• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    maximize the number of desperate wage slaves in the pipeline

    Boom. Rich white men love fucking women and want abortion access. They might even genuinely love and respect women, like kinda - as individuals - minus what really matters (their treatment of the whole through policy).

    These losers aren’t waking up salivating about controlling somebody’s body when it comes to sex. They wake up wondering how they’re going to make more MONEY. And amass more power and the benefits and connections and respect that comes with it.

    If impoverished people must be sacrificed, it just doesn’t matter. The sacrifice is not the goal.*

    M-O-N-E-Y & power!

    This is important because it changes the way you fight.

    *(for most, obviously you’re always going to have some nut jobs who are in it for cruelty’s sake)

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      7 months ago

      The problem has always been rampant capitalism.

      No system is without corruption, but late stage capitalism is fucking ugly

      I’m far more partial to a semi-planned economy, personally.

      Edit: additionally, although we are talking specifically about the states, I feel this image still applies to the discussion on class. For context, Tommy Douglas was the man responsible for Canada’s nationalized healthcare