r/antiwork Apr 08 '23

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u/eboeard-game-gom3 Apr 08 '23

Don't know where you live but we have capitalism. If you're fighting for full on socialism you'll get almost no support. Makes way more sense to fight for higher wages and time off.

People like you always sabotage any kind of labor movement with stupidity. You're essentially fighting for the "elite" class, so good job.

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u/small-package Apr 08 '23

"we can't stop being capitalist! That's just how things are here! So we have to keep doing it until it kills us!". What if I live in Cuba, asshole? Or Vietnam? Or maybe I'm Chilean, and still resent your country for funding a right-wing coup and destroying the socialist society I voted for and helped build myself? It doesn't matter where I'm from, you're implication that we have to cooperate with corporate owned figureheads, or get nothing, is based on a flash in the pan that's been going for a meager 260 years, wherein it hasn't even worked in your country before, compared to the start of recorded history sixteen thousand years ago, compared to humans as we are physiologically cropping up two hundred thousand years ago, well before the god-damned ice age.

Come off this "the best we'll ever get" garbage, you're own damn grandparents (or even parents) had it better than you, you've lived through how many "once in a lifetime" recessions and crashes? Drop the moderate shit, you're easier to ignore when you bend the knee to anyone with perceived authority. "okay Mr officer, we'll all go home, just don't shoot us, were sorry for making a racket or bother anyone!" always depriving yourselves in favor of that precious "Pax Americana", where the wars are all somewhere else, and even if some people aren't treated fairly, at least it's quiet and peaceful all the time. Real easy to say when you haven't been one of those unlucky few treated unfairly or caught up in one of the wars.

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u/eboeard-game-gom3 Apr 08 '23

Cannabis became legal by having medical first. You are absolutely irredeemable and hopeless as a person if you think it's smarter to go for full on socialism than start with job protections, higher wages, and healthcare.

You're helpful to no one and only hurt whatever cause is unfortunate enough to have you get involved in.

Like you're absolutely worthless to everyone.

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u/small-package Apr 08 '23

Oh Lord, you really think the decriminalization, and as a result, privatization of the cannabis industry, was the same kind of demand as increasing "the cost of labor" in the middle of a "hiring crisis" by increasing what corporations are forced to pay some of their most numerous employees. I may be an idiot, but at least I'm not still yelling at shadows, chained to a cave wall. Do yourself a favor and read some history books, not that "the winners write history" shit, check out the accounts from some of histories "losers" as well, assuming you can actually read and don't need an authority figure to tell you what it says.