True story, the US is a state founded by immigrants.
If anything that’s an argument against immigration, considering what happened to the people that lived there before
Well as long as they promise not to systematically murder us with vastly superior technology
no no, I’m not the child of immigrants! I’m iTaLiAn AmeRiCan, gosh.
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Illegal immigrants, no less.
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Relevance?
The rich Americans are seldomly native Amaricans, so the meme is right about the immigrants holding all the money.
Immigrants. I always knew it was them. Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them
I’d like to buy your rock
Immigrants? So elongated muskrat?
The Left is right. This doesn’t make sense.
You climb to the top panels and start munching.
The LGBTQ does not steal your money, they steal your sex!
bruh this is the worst 4 panel ive seen this week
If by ‘worst’ you mean ‘bravest’ and ‘truest’ and ‘most important’ then I agree
Making fun of rightoids sure is brave on this site…
And the solution is?
Democratically owning the means of production among the workers. Instead of some greedy rich guy who’d want to give as little of the profit as possible to them.
See, that works for a farm.
I don’t see how it works for a $40 billion chip fabrication plant.
You mean capitalist cooperatives? They exist
That’s an oxymoron. There is literally no such thing as a capitalist cooperative. By definition, co-ops are socialist.
Co-ops and unions are certainly steps in the right direction, but they’re more like temporary band-aids over Capitalism instead of implementing proper Socialism.
I’m so fucking sick and tired of seeing politics everywhere on lemme. You guys are worse than redditors with this shit
Too bad there is no working class left. The college educated left liked belittling blue collar workers too much.
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There’s no blue collar worker’s because it doesn’t pay enough.
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Educated people can and should work in blue collar fields, but unfortunately our society bases everything on money, so leaving blue collar work for higher paying jobs is literally the dear and fluffy capitalism you love so much. Anyone with an education is going to seek the highest paying job possible and none of those are blue collar.
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“working class” doesn’t mean field hands and electricians, it means everyone that isn’t a multi millionaire. I work in IT and am still working class, you work blue collar and are working class, the salesman that works for a bank is working class. Unless you’re the owner of a business entity and do not have to work to pay your bills, then you’re “working class.”
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The conservative ideology has ground the middle class into non-existence through the deregulation of the market and the abysmal failure of trickle down economics. Compounded by the uselessness of the Democratic party (cause they’re all just old money career politicians too, what a surprise) not doing a damn thing when they’re in control of the legislative branch. Not because educated people made fun of yokels too much. You’re drawing conclusions out of your feelings, not reality.
Bro, there are tens of millions of blue collar workers nationwide, and depending on the trade, pays exceptionally well. Not millionaire well, but well enough to live reasonably comfortably.
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The… The college educated left are still working class, the blue collar workers are also working class, you are working class, I am working class.
Unless you are part of the owner class, you are the working class.
Ah. So the “left” aren’t social left, they just see money as the answer to all social progression too. Got it. Well that explains our current Western progress and predicament. Lot of growing up to do if, as far as social progression goes, money is seen as a power rather than a weakness. Ain’t no one in need getting any that way.
History repeats and we all stay the same. New generation, another dollar.
At least “eat the rich” makes more sense. Robin Hood would rob the guy and not socially recognise them as a king. More important things to do.
Edit: I actually expected more down votes than this (7) and was wanting some discourse. Anyone? I’m looking for someone to state what’s not already called out in that a core issue is the perception of monetary wealth being a controlling factor of social imbalance—which of course it is with a society of that perception.
You’ve all got bank accounts drained for the people, not your house deposit, right? Right? Sorry… Left? Left?
Wtf are you trying to say
You calling me crazy? Just 'cause I got a hotel in my foot doesn’t make me a boogalymoogalymoogaly!
Robin Hood liked the king. He was noble himself.
Oh yeah, haha. Prince*
The Left: Rich people are the problem
saltesc: So you agree that money is power? Gotcha!
Everyone: What does that even mean?
saltesc: Don’t dismiss my word salad without discourse!
Well, actual left doesn’t base itself on economical attributes. So it’s interesting to see a meme go straight to wealth while claiming leftism. Part of being on the left is recognisimg wealth as a faux controller and issue. Actual left doesn’t socially want in on it too. Actual left would aim at rejecting an acknowledgement of wealth by reinforcing services and freedoms to all without requirement of wealth, thus diluting the importance and value of money.
This comic almost opposes that by weighing importance of wealth. It’s insulting to leftism by claiming “this is left”.
A lot of the replies seem to be the trending American ideas of leftism which are very new and very unique to a $27T GDP with stonks of social issues. Kind of trying to force the two to connect, but that’s not how leftism works.
Y’all can literally Google it right now if you need to know what being left is. It’s social equality you’re meant to be working on, not getting a piece of the pie. Recognising and blaming distribution of wealth is literally opposing leftism because it’s acknowledging and giving finance power. The comic is more “I feel left out” when it should be “your money is nothing”.
TIL criticism of the status quo isn’t left. Neither is criticizing power dynamics. It’s not about sharing the cake equally but pretending the cake doesn’t exist. This will feed the hungry and house the homeless.
Sure, occupying empty houses will house the homeless but only if you are prepared for the power dynamics which is the police will evict you in no time. I wish money was nothing but force ain’t nothing and the state has a monopoly on force, so as long as they think money is something, it is. Good luck with your mutual aid initiative or what ever it is you are doing and we can try to change the system, but we can’t just ignore it.
States where the society views money as less important than social issues/equality already have and will continue to get progressive social benefits. You can’t put a value on something if every expects it to be free. Lack of wealth is not an issue when everyone expects things to be free. But by recognising wealth and pricetags does money become important and thus hoarded. Th cake isn’t money, it’s cake. You don’t need money redistributed for everyone to get cake when cake is expected as a social staple and offset by the society as a whole.
This is fundamental leftism. A society won’t achieve it if they’re focused on people having more money than them. “But how will I pay for cake if they have all the money?!” Uhhh, you don’t. You demand the cake and halt everything until you get the cake. Once everyone has cake, back to business as usual.
I can’t recall a single historical social issue that was resolved by acknowledging and redistributing wealth. Enough people just demanded it and social equality happened.
I love how you totally ignore my point. Sure, money isn’t the cake, but housing is. Good luck ignoring the cops that evict you!
Sure, I want a classless, moneyless, stateless society but on the way there, we can’t ignore what is. I’m not a Marxist but I think we can agree that Marx was left. He wrote a book “Das Kapital”. You can literally google what it is about.
