Hey now that’s not fair.
We have a globally recognized national pastime that defines who we are as a people really well.
We lead the developed world in mass shootings.
No one lets their kids shoot their other kids as they gawk and do nothing (except make ad revenue off the coverage) like us Americans. pew pew pew Murica pew pew. 🇺🇸
Coldest, shortest summer of the rest of our lives.
Hope all the Pop Figures were worth it.
Weird line considering what we’re willing to do to nation states to keep their citizens from cooperating socially rather than competing against one another to keep their resource extraction rights open to our capitalists for maximum exploitation.
Breathtaking, aren’t they? It’s a common misconception that they roamed our planet. The truth is, they rolled. Street-style mostly. Some vert.
We have defunded schools without enough teachers, school supplies, etc because the wealthy use the inane amount of capital they hoard to buy local government to cut their taxes. Then they set up Charter school escape hatches for some kids that they then profit from from publicly traded charter management companies. Those kids did nothing to deserve being caught up in their greed disease.
We have economic segregation from the cradle. That’s no fucking better. Making more money should let you have a bigger car/house/TV/widgets, but we let some make so much that they use it as a cudgel to extract more from us to our detriment. Fuck their employee’s kids, theirs goes to a private school so starve the commons your company operates on but doesn’t want to pay for.
But believe the dream all you like. Not like there’s hope since we’re literally terraforming the planet against being hospitable to our very physically vulnerable species for millions of years.
Because capital is an expression of power beyond material needs/wants, and even government can’t effectively govern a class of people that have enough capital to bribe officials en masse to literally bend the laws and regulations to their wills, including to make their bribery perfectly legal as they succeeded in doing here.
That’s why fiscal conservatives were so aroused by the idea of making government, the government that is supposed to protect the citizenry from the whims of those with more power, “small enough to drown in the bathtub.” They succeeded. Our government is subservient to Wall Street’s dictates because we let a few citizens accumulate enough, and shrunk government oversight enough, to turn it into just another acquisition to manipulate to maximize short term private profit.
We should tax extreme wealth into oblivion, with a 100% congratulations you won capitalism tax at some point so they can’t collect enough wealth to start warping politics beyond their single vote.
No one should be able to live like modern pharoahs in a finite world with finite resources where others die of lack of resources.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”
-Anatole France
I’m sure the status quo is just dandy to the 10% of Americans that owns 87% of American stocks, and especially the 1% that owns 50%.
The beneficiaries of societal privilege, which earning making money without labor is, will always view anything that makes society more equitable as oppression. This is like seeking out the opinion of business owners on Jim Crow laws in the 50s. You’re just looking to confirm your own biases.
You do know it’s THAT rich guy that sets your salary, right?
Which is why they need to be reigned in in a hundred different ways including this one, to force…any… responsibility to the society that FACILITATED their accumulation of such ridiculous levels of wealth to begin with, from roads, to utilities, to the preliterate workforce Pool they utilize and tear up for private profit more than normal individuals but don’t want to pay for.
Unfortunately, the self-hating laborers that would waste their lives advocating we get comfortable attempting to satiate the insatiable greed of our oligarchs in perpetuity seem to keep forgetting their greed disease has us on an ever dwindling clock to ecological collapse/apocalypse, meaning no salaries, just death. As much as you may not want it to for the sake of your passive income earned made without actual labor, this capitalist laborer hostage situation for basic survival will end, because the climate can’t be bribed, negotiated with, bought out, cut in, or outsourced.
No one solution can solve the problem of our greed class, and the top economic 10% of Americans own 87% of American stocks, so your attempt to frame this as an everyman issue is hollow.
When we have conditionless housing available to everyone without shelter, when everyone has Healthcare, when no one goes to sleep hungry without enough to eat, then we can start talking about what people with asset portfolios are concerned about.
Maybe society should focus on getting Bezos’s support mega yacht a support support mega yacht instead though.
There would be no more Iran if they did it to Israel.
Developing World: You stole our water and supported the installation of brutal but market friendly leadership that’s friendly to exploiting our resources and people for foreign profit! We’re desperate and dying!
Market Capitalist World: glug glug glug sorry, we couldn’t hear you over all this thirst quenching!
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I don’t know man, I don’t really think building millions of birdhouses will accomplish much.
/s 😉
I don’t want Trump to be assassinated.
I want him to die of a heart attack on the toilet or in prison, though I doubt the second one is possible because rich asshole.
Assassinations make martyrs. I want his base to get tired of worshipping a feeble old man and move on.
What I DON’T want is him being elevated as the Republican mascot on t-shirts and signs as the defacto symbol of their idiocy for the rest of MY life. When this cycle is over, I really don’t want to have to see his orange clown asshole face again, let alone as the newest iteration of the confederate battle/don’t tread on me flag they wave around town to be annoying for the next century.
Let him be forgotten and fade into obscurity. It’s what he wouldn’t want the most.
Enjoy your break, It’ll be weirder when you come back.
It could flop out of a fork more easily.
If you really love triangles, it becomes a new sexual orientation.
I personally have pity for rank and file Republican voters.
They were simply easy marks our education system intentionally failed to teach critical thinking and reason to because obedient laborers don’t need that, and were then spoonfed sensationalist lies that appealed to their fears and anxieties, the easiest avenues for indoctrination, for the last half century under the guise of being “news” for the private profit of private shareholders and to turn them into useful idiot dependable votes for those same private shareholders to effectively capture their regulators and government that was once meant to protect us from them.
As just one in an ocean of examples, Fox “News” has been telling these poor sad bastards that “man made climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books!”