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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • The current structure of society is wrong and is extremely harmful. Oligarchy is an abomination which produces terrible outcomes.

    You wouldn’t choose this system in a vacuum. Therefore, the system must be fundamentally altered. To oppose this restructuring is both cruel and irrational. It is the epitome of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good - you’re so afraid of change that you’d rather keep an evil system in place.

    Such paralyzing cowardice is not reasonable, and it is even less reasonable to feel smug about such cowardice. If you are going to protect this harmful system, then the more appropriate emotion to feel is shame.



  • Some of those people are looking at a life of medical debt induced misery for themselves and family

    Right, but it benefits our ruling class for the working class to have an extremely financially precarious existence. Makes it harder for them to pay attention, help each other, start unions, rise up, etc if they’re constantly focused on their immediate circumstances rather than the big picture.

    Smartphone addiction also aids in this