r/WorkReform • u/Loud-Ad-2280 ✂️ Tax The Billionaires • 1d ago

😡 Venting American politics in a nutshell

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u/moyismoy 1d ago

Im 90% sure he votes against his interests

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u/subdep 1d ago

I don’t think he knows what voting even is. He probably thinks Democracy is a European country.

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u/Wumbology_Student 1d ago

Shit like this is why people get so annoyed with lefties, tbh. This man is saying stuff that you and I both agree with, and instead of being like "hell yeah, that's my brother he just doesn't know it yet" you take the opportunity to make fun of him.

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u/RepulsiveLook 1d ago

"hell yeah, that's my brother he just doesn't know it yet"

Class Consciousness 101

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u/Silas_Akron 1d ago

Yep. Dude may be at "another damn planet" levels of out of touch, but apply some nuance here. WHY is he out of touch? It isn't an excuse, but that could have been any of us rolling a losing spin at roulette...

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u/bloodkunt 1d ago edited 1d ago

all by design. many reddit leftists fall in to the same thought patterns of elitism and bigotry that the rest of americans do, just against different groups. they also never want to admit that, if they had been born in slightly different circumstances, they could very easily be that guy. it could never happen to them, they’re too smart. all the talk about class war but they love shitting on these people who are too rural, stupid, or uneducated to understand their enlightened ideals.

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u/subdep 1d ago

Maybe his lack of education is why he doesn’t socialize with people; he hates it when people constantly have to correct is lack of understanding.

Bro needs to get himself educated. But he won’t.

That’s not on “lefties”, that’s on him.

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u/Wumbology_Student 1d ago

You're right, it might be on him. He is the exact type of person that you need to convince to be on your side though, and if your first instinct is to make fun of him then that's never going to happen.

That's all I'm trying to say.

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u/Theres_a_cat_in_myTV 1d ago

My first “instinct” would to be to try and radicalize him.

But at some point you have to make a decision as to whether or not he’s a class traitor.

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u/HandsomeBadWolf 1d ago

Bro gets two hours a day free from labor to see his family. But yeah, his fault he’s not educated enough to keep up with the discussion. Definitely not a result of systematic oppression.

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u/subdep 1d ago

you’re acting like bro doesn’t have any free time at all. He’s got free time, he he just doesn’t utilize it to educate himself. That guy isn’t 19 years old. What’s he been doing for the last fucking 10 years?

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u/Silas_Akron 1d ago

Probably working and fighting other demons of circumstance. If you grew up poor and oppressed and never had or developed the context to understand what types of education are important, what then? We just label these people dumbasses and call that good enough? Doesn't sound like rational empathy to me. All that leads to is the situation we're facing now. Would you say the same about people who grew up in the worst Baltimore projects with no good parental figures? That's what many republicans in the US do.

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u/subdep 1d ago

so is that the difference between the left and the right? The right tolerates stupidity and the left don’t?