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My landlord keeps putting my rent up, but so is every other landlord, so despite desperately wanting to move, I have nowhere to move to, because the rents everywhere have become completely outrageous (and even if it's less than what I'm paying now, I get told I can't afford it because they demand your income be so many times the rent because guaranteeing a return on their investment is more important than poor people being housed).

Of course this will never change as long as we are ruled by the fucking land and property owning gentry.

History has shown that nothing less is going to stop them from dumping waste in our water supplies.

Lol, when in history have capitalists ever been held accountable? Mild slaps on the wrist (including supposed jail time, which is neve gong to come to be, and if it is, it'll be of a sacrificial manager, not the owners) aren't going to change shit as long as the system that enables them exists.

Would it be nice to see those in charge get locked up? Sure! But it's never going to happen, and without other systemic change, even if it did (but it won't), it's still just applying a band aid to a brain tumour.

Good.

They need to fear for their lives in direct relation to how many other people they've forced to fear for theirs.

Not a single mention of capitalism, and reformist bs like

For example, out of the crises of the interwar period and the devastation of the second world war came legal protections for human rights, universal welfare systems and decolonisation.

Ignoring the fact that all are on the rise again (E: "all being eroded again" might have been a better way to put it), because capitalism is decaying in to fascism again, and will continue to do so in never ending cycles unless it is abolished, makes this yet another fluff piece that completely misses the point.

Except

If I leave a rake on the ground and it rusts over 5 years

Is categorically incomparable with "I implemented a robot specifically designed to withhold healthcare from as many people as possible to save my company money and gain me a big fat bonus"

Right, which leads to their empathy going to the rich, rather than with their own class.

It's why the whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" construct exists in the first place - to manipulate enough of the working class to act against their own interests.

"Jealousy problem or a self-serving attitude" are a result of masses of propaganda and indoctrination (E: and the inequality baked in to the system) designed precisely to that end, not a natural state of being some people just posses.

he also had it all DUE TO CAPITALISM

As far as I'm aware he was not part of the owning class, he just had a good paying job, that does not make him a benefactor of capitalism.

I see a lot of leftist political whores try to smear him based on his class…

Says the person who brought his class up.. 🤔

Look, I'm not trying to have a go, but honestly this is completely derailing from my point - health is not a virtue, nor is it in our control (despite what abled people love to believe), and being in ill health and or becoming disabled is only "losing it all" because of capitalism and abled supremacy, NOT because sick and disabled people's lives no longer have value (which is what the original comment implies).

Yup, I actually included a couple of lines about how anyone can become part of at least one marginalised group in the blink of an eye, but it didn't make the cut.

I also refer to the Just world fallacy often, it has an absolutely massive over presence in our society, in large part due to organised religion (and not just the big 3, either), but it is absolutely fostered by the capitalist state too because it recognises just how powerful a tool it is at keeping people loyal and shifting blame to those oppressed by the system rather than the system itself.

And I also agree with your conclusion, though I think it's less about general empathy (which can be so easily manipulated, as we can see by the numbers of poor people who empathise with the rich they've been convinced they might one day become), and more about building solidarity among working class people in spite of the division being sown by those with all the power, who invest large amounts of it in to preventing us doing exactly that, in fear of the power we hold if we do.

He lost it all because of capitalism.

I think this is an important point to consider, but the emphasis is being shifted when it really shouldn't - yes, pain is hell, and it makes life hard, even unbearable, but you know what radicalises pain patients? The brick walls we hit and slaps in the face we get at every turn when desperately seeking help and support from a system and institutions based on so many levels of bias and discrimination and exclusion (capitalism, ableism, sexism, racism, classism, queerphobia, fatphobia and on and on), designed to keep us out of sight and out of mind. Being dismissed as "hysterical", a liar, a drug seeker, a lazy burden, a scrounger, fat, "uncooperative" (like when autistic people struggle to make eye contact, or in too much pain and trauma to communicate calmly). Being locked up, institutionalised, or just completely ignored. Being told it's "too expensive" to provide us with quality of life, but rather encouraged to be "assisted" in disposing of ourselves instead, or doing it for us with lack of funding and support.

Yeah, being marginalised radicalises you, but not because of who you are, but because of the systems of oppression designed to marginalise you, which others simply have the privilege of not being directly impacted by (which in far too many cases results in not even believing they exist, which of course serves to maintain them).

It has settled the debate - our government hates trans people, and is actively withholding our human rights and going out of its way to harm us.

If that isn't a pressing issue to you, you are part of the problem and a transphobe.

Not how mental illness works, but go off, I guess.. 🙄

(but don't really, this kind of bullshit only deepens stigma and misunderstanding of how it does work, and makes those who suffer feel even more alienated)

I think the govt is fighting the wrong battle here

A system is what it does.

Haven't you ever seen those people who write on rice? It can be done! lol

"Delay. Deny. Dispose." Is what goes through my mind every time I see those words, though I quite like yours, and it also made me think of "Delay. Deny. Defenestrate." which would work well for our Russian comrades (those opposing their government, its institutions, and the oligarchs in charge).

Imagine thinking of being held extremely mildly accountable for your shitty actions as "getting crucified".

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

This seriously needs an update.

"Fuck you, I'm going to get mine"

I wish it were any consolation at all to say you weren't alone in those feelings..