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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm very worried about everyone here. Really, I know that there is a way out that isn't suicide--it's revolution--but it seems like you've all submitted to Capitalist Realism. I've thought about risking my life in an attempt to overthrow the state, but unlike you all, I am legitimately afraid of losing my life. It'd be such a sad note to end my life on. I wouldn't be there to see any surprising good things happen. I wouldn't get to see a socialist system established before me, and I wouldn't be able to do anything to help anyone. How come you all feel fine about death? There's nothing afterwards. There were the Viet Cong who couldn't live to see their country establish socialism, there were the Leninists who died fighting the Tsar who couldn't see the Soviet Union come to be, there were the slaves who died in Southern plantations who couldn't see Juneteenth. If you were really willing to die, you'd die in battle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

People don't really feel "fine about death" but more like "being alive feels worse than death".

There is almost always some thing in such a person's life that is causing such feelings. Even if someone thinks the world is better off without them, it's caused by how they "perceive" their impact on the world, which can be caused by the way other people interact with them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem with the Western middle class is they've been conditioned to think they're part of the ruling class.

They believe that the ruling class' successes are their own, until it's time to get ready to go to work the next day.

They see themselves as above poor people and believe they're entitled to more before those who have less.

They always believe the solution to their problems is to make more, not spend less.

The issue isn't just capitalism. It's not just greed. It's a culture of consumerism. Hopefully anyone who has been around for a few decades can recognize how much the social landscape has changed in favor of encouraging people to sell themselves out as quickly as possible.

We are living in the most negative of peaces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bruh bleeding out in a pit of mud on the battlefield as other random people fall on top of my already crushed ribs is way fucking worse than a bullet to the dome.

Plus, this revolution could easily go the other direction and I'll end up being tortured to death anyway. I feel like this take is possibly the most historically ignorant one possible.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wholesome crab bucket mentality

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please keep your hands, feet and body fully inside the vehicle.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

“But we’re getting so many views right now, fam…”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How did they get the rope around him lol

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