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>That’s all the statement has ever meant. It doesn’t mean anything about “having institutional power” or “controlling the narrative.” It means “you don’t have to subserviate yourself to others.” It means “YOU DON’T HAVE TO FUCKING OBEY.”

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Nothing is stopping trades workers from influencing politics and cultural discourse. I'm no fan of trade unions, for example, but they clearly hold a lot of systemic power based on the useful class. I would even go so far to argue that the only reason for governments rolling back mandates was critical trade workers, like truckers, clearly stating that they could not work under those rules and governments understanding that without these workers their entire countries would collapse.

And yeah, what would have been different if a bunch of MAGAtards had been running the healthcare systems and media? They'd have done the exact same thing for different reasons. The problem was never Left v Right, it's that our institutions are systemically accepting cowards and rejecting integrity.

The idea that buying into that same system with our money and energy, rather than doing and learning something both useful and rewarding, is retarded. If you have integrity, if your have courage, if you have any principles at all, you will not be allowed to succeed in their system.