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people defend rich because they believe in masters
No: the rhetorical defense of rich people usually arises when action against rich people such as “eat the rich” or “steal all their assets” has been proposed, and people say “well not all rich people deserve that.”
Which is true. I don’t even think a majority of rich people deserve some punishment for how they accrued their wealth. If you have some conception that they should be dropping crumbs of wealth for you along the way, consider:
- 1 this is rooted in your education, so you really just despise the fact that they rich were educated different from your or had a different outcome to that same education - which is not their fault, since education is top-down nowadays.
- 2 they may well have already dropped their crumbs, and you were just not among the lucky recipients of it. People prioritise their own family first, and families can be very extensive once you’re in the Business of throwing away cash.
- 3 Literally nothing in society insists upon or suggests that rich people reinvest their wealth in others, or other walks of society - esswntially running counter to how it was historically, for the record.
- 4 if someone does decide to give away money they get distracted by charity, which is less direct than government schemes to redistribute wealth. Are you going to be vaguely annoyed at people who have done well for themselves rather than the governments ineptitude and charity inefficiency?
And importantly - it is well demonstrated that people can become rich through ethical means. This has been shown to be true over and over again.
Instead of just getting mad at the vague sense of rich people “not doing what you want them to do,” reach out and create dialogue with them to lay out your vision for society. Nobody wants to give away money without thinking it will be used effectively.
This is a mistake that many leftists do, thinking that people don’t like authoritarianism. A lot of people crave for it
people tend dislike authoritarianism, but tend to be afraid of society changement. Everybody got contradiction
The thread is so lost anymore it doesn’t even matter. In America it is just survival as America becomes Russia. You can’t defend anyone when you can’t even get your doctor visit or medication to live if you even try to rock the boat for more than 3 days. If that. Modern feudalism.
Our first mistake as a nation was not kicking out the royalists.
Alexander Hamilton
She ain’t wrong
It’s also “don’t rock the boat.” Because if society decides that rich people don’t get to be filthy rich, the rich peoppe will take it out on the peasants so they can stay as rich as possible. IOW if we don’t leave the rich people alone they’ll be mean to us and take even more.
I hate it, but also think it is true. A slave does not want to be free and all that - it does explain so many things
My mother, and one of my nieces, think this way.
They do a ton of work for a man they think should tell them how to live life. Even how to vote. They gladly abdicate their agency as a human so they “don’t have to think about silly things like politics.”
The irony is my mother is an incredibly strong woman. But it’s religion that makes her think this way. My nice is just very much a people pleaser, and her fiance is just the baby of the family, so he makes demands and expects everyone else to clean up after him.
Right-wing values can be summarized in one word: Hierarchy.
That also happens to be the literal definition. Surprisingly few people know that the political left and right correspond to equality and hierarchy respectively.
I sort of disagree, it’s that they want to feel safe and taken care of. They’ve made Trump their Jesus, literally. He is their shepherd and will only do well for them.
That’s why the gas and inflation going in the wrong direction after 2 years is fucking with their heads. If he’s wrong about one thing, and god can’t be wrong, then maybe he isn’t a god.
The entire point of religion is to make the insecure feel secure, like the answers to the hard questions exist and Sky Daddy is looking out for them
As I heard someone else say recently, everything with conservatives is either team sports or cuck porn and it really seems that’s true.
🤫 you gonna summon them lol
I can’t wait to see their smiling face
The world would be better if a bunch of people could just admit they are into mental BDSM and they are subs
Religion, narcissistic family members, social media algorithms, sandwich shops… all tuned to churn out subs.
I’m only okay with one of those.
(Also you forgot shipyards, BTW.)
Stamp on my brain, master
That’s what the AI is for.
Can Claude wear stilettos?
Found Richard Dawkins’s account
This is why conservatives should be sent to reeducation camps
Nah, brah. This is kinda true but kinda bullshit. Since they’re not citing shit I’m not gonna either. I’ll go vibe mode too.
People, my fellow Americans, are disillusioned because they’ve never known anything else. They don’t want anything better because they’ve never been taught that better things aren’t even imaginable at best, most likely an existential threat. We’re peak society because fuck you, the conservative elite they told us so. It’s been that way for decades, most people don’t know anything else.
We’re all a captive market because the system that was supposed to protect us has been corrupted and is complicit. It doesn’t have to be. A huge problem is it’s extremely profitable to realize this and act on the opposite side, to be evil and want to exploit everyone, especially the undereducated and marginalized.
It sucks! Talking with brainwashed fools is exhausting, but they’re victims like the rest of us, and we should be working on inroads instead of division. Cut your losses for some, sure, but a lot of people are inspired by populism in both directions. We need to leverage that now.
Talk to your neighbors y’all! They’re noticing the shit hitting the fan, but they’re afraid to talk about it. We’re in a lot of this shit because our representatives were too polite/cowardly/ineffective to hold abysmal conservative/fascist leaders accountable in the first place. We never convinced their voters that their so called leaders are con artists stealing their comfort of living as a result. It’s the most obvious it’s ever been now. Let’s take advantage, no?
What I don’t understand is why is it the stupidest people getting put on that pedestal.
Because you have to be intelligent to admit you don’t know something.
Stupid and confident is a dangerous combination. Add arrogant, charismatic or attractive, and you get weaponised incompetence.
Weak people love confidence and will tolerate arrogance. Once a confident person starts observing those around them agreeing, following, defending them, they start to believe their own bullshit, and they learn through reward feedback that if they do anything with confidence and arrogance, even when they are wrong, weaker people will agree with them.
Stupid people like other stupid people
The fool, or the fool who follows him.
specifically, social dominators end up on top. Authoritarians put them there.
Conservatives are naturally a servile people. They desire to be ruled. They want a daddy.
Yeah, they want a pyramid shape to the world.
They want a single big daddy on top of them, and then an enormous pile of other people below them to be a big daddy to.
As long as they are not at the bottom of the pile, they’re happy.
I’m not even so sure about the second part. Plenty of them seem happy to be perpetual bottoms.
They need other races to be below them
And women
Yep, but uh, it’s not just conservatives. There are lots from all sorts that want someone else to make the decisions, for both good and ill
