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by markvdb 6d ago
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- walrus01 6d agoTranslated to American: "fuck you, I got mine"
- Gibbon1 6d agoA thought is that from 'their' perspective the potential loss of power and status on the tip top of things is to them existential. Consider a certain Senator being wheeled into the Senate to vote. Why even subject ones self to that. Because to step down is annihilation. There was another Senator in 2023 being wheeled around the same way. So all of this is performative asserting power in order to punish anyone seen as a threat to the current system.
- thrance 5d agoThere's this idea in leftist thought, that in the end capital only ends up growing its relative power over labourers. Trump's policies, Climate Change, they all make everyone worse off in the absolute, but they end up giving capital more relative power over the rest of us.
- thrance 5d agoAnd it should be noted that "déluge" is more often than not used to refere to the biblical flood, not just any flood.