America's new aristocracy: the 9.9% and their delusion of hereditary meritocracy

[Mindysan33]

Now it’s stuck in my head… but it gets there literally every time I read or hear the world “commissar”!

Alles Klar, Herr Kommissar!

[TobinL]

@Mindysan33

Now it’s stuck in my head…

You are not alone in that…

[Mindysan33]

Could be worse!

[jong]

I’m sorry, I don’t feel guilty for being successful.

[JonS]

The Pencilsword: On a plate

[cre8love4all]

Dekulakization

It’s nice to see anarchists, tankies, and trots all getting along so well together in this thread.

[TobinL]

@Mindysan33

Could be worse!

Could be this one that the spouse has been playing too much…

Loose Tapestries - Fantasy Man

[Wanderfound]

@anon50609448

Which would be a hell of a good reason for them to post articles like this one. If the French aristocracy had been more responsive to the needs of the peasants maybe we wouldn’t have the phrase “guillotine watch” to put on this post.

Yup.

https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/996740574375014400?s=21

https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/996770120570728449?s=21

https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/996771054617071616?s=21

https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/996771291372847106?s=21

Situation neatly summarised in this thread, BTW:

https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/986811628694982657?s=21

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@marence

the middle class is slowly disappearing as they either get financially successful (or lucky) or their credit card debts, student loans, and mortgages bury them.

[L0ki]

@anon61833566

What is really the definition of rich or elitist 1% or 9.9% or whatever percent.

It’s sort of like an irregular verb.

I am getting by…
You are well-off…
He is a filthy plutocratic bloodsucker…

[Wanderfound]

@lecti

Wealthy minorities are definitely NOT part of the priviledge problem, because they had none to start with.

I’m (a) white and (b) not American, so I’m in no position to make definitive statements regarding the experience of US minorities.

However, I would note that the your view is far from universal amongst Americans of colour:

Black Socialists in America

Class, race and gender; the axes of oppression. Intersectionality runs through it all.

[lecti]

Wow, I wonder if the dude in the video can say the same thing of Obama administration. The guy didn’t walk on water, but he did a lot of good. [edit for clarity of point] Diversity in workplace helps, just getting there is enough.

[Wanderfound]

Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama | Cornel West

Google “Cornel West on Obama” and you’ll find a lot more on similar themes.

The socialist Black left is quite overt about their disapproval of Obama. For example:

Activists of the global south were similarly unimpressed. From an Afghan or Iraqi perspective, Obama differed little from Bush.

[lecti]

In the light of current administration or even Bush Jr., it’s really difficult to criticize Obama. I mean, come on.

[Wanderfound]

See thread:

Esha 🍞 & 🌹 (eshaLegal)

This is not an argument that Trump or Bush are good. It’s an argument that they’re all monstrous.

[LowerHater]

I you don’t want to change things and the shit falls apart before you are dead… whatever unpleasant corrective transpires won’t care about how guilty you feel either.

The resentful masses aren’t resentful of the top .1%; they resent the intellectual elites.

[Wanderfound]

This seems relevant:

Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food

The figure includes the 16.1 million households living in poverty, as well as the 34.7 million families that the United Way has dubbed ALICE – Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. This group makes less than what’s needed “to survive in the modern economy.”

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Many of these folks are the nation’s child care workers, home health aides, office assistants and store clerks, who work low-paying jobs and have little savings, the study noted. Some 66% of jobs in the US pay less than $20 an hour.

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And so does this:

That meme is Mark Blyth, BTW. Worth checking out.

[the_borderer]

@LowerHater

The resentful masses aren’t resentful of the top .1%; they resent the intellectual elites.

They only resent the intellectual “elites” because they are told to by the top 0.1%

[Mindysan33]

You dare insult Noel Fielding!

[lecti]

Mentioning Obama and Trump under the same breath on monstrosity is false equivalency of the century. I can’t possibly process this any further.

[Urbanacus]

@lecti

Mentioning Obama and Trump under the same breath on monstrosity is false equivalency of the century. I can’t possibly process this any further.

This is the same false equivalence that gave us Bush over Gore and Trump over Clinton. An inability to see that demonizing the Center ends up with the Right in power.