What?
More like we’re too busy fighting each other to realize who is largely perpetuating these fights and who directly benefits from a distracted populace.
I’m legitimately surprised I had to spell this out.
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BooBees@fedinsfw.app 6 hours ago
Is it “both sides are the same” Saturday already?! Boy how time flies when the right is in full control again, destroying everything again, after the left rebuilt it the best they could in their limited time in control again.. but it’s the same coin so you should just stay home and not vote, right op?!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
9point6@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Are you confusing liberals with left wingers?
The left have been very loudly pushing back against the billionaire class for a very long time
whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah, the actual left’s whole deal is fighting billionaires.
I really need everyone to stop conflating liberals with the left, and also learn some basic political theory before speaking on it.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 hour ago
Here’s an example of Democrats fighting Socialist boogeyman I read today:
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
As they should, but you can’t deny the infighting between other factions. The point remains: we have to take a step back, and focus on the real problems, rather than the bait they throw in front of us.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I wouldn’t be much of a left winger if I did deny that
Turning the working class against each other is one of the main ways the elite protect their power
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 hours ago
This meme must be targeted at USians, where the Democrats, the left wing of liberal capitalism, are referred to as “the Left” as part of liberal capitalists’ war against anarchism, Marxism, and other class-conscious perspectives. Because elsewhere in the world, the Left (where they exist) are generally the ones who are fighting the people distracting and dividing us (the capitalists).
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I think what OP is trying to say is it’s not left vs right, it’s poor vs rich. That the billionaires use issues of policy as a distraction from the inequality and wealth gap between us and them.
peacepath@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It depends on your side:
if you vote for the right, then you are likely to win with both sides, so you don’t really need to vote.
if you are for the left, you absolutely need to vote for the left AND to do not let them in peace once elected, because without being pushed and forced to do a left politic, they are likely to do a right one.