Decades of "I vote myself and my kin" or "I vote against others even if it hurts me". Reap what you sow. Vote to #TaxWealth or #TaxWealthNotWork and maybe you'll get somewhere.
not an american but i just wanna chime in and say that it pains me to see that the rich can destroy an entire country and its people will still find a way to blame the propagandized masses
like it's not your neighbor's fault that they fell to incredibly elaborated propaganda campaigns
There's always two sides. You can grow up poor and uneducated but that doesn't mean you have to be mean and hateful. And even if you grow up middle-class and are exposed to propaganda, that doesn't mean that you have to fully give in to it. To be this far gone, you have to have also let it happen.
It's not something that happened overnight, this has been a half century in the making. Fox News did most of the heavy lifting, but even before the industrialists came up with a long game to overthrow the republic back in 1971 at the Business Roundtable.
It happened a little bit at a time, and all it would take to reverse it is a popular alternative, yet we trust the democrats to do that as they decry popular as the great danger we are facing. They call the republicans populist, and they are dicks, so therefore populists are dicks, is the logic. Too stupid to even refute if it wasn't so effective with out chemical pollution addled weak minds, (present company excluded.)
They wanted to make sure people didn't have enough to eat unless they were wallowing in indignity and grinding for scraps. This is real commitment to their stupid, ass-backwards "principles". I salute the stupid hill they're going to starve on.
Food insecurity in my ruby red state just hit 37%. More than 1/3 of the state is fucking hungry! The food banks struggle to keep running, let alone keep pace with demand. People just need that everyday experience to be linked with the republican administration here, but that direct line isn't clear to people, or they're disenfranchised enough not to care anymore. Education campaigns are so sorely needed.
Voted for Harris.
I didn't vote against my intrest.
Still suffer.
I'm in this camp.
I'm hanging on.
But just barely.
But the moment is here.
People are starving.
It's about to get even more crazy.
While certainly a bunch of them had bad luck, statistically, a whole bunch of them made bad decisions and/or squandered what they had.
PLENTY of us know a boomer who had a small fortune and pissed it all away because they thought making money was so easy more was just going to come to them.
The ones I know just pissed it away from buying stuff. Like the silent gen were still frugal but were constantly waiting for another great depression but the boomers would remodel something a few years after they remodeled because they decided they did not like what they had chose. Like not because it needed it do to age and things kinda falling apart. Or bought a new or remodeled place but had to remodel to get exactly what they wanted.
There's a difference here - most day to day Millennial and Gen-Z workers don't MAKE enough to have the opportunity to be scammed. The yuppie, upwardly mobile class of rich college grads has been a minority for a LONG time.
The boomers grew up in an era where a high school diploma got you the equivalent of a 60k a year salary as a STARTING pay just for having a pulse, and a huge number of them retired with a pension.
There's a massive difference between being desperate and grabbing for an opportunity to get out of the endless treadmill to the grave, and having everything you need to be comfortable for the rest of your life and blowing it.
There’s little difference. While yes, the elderly themselves get scammed due to cognitive decline and extra targeting from scammers, all the youngins get ripped off too. You ain’t special. I gave crypto and internet gambling as examples for a reason…
A lot of boomers voted for Harris. A lot of young people voted for Trump. A lot of people in general didn’t vote at all. I’m fresh out of fucking empathy for the entire world being simplistically stereotyped.
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 12d
How glorious! They made America great again!
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 11d
atro_city@fedia.io · 37 pts · 12d
Decades of "I vote myself and my kin" or "I vote against others even if it hurts me". Reap what you sow. Vote to #TaxWealth or #TaxWealthNotWork and maybe you'll get somewhere.
tixnou@feddit.cl · 14 pts · 12d
not an american but i just wanna chime in and say that it pains me to see that the rich can destroy an entire country and its people will still find a way to blame the propagandized masses
like it's not your neighbor's fault that they fell to incredibly elaborated propaganda campaigns
atro_city@fedia.io · 14 pts · 12d
There's always two sides. You can grow up poor and uneducated but that doesn't mean you have to be mean and hateful. And even if you grow up middle-class and are exposed to propaganda, that doesn't mean that you have to fully give in to it. To be this far gone, you have to have also let it happen.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 12d
It's not something that happened overnight, this has been a half century in the making. Fox News did most of the heavy lifting, but even before the industrialists came up with a long game to overthrow the republic back in 1971 at the Business Roundtable.
