• whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Like we have a choice with society. I love calling peers bootlickers because they are trying to survive and possibly having more success than you.

    Hate the game not the player. What’s the economic equivalent of an incel?

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      17 hours ago

      You can accept the material conditions of your life without simping for the people who are actively making it worse you know

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        15 hours ago

        Where do we live if we accept the material conditions of our life? Like I work for a very small company that treats us great but that’s still capitalism. So if I reject that do I just move out to the local bus stop?

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          14 hours ago

          What are you talking about? You live your life the way you want to live just don’t try to defend the system that want to crush you, is not that hard.

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              12 hours ago

              The fictional guy in the meme is the one defending. “…This is the greatest system possible” they are the bootlickers so I don’t see why OP said “Hate the game not the player.”. No, the fictional guy is not just the player he’s simping for this shit so OP comment doesn’t apply and your reply didn’t made sense either.

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                12 hours ago

                By OP I meant whoisearth. It’s seemed to me that the person to reply to them in this thread was saying they were simping and that’s what confused me.

                Still not sure why they replied that if they were talking about the meme guy instead.

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                  11 hours ago

                  whoisearth is trying to equate the person who simps for capitalism with a normal person that’s “plays the game” and that what the reply is about, you can live in capitalism(“accept the material conditions”) without defending this shit.

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            13 hours ago

            At what point was I defending the system? I make damn good money playing the game and I do my best to lift those around me.

            But the system is rigged and I have neither the time or capacity to fix it just like everyone else. It will have to get a lot worse before it gets better.

            But to think that you can just airdrop into a different system and not participate in the on youre in? I stand by what I said. Fincel. There i coined the term.

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              13 hours ago

              Why are you shadowboxing comments?Nobody said to reject the system or even to try and fix it. Nobody said to go live at a bus stop. I don’t know why you think that’s what we’re saying or if you’re hot off another convo and getting things mixed up but it’s just not at all what we’re saying.

              Again, you can accept that capitalism is the system we have without saying it’s the best system ever and you love it. You can get kidnapped without developing stockholm syndrome.

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          13 hours ago

          I replied further down but I’ll do it here. I’m not saying go live in the woods to escape or anything like that.

          You can accept that you are just a cog in the capitalist machine without simping for the very machine that’s crushing you.

          I’m not sure how people are getting something else from what I wrote. I thought I was pretty clear. You can accept that you’ve been kidnapped without developing stockholm syndrome.

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      18 hours ago

      We do have a choice as long as enough people stand against it, but people keep acting like this is the only way, your comment included.

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          10 hours ago

          People can hate both. For example, we can hate both Musk for being a democracy hating piece of shit AND the system that enabled him and his like to buy an election. Using a blanket term like that catches all within said game, just to be clear

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            9 hours ago

            See and I disagree. Musk is a piece of shit yes but he’s merely playing the game better for a large variety of reasons.

            My point being, the game is not the problem. The problem is assholes. This happens in capitalism. It happens in communism. It happens everywhere. The problem is not the system the problem is assholes.

            Adam Smith would be rolling in his grave if he saw what became of capitalism.

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      15 hours ago

      Not sure why the downvotes and comments.

      Like if we don’t participate in the capitalist system what should we do?

      Every motherfucker on here is part of that system unless they build their own phones or PC. Where is Lemmy hosted? More likely on AWS or some other cloud provider.

      Where do you buy things from if not capitalist businesses.

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        13 hours ago

        The downvotes are from a misunderstanding. I didn’t say to reject capitalism or go live in the woods to escape it or anything like that.

        I’m saying you can accept that you are nothing but a cog in the capitalist machine without simping for the very machine that’s crushing you.

        People seem to be reading what they want to read in these comments.