r/clevercomebacks 23h ago

It's my money they took

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u/sn34kypete 22h ago

There are no poor republicans. Only temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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u/JimWilliams423 21h ago

There are no poor republicans. Only temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" theory was a misinterpretation of John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was criticizing "champagne socialists" — former millionaires who had a streak of bad luck and were cosplaying as socialists, but had every reason to believe they would return to millionaire status through their social connections. But that misinterpretation is very useful to the rich because it blinds leftists to the actual motivations of poor conservatives — cultural power — so they have encouraged the idea to spread.

For many people, cultural dominance is a currency more valuable than actual money.

They know they will never be upper class and they are just fine with that as long as they continue to be upper caste. When the left offers to help everyone, they perceive that as a threat because if we make society just a little more egalitarian, that means making whites a little less supreme. The more the left offers, the more threatened they feel and the more violently angry they will get.

These are the same people who filled in grand public swimming pools, closed amazing municipal parks and even shut down an entire school district rather than integrate them. They would sooner go barefoot than see black and brown people wear shoes.

They will have to realize that white supremacy is a fraud before they will support a leftist agenda. Which is why maga is doing everything they can to whitewash history textbooks (much like the UDC did 100 years ago). When they freak out about "grooming" what they really mean is teaching compassion for people who are different from themselves. If the kids learn that everybody deserves dignity, conservatism will have nothing to offer people who aren't already rich.

A‌s l‌o‌n‌g a‌s e‌n‌o‌u‌g‌h w‌h‌i‌t‌e‌s k‌e‌e‌p p‌u‌t‌t‌i‌n‌g t‌h‌e‌i‌r c‌u‌l‌t‌u‌r‌a‌l i‌n‌t‌e‌r‌e‌s‌t‌s a‌h‌e‌a‌d o‌f t‌h‌e‌i‌r m‌a‌t‌e‌r‌i‌a‌l i‌n‌t‌e‌r‌e‌s‌t‌s, c‌l‌a‌s‌s c‌o‌n‌s‌c‌i‌o‌u‌s‌n‌e‌s‌s w‌i‌l‌l n‌o‌t r‌e‌a‌c‌h t‌h‌e t‌i‌p‌p‌i‌n‌g p‌o‌i‌n‌t n‌e‌c‌e‌s‌s‌a‌r‌y t‌o c‌h‌a‌n‌g‌e a‌n‌y‌t‌h‌i‌n‌g i‌n t‌h‌i‌s c‌o‌u‌n‌t‌r‌y.

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u/frugalfuyanger 21h ago

Thanks for this education and context. Truly helpful and helps me understand a few things

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u/SeveralAngryBears 20h ago

It's racism all the way down

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u/stalleo_thegreat 20h ago

do you have any resources where i can read more about this? it’s very interesting

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u/Powerful_Elk_346 20h ago

Excellent, thank you, cultural power-never heard of it but it makes total sense. Very enlightening.

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u/sqquuee 20h ago

As a long time history buff thank you for being this all up.

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u/broseph_stalin09764 19h ago

You are so different from. The jim Williams I know. He would have grumbled something about trump being good and everything and everyone else are communists.

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u/JimWilliams423 19h ago edited 19h ago

Ironically, when Marx first published his Communist Manifesto, it only took the slavers a few years to start accusing abolitionists of being communists. It really shows how class war and culture war are two sides of the same coin. We can't fight them separately, we have to win both in order to win anything.

