| ▲ | timacles 9 hours ago | |||||||
Class war started about 15 years ago post 2007 financial crisis. The banks and those who control them all knew where we are headed, so they got a little head start destabilizing democracy. Once us working class get a grasp of the actual situation, we are going to be so deep in the hole, fighting back is going to be quite difficult when the "asset owners" own and control the majority of the worlds resources, all media, forms of communication, AI, technology infrastructure, mass surveillance. You name it, and they have already made massive efforts to make sure they own it. | ||||||||
| ▲ | brailsafe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
They might own it, but at a certain point it only matters whether the concept of ownership means anything to the people who don't "own" it. Ownership only works for those with assets because they have police working for them to protect the concept of ownership to begin with, but that only works at a certain scale of disenfranchisement and lack of upheaval. There isn't that much in-practice stopping a sufficiently angry group from attacking most politicians or even every-day wealthy people in their home. Money talks, but if the amount everyone else earns isn't enough to meaningfully contribute to "owning" anything, then those people would reasonably stop agreeing to respect the idea of property or non-violence. People without assets, facing down a continual decline in living standards from 15 years ago, should evaluate whether the system they operate in does anything beneficial for them at all, or whether it mainly serves those who they serve. We're starting to see it in discrete bursts with Mangione, the paper warehouse fire, and in other non-violent ways with farmer protests, trucker protests, etc.. which have varying levels of support from regular people depending on their wealth class, background, and inclination to agree with the government. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | FlowingRiver 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
We are in a silent recession, have been for a long while. | ||||||||
| ▲ | conception 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Incorrect - https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/ That was the moment that business/wealth/rich decided to turn their resources towards directly influencing and controlling government. Reagan and his made up “welfare queens” came shortly after and wealth inequality has sharply risen since. Wildly successful coup. | ||||||||
| ▲ | inanothertime 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Bravo!!! | ||||||||
| ▲ | keybored 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Yup, caught me falling for the propaganda. 1. When the capitalists wage class war: bussiness as usual, some murmuring about widening wealth gap by progressive, diffuse threats to democracy 2. When workers complain about the system: all hands on deck, class war immiment, please think of the children and the stability of society | ||||||||