• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    we’re hyper polarizing ourselves into ‘us vs them’ groups, just like the mainstream media and the capitalistic elite wants us to!

    Yeah man, the ruling class wants us to hate our landlords. Excellent take man, your head must be heavy with brain.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Do have any idea how massive the gap is between us and the true ruling class is? They aren’t landlords, they own the investment group that owns the holding company that employ the landlords.

      So yeah, very intelligent to use your energy to attack people who are at worst, their incredibly disposable footsoldiers.

      Also, I hate to break it to you, but if you want the split to be black and white like this yet you have the time, energy, and opportunity to complain about this sort of shit online… you probably aren’t one of the proletariat. You’re petit bourgeois.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Well yeah. You do realize there are many, many levels of wealth right?

      Orwell explains it well in 1984. The upper class only comes down when the middle and the lower team up.

      If you’re upper class and want to prevent a revolution that takes you off the top level of society, the way to do that is to sew division between the lower and middle classes.

      In a typical landlord/renter scenario, the landlord is middle class and the renter is low class.

      That person is like an inch above you, and there are other people who are miles above that.