• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      13 hours ago

      I think if you’re on the rooftops with a rifle shooting at protesters when the feds invade to stop people being mad about being murdered, your class has a lot of redemption to do before the poor consider you a comrade. What work have you done to that end, Mr. Shop owner? How have you helped the revolution?

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        11 hours ago

        Who said I owned a business? That sure isn’t my cup of tea even if I could afford it. I just know people who do. Some are pretty well off, others not. One of them went out of business this year. They had been scraping by for years and the downturn since Trump made them unprofitable so they saw no need to continue.

        What have I done? Voted. Sent messages to my representatives. I’m not against more direct/aggressive action, but I don’t think that’s me. I’ve never been that way.

            • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              9 hours ago

              There’s an argument to be made that participation in the electoral system does have a social cost. I guess my preference depends on how/where you participate, and that’s really not the part I care about.

              Its the armchairing.

              • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                edit-2
                8 hours ago

                The armchairing about what exactly? This all spawned off a guy tossing all business owners into a single bucket and my having a problem with that.

                Owning a business doesn’t automatically make you not poor.

    • Crankenstein@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      1 day ago

      Thanks for again telling me you don’t know anything about class struggle without telling me you don’t know.