I think if you lack critical thinking skills but have all your material needs met, have a non alienating job that is satisfying, and aren’t constantly seeking answers for why your life sucks (that the media loves to provide in the form of lies), you’re probably going to be pretty happy.

I guess my point is that it’s not necessarily the lack of critical thinking alone. It’s the combination of that with people’s material circumstances.

Basically I’m just describing that I see it through a lense of dialectical materialism.

It’s why I want racist or homophobic idiots to also have free universal healthcare, education, and a fulfilling job. Because I don’t think you can solely “educate” away the conditions that lead people to look for answers to their poor conditions. Answers that Twitter Nazis and media outlets are happy to fill with xenophobia and bigotry.

White working class people definitely still have privileges and advantages. But you can’t educate away their feelings of “well, my parents owned a house at 19 and lived off a single salary. I’m driving for Uber and have 3 roommates”. And the bigotries are there to offer them reasons for why it’s not their own failure and (most importantly) why it’s not the failures of capitalism.

While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.

Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying “hey! They are fucking this up” is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.

It’s like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying “I know exactly who is at fault!” But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout “I know who is at fault” are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.

That’s what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it’s leadership. It feels like they are the party of “acknowledging bad things” and nothing more.

Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you’re going to tell us for years that “Trump is a threat to democracy” and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you’re not an “umpire” for democracy. You’re just an announcer in a game without an ump.

Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.

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I think I can answer most of your questions by saying he comes over to discuss the lease in a Mercedes Maybach. An SUV that starts at $178,000.

I don’t think age or other things really matter at that point.

He owns multiple properties and houses.

But, still, my entire point is that this relationship in itself is what needs to die. It’s not this individual dudes fault. It’s a system that allows people like this to exist that produce nothing.

I literally asked. He said he’s not selling.

Landlord said to me “property tax has gone up. This is my only form of income. Will need to increase rent”

Told him “yeah, everything has gone up and my paycheck is still the same”.

Like, these types of relationships are so parasitic. This is the “nice” mom and pop style landlord too that every liberal seems to want to give a pass too.

Sure, are they less bad than the big corporate faceless landlords? Yes. But the entire relationship is the problem.

They get to justify forcing me out of my home because the value of the house that they own WENT UP.

That’s why their property tax is more. They literally own something that is more valuable and making it further impossible for me to ever buy a place of my own.

12 years take on the unjustifiable hierarchy of grown ups?

Is this some really weird class analysis that involves generational heirarchy?

Like, is this the anarchist meme of “bed time is a parental construct from an unjustifiable hierarchy?”

Seriously, though. I must be misunderstanding what you are trying to say.

If you completely lack class analysis. Sure.

Jews and minority groups are specifically used as scapegoats for the inequality and exploitation that capitalism causes. It’s why fascism is a defense of capitalism when it is in it’s in decline.

Pointing to the actual systemic causes is not a Nazi meme. And there has been no revolution in history in which the ruling class gave up power without first enacting violence on the lower class of society in order to maintain its power.

Threatening violence in response to the violence enacted by the ruling class is not a “Nazi meme”.

In a just world the ruling class today in America should be hung for their crimes of genocide.

Ha no worries. But that basically sounds like Washington state. But I guess maybe we have a lot more “outdoor” people here and maybe that makes people more likely to not view firearms so negatively.

What state are you in? Washington SRA is my only experience.

Our SRA membership has surged since the election. Definitely more socialist understanding why they would want to be armed.

When “no fault” divorce was made legal it was literally a win for men and they didn’t even know it.

When a women wanted a divorce in the old days she’d just drop some visine in your morning coffee. Just a little bit every day until the problem was dealt with.

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