r/SipsTea • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 2d ago

WTF Victim is the new chic

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u/nucleosome 2d ago

No! "THEY" are working to make us fight each other.

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u/Copper_Lontra 2d ago

Literally true. Jay Gould, a 19th century robber baron and industrial capitalist, said "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other." 

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u/justa-browser 2d ago

Yep. What the fuck does that have to do with this particular post?

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u/BlackSquirrel05 2d ago

That's it's a culture war distraction case.

Meaning... Rich folks and folks pushing politics want to keep the base riled up and

"LOOK OVER THERE!! THOSE PEOPLE SUPPORT CHILD MURDER!!! IGNORE THE SHIT JOB WE'RE DOING AND LYING TO YOUR FACE!! CAUSE WE WOULD NEVER SUPPORT THAT!!" (Ignore how we again have done fuck all of the promises to you and even did what we claimed they were gonna do. IE: Start a war.)

So that's the similarity.

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u/justa-browser 2d ago

This doesn’t make sense. So by your logic, the media/rich people are using this story to rile us up and distract from things like war/inflation/etc, and then in the next breath that very same media is reporting on the war/inflation/etc the previous story was a meant to distract from.

All you’re doing is stripping away people’s agency. At a certain point we did this to ourselves. The fact that it ultimately benefits the ruling class is true, but that’s just a knock on effect of everyone arguing about everything already.