Bold of you to presume that they will even accept your taxes at all, in order to keep those services solvent. Instead it looks very much rather like they will simply be removed from us, at any price point.
Education is not a solution to jobs paying too little.
Interesting to see Jamie Harrison on the last panel.
“How could democrats do this to us?”
-“Leftists” on lemmy
"Our glorious leaders did everything perfectly like always! Let’s blame abstract concepts, vague and unsolvable societal problems, and the people who warned us that this could happen!" - Ridiculously obtuse Neoliberals on Lemmy
“What’s a strawman?”
L2read dipshit
A strawman is what I was replying to. I’m not the dipshit with a comprehension problem here.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Correct. Good thing that my comment was a hyperbolic denunciation of a clear pattern of actual attitudes and behaviors rather than a blame shifting strawman like the one I was replying to.
I’m gonna refer back to my earlier comment
And you’re thus continuing to be wrong.
Deliberate and obvious hyperbole to emphasize a valid point is NOT a strawman, nor is it equivalent.
Look at profiles like davel@lemmy.ml
Dude actively engaged American politics, while being a pro-Russian Putler-dick loving troll. Claims to be American. But genuinely, just look at that profile. It’s profiles like that which influenced zoomers to stay home and not vote.
There’s was a massive propaganda push to ‘protest by not voting’ , and by golly did they fucking succeed.
It’s simply impossible to imagine they were telling the truth when they said genocide was a red line
-“I’m not homophobic” guy
“Ðı cᵫd hæv priventid ðiſ!” -Pipėl hu did ıvin leſ t privent ðiſ
spoiler
“They should have prevented this!” -People who did even less to prevent this
Don’t forget all the people of the world who sit back and laugh at the suffering of millions of people just because the leaders they can’t control do bad shit. Getting pleasure out of watching people suffer is wrong.
the suffering of millions of people just because the leaders they can’t control do bad shit.
My brother in Christ, what do you mean by that can’t control? Women, minorities, poors, olds voted for someone who’s going to take away their healthcare, deport them or their friends and families, and wreck the economy.
These people literally had option to deny him that power. I don’t think there’s going to be any such option in near future.
Pretty sure they mean non-Americans who can’t vote in our elections.
MAGA party explicitly mentioned denaturalization during the campaigns. That means Americans who were immigrants or were born to immigrants.
How many of those are Trump voters/non-voters, we don’t know but safe to assume there’s plenty of such idiots.
However, there are illegal immigrants in USA. They love Trump and his rhetoric about illegal immigrants, not realizing he’s talking about them.
"I’m an immigrant, and I love Trump,” said Alex, a day laborer who has been undocumented since he came to the U.S. from Nicaragua 28 years ago.
Fernando Pineda, a 52-year-old undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who also works as a mover for U-Haul, said he’s ambivalent about Trump’s win because he feels protected by San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city, meaning it does not coordinate with ICE to deport undocumented immigrants.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/07/san-francisco-trump-immigration-deportation-fears/
At this point apathy or schadenfreude is the only option left because these people are beyond reach or help.
Correct. I mean anyone laughing at another country because it’s going to shit is a bad person. I don’t laugh at the Russian people. I laugh at the government. The average person is kept powerless for a reason.
Bunch of ragged trousered philanthropists
Trump/Musk have announced a plan similar to Argentina where they cut a bunch of public services and refuce the functions of government:
…part of the plan is to crash the economy and cause ‘hardship’… And they’re more than likely going to do a massive transfer of wealth in the process. hedge funds use this tactic all the time, get your money ready, collapse a stock, buy it at a lower price, be wealthier when it returns.
They’re going to do that with the whole economy. They want to own the whole pie.
I guess they really got upset that unions got some traction and workers got some hope that they are not completely helpless.
Do they not know that Americans choose their politicians based on egg prices? They will be fucked in the midterms if they go through with this assuming they don’t rig it too hard
Given that there are 20 million votes unaccounted for, and we suspiciously had high voter turnout yet low amounts of people actually voting. Something’s not right.
Please, let’s not be republicans and start conspiracy theories. The 2020 election was totally unique because of Covid. It’s better to compare turnout to a non-Covid year like 2016, which is has similar democratic vote numbers to 2016
The entertainment corporation “Fox news” will tell them that the egg prices are lower than they are, and a median voter will believe it, and they will pay more money, while believing that they aren’t.
First trillionaire when?
When the dollar has lost 99.9999% of it’s value, not just 97%. (as compared to 1970 vs. price of gold).
Okay but they realize that leaves a lot of angry people with literally nothing to lose right?
That’s why they started with building a following of cultists that will be the useful idiots to take the blow for free.
I literally just got a government job and start Tuesday and now I gotta worry the job won’t exist in 6 months. I got laid off twice in thr past 2 years and I really don’t want to make it 3.
SimCity2000 :)
the 3rd panel is similar. I work at a grocery store as a highschool job and it’s really sad seeing grown folks with hair thats literally gray hobbling around because they can’t afford medical bills.
I said hey, you, feed the machine
Bring them all back down to their knees
Fuck, now I have to listen to that. Such a good song!
They randomly started turning up in my music recommendations (I mostly listen to metal). I was so confused and so happy about it…
Unexpected Poor Man’s Poison
Youtube link to the song for anyone that wants to listen.
Poor Man’s Poison - Feed the Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlnVP2_dIb4
