Because most of us dislike violence, even when it’s necessary and justified.
Meanwhile, the rich have no problem using violence against us to protect their hoarded wealth or if they can profit from it in the slightest.
It sounds like we need to crowdfund the creation of a Private Military Company. We’ll need a good name for it.
“Citizens United”
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Citizens’ United Military makes for a nice acronym
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Why not crowd fund your own lobbyist and think tank. Do what the rich do.
Think tanks create a strategy. They suggest/create bills in your interest. They tell you what politicians to target. Think tanks are filled with statistician and lawyers who build portfolios for how to accomplish what you want. Its polls and research and statistics that show why your goal is good.
Hand the package to lobbyist who target those politician and start pushing change the way it is supposed to occur. Keep your issue in front of the politician. Show them through your research that if they pass and fight for (x) that they will stay in power or gain popularity and it will benefit the country.
Or call them Nazis and throw food at works of art. Not sure the best route.
Its crazy to me people think they can more easily convince people to burn their work days up protesting in streets than just donating $50 to the fight
I knew I had heard this before
Where do we donate that $50 right now?
I think that’s part of the problem too. No one knows an effective method to follow through with, or if they do find one it’s more often than not, not the same one “I” chose.
Let’s get a twitch streamer lol
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What about it is corrupt
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That is a bribe. That isn’t what lobbying is exclusively. Lobbying is bringing your issue to politician to influence them to fight for you. Corrupt lobbyist will bribe to influence the politician. But you’re mixing up a subset of what it is with the whole. Lobbying is what groups fighting for abortion rights and civil action do every day. Tobacco lobbyist or your local wealthy family greasing wheels should dismay you from participating in it.
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That’s how you actually get assassinated.
Ok ok ok so then let’s put it on the blockchain. Nobody in charge, “assassination politics”.
People need to remember that the Western culture rewards people with mental illness. Ultra wealthy are sociopaths to the core. This is why they can have no empathy for people. We all were scratching our heads how the Studio Heads in Hollywood couldn’t wrap their heads around fair treatment of their worker’s.
These people aren’t evil, they are inherently broken. Normal people don’t aspire to do whatever it takes to trampled over others for gains.
We need to stop rewarding the mentally ill with more money and instead put them in psychiatric wards.
I have meet plenty of poor sociopaths. It isnt some super power. Maybe you just hear of the combination of rich and sociopath because no one cares that the guy who makes 20k a year towing cars lacks empathy.
Sociopathy is not a mental illness.
But psychopathy sure is
I think it is considered a personality disorder akcshually.
Personality disorders are listed in the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases), and are definitely a mental illness accckkkshually
They do as well, the difference being they have enough money too disassociate themselves from their own actions and have someone else deal with the mental, social and financial repercussions.
The whole “eat the rich” thing is pretty offensive to survivors of the Cultural Revolution, where there are several actual examples of political torture-cannibalism documented by the CCP. Though, in this case, the “rich” were just teachers and lawyers and other people deemed uppity.
Okay, but context is important. No one is talking about the CR. We’re talking about French Revolution era inequality.
I am, Mao was right about landlords
“Cool it with the anti-land remarks”
Who’s talking about the CCP? Looks like you’re going out of your way to be offended.
Or maybe the capitalist brainwashing got you bad.
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Because the most well-armed portion of the populace has convinced themselves that the lifestyle of the rich is within their reach and identifies more with them than with their actual peers.
I know we’re having a laugh, but the time when this sort of action is even plausible is quickly running out.
Well that, and the wealthy have seized control of the MSM to propagandize the working class into believing that the rich alone can save them. Since the money holder always, “need a little more”, they gravitate to fascism which promises them “a little more”.
By “the most well-armed portion of the populace” I assume you mean law enforcement? It’s an odd way of putting it, but it’s the only interpretation that makes sense because Bubba and his fellow militia members sure as fuck aren’t coming to the defense of the one percent.
I mean Republicans.
because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks
Not just that they suck, that the other side are monsters wanting to corrupt them.
It’s actually fairly evident they’ve convinced both halves of the middle/working class that the other half has it out for them.
So true.
Gritty agrees.
Ranger fan, but I’d follow Gritty into the war against the rich.
Bruins fan, so would I. Hell I even own a Flyers jersey, there’re just too cool, and I’ll wear it into battle with him.
Not a hockey fan at all and so would I 🫡✊️
Because everyone is just hoping to someday becoming rich and joining the upper class.
What? No lol
There are entire societies and movements based on not letting this happen. Sounds like projection
There are PLENTY of dumb Muricans who make less than 30k a year who think their big break is coming.
Television and radio have been fueling American “exceptionalism” for so many decades that many DO believe that they will join the ranks of the billionaire class.
On a personal note, I don’t know anyone who has ever expressed this, and I’m getting up there in age.
