well that didn’t take long to go from “stop using the data center water for showers. Think of the poor tech billionaires” being a meme to being a realistic thing.

Curious about this part

The broader theme of Rosa’s text is to not accidentally align yourself with liberals in a cross-class coalition by focusing only on the political question of the day

I know you say “class” specifically here. But is the idea that this is true more generally? Because a unified republican party of people who hate each other on certain topics but who built a coalition around a single figure beat a disjointed set of groups who didn’t do the same.

What makes cross class coalition bad or ineffective where uniting across ideologies on specifics seems to actually work?

Is it a line in the sand kind of thing? “Everybody on this side of the line unite or die ffs. Everybody on that side, you’re the ones we’re uniting against”.

Is that the idea? The upper class(s) can never be part of our group because they’re the ones we’re unifying against?

(Kind of thinking out loud here. Am I on the right track?)

I am also confused. Specifically about “there’s no such thing”. Is the meme saying (among other things) that authoritarianism doesn’t exist or isn’t real? That seems obviously untrue on the face of it? Unless we’re redefining it so as to be meaningless.

Help me out here.

It’s easy if you don’t know how shitty the other 90% have it. That’s the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn’t really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).