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What a miserable, awful life :/ It’s quite sad to see this image.
“You’d look prettier if you smiled more.”
Picture needs to include ‘gambling on every possible aspect of existence’
Like a parody of posters about building a better future. It calls out some visible suffering but then instead of asking for a donation or something to help the situation, it asks readers to place bets on whether it will be better, the same, or worse in x time. Big smiling face on the bottom with the quote, “I won $235 because I guessed the day one of the homeless locals would die correctly!”
“I won $235 because I guessed the day one of the homeless locals would die correctly!”
Oh my God. That would do so well. Worst part is you’d get people betting on themselves.
Damn, this is real. I was working Dollar General during this 4th and literally every person working there was personally and negatively impacted by Trumpistan but we still had to sell that crap. My boss was pissed (he is a gay man who lost his trans sister to violence associated with MAGA). This wasnt just 250 4th of july shit, it was straight MAGA.
US/Israel pins is bang on. Birds of a genocidal settler-colony feather stick together.
“AND YOU DESERVE IT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU DID THIS YOU WANTED THIS YOU’RE ALL THE SAME I HOPE YOU SUFFER YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT”
Someone from Lemmy, probably
Death to America
The concept/nation, the people in power, or every citizen regardless of circumstance?
“If this was in my country, I’d be goddamn John Wick right now!”
and they would be right.
But no need to do something.
On the contrary, glad to see them go down the shitter.Given how many countries the US has victimized, it’s at least a little comforting to know they’re getting some of it turned back on them.
They had a chance to make things better, unlike so many other countries. They had it good for decades, only to blow it all up for some narcissistic, billionaire pedophile. Fuck em.
So you’re glad to see children in concentration camps? Glad to see LGBT people assaulted? Glad to see people shot in the head for nothing? That’s pretty fucked up.
makes sense.
how many times have you been told to stop voting for the political duopoloy, but you still kept doing it anyways or – worse yet – not bothering to vote at all?
how many times have you been told to start using green tech to mitigate climate change’s impact, but just shrugged your shoulders when your gov’t effectively banned green tech and maxed out fossil fuels nonetheless. and did you vote for them anyways because the red team was slightly worse for the world – not just the united states – than the blue team?
how many times have you been told that your media has chocked fully of propaganda but never bothered to change your media consumption habits while decrying all other media sources as propaganda?
how many times have you been told that it’s not a coincidence that all the us empire’s political enemies are “authoritarian” hellholes, but you still accept the lies that your propaganda keeps telling you despite the fact your government had already effectively admitted that are lies decades ago?
this i-told-you-so nagging is annoying, but it’s the only way to keep people aware that they’re choosing this enshitify their own environment, society and future just so that the epstein class can keep their control over us.
“and after all that, someone will come up and tell the powerless it’s their fault for failing to stop the powerful”.
“But have you considered that the powerless deserved it because they failed to stop the powerful? I know it’s annoying I’m doing this, but it’s the only way to keep the powerless aware that it’s their fault”
That’s how much of an asshole you sound like.
the only assholery on display here is the presumption that they’re powerless and the re-enforced misinformation that you’re spreading here.
history proves that the people can be just as powerful as the epstein class — and that’s exactly why they expend so many resources keeping you from ever doing what that nagging tells you to do.
Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.
You’re totally right. It’s wrong to call the individuals who belong to the class of people who need to work together in the thousands or millions to effect change via coordinated collective action “powerless”, or to imply that the handful of individuals with enough sway that they’ve managed to effectively prevent that are somehow “powerful”.
The right thing to do is definitely to find a place where someone has griped that the experience being one of those temporarily disenfranchised oligarchs is kinda shit and remind them that since their millions of equally powerful cohort haven’t joined arms against the handful of not-more-powerful people who oppose them that they, personally, are guilty of a myriad sins that contributed directly to all of their misery so they should just shut their imperialist fucking faces and fix everything in their lives and country.
Because you know, it’s your responsibility to be the morality police of people you’ve never met, and to proselytize your specific beliefs about the way Americans can unfuck themselves.
Cool story bro
Go back to Reddit
Just take the L
doing all these things on a personal level also didn’t do much to help as far as i can see. i get conflicting propaganda now, and can maybe see accidental glimpses of the truth more often, woohoo. and i pay more for the privilege, but as lest i actualy have the financial mobility to make that choice. makes the nagging much more shrill.
the epstein class has been forced to reveal several times that collectivism is the only threat to them and all of this nagging directly points out to how the epsteins prevent collectivization from happening on an individual scale.
and nagging and othering people promotes collectivism how exactly?
the nagging points to the things that you – as an individual – can do to ruin the epstein class’ day.
and collectivism will make you understand why & how doing it will ruin their day so that you can take it a step further than just ruining a single day.
and i have done these things, and i see no difference.
you push for individual culpability through othering and alienation to force collectivism, absurdity on nonsense.
just the notion alone that in order to achieve collectivism one must alone shoulder the burden of systematic change separately is oxymoronic and a waste of time.
do you just assume that people don’t do as you say because they are inherently evil? they actually seek their end?
all this nagging does’nt seem to be convincing me to agree with you after all
The nagging is the bare bones minimum that we could do and, as such, it has little impact by itself. (but could if everybody did it).
Couple it something like protesting like Americans used to do during the civil rights era – ie the opposite of no kings rallies – and you get the same winning combination that Mexico had in 2017 – which lead them to permanently breaking up their own political duopoly and giving them president Sheinbaum.
I’m not a fan of the nagging partially because it’s a last ditch effort but I can appreciate that’s the only step you can take to get people to do what morality, responsibility, and basic human deceny requires them to do.
The other reason I don’t like nagging is because it’s clear by that point that you will not be convinced by reason or logic. Instead, history proves that nature has a way of forcing things and either climate change or catastrophic economic bubble is going to do a better – and significantly more painful – job than the nagging ever will do.
What’s EBT?
Electronic benefit transfer is an electronic system used in the United States that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card.
There is a HUGE amount of EBT funds being stolen before people even have a chance to use the funds. States are not refunding it either
food stamps
No liquor? I thought this was America.
Right there, next to the toy trucks and fireworks.
I was sitting with my mom this past Independence Day and asked her if this one felt different from the bicentennial and she started crying.
This is sad…ly accurate.
Ick. Yeah gas stations are addiction centers. Doesn’t help theyre often the only employment in small towns too.
And pay minimum wage.
This one hurt, and I realize how grateful I am for my job, even on Workers’ Comp.
Yeah, and its not an easy job.
Ask me how I know.
How do you know?
I worked at one, briefly, because my boss at another job said they could use the help.
yeah that’s really pretty much how it feels
america the beautiful
one helluva quarter millennium
