• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    How are they traitors if they never ever worked for that class in the first place (in USAs case)?

    Edit: to clarify, it’s a joke in the sense that that was the core job description

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      8 days ago

      It’s not about working for a class, it’s about being part of that class.

      Police, whether we like them or not, are also part of the working class. They are class traitors in that respect. They serve the ownership class and fight “their own.”

      There are a class of people that own capital to make capital, and there are a class that labor to acquire capital.

      The cops labor to acquire capital on behalf of the class that owns capital to make capital that does no labor.

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        7 days ago

        Yes, ofc, the comment was intended as a joke - all dogs serve a master, won’t ever be masters, and are “betraying” wolves by not allowing them to get to the sheep (which they also can’t/arent allowed to get).

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      8 days ago

      Blue collar working-class, I’d say. What class are they then? Not all goldfish living in a buble know they are goldfish living in a buble…