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Your life is nice because of the death and destruction of those who your system deems to be lesser. If you can't be motivated to change things because you can't see the issue with the cost of your comfort, you're going to learn some very hard lessons once people you thought were on your side start fighting you.
Are you the caricature of someone who was given an extra money in a game of monopoly but believe to have earned your winning position through sheer strategy and "working harder"?
I was born in a small village ~200km SE of St Peter back in the soviet days. We got electricity when I was six years old, because my neighbor figured out how to tap into some nearby high voltage lines. After the collapse of the soviet union, I collected enough scholarships and got a visa sponsorship to get a chemical engineering degree in the US. Then I went on to grad school. Then I got the rest of my family out of there. Now I am somewhere in the top 10% of the US.
The only advantage I was born with is above average intelligence and the ability to put it to work. And a bit of luck for everything else to work out.
That is the cost of my comfort. And yes, I am sure that whether leftists or fascists take over, I will be persecuted. Fascists will persecute me because I am not a fascist. Leftists will persecute me because I have done reasonably well for myself, but not well enough to hop on a private jet when the shit hits the fan. That is also the cost of my comfort.
"I had it kind of rough as a kid so I deserve to thoughtlessly gorge myself at the imperial blood feast without being reminded of what it is I'm eating."
That's cool man, I'm sure all the other kids growing up in small villages will understand and forgive your supporting their brutal extermination. They'd probably look up at you with stars in their eyes and think "Wow, he came from a small village too, and if I work really hard and believe in myself, that could be me plugging my ears and justifying the ultimate crime one day!"
Inspiring stuff.
Nobody deserves shit. I made the choices I made and got to where I am. A number of kids I grew up with made different choices, and left that village for the first time to go die in Ukraine.
C'est la vie.
Okay, then don't get defensive when people decide your bad ideas don't deserve respect
Individualist brain poison.