• TheOneAndOnly@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s simple… If you convince the communists that the capitalists are trying to destroy them, (and vice versa), they fight each other, distracting them from the real enemy: the 1% with enough money to directly influence the folk that make the rules that keep them in the 1% club. We’re fighting culture wars so we won’t fight class wars, my friend.

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      1 year ago

      … capitalism is the ideology that lets the 1% be the 1%.

      This is like the one fight that isn’t part of the culture war.

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        1 year ago

        The 1% exist in every form of government, my friend. Billionaire capitalists == Russian Oligarchs. The name changes based on the audience, but the idea is money influences politics. The folk with the most money to do so are the 1% who actually rule, not the interchangeable talking heads who take their money to live a comfortable life acting as the mouthpiece (or scapegoat) for that group.

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          1 year ago

          …do you think Russia is still Socialist? The Russian oligarchs are Billionaire Capitalists.

          The USSR collapsed in the 90s, buddy.