Americans are doubling down on the thing that hurts them the most

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/american-dream/

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reddig33@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 1y

“…

Other countries enjoy benefits like free healthcare and college; modern mass transit; and affordable housing, food, and drugs.

They also have inexpensive internet and phone service without companies listening in and selling their information, schools that don’t even need to mention school shooters, and streets and parks filled with pedestrians and children instead of tents for the homeless.

Additionally, they benefit from renewable electricity that gets cheaper every year while cleaning their environment.

We, on the other hand, have the world‘s largest collection of billionaires.

…”

breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (9 replies)

And not a single trump voter will bother to read this, unfortunately

0x01@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 1y (7 replies)

And neither will anyone else with a paywall in place lol

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 6 pts · 1y (6 replies)

There's so many browser extensions made to get around paywalls though.

chase_what_matters@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Can you recommend one for iOS?

deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I cannot, but Firefox for iOS + Reader Mode + refresh seems to bust about 80% of them.

chase_what_matters@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Noted, thanks.

valkyre09@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)
chase_what_matters@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Ooh nice, I’ll have to test this out

KingGordon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Archive.ph

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 19 pts · 1y

If they could read, they’d be very upset.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Has it gotten any better since then? The last 40 fucken years, has it gotten any better?

Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

For us? Eh…

For billionaires / capitalist? Absolutely.

BMTea@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

It has gotten so worse that the "anti-fascist" choice helped commit a holocaust that the fascists want to finish.

qprimed@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y

I know, I know... but for what its worth - Firefox and noscript will get you the article.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Paywall.