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Welcome to life in hell. You can get defensive and self-righteous when people point out the mass hypocrisy and delusion and error in all our lives, but it doesn't change the truth that we are all living in an awful state, as cowards and lapdogs of the hyper-capitalist system that gives us life today, even as it guarantees death in the future.

Rousing rhetoric, but it doesn't change the fact that while it's shit to be poor, it's still better to be poor now than at pretty much any previous time in known history.

A whole society of people who've sold out every heroic ideal humans have ever conceived

Which again sounds like nice and tasty demagoguery, but isn't true. We continually progress and improve on civil rights, for example.




oh, the "$1/day is better than slavery, you should be happy!" guy. of course.


If only there was a middle-ground between the GP's grandiose demagoguery and your clumsy strawmanning, there might be some discussion that helps find a solution instead of just lobbing insults at those whom you assume are your opponents.




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