It's kind of hard to not lose faith in humanity when the mercenaries who insist that there's no other way than #capitalism not only make up many humans, but which is made up of the working class, the ones who suffer the most from capitalism, yet are the ones who defend it with their lives. If not humanity, then at the very least, I lack any faith or hope in human intelligence and common sense.
@skeletor

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

The working class is is not homogeneous. Don't paint us all with the same brush. It's deeply insulting. It's also factually incorrect.

Spreading misinformation is counter-productive. So are classist insults.

You can never convince anybody of anything if you start by insulting them.

As my grandma used to say, "You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar."

Just a suggestion.

I haven't spread any misinformation. I said the mercenaries are made up of the working class, not that all workers are these mercenaries, but that these mercenaries are mostly or entirely made up of workers, which statistically must be the case since workers make up the majority of any society, and it's not likely that capitalists are out fighting their own battles.
@LevZadov @skeletor

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

They're not all mercenaries. A substantial portion of the grassroots fascist movement here is made up of misguided volunteers. They're not getting paid. In fact, it costs them.

But that's not the working class. That's just the working class fools. We're not all fools. If you want to condemn the fools, be specific. Also take note of their growing disillusionment with the Trump regime. It's only just begun.

Even fools resent being lied to. They were, and they're waking up to it. We should encourage them. Try starting with the things we agree with them. They're against foreign wars. We're against foreign wars. We're against being lied to. So are they. They hate the elites. We hate the elites. And so forth.

Don't just write them off because we disagree with them about Trump, or race, or whatever. He's screwed them over, too. That means we have common enemies. We choose our friends but history chooses our allies. We need allies. Everyone needs allies. Even them.

Yes, enemies can bury the hatchet and fight side by side. Consider for example the fight at Itter Castle:

https://blog.togetherweserved.com/the-german-wehrmacht-and-u-s-army-fought-the-nazi-ss-together-at-itter-castle/

The German Wehrmacht and U.S. Army Fought the Nazi SS Together at Itter Castle - TogetherWeServed Blog

Learn more about the Battle of Itter Castle: Allies and Germans unite against the SS in WWII's final days on the TogetherWeServed blog.

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I don't give a fuck. None of this shit matters.
@LevZadov @skeletor

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

It matters to the rest us. If we don't nip this fascist coup in the bud, *by any means necessary* we're the ones who are doomed. We can't do it alone.

@LevZadov Fucking @/Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social again.

I don't know what he is, I just know it's not what he says he is.

@skeletor

@SallyStrange @skeletor

Well that about sums him up better than anybody else around here. We know part of who he is. He's a or sale. Who all he's working for is a little harder to pin down. Some of them are obvious. Some not so much. Who's paying him to move against Putin about Ukraine all of a sudden, is what I want to know. It's like a WWE heel turn, a big one. WTF is going on here? Is it real? Is it theater? It's getting hard to be sure *anything* is real anymore. Maybe that's the whole point.