This is degenerating into a shitty maoist-monarchial larp far faster than I expected. Whatever else you say, you can't fault him for being slow moving.
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That's where you are wrong. A fragile class consciousness has collapsed. You may dislike the class in question, but such a collapse is never a non-event.
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blue check obviously... with or without the actual mark... the professional/bureaucrat/media type middle class
overnight gone from target of mild satire but still overall solidly positioned and respected here to target on backs and wondering which hill to run for
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How is this not just increase their sense of class consciousness and solidarity though
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because it has nowhere to cohere... it has collapsed on this platform, and will recohere in smaller puddles elsewhere, instead of a single thing
also solidarity is not a middle class thing, it's a working class thing... middle class consciousness is different (cf: Jose Ortega)
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