116
Smart Person reply
sorry but Mark Twain already made the perfect reply to this bullshit line of reasoning about 150 years ago
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
116 points (100.0% liked)
Slop.
851 readers
521 users here now
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No bigotry of any kind, including ironic bigotry.
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target federated instances' admins or moderators.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The liberal habit of attempting to flatten all socioeconomic distinctions so that the poorest and richest persons in society are equal agents in economic and political capacity, an argument that boils down to the belief that the powerful should not bear any responsibility because hypothetically, a poor person may, somehow in a context-free metaphysical vacuum, get one over on the rich and so it all balances out
People like this know exactly what they're doing, just look how they moralize the adjusters' actions while downplaying the society-breaking carnage Thompson's decisions helped facilitate; so as long as a poor person is alive somewhere, they may theoretically hurt a rich person and so the rich are always justified