• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    4 months ago

    Because they know they’re probably not gonna be the ones starving.

    Crashing through collapse into fascism probably looks like a wonderful idea when you’re sitting pretty outside the blast radius.

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      4 months ago

      They come from a very privileged position. I pointed that out to one of them recently and their response was, “is the privilege in the room with you right now?” That takes some heavy cognitive dissonance to claim to be a communist but mock the idea of privilege.