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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by jamiek88 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:00PM (#26534950)
> Shit's on fire, yo.

Let them eat cake.

Can anyone else hear the guillotines being sharpened?

Seriously though this obscene inequality can only lead one place, and we were lucky that they were morons on January 6th and not organized properly.

Ironically the revolution will be stoked by those first up against the wall in the name of engagement.

It won’t be televised but it will be on Instagram.

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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by TameAntelope on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:20PM (#26535799)
Every time I read something like this, I think of how little the person saying it knows about the conditions of the poor in 18th century France.
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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by meibo on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:15AM (#26537077)
Good thing no one knows who to behead if you pay the $50k with ETH.
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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by str33t_punk on Sunday March 21, 2021 @10:27PM (#26536225)
jesus calm down
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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by Invictus0 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:49PM (#26535225)
Real change can only happen if the poor (people earning less than $1M per year) unite against the rich. Instead, the poor are hopelessly divided and fight pointless culture battles, like the main/master debate.
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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by snakeboy on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:00PM (#26535285)
I don't think anyone making less than the median US income has even heard of the main/master debate :)

But sure, I agree with the larger point. Culture wars are great for keeping the weak divided. The $GME fiasco - albeit a bit silly - was the first glimmer of hope I saw in a long time towards that unification. Hopefully there's more to come.

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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by wernercd on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:26PM (#26535837)
> poor (less than 1m)

the top 10% globally is 30k... which is low income for Americans.

Americans bitching about the 1% is laughable.

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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by tolbish on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:41AM (#26536934)
Why is it laughable that Americans want a better world for others? Most Americans have no control over what their country's leaders do.
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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by solveit on Sunday March 21, 2021 @10:08PM (#26536103)
Ironically, America basically shows how the 1% can maintain control of the global hegemony for decades without any effective resistance. The fact that this system of oppression is fractally recursive adds to the irony.
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Re:John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT by throwaway53453 on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:40PM (#26549486)
Precisely because Americans lead comfortable lives.
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