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    5 days ago

    With the first comment, you seem to be making out as if it’s a choice we made, to have the worst of humanity rule over us.

    The reality is, the worst of humanity forced themselves on us and we’ve had little to no choice over the matter. If we voted for good people and only bought from good people, the bad people would simply neutralise them.

    Billionaires do NOT reflect the general population. They manipulate the general population into their preferred image which, I can agree, might look similar.

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      5 days ago

      It’s still a choice.

      The bad people cannot neutralise everybody.

      I don’t fully understand the last paragraph. What is the preferred image?

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        I get what you’re saying but I’m not sure the choice is as chosen (for want of a better term). People are given just enough to lose, if they try to buck the system. Almost everyone is an informant. Especially at work.

        For sure, they can’t neutralise everyone but they only have the neutralise a certain amount. I’m not talking about people like you and me who refuse to question the first things we were ever told about the world.

        Docile and subservient to a ruling class. I’d say, through no fault of their own, gen z has been psy-oped since they were born. They would be the best example now.

        I understand and feel the same frustration that I think would lead to the conclusion you came to. I don’t think you’re stupid or crazy for thinking it. If you’re saying it in terms of “no ones coming to save us. The working class won’t rise up in glorious revolution” then i think we’re on the same chapter, if not the same page.

        It’s so refreshing to have a civil disagreement with someone. Considering the state of the rest of the Internet, I always like to show any third party who might read this that the above is how it could be.

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          4 hours ago

          What is our disagreement? The agency of people?

          I would even disagree more. It’s not docility that prevents people from acting. People don’t act because they feel that they will be worse off in a just world.

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        The bad people cannot neutralise everybody.

        They don’t need to, only to get enough apathetic or foolish people to do it for them. They also don’t neutralize by killing, but by making sure they never hold power or influence