Because these billionaires convinced the manual workers that intellectual workers are the real problem, so now they’re cheering that the “gay office workers will finally be cured of their homosexuality through pain therapy” (I know way too many people believing “getting spoiled as a kid” or not being taught how to be a man is responsible for queerness, which includes “not being the manliest man on the earth”).
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L_N@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand why we don’t revolt against the billionaires.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
j_elgato@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Much would be solved if we were to eat one of them. I mean, it works for the chimpanzees…
Soup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not even revolt, I don’t understand why we just willingly hand them power. Like, half of Canada voted for the far-right Conservative party and the other half voted for the center-right, lower-case conservative party. It’s going as expected but we just keep doing it.
L_N@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
They won’t get much from the Canadian conservative far right. These people are all for cutting public services and rampant privatization… Someone would have to explain to me why someone who isn’t rich would want to vote for them.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Conservatives aren’t very intelligent, for starters, and it’s been seen that they operate more using the fear centers of their brains(which I imagine gets even more activated when they’re made to be more and more poor by the wealthy as time goes on).
They’re the kind of people who fall for branding super easily. I mean, look at how one-note most of them are, they just do what lines up because breaking away from their “role” is scary and they don’t have a roadmap for it. Plus their friends lack the emotional intelligence to allow their other friends to do stuff without mocking them.
And then you got all the people who seem to think it’s better that everyone get rat-fucked lest even one person gets something they “don’t deserve”, whatever that means. Or the people who are so used to bosses screwing them over that instead of fighting for my rights and equality they give the line “well they own the company so they get to do what they want” which I genuinely don’t believe is a entirely reflection of their desire to be that person but instead more their fear of authority and retribution for them “acting out”. Think of how scared they get when someone offers to raise taxes on the rich and they come out talking about how rich people will leave and take their money away.
Comservatives are scared people while the far-right both knows how and loves to exploit that and they’re too dumb to notice the obvious lying.
L_N@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I think what we’re seeing right now on the far right is typical of anti-intellectualism. It’s spreading.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You need to start grass roots with a local militia.
Start small some graffiti here, some car bombs there.
Then once you have a large enough army you can contest your government.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good job condoning terrorism.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I wasn’t condoning.
If that’s the path they want then they should know what it entails.
DizzyMoth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Many people live with the idea that one day they could became part of that 0.1 percent, and i mean it’s hard to blame them all of us independent from where we are have been feed with this kind of propaganda our entire life
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I actually don’t think this is true. I used to think it was true, but after seeing more and more people I think it’s simpler than that. It’s a belief in the justness of hierarchy— the “great chain of being” from medieval thought, where people on the top both deserve to be there by right of being there, and it is right to submit to them.
On a certain level, I even see the point. Despite anarchist clams to the contrary, leaders are important, necessary even to accomplish anything greater than a single person can manage. Even kids can see this first hand the first time they get assigned a group project by their teacher, or try to win a game of sports. But it’s too easy to twist “we need a good leader” into the tautology of “the leader is good, right, and justified because he’s the leader”.
If everyone rebelled against leadership all the time, there’d be no leadership, and people do need leaders. But at the same time, leaders can be or become shitstains that need to be rebelled against. It’s difficult, and I don’t think being reductive about the difficulty is right.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
I think more want to be “influencers” because they don’t have any relatives that can give them a small multi-million dollar loan.
L_N@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Yeah…it’s never gonna happen. I’m pretty sure the 1% don’t want us in their gang at all. We’re only the exploitable mass for them. We’re like slaves they can use to make more money.
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Does building a guillotine count as working with your hands?
L_N@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
checks notes yes
7101334@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
See guillotines are very romantic. Old-timey. Classically French. That’s all well and good for their historical record, but we’re living in 2026 in America.
I think woodchippers are much more emblematic of our working class.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
Feet first?
7101334@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Indeed. Industrial methods for the post industrial age…
46_and_2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And CEOs will be working with their heads, as intended.