• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    “and after all that, someone will come up and tell the powerless it’s their fault for failing to stop the powerful”.

    “But have you considered that the powerless deserved it because they failed to stop the powerful? I know it’s annoying I’m doing this, but it’s the only way to keep the powerless aware that it’s their fault”

    That’s how much of an asshole you sound like.

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      2 days ago

      the only assholery on display here is the presumption that they’re powerless and the re-enforced misinformation.

      history proves that the people can be just as powerful as the epstein class — and that’s exactly why they expend so many resources keeping you from ever doing what that nagging tells you to do.

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        Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.

        You’re totally right. It’s wrong to call the individuals who belong to the class of people who need to work together in the thousands or millions to effect change via coordinated collective action “powerless”, or to imply that the handful of individuals with enough sway that they’ve managed to effectively prevent that are somehow “powerful”.

        The right thing to do is definitely to find a place where someone has griped that the experience being one of those temporarily disenfranchised oligarchs is kinda shit and remind them that since their millions of equally powerful cohort haven’t joined arms against the handful of not-more-powerful people who oppose them that they, personally, are guilty of a myriad sins that contributed directly to all of their misery so they should just shut their imperialist fucking faces and fix everything in their lives and country.

        Because you know, it’s your responsibility to be the morality police of people you’ve never met, and to proselytize your specific beliefs about the way Americans can unfuck themselves.

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          no one said that the epstein class is not powerful and the fact that the nagging has to exist proves that here is no morality police anywhere.

          also, history has already given us the benefit of hindsight to teach us what works and how to unfuck ourselves as a result and both it and the nagging agree with each other on what americans can do as individuals – right now – to start effecting change.

          Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.

          please consider going back to reddit – it’s clear that you’ll be much happier there since you fit in so well with them.

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              2 days ago

              reddit’s the right place for them – lots of like-minded people there and on facebook and dallas rn. lol

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                2 days ago

                You went to Dallas and they also thought you were an asshole? Should have gone to Austin. Then you could have at least seen some cool bats.

                Seriously though. Describe the beliefs you think I have, beyond that you decided to make an asshole comment.