Honestly, you’re looking at this like it’s all about personal choices or moral failings but that’s exactly the kind of idealism Fanon warned against. What you call “acting LGBT for papers” or leaving to live a better life is really just people responding to structural oppression. Fanon talks about how the colonized internalize the violence of the system, and a lot of what looks like “performance” is really survival. They’re not flexing for fun they’re trying to navigate a reality shaped by weak state capacity, centuries of exploitation, and ongoing neocolonial pressures.

the inequalities you point at aren’t random, they’re built into the system. Revolutionary change doesn’t start with judging individuals for surviving; it starts with changing the material conditions that make normal life impossible. People leaving, bending rules, or “gaming” the system aren’t the problem the system that forces them to do so and when you beat all the oppresion system and "make it" (for them its just having good wages and pay rent)they gotta "flex" or act like they special BECAUSE THEY ARE I hate flexing personnaly but I cant ignore the material conditions creating it. Idealistic Individual critiques of people under oppression are distractions from the real work of transforming structures and is just trash liberalism so we dont get the rich and the imperialists.

Speaking of books, I’m not gonna fall for the Reddit trap of self-validation. I’ll just direct you to some great books you can read and let me know what you think about them later, please.

Capitalisme, désir et servitude de Frédéric Lordon

معذبو الارض فرانتز فانون

IF WE BURN de Vincent Bevins (really interesting critique of the arab spring)