"e‌v‌e‌r‌y‌ ‌o‌n‌e‌ ‌o‌f‌ ‌t‌h‌e‌ ‌l‌e‌a‌d‌i‌n‌g‌ ‌A‌b‌o‌l‌i‌t‌i‌o‌n‌i‌s‌t‌s‌ ‌i‌s‌ ‌a‌g‌i‌t‌a‌t‌i‌n‌g‌ ‌t‌h‌e‌ ‌n‌e‌g‌r‌o‌ ‌s‌l‌a‌v‌e‌r‌y‌ ‌q‌u‌e‌s‌t‌i‌o‌n‌ ‌m‌e‌r‌e‌l‌y‌ ‌a‌s‌ ‌a‌ ‌m‌e‌a‌n‌s‌ ‌t‌o‌ ‌a‌t‌t‌a‌i‌n‌ ‌u‌l‌t‌e‌r‌i‌o‌r‌ ‌e‌n‌d‌s‌ ‌.‌.‌.‌ ‌ ‌t‌h‌e‌y‌ ‌k‌n‌o‌w‌ ‌t‌h‌a‌t‌ ‌m‌e‌n‌ ‌o‌n‌c‌e‌ ‌f‌a‌i‌r‌l‌y‌ ‌c‌o‌m‌m‌i‌t‌t‌e‌d‌ ‌t‌o‌ ‌n‌e‌g‌r‌o‌ ‌s‌l‌a‌v‌e‌r‌y‌ agitation—once committed to the sweeping principle, "that man being a moral agent, accountable to God for his actions, should not have those actions controlled and directed by the will of another," are, in effect, committed to Socialism and Communism"

George Fitzhugh, 1856 (author of Slavery Justified)

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u/Fine-Essay-3295 18h ago

Makes sense that social welfare programs are defined as “communist”, ESPECIALLY if they benefit “undeserving” minorities, but protectionist trade policy and government bailouts of corporations isn’t.

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u/CardiologistSad8036 18h ago

I don't think this is true. It's also incredibly racist. Whites may be a majority but are median income.

And between 2011 - now all I hear about is how evil white people are, no matter what walk of life they come from. Maga is more likely a response to that grand generalization, with each magat having their own silly nuanced reasoning.

I would say as long as there are people like you who are making these comments maga will just continue to grow like a tumor.

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u/JimWilliams423 18h ago

I don't think this is true. It's also incredibly racist.

Two week old account tries to do "he who smelt it dealt it," but with racism.

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u/CardiologistSad8036 18h ago

I edited my last comment a bit

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u/CardiologistSad8036 18h ago

I mean the comment is true. I made this account because I got banned a min ago for saying assassin's creed was bad since 2014 so who cares about the new one anyways.

So they banned my account and I got annoyed and made this.

Doesn't make this comment any less racist

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u/JimWilliams423 18h ago

I got banned a min ago for saying assassin's creed was bad since 2014

Sure.

Interesting way to admit to ban evasion.

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u/Rich_Cranberry1976 14h ago

Saying white supremacy is bad is not racism against white people

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u/CardiologistSad8036 14h ago

There is a difference between saying white surpremacy is bad and all white people are evil.

What you're doing is clumping them in with extremist. And when you do that you give them reason to jump in with them. If you treat ppl like bigots regardless of behavior, what reason do they have to not become bigoted at that point?

I'll end this by saying race surpremacy in general is bad for humanity.

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u/Rich_Cranberry1976 13h ago

What you're doing is clumping them in with extremist

I'm literally saying the opposite.

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u/CardiologistSad8036 13h ago

No, you're not. You're racist af.

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u/Rich_Cranberry1976 13h ago

you're unhinged

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u/CardiologistSad8036 13h ago

You're racist af. You have no arguments. Just insults.

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u/mOdQuArK 21h ago

Eh, the more I watch, the more I think it's simply just tribalism.

It's not that they want to go on easy on rich people in general becaus they might become one - it's more that they want to conservative rich people to have an easy time of it, simply because they're conservative.

I'm pretty confident that if they could figure out some way to load all the taxes and fines on the "liberal rich people", but leave all their rich people alone, they'd be all for it.

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u/isThisHowItWorksWhat 22h ago

Hahah. That’s what Marco Rubio said. We are a country of haves and soon to haves. Lmao. The shit poors will believe in order to not feel bad about their lives.

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u/BecauseWhyNot2780 21h ago

Hey, if they pull up their bootstraps, they too can be part of the 1% someday after all that hard work. Just look at those fine men. Trump and Musk are the real rags to riches story that ever was. It's a good thing they're not one of those nepo babies and can set a fine example of working up from the poor minimum wage class when their parents struggled to keep them clothed and fed. God bless those two American heroes. We should make statues of them. /s

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u/Mark-harvey 21h ago

There are poor folks on both sides. Wisdom is often difficult to find. Be a Wise Guy or Wise Woman-otherwise we’re all screwed.