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[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the members of Congress are extremely wealthy, Republican and Democrat alike. They're not doing anything about this coup consolidating capitalist class power because they stand to personally gain from it. They don't have to pretend to not have the votes to stop yet another grab at working class wallets because they can point at Elon and say "we have no power here."

There are certain people who never want to hear it, but very few national politicians give a shit about us, certainly not enough to make a difference. They're in it for personal gain, everything else is performative.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Some of them also don't want to risk being violently purged by fascists so are bowing down early.

The handful that are actually speaking out are risking being very dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Which is fucking terrifying and why I've (and others) been screaming that nobody is coming to save us, we have to save each other. Put down the identity stuff for now and rekindle the militant labor movements we used to have in this country. Withholding our labor is the only way out of this - they need us a lot more than we need them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What a fucking take lmao

"the blacks and the gays getting systemically purged from society doesn't matter compared to the real stuff, things that personally impact me"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Yes, because that's obviously what I meant. You totally got the exact right thing out of what I wrote and didn't read your own bullshit into it at all. You sure got me pegged.

Fucking toad.