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if you're paid to work you're a worker

if you're paid to own property you are unnecessary

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gotta love the nonprofits that are just apparatuses to redistribute money from people who give a shit to politicians who don't

dear nonprofits: "size of pride parade" is an awful metric for the quality of life of lgbtq+ people and you need to stop

I'm circling back to one of my favorite writers, Corey Robin, and his definiton of conservatism: "A meditation on--and theoretical rendition of--the felt experience of having power, seeing it threatened, and trying to win it back."

This is what the poor white person has in common with the billionaire: having power, and seeing it threatened. It's the common thread behind reactionary ideology from bathroom bills to bank deregulation. It's not false consciousness at all. It's a true expression of having held social power and refusing to admit that that power might be illegitimate.

You might argue that there will be more to be gained if you erase racism and focus on the real shared enemy, the bourgeoisie, and you'd certainly be right, but you'd be missing a key component of what's happened here.

Namely, someone who has no power in the economic sphere has been given the right to have power in a social sphere. In other words, they sit at the top of a different hierarchy now. Sure, they don't currently have anything to gain from lowering billionaire taxes, but that's not the point. They now have a vested interest in *maintaining hierarchies exactly as they are.*

Because if being a billionaire is illegitimate, then whiteness might be illegitimate, and then the whole social order around which they've built their lives might crumble.

However, things start to go wrong, when you realize that a lot of the voices he's been amplifying are the voices of popular Youtubers, a lot of whom are part of the cryptofascist skeptic community. Then, there's the reminiscing of the old bygone era of the internet, with the implicit desire to enact a palingenesis of the online culture circa 2007. Calling it the "golden age" of the internet.

Here's the truth, there are no golden ages of the internet, every era has its own set of issues and problems, and I can tell you that 13 years ago, the internet was a toxic cesspit of neoliberalism, where online american jingoism started becoming popular, not to mention all the normalized homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and ableism running rampant.

This is what goes through my head when I'm faced with liberals' hot topics

*you're not really that way you just taught yourself to act that way on purpose*

*you're not really riding a bike you just taught yourself to ride a bike on purpose*