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One of the worst thing liberalism has done is individualizing concepts such as privilege. Its about structures, the individual matters basically nothing in it. Thats why reverse racism isnt a thing. Why female gaze doesnt exist. And why there is no such thing as heterophobia.

Here's the thing, and I think about this a lot, you are privileged. You make more money that the global south, you have access to more niceties, etc, etc. but you are still suffering. Your excess value is still being stolen from you left right and center. Their cause is your cause and vis versa. We must remember: We are all oppressed by the bourgeois, and none of us are free until all of us are free. Just try to move forward everyday.

There’s a fantastic quote from Black Communism, “If my neighbor wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If my neighbor has the power to lynch me, that’s my problem.”

Privilege between the poor dispensed by the parasite class has been a tactic to drive the lower class against itself since the times of knights and peasants. Best way to equality is to destroy the parasite class and redistribute its resources. Again and again until the world proletariat are unified.

Which includes destroying their propaganda centers and lack of health resources that drive lynching behavior!

Being an american is like being a fish in a bowl while the house it on fire.

Trust, as someone who has spent a lot of time working for local wages in the global south, there is still a big difference. Making $3 usd an hour in brutal heat for 15 hours a day 6-7 days a week with almost none of the luxury goods, recreational options or other comforts an average American has access to

if you're not feeling your privilege, it means you're not feeling the horrors imposed on the rest of the world, you're scared shitless of being homeless yes, but are you stressed out over the U.S. NATO and israel coming in and bringing back slavery to your streets on top of that? we have comrades from Mexico, Lebanon, Palestine, Cuba, Venezuela and a dozen other countries that can wake up tomorrow as a part of the 80 civilians killed by a U.S. special operation, can wake up in the next Libya. And the whole anti-immigration bullshit, a white cis American leftist man doesn't have to worry about ICE coming in and sending him to a concentration camp.Yes, you fear falling into health debt and college debt, but not IMF debt.

And as far I've seen the western leftists who are actually doing something are a minority of a minority, I consider Hexbear to be one of the best leftist forums in the entire global north and goddamn some of you people can not be trusted, to not call out anyone here, in other forums or "leftists online" I saw many willing to completely ignore the genocide and saying vote for Kamalla Harris, the western left most of us see is "I condom hamas I condom maduro I condom china I condom regime I donate 5 dollar to rich man Hasan Piker".

And your biggest privilege is the size of your success, if a communist revolution happens in the USA, it wouldn't be bombed by the U.S., it wouldn't have an embargo imposed on it by the U.S., it wouldn't have its leaders assassinated by the U.S., stuff the rest of the world has to consider, the USSR at its size still got completely destroyed by U.S. interference, how would a revolution in Ghana survive?

Have you tried tweeting at your congressman? Maybe writing a strongly worded letter will help. Perhaps you're ready to start a petition? You could also start planning the next nationwide one-day protest 3 months from now.

I love my AmeriKKKan comrades who also hate AmeriKKKa. When I complain about the AmeriKKKan "left" I try to put "left" in quotes because I'm talking about the radlib-in-denial chauvinists who look for every excuse to preserve the nationalism they claim not to have.

Also, wow that sucks really bad (the 15 hour shift). I'm sorry to hear that. The job market, too. Death to America.

“I’m a man but I certainly don’t feel privileged” “I may be white but I don’t feel privileged”

it’s not about your feeling, it’s about reality. You’re not in the cobalt mines, or the sweatshops, or in Yemen or Gaza or Caracas or Tehran or Beirut or Vietnam or Cambodia or Laos or the innumerable places made unliveable by American imperialism. You can live a hard life as an American, plenty of people do. But the difference is being within the belly of the beast vs being on the receiving end of its hellfire. You can have a bad time with both, but one is more likely to kill you.

The gall to post this “not all imperial citizens” nonsense after we’ve killed dozens of innocents in Venezuela. I’m sure they worked hard, went to bed tired, and didn’t have enough hours in the day. The difference in our situations is the bombs and drones

I've worked 13 hours straight

That alone is illegal as hell outside the Shaytan al-Akbar because of maximum work and rest period laws.

In a bitter irony, when I lived in the ameriKKKa, I had a job from 2011-13 which paid $8.50 an hour and until recently, was my highest-paying job ever - I also had the worst fucking living conditions ever despite this.

I only had to work a 12-hour shift once because we happened to have an urgent, large workload but was promised an extra R750 in addition to mandatory overtime pay. Of course the work period including overtime in a day is capped to 12 hours.

I've worked 13 hours straight and had to organize a push to get us fed dinner.

There's a good chance I'm stuck here for 2 more hours, meaning I get 0 time to do anything except sleep and do this again.

Oh shit same here, just finished a 15 hour shift. Thankfully I got 7 hours left before my next shift at the hopes and dreams crushing factory.

Yes, it is crushing to the soul. It is crushing in ways that are distinct from other’s experiences. Right now people are agitated and shit is wild out there, and that reflects back in our spaces here too. Hang in there. Is your life materially better than others? Yeah probably, but you aren’t empowered by that difference. We cannot act ethically within capitalism to change this imbalance. If you don’t take what you can get to keep yourself going it doesn’t get kicked downstream. It goes right back to the bosses! By design.

There is a line I always come back to: “we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.” It is taxing on the soul to be here and witness this. This is the nature of capitalism. None of this does good things. Not even for the victors. Look at how wealth has twisted Musk into a caricature and filled his body with hormones and stimulants and all kinds of horseshit. Look at that weirdo infusing himself with his son’s blood. You can’t look at that and say “yeah, this is sustainable, this is working out for them.”

Hang in there comrade.

Yeah, we don't have to worry about bombs dropping on our heads, but we're one injury away from ruin or looking over our shoulder for one snapped coworker or student with a military grade rifle. We have no real safety net besides what we can stitch together ourselves. Don't be afraid to ask for aid. The best thing those of us in the heart of empire can do is help ourselves and help each other. Being ready to act, and having those around us also ready to act is more important than acting prematurely.

when you say "eternal death to the KKKomprador WeSStern Left" this is who you're being mean to btw

(yes i know i suck and so does my country but im trying ovah heeyah okay???? )

I have a mixed emotion about it. Like, I have had a Playstation in my life. Did having a Playstation make my life appreciably better? Probably not. Like, yeah, It was fun. In a hypothetical world would I have enjoyed like throwing mud at a wall in a bar with my friends more? Probably. Those people I see playing that game in tik tok seem to enjoy it more than most any video game I have played. I am sure there are some luxuries that are actually worth it. I just can't in my head picture it.

I don't think you're ready to hear this and I'm sorry for just laying it out, but like, you do realize your life can only get worse from now, if things stay the way they are? You should be doing what you can to fight for your rights and your own dignity as a worker, in ways your personal martial conditions allow you to, instead of engaging in online pity arguments.

Reading theory, making connections, building comradeship, would be a much better use of your free time. You're already so exploited, why spend what little freedom you have left in keyboard wars and sewing division?