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Edit of yesterday's meme with accounted for non-voters

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is such a fucking privileged liberal take. Whatever, keep believing the lives of the working class are improving until the same working class votes the fascists in, out of sheer desperation. That'll work...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So you don't want to talk harder data points, because that might confront you with the fact that politics aren't spiritual manichaean bullshit, and instead require an analysis of the complex interactions of conflicting power bases. Also, the idea that the working class is voting fascists in 'out of sheer desperation' is an insanely city-liberal take, for the record. You may as well have said that after having breakfast at some rural diner and writing an op-ed waxing poetic about the beauty of the simple rural life a month before the election.

I understand the obsessive materialism of modernism is (rightly) out-of-vogue, but retreating to a positively medieval worldview of political ideology is not the solution.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Alright mate, then everyone's lives are improving, but people are too stupid and brainwashed to see it. You're there to scold them the right way. Good luck with that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Alright mate, the everyone’s lives is improving, but people are too stupid and brainwashed to see it.

Most people's lives are materially improving.

That's not enough.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive. The recognition that we're getting more scraps than we were before is not justification for only receiving scraps - we deserve more than scraps

We are better poised now to see the inequalities and oppression which has long-been-present in society - arguably always been present. We have the tools of communication and education to observe it clearly, and we have the tools to fight it.

People are stupid and brainwashed, but not in feeling dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. Typically, the stupidity and brainwashing comes in play when asking them what is causing their dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.

You’re there to scold them the right way.

Man, I'm asking that people vote in addition to direct action. It's not a big ask. I promise.