when in reality, if capitalism shot itself in the chest and socialism took over tomorrow, we would still have the same rich 1% families stealing from the working class and none of us would actually be in any better a position because no damned political system to date has figured out how to keep the rich from sacrificing the poor for their own selfish ends. End of story. Time to change.

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know what worse, the corruption of communism or the corruption of capitalism. Right now, we're in the American Nightmare stage of capitalism. Seems to me humanity can't have an economic system where a group of people want all the wealth and power.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago
[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 4 days ago (7 children)
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