It happened a little bit at a time, and all it would take to reverse it is a popular alternative, yet we trust the democrats to do that as they decry popular as the great danger we are facing. They call the republicans populist, and they are dicks, so therefore populists are dicks, is the logic. Too stupid to even refute if it wasn't so effective with out chemical pollution addled weak minds, (present company excluded.)
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d
Yeah it is. They dum. They chose that.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 12d
I'll give them this...
They wanted to make sure people didn't have enough to eat unless they were wallowing in indignity and grinding for scraps. This is real commitment to their stupid, ass-backwards "principles". I salute the stupid hill they're going to starve on.
SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 12d
Why can't they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? No one wants to work anymore...
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 11d
They can't afford straps.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 11d
Step 1: Vote like dogshit for decades.
Step 2: Suffer.
username123@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 11d
Step -1: normalize voting based on vibes
Step 0: be clueless about propaganda and bias
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 11d
Food insecurity in my ruby red state just hit 37%. More than 1/3 of the state is fucking hungry! The food banks struggle to keep running, let alone keep pace with demand. People just need that everyday experience to be linked with the republican administration here, but that direct line isn't clear to people, or they're disenfranchised enough not to care anymore. Education campaigns are so sorely needed.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11d
Voted for Harris. I didn't vote against my intrest. Still suffer. I'm in this camp. I'm hanging on. But just barely. But the moment is here. People are starving. It's about to get even more crazy.
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 11d
If you aren't a filthy rich shareholder then voting for Harris wa voting again your interests too.
No capitalist party will ever fix the underlying problems that caused Trump. The DNC isn't even interested in mitigating the damage.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
It was her or Trump, OK? what do you want? a perfect world? There was no valid 3rd party at the time.
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 11d
There were several on the ballot who would have been light years better.
You ShitLib spoilers insisted on wasting your votes on a genocide-loving crooked cop who had no chance of winning.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
OK who should have I voted for?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 11d
how many of those millions voted for this?
I'm not going to care too much until I know that number
Frettchen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
Funny thing is food insecurity means getting fat instead of thin nowadays. We somehow are able to create cheap calories with no substance.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d
Fuck Trump.
modestmeme@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 12d
And still, a bunch of you have convinced yourselves that “boomers” hoarded all the money…
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 12d
While certainly a bunch of them had bad luck, statistically, a whole bunch of them made bad decisions and/or squandered what they had.
PLENTY of us know a boomer who had a small fortune and pissed it all away because they thought making money was so easy more was just going to come to them.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 11d
The ones I know just pissed it away from buying stuff. Like the silent gen were still frugal but were constantly waiting for another great depression but the boomers would remodel something a few years after they remodeled because they decided they did not like what they had chose. Like not because it needed it do to age and things kinda falling apart. Or bought a new or remodeled place but had to remodel to get exactly what they wanted.
modestmeme@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 12d
Did they piss it away on crypto or prediction markets? Did they piss it away specifically because they were born within a range of years?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 12d
There's a difference here - most day to day Millennial and Gen-Z workers don't MAKE enough to have the opportunity to be scammed. The yuppie, upwardly mobile class of rich college grads has been a minority for a LONG time.
The boomers grew up in an era where a high school diploma got you the equivalent of a 60k a year salary as a STARTING pay just for having a pulse, and a huge number of them retired with a pension.
There's a massive difference between being desperate and grabbing for an opportunity to get out of the endless treadmill to the grave, and having everything you need to be comfortable for the rest of your life and blowing it.
modestmeme@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 11d
There’s little difference. While yes, the elderly themselves get scammed due to cognitive decline and extra targeting from scammers, all the youngins get ripped off too. You ain’t special. I gave crypto and internet gambling as examples for a reason…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 12d
A lot of them have. And regardless of whether or not they have, even more voted for the regime. So:
Because I am fresh fucking out of empathy for anyone who voted that way in the last election.
modestmeme@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 12d
A lot of boomers voted for Harris. A lot of young people voted for Trump. A lot of people in general didn’t vote at all. I’m fresh out of fucking empathy for the entire world being simplistically stereotyped.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
Yup, a lot of people here fighting the culture wars instead of the class wars.