News that made me feel like we are paying for billionaires’ open bar tab
I'm talking about Los Angeles fires
Hi there! Sorry I’ve been gone for a little without warning. Workplace hostility has been getting the best of me. Today, I’ll be sharing my feelings on the LA wildfires. Onto the news…
News that made me feel like we are paying for billionaires’ open bar tab…’cause we are
I was talking to my friend about the LA fires and it felt like we were in one of those dystopian films where the characters who haven’t been hit by the apocalyptic event are having a mundane moment before the disaster reaches them. I was just waiting for the Rock to show up in a helicopter to save us from the gentrification of Bed-Stuy. Unfortunately, no single man with a helicopter can save us from gentrification, it doesn’t matter how big his biceps are. Especially not a man who is a tool of capitalist propaganda.
To be honest with you. I always feel like I live in a dystopia because we do! If you don’t feel like we live in a dystopia, you are either Elon Musk or you are on some really good drugs. If you are the latter, please give me the drugs. Unless those drugs are capitalist propaganda to make you believe everything is fine, I don’t want those drugs. I’m still decolonizing my brain from the damage done by the show Girlfriends. If you are Elon Musk, please do us all a favor and disappear; feel free to take Trump and the rest of the ruling class with you.
Of course Elon Musk isn’t going to disappear. A world where Elon Musk gets to ruthlessly exploit people without consequences is a utopia for him and no one leaves a utopia. Unless there is a really petty god who kicks them out of the Garden of Eden because they ate a tasty fruit. I mean how autocratic do you have to be to evict someone just because they ate fruit. The first time I heard the story of Adam and Eve in Sunday school I was on their side.
I bring up Elon Musk because he is a representation of the ruling class who prefer a world where workers are divided while the world literally burns rather than a just society. This is the ruling class that some of us are expecting to save us from this dystopia. No one is shutting down a party they are enjoying when someone else is paying for it. When was the last time you willingly left an open bar before it shut down? Okay maybe this was just me in my twenties but you get my point.
The capitalists and their puppets (politicians and media) do not care how many wildfires happen, they will continue to drill for oil because they can externalize all the negatives to us while internalizing all the positives. They get private jets with open bars, we get death.
The capitalists always tell us to take individual accountability for our lives when they don’t take individual accountability for theirs. Are the oil companies going to pay for all the homes destroyed by a fire that was a result of a warming globe? Are the weapons manufacturers going to rebuild Palestine? Are the tech companies going to rebuild Congo? No, no, no. I wish that was the beginning of Destiny’s Child hit song No, No, No but unfortunately these are the state of affairs.
That’s it for the news but don’t go yet
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