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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s still wild to me that in 2025 people think the problem is racists who accumulated money to do racist things…

    When it’s always obviously been gluttonous people using race to divide everyone else so we don’t take our wealth back from them.

    President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/

    And always so smug…

    Like, you legitimately don’t even understand that you’re out here repeating propaganda that actively works against your own self interests, just like the racists.

    And you’re all so fucking smug about being ignorant.

    You have two nice clearly defined teams and you show up every week to wave your pompoms, never addressing the actual issue while the oligarchs would laugh their asses off at you doing their work for free if they ever did think of you.

    But at least you never have to think deeper than what billionaire owned media tells you to think, that would be hard

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      2 days ago

      I can’t tell if that’s directed at me, but if it is… I never said what “those” people meant.

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          The irony of you calling OP “smug” then going off on that condescending rant…

          Like, you don’t even actually contradict them, just talk down to them for not addressing the “correct” group of shitty people in their 2 sentence post.

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            They fucked up…

            Couldn’t admit it, feigned ignorance…

            Then doubled down and claimed an ambiguous word meant something else, without realizing it turned the intial comment into gibberish.

            The only ironic part is because I just blocked them instead of pointing it out, other people who don’t understand are assuming the last one to make a comment “won”.

            Feel free to reply again, easy win. I won’t even have to actively ignore it.

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              1 day ago

              Not every interaction is a dick-waving contest that needs to be “won”. Christ, learn how to talk to people.

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          Oh, I understood your point, and the funny thing is my meaning of “those” was class, not race. But you see what you want to see… I just wasn’t sure if you were using a reply as a soapbox or not.