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So easy to control (europe.pub)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

An elephant and a donkey fight in a puppet show and the crowd cheers for one or the other because one of them is going to decide how good your future is. And when people start to notice their life is getting harder for working people most of the time, they're told they can stop the decline by cheering louder for the puppet that's not currently in power.

The reality today is one of those puppets is going to be in control. Would you like the one that tries to clean the wounds and put on bandaids or the one that keeps playing with knives?

You can sit at the puppet show quietly, but whether or not you cheer, they're going to pick a winner. If you want to leave this circus you better hope the puppet that is open to the idea of changing how we pick a winner starts winning a lot.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you are paying attention none of our lives are getting easier. The one you are trying to claim is applying bandaids and attending the wound are the ones that caused the cut.

    You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches and say you are making progress. If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it out all the way, then that’s still not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t pulled the knife out, much less healed the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there

    Malcolm X

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago

    So would you rather the knife be pulled out or would you like to be stabbed 20 more times? This both sides nonsense fucking reeks of being planned opposition, especially with how you treat posting about it like it's your fucking job. Were it just a random account saying this, I wouldn't even think to make that assumption, but I see you here all the time beating the same shitty drum.

    Like, is your entire personality just stirring up shit with "edgy" takes on Western society. Wake up, have your coffee, and immediately flock to the keyboard to talk about how much imperialism sucks and how everyone that lives in it sucks (except of course for you, the special little boy)

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