tweet by Calum @MrMakeFun:
Right: Let’s do genocide
Left: Let’s not do genocide
Center: Guys, you’re gonna have to compromise, let’s just do /some/ genocide
Right: I guess I can live with that for now
Left: No
Center: See, this is why no one likes the left, you guys are the real extremists, smh
Broken to me, and many, I should have specified. I agree on the coddling, which is why I call bullshit when I can. Sometimes you have to pick your battles as some people just want to be angry, in which case im just not dealing with you on a personal level at all ftmp. Sorry about my choice of words, my bad. It was low hanging fruit for something far more nuanced than “dumb”.
I get where you’re coming from but think it’s still important to point out that you (and me and all working class people) experiencing only a “broken” system is also in itself a feature not a bug. Keeping us struggling and downtrodden means we’ll work that much harder too reach the (impossible) dream they motivate us with, or to avoid even worse struggles like homelessness that they always keen on display.
It isn’t something you are doing wrong, nor is it something you can avoid through any action or inaction. It’s just how the system is, and the only way to change it is to abolish the system.
And to get the numbers we need to do that, we need to wake more people up, even if it makes them uncomfortable. The alternative being much much more uncomfortable, they just don’t see themselves as the targets yet.
here are some alternative words to consider in the future, there are several lists like this out there to check out!
I’m with you 💯 your words ring true in my mind. I will look at this list right now.