That's what intersectionality is about, and why fascists focus on driving wedges between groups
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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Why do you think the fascists try so hard to keep them divided and fighting each other?
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Welcome to the radical left.
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.
I see what you did there.
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Hence divide and conquer.
And even more people under the same social class should band together that would have a much bigger majority
This assumes the minority groups can all agree on things in order to “come together.”
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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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That's not how that works.
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??
Look at the big brain on Brad!
Getting every group to do one thing together is harder than you think.
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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.
And if sunshine and farts were money I'd be rich as fuck. Fantasies are fun.
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All these minorities may share a common problem yet it's unlikely they have the same vision for the solution.
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This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.
My hyper coalition an-cap-com people's democratic uniparty dictatorship will save the west.
Probability not relevant under a dictatorship or first past the post elections, but…
See also electoral alliance
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.
That’s a good point. Even though the voting system makes it harder, it doesn’t make it impossible.
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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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