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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Everyday Americans will not stand for these games

I got a bridge to sell this guy!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

America had a class war. And Americans lost.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

American friends, what are you waiting for to deploy your guillotines?

Sure we are getting fucked all over the world but it seems that you are having it way worse...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry can’t afford a guillotine, too preoccupied with trying to get enough overtime to afford basic necessities to be starting a revolution nobody else will show up for 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Hey check out the new games on the app store! Good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, republicans with the ol’ trickle-down economics… always works, right?! Right?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Piss on the little guy economics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Know how we can directly trace the enshitification of the United States in many ways back to the Reagan administration?

Yeah, we just did that to ourselves again. But probably worse.

Realistically, we're going to spend the remainder of our lives witnessing the further enshitification of this nation.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

This infuriates me more than anything else, but the Republicans were very clear on their intentions and were elected democratically.

It sucks that we don't have a legit opposition party that actually cares about the poor and working class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

The problem was:

  1. Not everyone knew, due to them only really caring about politics each election year.
  2. Got the wrong news source.
  3. Thought since politicians lie, some part of what they promised won't be done.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

During the campaign Trump repeatedly said he wouldn't mess with Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Towards the end of the campaign he stopped saying Medicaid. But just last week he was asked about cuts and said he wouldn't touch Medicaid.

I guess it's all true because Congress is going to cut all three.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

A bunch of trump admin people wrote project 2025 with the heritage foundation. Trump himself is a well known liar and was under criminal prosecution.

We knew it would be tax cuts for the richest, again. At this point its still surprising that people are dumb enough to believe his words over his actions..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago

The amount of people I know that said they were voting Trump for "economic reasons" is far too high.

I know they make less money than I do, so they're definitely not the ones benefitting from Trumps economic plans. The absolute buffoons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm well aware of project 2025, and I've understood for ten years now that if Trump's mouth is open, he's lying.

My best friend relies on medication to function that would cost $1600 each month if not for Medicaid. Obviously he can't afford private insurance. I was trying to reassure him that it might not happen with the (dis)information in my last post a couple days ago. He's screwed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

At this point its still surprising that people are dumb enough to believe his words over his actions…

Not to me. At least half of Americans are not much better than apes. Honestly feels like we've got two different branches of the human tree coexisting. Like Neanderthals coexisting with homo sapiens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It sucks that we have a society overflowing with braindead losers.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What the fuck did people think would happen to all the cost savings that doge is supposedly doing? You think that money was just going to sit in government bank accounts or something?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

Some, forget which other than Meidas Touch, said that was exactly what the "cuts" were going to do, pay for Trumps tax breaks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I figure they'll privatize it but still funded by government but still claim they reduced the size of government.

Just like how Reagan exclaimed in the 80s that the US has just as much forest as when the constitution was signed. Kind of ignoring the USA covered a lot more land than when there were 13 states.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

‘Want to be slightly richer, while we speed run a revolution?’

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hoarding a bunch of US dollars while giving everyone every incentive to disconnect from the US economy.

It's like they think the economic world order is a law of nature.

We could all stop using money today, and decide on a whole different system, and they'd have nothing again but our hatred.

Keep pushing, morons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You’re absolutely right. They really don’t understand that once they have all the money, people just switch to something else and everything they hoarded becomes worthless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

The only real value is in our resources, labor, and manufacturing capability, and those will still be here.

This is why I've always considered "capital flight" an empty threat. Let capital leave.... They've done more harm by staying and slowly moving all of our production capacity overseas.

These idiots think destroying the systems will hurt us, they're so bought into their own bullshit. That's the silver lining in all this, we'll build back stronger.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 12 hours ago

Who could have possibly foreseen this hilariously predictable outcome?!

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