• anon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago
    • college tuition
    • housing
    • credit scores
    • for-profit healthcare
    • right to work legislation
    • rugged individualism/grind culture
    • voting (vote for the lesser of two evils…only two choices that are actually allies when the press isn’t around to help them pretend to disagree on social issues)
    • taxes (I have no problem with taxation if democracy actually existed and our tax funds weren’t being funnelled directly to the military industrial complex and corporate handouts without anyone having a say in the matter)
    • democracy (what the United States and British are trying to pass off as democracy is a complete sham)
    • sports (the distraction of the masses, anti-intellectualism incarnate)
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      I agree with everything but voting. Not because we ever have great options, but because sometimes there are terrifyingly bad ones, and while option A might not be at all good, option B is so much worse.

      That’s why it’s called “the lesser of two evils.”

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        I disagree. You seem to be susceptible to identity politics even though it is quite clear that this “lesser of two evils” is actually hoodwinking you into agreeing with corporatism in the name of empty, symbolic inclusivity that intentionally stops short at extending that woke inclusivity to the poor.

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          You don’t seem to know what “lesser of two evils” means.

          It doesn’t mean “that guy’s bad, so the less evil guy is good, actually, and totally deserves our support!”

          It means “no matter which one of these assholes wins, I’m fucked, but if I’m lucky the one guy will use lube.”

          I can’t do a damn thing about the two party system. That ship sailed before I was born, and nothing I do as an individual can change it. In fact, I can’t see a solution short of possibly violent revolution. If that happens before I’m to old and feeble to help, great. Other wise, I’m fucked no matter who I pick, so I’m sure as shit going to pick the one who just wants to fuck me and not fuck me plus kill my trans neighbor.

          I’m sick and tired of being called stupid, gullible, or uninformed just because I can actually see how completely fucked we are. Your shit is great for people who still have hope. My shit is just trying to survive without the Gestapo coming for my neighbors.

          So come get me for the revolution. In the meantime, stop calling me stupid for being depressed and practical.

          Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to copy and paste this in reply to some other lemming that thinks I’m a gullible moron instead.

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      How do you get college without tuition, affordable housing, or not-for-profit healthcare without taxes?

      The real scam is the widespread aversion to taxation.

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        ACTUALLY, the real scam (that I was alluding to there) is the use of tax funds for the fucking military industrial complex and Isreal by officials who were “elected” by a sham democracy.