• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    Someone who’d go as far as calling them the “American Peasant” probably doesn’t know enough about their interests to be talking at them about what their interests as a class are.

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      22 days ago

      We know what we are: wage slaves. Other than being technically ahistorical, “peasant” is close enough to what we are: the oppressed class. I don’t see a problem.

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        22 days ago

        How do I just know you wrote this on a $3,000 rainbow-LED gaming rig you bought with your parent’s engineer wages?

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          22 days ago

          You are no Sherlock 😂 I’ve been working as a software developer since the early ’90s and am more than old enough to join AARP.

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      22 days ago

      Someone who’d go as far as calling them the “American Peasant” probably doesn’t know enough about their interests to be talking at them about what their interests as a class are.

      What an amazingly privileged response.

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        22 days ago

        Calling out the inherent privilege carried by those who’d feel comfortable letting the republicans win to “teach the establishment a lesson” is not, in fact, a privileged response.