I was alive before credit scores were a thing.
It’s a thing.
I think the take away is that the younger generations no longer believe this. It’s a dying sentiment.
I dont think this but I know if I do get one, I’ll just get a financial advisor to help manage it. Aside from that my life would stay the same as I don’t want family and friends hounding me for cash. I am happy with my situation but would like to get a family of my own sometime and somehow get a place for us to live in. I just want to be financially responsible and be paid a liveable salary amount
Guess I’m that dumb American. Made between 30 and 50k my whole life and I have a fully paid off house and 4 paid off vehicles on an acre of land in the country. And I’m in my early 40s. Life is good. Being rich and being wealthy are two different things. I consider myself wealthy.
Reading comprehension is awesome.
It is
They would taste horribly. Let’s just decapitate them and use as compost. Then they would be of some actual use.
I bet the gold tickets make them taste horrible
The French did that just fine. Look at where they are today.
The wealth inequality in America today is worse than France pre-revolution.
We are long overdue, bring out the guillotines
Fact check? Really curious if this is true
It should about right, but the French revolution was generally speaking not about income inequality. The women’s march on Versailles is the most economic influenced part of the revolution that I can think of. That was primarily about not having enough food.
The parts of the revolution that we like to think of as being “the” revolution were mostly about getting basic human rights. The two most important treaties were “the rights of man” which is about… well, the rights of man, and “what is the third estate” which is about the importance of the peasant classes to the nation and their lack of political power in relation to it.
As for the major events: The storming of the Bastille was about political prisoners (ironically there were none in the Bastille at the time). The tennis court oath was about voting by head rather than by acre. The sans culottes, the girondins, and the mountain were all about giving the people more of a voice. The murder of Louie was a direct response to the flight to varennes, and the terror was just the mountain losing it’s grasp on political control and doing whatever it took to keep it. Even the guillotine itself was designed to give peasant criminals a clean death. Before it was invented nobles would be put to the sword but peasants would be hanged.
Everything I’ve just said is personal opinion, but my source for all of it is season 3 of Revolutions by Mike Duncan
Well thanks for all this great info! Interesting how most things in history we boil down too simple things.
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it
George Orwell: Hey Karl can I copy your homework?
Karl Marx: Sure just change it enough so it doesn’t look like you copied it.
George Orwell writing 1984:
more like Orwell and Yevgeni Zamyatin
Man, I am a big 1984 fan boy but reading We really took some of the wind out of my Orwell sails.
I didn’t know that Karl Marx invented the concept of revolution, neat!
I think you need to read 1984 a little more carefully. There’re a few critical details you appear to have missed, but don’t feel bad; a lot of readers make similar mistakes.
You go first, we’ll follow yeah?
… Surely, sooner or later, it will occur to me to do it?
Literally the point of the quote…
We filled up on bread.
And circus!
And when that runs out, you will surely eat cake!
Because cannibalism is wrong
I think they left off the letter B at the beginning. It makes much more sense to me that way.
Best argument so far!
Because they’re too busy hating each other over whose great grandparents oppressed who or who the other voted for.
So the other side votes for politicians who directly make the rich richer, and you think we should stop bickering so that they’ll join us in eating the rich? Something tells me this plan might hit a snag.
Sorry, you think both sides don’t make the rich richer?? Lol, at least one side is honest about it. Lots of conservatives are blue-collar workers. Youre basically saying you refuse to join up because they won’t vote for making the rich richer they way you prefer.
Because they can’t organize in the right way
Because the owning class works tirelessly to keep segments of the working class fighting against each other, in America our important arguments are over whether a green m&m is sexy or why does the potato head toy have to have a gender.
It’s absolutely ridiculous…
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Because the organizer most of the time will themselves be the elite class. And if not them, the next generation will
I remember in the 80s how often the FBI got in shit by sending in agents under cover to flirt and bang all the chicks. Many got pregnant. The goal was to get information at the start. But eventually turned into subterfuge of the groups to direct them to do such radical shit they couldn’t grow and become actual threats. I can’t imagine the shit they get up to now. I assume any group big enough to get attention isn’t natural
Unironically, equating anything left wing with Marxist socialism even though there could be other forms.
left wing ideas tend to be heavily coupled with progressive social issues that most of the population only agrees with to an extent.
I think we’re going to see a non socialist populist uprising though with multiple different groups. The elites will no doubt try to claim anyone remotely on the right of it is a raging white supremacist as they’re already doing with populist uprisings.
Because you, dear reader, probably can’t even pull together the motivation to make a sandwich most of the time, let alone take up arms and put yourself in harm’s way.
Peasant uprisings are so much work though 😩
Maybe they’re saving it for sweeps.
La Boetie wrote the “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” in 1577. It’s almost 500 years old now. There is no hope.
