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Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.
Here are some visual aids to accompany my clarification:
Market economy is really really bad in a capitalistic system. One giant buys everything and controls everything.
They made healthcare a commodity, education a dept trap and housing a speculation market - then told you that poverty is a personal failing. They privatized survival and called it freedom.
Your political affiliation based on what came to your mind when you read the title
Accurate AF
At this point the answer should be billionaires regardless of affiliation.
Found the Left-Libertarian
you think 'they' means multiple people or a group, but 'they' is actually ME!! I DID IT!!
Dammit, burgerpocalypse! How could you‽
I beg of you, please stop. Please end this suffering.
please stop doing capitalism mr burgerpocalypse
The F’d up thing is that being solid middle class and having sufficient income to help with a kid’s college money, put away money to actually retire, and pay a mortgage is top 10%. That’s literally what middle class was 50 years ago. Now you have to be a ~10%-er to do it.
I make twice the average household income where I am by myself. I'm doing okay, but like, not great at the same time. How the fuck are other people surviving???
Edit: Just kidding, I got the stats wrong, I make a bit above average household on my own, not twice. Point still stands, however.
Barely.
I know this isn't what you intended, but you gotta be careful on the Internet saying 'guess who 'they' are', cos a lotta places on the Internet ask this and the answer is supposed to be 'jews'
Yes, that's a great point that I hadn't considered.
To be clear for anyone, it's Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
I thought you just meant capitalists in general, TBH.
Yeah I can't think what else OP could mean though? All the other answers I can think of are too broad and obvious for "three guesses" to be a thing you'd ask.
3 guesses: Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg
Honestly, I thought OP meant billionaires/capitalists. Jews did not even cross my mind.
Edit: clarity
Right, but saying "three guesses" implies that the answer is something that's slightly hidden. "Capitalists" doesn't really make sense because it's essentially going "three guesses who it is that's doing all this capitalism... that's right, capitalists!". If OP didn't intend it as an antisemitic dogwhistle then it's an odd title for other reasons.
(edit: I just had a glance through their post history and I think it's probably not supposed to be a dogwhistle, but just unfortunately titled; I think maybe OP just assumed everyone reading it were already on the same page on whatever specific thing they themselves blame capitalism on?)
Right, but saying "three guesses" implies that the answer is something that's slightly hidden.
Or that it's very obvious and they're being sarcastic.
That’s what I meant by “slightly”. It’s an expression that gets used when we all know the answer but it’s one that’s slightly under the surface.
But it doesn't really work for capitalists because these problems don't exist in a lot of capitalist nations and it kind of exists for supposed noncapitalist nations as well where if you don't follow the rules and don't work then they take your commodities away.
TBH tho I doubt that sort of reasoning would stand in the way of anti-capitalists.
I thought it was the lizard people?
What did you think that was a euphemism for?
The illuminati?
Is this seriously a euphemism for Jewish people? I thought it was just a funny conspiracy theory.
It's both, depending on the specific conspiracy theorists.
Just like not all "infowarriors" know that "the globalists" means "the Jews" and "populist" means "rich, white, racist" in the code of Alex Jones.
And what does "frogs" and "gay" mean in the code of Alex Jones?
Literally "frogs changing gender" but basically it's a pretense for homophobia and "globalist" scaremongering.
I wasn't actually sure when i wrote it (it just sounded "truthy"), but I just checked and found this:
Some adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory have also borrowed from the reptilian conspiracy theory, including elements shared in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Don't forget the $1.4T/year they took out of the economy to squander on elaborate, invasive, predatory mass surveillance, serial racialized harassment, and overseas mass murder, in the name of peace and security.
Clearly its the 99.9% of us who are too poor to know any better
Reptilians? Bilderbergers? Solarians?
The end of that one Brother Ali song, I have no idea who the vocalist for that part is.
They keep sayin' we're free...
But we're all just loose.
Uncle Sam Goddamn
You ain't free, you're just free range.
This is the crux of many a sci-fi stories where humanity is controlled by aliens.
Brother Ali don't miss
And yet they're all for government intervention when it's stuff like zoning (telling you where and how you're allowed to live) or copyright (telling you what ideas you're allowed to share)...
Literally everyone.
Most people think this shit. They’re all complicit.
Bloody apathetic species. I’ve no sympathy at all.
I'm just listening to Uncle Acid
And now they're trying to automate community, the last thing we have. Don't let them!
Probably Obama, Clinton, or Reagan. Weird how much overlap there is between them.
them Duke boys?
Technically nobody made those things commodities, they just stand in the way of fixing it. Healthcare has always been a service since its inception, and nothing is free.
Maybe if y'all weren't so scared to "throw your vote away".
