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This is ignoring the fact that the material basis for the 15 minute city people's complaints and the complaints of, for example, privacy advocates are not only completely different but irreconcilable. The right-wing complaints come from a wealthy, usually retired, small business/property-owning class threatened by the march of global capital consolidating away their footholds into economic growth and placing them or their children in the same bucket as the disgusting poors they've spent their entire lives campaigning to immiserate. They aren't mad about the fact that the systems of repression they're protesting against exist, they're mad that the systems want used against undesirables might be turned against them.

The surface-level rhetoric sounds vaguely similar, but look under the surface and you'll find that the people behind opposition to global capital from the right have less in common with the people who oppose it from the left than with their supposed shared enemy.



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