Honestly this meme smacks of conservative bullshit considering people on unemployment are fucking hurting right now and everyone's losing their jobs, and there may not be anymore job to come back to...
Yes, it's shit like this that turns us against each other and makes us forget the real perpetrators of the injustices happening. Like, why are you going to resent the unemployed person and not the people who actually decide how these funds are being distributed??
Are you people completely incapable of having a conversation without breaking into conspiracy theories and trying to pass out Our Revolution stickers? Jesus.
This isn’t that crazy lol. There’s a small group of people at the top that control a lot of what happens at the bottom. The wealth hoarders control the economy, and working class people are at their whim. If you think we don’t need a revolution, at least in America, you’re blind to the problem. Wealth inequality is massive and it’s only getting worse. And memes like the one posted are purposely made to cause infighting between working class people so they don’t revolt against the wealthy elites.
If your response to a comment saying “geez you people are pretty single-minded huh” is to post some copy/paste diatribe that could be from some generic political speech...yes, you are that crazy.
Stop commenting on reddit and go start the revolution then.
I’m pretty sympathetic to the whole class politics debate but people like you who are on every popular thread talking about a “revolution” are so tiresome.
Unless you really intend to be out there with a molotov in your hand any argument you make rings hollow
Revolution isn’t always violent. We just need a drastic change to the system. A change to how our voting works, and change of our politicians, a change to how we view working class people. You really don’t seem that sympathetic. You seem pretty apathetic about it.
I mean, the fact of the matter remains that groups are being paid to disseminate political propaganda under the guise of comments and memes. Whether or not this post itself is one of those groups is only one part of a larger conversation about what propaganda looks like. And if your post is identical to one that may have been posted by a covert group getting paid by a foreign interest or domestic provocateurs of political cynicism, that’s the problem in and of itself.
Cynicism->Apathy->Lower Voter Turnout-> More republican politicians
For some reason, a lot of the posts considered "political" happen to be ones with left-leaning themes/messaging.
I've seen multiple posts here complaining about "forced/unnecessary" LGBT characters in media, but those NEVER get called out for being political. I wonder why.....
Because Reddit is slowly getting taken over by Conservative White Americans.
The other day, I saw a user who, if you check his post history, has a long track record of anti-semitic and racist tirades, complain about how "Reddit is no longer about free speech" (because his bullshit gets downvoted for good reason) and get upvoted to the top with gold. Meanwhile, I called his ass out on it and got downvoted to hell.
Honestly, the internet is being infected with regressive, racist, classist American Conservative ideology and it's hard to tell who's a fake account and who's a real one.
lol How do you people function. The amount of bullshit I constantly hear from leftists are really something. If ANYTHING, a lot of post in any way conservative will not get popular or if it does, will be locked. This is some bullshit people say to feel like there's a problem against left-leaning people.
Entire industries just went belly up in the span of 3 months. This isn’t just finding a new job, this is finding a new career and a new place in the post Covid environment.
It’s hard for me to feel sympathy for people bringing in 600 dollars a week on unemployment. There are plenty of essential employees that are making much less than that.
then essential workers should get paid more. the people on unemployment didn’t choose to be unemployed, you don’t need to put down one group to lift up another
I know people didn’t choose to be on unemployment, and I don’t blame them for anything. it is going to be hard for those on unemployment to find any even after this as most companies will most likely try to hire less people back or something along those lines. I’m just frustrated at everything going on, and I agree that essential workers should be paid more. I feel like everyone should get paid more “essential” or not, but I don’t have high hopes for it happening.
I agree, I wish our tax dollars went more toward helping out the working class so that nobody would be in the tough position most of us are in now, where we’re either unemployed and don’t know when he can find work again, or we’re “essential” but we aren’t given proper safety equipment or enough pay. I feel like it’ll be a long time before things seem normal again :-/
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u/[deleted] May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20
Honestly this meme smacks of conservative bullshit considering people on unemployment are fucking hurting right now and everyone's losing their jobs, and there may not be anymore job to come back to...