A champagne Democrat socialist (DSA) with an incredibly appropriate nickname is getting dragged after posting a quite telling message on social media.
NYC resident Grace Ryan, a 25-year-old chocolate heiress from Ohio who graduated from NYU this spring, went on X last week to defend recent criticism she has received for being a rich girl cheering on socialism.
“Everyone’s trying to dunk on me for being a progressive from a privileged background but like have yall never heard of noblesse oblige?” Ryan wrote. “I have a moral obligation to use my advantages to help those who are struggling.”
Everyone’s trying to dunk on me for being a progressive from a privileged background but like have yall never heard of noblesse oblige? I have a moral obligation to use my advantages to help those who are struggling
— Grace Ryan (@nycgraceryan) August 18, 2026
Most Americans, of course, have not. And not surprisingly, X roasted her all over again for this ultra-condescending post.
One fact they continuously pointed out was that Ryan lives in a rent-stabilized department despite her family’s wealth.
Honestly jsut shut the fuck up and keep doing what you’re doing. “Noblesse oblige” doesn’t exactly
Make you sound like a champion of the people— BadPhillyAtty (@PhillyBadTakes) August 18, 2026
This you? pic.twitter.com/LtlijFiyld
— Pete Panuccio (@PetePanuccio) August 19, 2026
Does this sound like you too? pic.twitter.com/uhaZAugSMG
— Peter Lawrence (@Hoodview) August 19, 2026
Did you ask ChatGPT to write the most condescending, entitled, and self-righteous post it could about being a champagne socialist?
— daniela (@daniela__127) August 19, 2026
Your obligation is to the greater good of society yet you support groups who hate the society that gave you privilege. Your guilt and fear of lacking true substance blinds you.
— 49er Native (@DankerD_) August 19, 2026
Nobody wants your hand outs that you want to confiscate from other people. You are not Robinhood It just makes you feel good about your guilt of having it easy your whole life. If you want to help people start a company, employee them and give them health insurance instead of…
— Espresso In Brain (@EspressoInBrain) August 19, 2026
As The New York Post notes, the idea of “noblesse oblige” lets the rich keep their fortunes as long as they share a small portion of it. But the DSA advocates for a classless society, as Karl Marx did, a goal Ryan clearly does not believe in advancing.
Ryan, who has nicknamed herself “Lulu Lenin,” lives up to her nickname so well that she could pose as the poster child for champagne socialism in a GOP ad.
Her rich daddy is even a registered Republican!
From the New York Post:
Ryan, who attended the $35,000-a-year Columbus Academy, regularly takes to social media to defend both her socialist views and her family fortune.
Her father, Michael Ryan, a registered Republican, made his fortune buying Columbus’ Maramor Chocolates and turning it into a $10 million national brand found in almost all candy isles.
She recently flaunted her summer at a family lake house, posting photos on X of herself puffing a cigar on a boat in a $400 Ralph Lauren stars-and-stripes sweater — and posing beside a $115,000 Hummer parked in the driveway.
The recent graduate from $70,000-a-year New York University with a Bachelor of Arts also posted about being at a beach club in Montauk last month and attending $50-a-class reformer Pilates in the Big Apple.
Of course, like a true privileged leftist, she makes sure to whine about paying too much for her new rent-stabilized apartment, which costs over $3,000 a month.
“East Williamsburg was invented by my landlord to charge me an extra $100/month on my rent,” she said on X last year of her $3,170 a month Bushwick studio.
The pad, in a new luxury building with a gym, squash court, rooftop, doorman, and elevator, is rent-stabilized through a city program that gives developers tax breaks in exchange for including affordable units.
Given how difficult life is =for millions of Americans, stuff like this may be enough for conservatives to embrace true socialism for people like Ryan. Her mindset might actually change then.
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