• Retropunk64@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Sorry? Are you part of the ruling class that’s murdering American Capitalism? Because yeah, they are pretty organized.

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      5 hours ago

      The ruling class is the Capitalist class. They are doing further Capitalism. Capitalism isn’t only its less-developed stages, but also its dying stages.

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      the ruling class is as good as ever. why would they murder their own hegemony? where do you think our lack of money is going? why do you think they are doing this stuff to us?

      we are experiencing capitalism as intended. its not dying its just bad and doesnt feel the need to hide it anymore like they did briefly the last few decades.

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        2 days ago

        Okay, and? Doesn’t change the fact that they’re murdering the current system to replace it with something far more dangerous.

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          i edited my comment after you responded, before i noticed that you did.

          i argue that this is capitalism working as intended. its just that they don’t feel like hiding it anymore. if we just wait and let it collapse it might as well bring the literal habitability of the planet down with it. the burgeoise does not seem to want to stray from this path. the us empire is indeed collapsing, however.

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              see what i mean is thats not sabotage, its neither. thats just squeezing more out of us, poors are getting poorer. the people on the reigns are slightly less dumb than they look.

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                They ARE sabotaging the system that we as a society built though. Nothing is collapsing, they’re just knocking it down on our heads. Who said they were dumb, you?

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                  Let’s just pretend the US haute bourgeoisie are intentionally burning down the economic system that made and continues to make them rich, fully aware of what they’re doing it.

                  At whose behest? For what reason? Listen to yourself.

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                    Control. They already have more money than god, the system has already served it’s purpose. But the safeguards that keep you and me safe also keeps them in line (mostly). Knock those safeguards down, and they can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity. The wealth disparity will only get worse, they will control everything, and we will be literal slaves to their whims.

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                  we as a society didn’t build capitalism from the ground up, and capitalism was always supposed to have a boot constantly on our throats. theres nothing being “knocked down”, capitalism isnt going anywhere. there was never democracy in capitalism in the first place.

                  they are just taking away the comforts they themselves conceded to us before.

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                    The American capitalist society we built is more than that. That is what is being knocked down.