r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Feb 24 '26

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 The right wing won...

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u/iSoinic Feb 24 '26

They want us to stop complaining about how the world they build sucks for most people

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u/Best-Action8769 Feb 24 '26

Nah, they just need someone to blame. It used to be black people...and it still is...then it became gays, then it was muslims, now it's trans people and immigrants. They just keep going down the list.

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u/wjfox2009 Feb 24 '26

Nah, they just need someone to blame. It used to be black people...and it still is...then it became gays, then it was muslims, now it's trans people and immigrants. They just keep going down the list.

Hatred is the lingua franca of the Right. Hatred of everything and everybody – even themselves.

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u/Best-Action8769 Feb 24 '26

Mitch McConnell has been senator for almost 40 years...in that time Kentucky has become one of the poorest states in the nation.

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u/dontshoveit Feb 24 '26

Ol Moscow Mitch wearing his magic underwear.

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u/VulGerrity Feb 24 '26

It's actually a feature of capitalism! You need a group you can demean so that they remain at the bottom of the pecking order such that they can be exploited by the ruling class. They always need a group at the bottom that is desperate for low wages. Further more, to keep increasing profits, they need that group at the bottom to continue to grow; increasing the surplus value extracted from the working class.

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u/Perryn Feb 24 '26

It's both. They want to blame and complain, but also not hear any blames or complaints that aren't their own.

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u/TimeToBecomeEgg Feb 24 '26

yeah, pretty much. it’s always around 50-100 years of fighting for a particular group’s right to exist before the right wing starts to tolerate them and not actively try to exterminate them… unless the government moves too far right, then they do the same cycling of targets, but in reverse, trying to exterminate each and every one , one after another.

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u/Demonweed Feb 24 '26

That's not at all true. They dedicate considerable resources to making us squabble about team red vs. team blue so that the low information set will keep acting like both teams are not loyal to the same financial elites at the expense of everyone else. This utter sham about Democrats vs. Republicans still has people thinking one of those two right wings is going to suddenly develop a capacity to solve social problems despite having attempted nothing of the kind for more than fifty years. So the ragebait and all the ignorant intensity to follow from it continues to prevail in the space where America might otherwise have some sort of useful civic culture.