Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.
I have plenty of anger to go around, there’s no danger of it running out.
Might want to seek professional help for that bud.
It’s a rational response to an unjust world, but more importantly I couldn’t afford professional help in any case. Which is, again, the point.
Rational… yup. No you are just a sad little child that can’t grow up
how is it irrational to get angry at worlds injustices?
You’re directing your anger at the wrong people. Pretty fucking irrational to me
Why not be angry at other poor people too then? They deserve it as much as the middle class.
No, they don’t.
They do though. Neither one of them deserves your anger. Be angry at the people who actually set up the system that makes you poor. Not the middle class who has as much to blame as the poor.
The middle class didn’t set up the system, but they love benefiting from it.
But even then, my main gripe with the middle class is their insistence that they’re blameless and they like to pretend they’re on the same side as the poor when they’re constantly supporting policies to keep the poor poorer.
Yes, the middle class benefits some form the current system. We want a system that benefits all. That doesn’t mean breaking the system for the people who live a comfortable life. It means making the system support a comfortable life for all.
And blaming them as a block is really stupid anyway because they don’t all vote lock step. These divisions along non-ideological divides are a silly distraction meant to keep people fighting people who are actually on the same side.
You’re right, and this idiot is falling for the rich people’s bullshit 100%.
How do you change a system set up to benefit a class that is completely entrenched around the levers of power, without tearing down the whole rotten structure?
Fuck you and your million dollar mortgage and your 2nd car. We are not on the same side. We just have a common enemy.
You’re acting as a pawn for the wealthy ruling class when you think like that.
call me a skeptic but I doubt there is someone here with a million dollar mortgage and multiple cars that’s just sitting around, reading lemmy.
Like what, they’re reading a thread on lemmy on the way to a business meeting in their private car?
Like who are you really yelling at.
That’s the “I’m totally middle class” bullshit that keeps popping up here. The average home price in a lot of cities is inching closer to $1M.
And yes, they’re on lemmy. Especially the tech workers, who probably do the least amount of work per dollar in human history.
What a useless bullshit excuse to be hateful and averse to any actual solution whatsoever
Never said I was averse to solutions. I can be hateful and also want to fix the problems.
Yeah the real way to fix capitalism is to hate people with 20% more money than you. Great plan.
Now you’re getting it
I mean the middle class are pretty adverse to the solution as well…
Oh what a cool and hip communist everyone. Look so edgy
How else do you propose to fix a system set up to benefit a certain class, a class which has firmly entrenched itself around the levers of power, without tearing down the whole rotten structure and starting again.
Don’t pretend that you are for the current system for any other reasons than “I’ve got mine, Jack”.
wow imagine needing to take sides…