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[-] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago

That's what intersectionality is about, and why fascists focus on driving wedges between groups

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago

Why do you think the fascists try so hard to keep them divided and fighting each other?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to the radical left.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well, unless you're some kind of Democrat. In which case, get your bougie, genoside lovin' ass outta here. Only the real leftists will be allowed under the banner.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I see what you did there.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Hence divide and conquer.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

And even more people under the same social class should band together that would have a much bigger majority

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This assumes the minority groups can all agree on things in order to “come together.”

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They're deliberately being divided.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The oppressive class usually isn't a majority (capital owners/rich, religious fanatics, morning people), but they dictate so much more of our lives, what to feel, who to hate - so much so that they make the majority work for them against the minorities (that don't affect the lives of the majority in the slightest - but that's just how the oppressors retain control & power).

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Hell why stop with every minority group combined? Throw the majority group in there too, now everybody's on the same side! Why didn't I think of this sooner??

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Look at the big brain on Brad!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

That's not how that works.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Getting every group to do one thing together is harder than you think.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

And if sunshine and farts were money I'd be rich as fuck. Fantasies are fun.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is why many people I know have started referring to themselves as members of the "global majority" rather than "minority".

But also, yeah this is a class war and if the lower classes stopped perpetuating the division that the wealthy/powerful have forced on us, we could all make everything better. Eat the rich.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

All these minorities may share a common problem yet it's unlikely they have the same vision for the solution.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running Turkey have weaponised.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Probability not relevant under a dictatorship or first past the post elections, but…

See also electoral alliance

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

UK has FPTP and had a coalition from 2010 to 2015.It's unlikely to work in the US where the non-rep/dem parties are basically negligible.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That’s a good point. Even though the voting system makes it harder, it doesn’t make it impossible.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

My hyper coalition an-cap-com people's democratic uniparty dictatorship will save the west.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Bernie Sanders always talks about a multi racial coalition

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Aren't there more women than men in the world

(And I'm ignoring the million other thimgs I could say rn bc I dont have the emergyctk type)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Main problem: agreeing on a banner design. Also a fair amount of hating each other.

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