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Everyone in here is like 'yeah fuck those farmers' not realizing who grows their food
Did they make the wrong choice? Yes.
Blaming them isn't going to make food cheaper.
Seriously. What happened to working class solidarity?
You don't build it by cheering for their suffering. You take the moment to teach them their mistakes and give them a chance to do better.
Yeah, why did they vote against it?
Because they were conned and manipulated by being fed lies that preyed on their fears, insecurities, and ignorance while being raised on propaganda intentionally designed to brainwash them into voting against their own interests.
Seriously, think critically and remember that they too are fallible humans who are victims of the system.
So, again. What happened to your working class solidarity? Cause right now, I don't see any, I just see someone spreading hate against the wrong enemy.
Funny, I've been watching conservatives do exactly that for decades now while the rest of us try to reason with them. I grew up with Limbaugh convincing my dad that liberalism is a mental disorder and Clinton won the election because women vote with their vaginas. They've done nothing but get more disgusting, hateful, and bigoted since.
"Oh boo hoo they were conned and manipulated" How come I can consume the exact same media as them and see through the bullshit? I'm really supposed to feel sorry for them? We've been telling them for decades they're being lied to; they enjoy it.
I'm done. Fuck every single one of these fascist-enabling pieces of shit AND their fucking feelings. I'm not gonna cry when some fucking dipshit who has the exact same access to information that I do and can't be bothered to verify their news sources gets exactly what they voted for.
Cool. Continue to abandon your solidarity and exacerbate the problem.
I never said Republicans weren't doing that. I'm saying you're no better by sinking to their level.
40 years of 'not sinking to their level' brought us fascism so maybe give up that old wives tale and address the reality we live in now, hm?
You act like this is the first time. They've had their chances. I live in rural places and near a lot of farmers and small town people. They fly their fucking flags and espoused their unfounded bullshit and never show any ability to change or learn.
Not all farmers. Not everyone. But there's certainly a lot I am done wasting breath on. Fuck em.
So you willingly abandon your working class solidarity and just become another small minded person spreading working class hate and division. You're part of the problem.
I too live in a small rural town. I'm deep in the heart of Southern Louisiana. I'm all too familiar with people flying their flags of ignorance and hate.
That doesn't give you an excuse to sink to their level of blind hatred because it is easier than seeing the person behind it and understanding that they are as much a victim of the system as anyone else.
This is a failure to recognize an enemy. They are not "just making mistakes." These people are ruining lives, advocating for torture, removing civil rights, being racists and removing employment protections from women and minorities, and they just started a war with a nuclear power for no reason, in a way I'm pretty sure is illegal. Do they just need to go stab your mother to death? Wtf will it take you people to wake the fuck up?
Cool bud, keep being a puppet and punching horizontally at your fellow working class instead of realizing that they are simply scared, powerless idiots who have been duped by our common enemy.
The absolute irony you want to say I'm the one who has failed to recognize the enemy.
You know who is really ruining lives and removing employment protections? The holders of capital who actually dictate those rules of our society and control the the fundamental aspects that make our life possible. Not some dip shit country bumpkins who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground and are simply just trying to meet their material needs the same as every other working class individual. The only difference between them and you is they have fallen victim to the lies. We are all capable of being victims of propaganda. You could have just as easily ended up as them if you had made the mistake of believing the wrong information, being funneled down that pipeline. So don't act high and mighty just because you became radicalized first.
You're the one who needs to wake the fuck up and start looking at the root causes of why American culture is the way it is instead of simply reacting to those who have fallen victim to the manipulation. Don't be simple and lump together the working class victims of the oligarchy and the oligarchy themselves.
What the fuck solidarity is there in siding with the very people trying to strip away the working class? They had the same access to information as anybody else and they chose to ignore the warnings and double down.
Form solidarity with the ones who aren't actively trying to ruin everything, because the zombies have made it very clear whose side they're on.
Where is their solidarity with the working class? It is nowhere to be seen. They hate solidarity. They piss on it. They deliberately voted against it. And now they cry crocodiles tears when they become victims of their own decision. And usually blame it on others instead of questioning their own choices.
They don't know solidarity! We have to teach them! That's the point! They are stupid and uneducated wage slaves who have been duped by the people who are actually in control, our shared enemy. They just don't understand that we are not their enemy. Yea, there are a percentage of them who are just vitriolic, hateful, violent individuals that the community will need to defend themselves against. That's another topic. The vast majority of people, though, are just plain stupid, going through life day by day just trying to get by and not understanding, because they have been duped by a system purposely designed to prey on them.
Fucking goddamn I am tired of people misunderstanding the entire point of solidarity. I'm not saying to fucking sing kumbaya with them. Yes, they cry crocodile tears and cry the victim. Yet they blame it on the wrong person because they have been intentionally deluded into doing so. Be mad, get in their face and oppose their views. I'm not saying just sit and take it lying down. Just don't fucking attack them as a person; that isn't going to do anything except make them defensive. Oppose the ideology and educate them on how they are wrong. Expose the mistake and force them to confront it. Point your anger at the real fucking enemy.
No, it won't always work. It takes concentrated effort and repeated exposure to challenge someone's deeply held beliefs. They haven't been radicalized yet. We need to, as a political movement, have the strategy to capitalize on these moments where they have finally been confronted with a situation that exposes the flaws in what they have been told and do the leg work to radicalize these individuals. We all have that moment where we were radicalized against the system. They need theirs. They will never have it though if they are attacked for their mistakes instead of given the chance and tools needed to question and learn from them.