This is why we can't have nice things

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DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee · 60 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Fuck this call it like it is - "Sorry you don't have child care, a support network or a living wage but billionaires exist and have concentrated wealth like fucking cancer. Kill those fuckers (and any aspirants) and see change."

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Seems a bit too long to be easily read on a moving billboard. We also don't have money for proper literacy education either.

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I think we could workshop something a bit shorter.

I've been pushing "Resist. Rebel. Revolt."

We could use the classic "Eat the rich"

We could put this on a billboard: "Want to save lives while exercising your second amendment right? Gun down a CEO today!"

As for the illiterate: 👮🔫🚶🇺🇸🗽🫡

PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

“Let’s gut some billionaires!”

huppakee@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y

oof

istdaslol@feddit.org · 14 pts · 1y (3 replies)

As if they would spend that money on potholes. And Isreal funds are federal while road repair are city/municipal/state for most part so there is that too. They have the right spirit but potholes are permanent

ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

But a significant portion of funds are often allocated at the state or federal level from various grants. There’s nothing stopping the federal government from setting up a “fix potholes” grant - if there was a proper infrastructure bill, this would a part of it. Of course, the incentive structures that dominate modern decision making at the upper levels will never see it hair without major changes.

Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

AkTUALlY...

ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

But a significant portion of funds are often allocated at the state or federal level from various grants. There’s nothing stopping the federal government from setting up a “fix potholes” grant - if there was a proper infrastructure bill, this would a part of it. Of course, the incentive structures that dominate modern decision making at the upper levels will never see it hair without major changes.

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

That, and we're not spending money on alternative means of transportation that reduce the amount of road maintenance needed.

brot@feddit.org · -16 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I'm not sure if it is helpful to boil down a complex conflict like the one in the middle east to such simple slogans

NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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Tja@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

Bombing is expensive, starve them instead!

- Some dude in Israel (fiscally conservative)

brot@feddit.org · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

An Israel supporter would answer you with "there is nothing complex about making a conscious decision to specifically NOT murder and abduct children, women and elderly like on Oct 7". Boiling down such a complex conflict to simple slogans really isn't helping .

NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's a billboard on the side of a vehicle, they can't exactly have a treatise on the side of it.

brot@feddit.org · -1 pts · 1y

Yeah, then don't put stuff on a billboard on the side of a vehicle?