• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The important thing to understand is that groceries are a small part of a much larger system that exists to extract money from everyone and give it to a small number of people.

    Those people own everything. Politicians, courts, the news, the police, etc. All the institutions you think of as part of society that exist to serve the people actually serve the interests of this small group of people, the extraction class.

    They cause or at least refuse to prevent most of the suffering in the world, including yours. They’re destroying the planet itself with their unbridled, untethered greed. And they try to control opposition to them by owning the media, as well as the digital platforms we use to interact.

    The only war is class war.

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      2 months ago

      100% this. Everything else is just a distraction meant to divide us so we cannot effectively act against them.

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      2 months ago

      It’s kings and such all over again, just by another name. They bought out the checks and balances of the founding fathers so a lot of that is illusion at this point.

      If it wasn’t, as one example, things like Google and Microsoft would’ve been split like Bell telephone already. Look at Clarence Thomas, as another example. Look at the high money duopoly that is our election system.

      We’re back to kings. I’m sure Madison and all the rest would be thrilled.