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“I would rather burn this to the ground than share it with my lessers” (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you call this phenomenon? I think of the kulaks burning their harvest and I think of schools shutting down during desegregation in the US rather than integrate. Are there any other good examples? Why do people do this?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Literally why the world is ending due to climate change.

The wealthy know we're heading off a cliff, but they'd rather keep the system and frantically build bunkers and buy up farmland than change course. Doing so would mean giving up the system protecting their wealth.

They'd rather let the world burn.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The rich know they're vastly outnumbered,
And endeavor to keep us encumbered
With onerous debts,
While their blue piggy pets
Help the bastards defend what they've plundered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you come up with that? Nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I came across it probably in the early r/CTH days. The 2nd line is the only one I rewrote to flow better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh that's why I can't find it, they nuked CTH from the Internet. It's honestly a crime against humanity that it wasn't archived better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

All those posts ... lost in time ... like tears in rain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I could have sworn this one made rounds on Twitter and Leftbook too.