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  • I’m so tired of being told I’m sad because I don’t have drugs.

    I’ve tried a dozen medications and they all make me feel worse. One made me allergic to fucking sunlight.

    Our world is broken and dying as the rich hasten it along and we’re gaslit to accept the blame for it.

    The police are thugs servicing fascist tyrants and protecting them from us.

    Wall Street, Walmart, schools, healthcare, fucking everything is about controlling and exploiting.

    When I was a kid, super soakers were a hundred dollars. China has basically battery powered water rail guns at that same price point now while we still have the same hand pump plastic shit. The US gets farther and farther behind the world and yet somehow even more up is own ass despite being one is the dumbest and fastest countries on the fucking planet.



  • Ironically, forgiving the debt would generate immediate economic activity that the government would tax and collect that money back with far greater returns.

    Every dollar in food stamps generated $1.70 in economic activity and that’s just for “normal” poor people.

    The problem isn’t (just) the cost of education being insane but that wages aren’t increasing to cover the bigger numbers.

    The problem is that it’s becoming harder to hide the entire country is a “company town” or African diamond mine where keeping you trapped in debt you’ll never escape is the goal and it’s perfectly legal because they own the laws.

    I have been with my employer for a decade. My nominal wage has increased 50% but once you account for inflation I’m still basically at my starting wage even after a decade of promotions and certifications.






  • In short, Kant said people should be the goal, not the means.

    It’s ok to make yourself dinner.

    It’s ok to make your friend dinner because you want to make them happy.

    It’s not ok to make your friend dinner because you want to have sex with them.

    It’s not ok to make your friend make you dinner because you don’t want to cook.

    Every facet of capitalism is exploitation by design as profit is unpaid labor. However classless socialism isn’t automatically devoid of exploitation.

    None of us asked to be here. I certainly don’t want to be here anymore. Placing the value of a life upon the imaginary lines it landed between, how much money it’s parents had, or the color of it’s skin are all pretty fucked up.










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    3 months ago

    I agree. The bad taste is not that while not wrong per-se, it’s just reduces a complex issue into “red bad” while wholly failing to acknowledge that Democrats have been complicit in facilitating the Overton Window this far.

    “Progressives” are really hard on the “REPUBLICANS DID THIS!” and never really pick up on the “and Democrats met them half way.”

    This blue no matter who reduction hopes to hide liberalism is the slow road to fascism.

    The problem isn’t meany racist MAGAts. It’s the entire system spending decades working overtly toward fascism with a bunch of clueless fucking rubes staring complacently.