• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Some of us have been fucking furious for over two decades now and it hasn’t done shit except increase our blood pressure and having all the dumb fucking dimwits around us acting like we’re crazy for being upset at how absolutely fucked things are.

    I’ve been angry since my early twenties. I’m in my forties now and I’m still angry but guess what I’m fucking tired. Which is what the people in charge want, of course. They want us so broken by this system that we give up on fighting back because it’s hard to fight back when you’ve been diagnosed with a fucking disease that will bankrupt you financially.

    They have us right where they want us, and most people are too toothlessly uneducated to even fucking know it’s going on and get so so upset when you get angry for good fucking reasons. “Please calm down” bullshit from motherfuckers enabling the shit streaming down our fucking faces. It’s fucking lunacy.

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      We live in a beautiful Corpocracy and you will fucking love it, god damn it!! Drink the Disney to distract and calm your weary mind. Consume more and you will feel alive again. Promise! Ignore the crimes of the corporations, without those you wouldn’t have The New Thing you adore and you wouldn’t be yearning for The Next Thing! You NEED The Next New Thing.

      Its fucking sickening. I’m in my early 30s and it feels hopeless. Surely the masses can see the sheer manipulation and control that governments and corporations have over us. Why aren’t more people irate that They are raping the Earth to line Their pockets, fucking Us over in the process?

      Everyone has been polarised into an “Us vs Them” mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.

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        Everyone has been polarised into an “Us vs Them” mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.

        I’m ready to get downvoted, but this is exactly the reason I’m incredibly sceptical about any conflicts going on, including wars. I just think the possibility of the “two sides” working together just to polarize society is too goddamn high. But of course, as soon as you bring a subject like this into a discussion, you immediately get bombarded with the “you are against my idea so you’re an extremist” kind of vocabulary… For example: “Omg you’re pro-russian” - meanwhile I volunteer to help Ukrainian people, but I guess I love Russia when I do that. Shit’s wild…

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          It’s domestic as well. Red vs Blue is just a distraction and you can’t point this out because nearly everyone is divided along those lines to the point of ignoring getting fucked up the ass.

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            Face and heel. You give the sensible ones a good guy to root for, and you give the angry ones a tough guy to idolize. Then you tell them to keep up the kayfabe at all times.

            The solution? In a voting system that supports more than two parties, you ignore red and blue, and vote for red and black. In a voting system that doesn’t, you ignore red and blue, and pick up a gun for red and gold.

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            I think Roosterteeth did a better job than just “a distraction”.

            Let’s give them some credit

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          At least in the case of Israel vs Hamas, this is undeniably true. Everyone knows oppression creates terrorists. Every ambassador knows it, every police chief knows it, every general knows it, every politician knows it. Maybe the average person doesn’t but when it comes to the people running the machinery of government, they know it.

          Israel 100%, without a doubt, knew that their apartheid would create an organisation like Hamas. And what do they gain? A plausible sounding cassus belli to blow up Palestinian children with bombs. Hamas is the creation, and essentially the ally, of Israel. They themselves don’t believe it, but it’s true. They’re playing someone else’s game.

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              You have identified a quantitative difference in that Palestinians are not oppressed in exactly the same way as black people in SA. But you’ve only disproven it’s apartheid if you can identify a qualitative difference. Do you have one of those?

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          Alienation maybe? I’d just describe it as divide and conquer which is a pretty common Marxist description of capital’s political strategy

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            nope, it’s about how the bourgeouis make the proletariat fight each other rather than them

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      I haven’t really seen my exact situation & frustration put so perfectly.

      I know it’s exhausting, but just reading this helps remind me that I’m not alone.

      So just know, you’re not alone.

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      The powers that be have turned the common uneducated citizen into their personal army, at every level and dimension of society. It’s even in the way the Fediverse is moderated. You can be banned on almost every instance for being labelled a troublemaker by one top dog. Nobody cares if the admins of big instances are abusive.