• Hemingways_Shotgun
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    172 months ago

    Reagan and “trickle down economics” ushered in the 80s and poured gasoline onto Wall Street, empowering a thousand Gordon Geckos to abandon the middle class workers in the name of greater profit.

  • atro_city
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    162 months ago

    Because the middle class will keep voting for the same people who fuck them over thinking that they’ll fuck over the poors instead. Jokes on them / us.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    If a lifestyle isn’t possible for everyone, then it’s an unsustainable and violent privilege.

    Most people in USA don’t realize how their privileged lifestyle is based on the exploitation of the planet and other people. The most mediocre of pale people will have an isolated mcmansion with a huge grass lawn and a few SUVs. TBH it’s disgusting. It won’t last and it shouldn’t.

    Also ban cars.

  • Lexam
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    This generation needs to stop whining and start doing. You’re just going to have to buckle down and work hard for what you want. Get creative start a side gig. Maybe drug dealing, kidnapping, or even pet assignation. You have to get creative if you really want the dream. Don’t give up!

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Sad part is this is on the table for people for a long time. Doing crime to pay the bills.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Uhhh… you shouldn’t be having an assignation with anyone’s pet… I’m pretty sure that’s frowned upon in most of the civilized world…

      assignation /ăs″ĭg-nā′shən/ noun

      An appointment to meet in secret, especially between lovers. synonym: engagement.

      Sorry, your typo made me chuckle… apologies for pointing it out.

      • Lexam
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        12 months ago

        Stupid auto correct.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          I get it, gets me all the time too…but this one was fantastic… because I absolutely was not sure, based on the tone of the text, if you meant it that way or not.

    • @Fredselfish
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      Fuck that 🐍, she did everything she could to keep Bernie Sanders from the nomination. All because she was promised a VP slot. She went so far as to call Sanders sexiest on an hot mic, during one of the debates. I will not forgive her. She is traitor to the progressive movement.

      • atro_city
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        52 months ago

        Her actions may be shit in that instance, but the video isn’t wrong. She predicted the collapse.

    • @LouNeko
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      52 months ago

      I think the American Dream was that you could support a family and buy a house in a blue collar single income salary, while in other countries you would just strave to death. But 5 decades of “…close the door behind you” economics have made that impossible.