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kingshrubb@lemmy.ml to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days ago

ICE = modern day Brownshirts

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kingshrubb@lemmy.ml to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days ago
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    Well yeah that’s kind of how rules and laws are supposed to work.

    That’s kind of the entire purpose of having a system of government. If a government doesn’t exist to protect the people who pay for it, what’s the point of it even existing?

    Pretty sure the people intentionally destroying the U.S. are aware of that, but it’s always kind of a head scratcher to learn the people that are carrying out their orders have been so busy goose-stepping and commiting crimes on their behalf, they haven’t really picked up on it.

    I’m really not sure why I have to explain to other adults that we all benefit as a society from a system that promotes equality and protects the majority from harm and exploitation.

    When you help these people in their never ending war on equality, you’re helping to further cement a system of government that enables exploitation and removes any expectation of protection for the majority.

    That is what you’re working towards on behalf of a billionaire class. A world where they’re protected by the system, but we’re all expendable, including you. That is what people mean when they call you class traitors. If that term offends you it’s probably because you’re not understanding or recognizing your own exploitation.

    You’ve handed over civil rights and civil liberties for the “freedom” to participate in a caste system which protects an overclass you will never be part of. Your sole purpose in the system is to help keep them propped up above the rest of society by enforcing their rules and acting as cannon fodder that serves to insulate them from the rest of the masses.

    Mudsill theory is the proposition that there must be, and always has been, a lower class or underclass for the upper classes and the rest of society to rest upon. The term derives from a mudsill, the lowest threshold that supports the foundation for a building. The theory was first articulated by James H. Hammond, a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina and a wealthy Southern plantation owner, in a speech on March 4, 1858. Hammond argued that every society must find a class of people to do menial labor, whether called slaves or not, and that assigning that status on a racial basis followed natural law, while the Northern United States’ social class of white wage laborers presented a revolutionary threat. Mudsill theory and similar rhetoric has been dubbed “the Marxism of the Master-Class” which fought for the rights of the propertied elite against what were perceived as threats from the abolitionists, lower classes and non-whites to gain higher standards of living

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      Mudsill Theory

      Sounds like Karl Marx to me, polarity reversed.

      Anyhow I like what this person had to sing about it:

      Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
      And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
      But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

      And this one too.

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        That’s why it’s called the Marxism of the master class

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      The thing is, they view it as a fair trade to support that in exchange for the opportunity to be a part of that system. They might not be the galactic emperor, but they don’t seem to mind being a stormtrooper. Everyone else is just peasants and rebel scum in their eyes.

      To them, they’re high enough on the social hierarchy to have plenty of people to look down on, and that’s all they need to feel better about themselves.

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        True, but they shouldn’t act so surprised when they find themselves thrown under the bus. They probably always will, but again, it’s because they’re too ignorant to recognize their own exploitation.

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          They figure as long as they’re the ones driving the bus, they won’t be the ones getting caked in the tire treads…

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            Special snowflake syndrome must be a hell of warm and fuzzies drug.

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