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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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I’ve met self employed people or people who own “small businesses” like house painting or fixing cars who get upset when they see news of Gucci stores being looted lol.
They ask me if I think they deserved to be robbed just because they “own a business.” The snarky answer would be yes, but these people aren’t even like tyrants or anything. Their “small business” is just drop shipping or accounting and they don’t make enough for any looter to give a shit about.
It’s just the adage about Americans being temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
Yeah, not even just those people who have a more "legitimate" inclination towards anger (it sort of kinda in the realm of their class interest. Closer than a pure wage laborer anyway), but it's incredibly common to see "normal" whites (mostly) lose their absolute shit when they see some video of black or brown people looting supplies during emergencies. Or better yet, looting TVs and shit and you'd think they stole that TV from their own living room with the way they act. You get cool stories of now-dead Navy SEALS snipers telling lies about sniping black people... lies, but things they wanted to be true. Otherwise why lie about murdering people when literally their career was murdering people? They didn't have to make it up... they already did it, just elsewhere in the world. Anyway, that fantasy is very common. American capitalism has completely twisted people's brains to where it is acceptable to snipe and kill people (if it were true people would've loved it) for stealing water, food, a TV, it doesn't matter. It's so gross.