• Perspectivist@feddit.uk
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    13 hours ago

    Sure does make me proud to be a working class male living alone, paycheck to paycheck knowing that some CEO out there is earning billions.

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      10 hours ago

      I tell you what I told the last guy. This shirt wasn’t about him, but like every other insecure white male, he had to make it about him. It’s pathetic. And it’s the exact insecurity that those rich billionaires use to get idiots to vote for their interests by scapegoating the very people represented on that shirt. And it is OVERWHELMINGLY white males that are those idiots.

      I wasn’t born rich either, but the last people I’m going to blame it on are the people with less security in this world than me.

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          10 hours ago

          There was no push here, and that it’s perceived is the real enemy’s propaganda doing its job. But yeah, keep thinking that punching down is the solution to the problem. I’m sure the guys who would rather starve people than help them afford healthcare are going to solve all this guy’s grievances as long as he helps them pick on minorities. I mean, just look at all the history of how well that’s worked.

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            9 hours ago

            “No push here,” and yet you accuse us of “punching down” when all we’ve done is point out that there are men too that are suffering - and whenever someone tries to draw attention to it, they get dismissed as insecure idiots.

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              9 hours ago

              Literally everyone who isn’t rich is suffering in that same way. The rigged economy is trying to kill all of us. But working class straight white men don’t also have that blamed on them and don’t have their lives threatened in the way these people do on a daily basis.

              He chose a post about how these people are threatened, and complained because it wasn’t about him. Not only to complain about how this is the one place he didn’t see himself represented, but then to use that as an excuse for supporting people who are literally trying to kill the people on that shirt. If you don’t see why that isn’t disturbingly probablematic and childishly selfish I don’t know what to say to you.

              I’m a straight white male saying this to you and him, grow the fuck up. I have the same grievances about the rigged economy. And to top that off, I have a chronic life threatening illness.The people in power are trying way harder to kill me than the average straight white male. You don’t see me bitching and moaning that I’m not on that shirt, because I see myself on that shirt. Those people are me, we are all humans struggling. I know who the real enemy is. I would NEVER blame my problems on these people, or complain that their struggle is getting recognition. Because that struggle is IN ADDITION to all the same economic bullshit I have to struggle with day in and day out.

              Instead of saying, “yeah, shit sucks out there and I’m with you,” he chose to say “this is why people like me support the people trying to kill you.” That is so fucked up beyond belief. THAT’S why he’s being dismissed.

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                Noone usually takes a minute in these debates to just acknowledge when someone is fighting the good fight and has made them feel better about humanity. I would like to do that this time and say thank you for being a great person (yea I know it’s cheesy, but sue me for it, lol).

                I am also really sorry you have that condition and that we live in this timeframe where that can’t be quickly and adequately resolved for you. I would really love if I could offer you more tangible support, but as you say, the economy is fucked. So I guess I just wish you the best of luck.

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                9 hours ago

                You’re just proving his point. He didn’t make it about himself - he pointed out that people like him are constantly excluded and vilified in exactly the way you’re doing right now. You’ve taken his criticism of a pattern and responded by attacking him personally while lumping an entire demographic into one caricature - something you’d never do if it were any other group.

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                  8 hours ago

                  He chose a post about how these people are threatened, and complained because it wasn’t about him. Not only to complain about how this is the one place he didn’t see himself represented, but then to use that as an excuse for supporting people who are literally trying to kill the people on that shirt. If you don’t see why that isn’t disturbingly problematic and childishly selfish I don’t know what to say to you.

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                  You can’t really exclude someone on a society-wide level who is part of the most generally accepted and respected demografic to any degree that would actually affect their life in any real way. Your arguing y’all are being attacked when you can’t even have a civil discussion where you acknowledge your priviledge without foaming at the mouth with rage. Please seek therapy, all of you that can’t see the real enemy.

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                    8 hours ago

                    Could you please point out where I supposedly claimed that men are being attacked, are acting uncivil, or “foaming at the mouth with rage”?