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I haven't followed this Titanic submarine story too much, but after scrolling Twitter and Facebook for a while it's striking how many people hate other human beings just because they're rich. Is it moneyism or sth?
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It’s waves of nihilism largely established by the wealth disparity that’s been on display for decades coming home to roost
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it's been posted by a guy who is probably in the top 1-2% income bracket in my country πŸ˜”
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Performative nihilism is a side effect of the online attention games
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i'm not sure if that's nihilism. i think it's hate towards rich people used to gain social status among his hard-left peers. it's like shouting "fuck Lakers" when you're a Boston Celtics fan. a way to show your tribe that you're one of them by dehumanizing your opponents
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I srsly disagree as a leftist myself. I'm not out here saying "good, they drowned," but I can understand how a lot of people feel financially trapped and violently bitter the mega rich kick back on daily dividends equal to 10x all the $ they'll make in life. Money which would fix real world problems.
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yeah sure but let's call it jealousy (which I understand off) and not try to add any virtue to it
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ofc jealousy is one word, we can call it 'feeling being treated unfair by the system and feeling sense of justice when people who were in a much better situation get one of the worst possible deaths'
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Well that I can agree with. Ill say it's petty and unproductive and definitely a symptom of chronically online people with fragile mental health. I think if people didn't spend all their time staring at their phones they wouldn't be behaving this way.
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πŸ’― btw I'm also left leaning :)
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@mxjxn.eth
Haha no prob either way, I wouldn't have judged you one way or the other TBH. Left vs right has lost its meaning. I know I can find common ground with a lot of conservatives because really we're all just fed up with some sort of BS from a broken system.
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