• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve watched people like you shoot themselves in the foot with useless arguments like this since I was in high school.

    You can’t just say “Tax the rich.” No, we have to analyze every term and only use proper nomenclature. Heaven will fall if we call a Social Democrat a Socialist and the seas will part if we confuse an anarchist with a Trotskyite.

    I’ve watched it for years, and I’ve never once see it help anyone actually win an election.

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      Holy generalizations, Batman!

      My purpose in making the distinction isn’t to be pedantic, it’s to help clarify the nature of the class warfare we’re dealing with. I don’t care if you want to use the term “middle class”. I only bring up the distinction because of the nature of the original post, which was explicitly noting the false narrative of the “lazy poor”.

      Tax the rich, restore the middle class, use whatever terminology you want. But understand that the poor are not the enemy of the middle class, and they’re not the villains. The rich people are.