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You forgot the 7oh tabs that are as addictive as heroin with withdrawals just as severe.
Picture needs to include ‘gambling on every possible aspect of existence’
Like a parody of posters about building a better future. It calls out some visible suffering but then instead of asking for a donation or something to help the situation, it asks readers to place bets on whether it will be better, the same, or worse in x time. Big smiling face on the bottom with the quote, “I won $235 because I guessed the day one of the homeless locals would die correctly!”
“I won $235 because I guessed the day one of the homeless locals would die correctly!”
Oh my God. That would do so well. Worst part is you’d get people betting on themselves.
“You’d look prettier if you smiled more.”
What a miserable, awful life :/ It’s quite sad to see this image.
Damn, this is real. I was working Dollar General during this 4th and literally every person working there was personally and negatively impacted by Trumpistan but we still had to sell that crap. My boss was pissed (he is a gay man who lost his trans sister to violence associated with MAGA). This wasnt just 250 4th of july shit, it was straight MAGA.
That is fucking dark, dude. I don’t know what else to say.
US/Israel pins is bang on. Birds of a genocidal settler-colony feather stick together.
I was sitting with my mom this past Independence Day and asked her if this one felt different from the bicentennial and she started crying.
“AND YOU DESERVE IT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU DID THIS YOU WANTED THIS YOU’RE ALL THE SAME I HOPE YOU SUFFER YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT”
Someone from Lemmy, probably
Turns out, the rest of the world is not sympathetic towards yankees when their chickens come home to roost.
Those kids in cages didn’t deserve to be put in cages. They’re also Americans.
The people being shot in the street are Americans.
The people trying to stop this insanity and getting arrested for it are Americans.
You want to throw the baby out with the bath water? Then you’re in favor of what Trump does. You’re in favor of ICE.
There’s people who had no hand in this happening who don’t deserve the reprocussions for other people’s greed and evil.
And it turns out, the rest of the world does not care about yankees being shot in the streets or put in cages, because what is happening in the US today is what the US was doing to everyone else yesteryear. All they see are the chickens coming home.
Even the people who immigrated here, because they had no other choice? Because of the wars America ravaged in their country and the economies America ruined, people in desperation come to America, and are persecuted here. These people deserve it?
Children deserve it? People who had no choice deserve it?
So you’re in favor of Trump?
That’s pretty fucked. I’m glad you live in a country that’s never done anything wrong and can make such a judgement call.
Americans deserve every shitty thing that happens to them. The settler bourgeois are the source of the problems, not the victims. You’re no different than Israel and the US nation should not be allowed to continue to exist. Death to America
Man, all I did was be born here. I didn’t settle anywhere but where I was allowed. I’ve never killed anyone. I never opted in to being American, and opting out is hard as shit. Agreed, the America we have is a pile of donkey shit, but I didn’t shit that pile. Most of us didn’t. Vent your anger elsewhere.
How about you take your whining and shove it up your ass your privileged yank loser. Your entire life is subsidized by the rest of the world and your material interests are to not change anything about it and you fucking know it deep down. You worthless loser yanks will never do anything to change the US empire or accomplish anything that will materially fix your situation because as soon as your child murdering regime dangles medicare for you, you will ditch the solidarity with the rest of the world to protect your place within empire and maintain your material interests. You will police the thoughts of the rest of the world, insist that you are the victims while continuing the behaviors that destroy the lives of people around the world. Then you loser fucks will insist that somehow your fucking votes will matter this time in the most important election of your lives while getting fatter and sicker off the backs of everyone else. This is what you loser yanks always have done and always will do. Scum.
Blah blah blah. We’re not a monolith. But I can confidently say you personally have some demons. Sorry America’s one of em. I still didn’t do jack shit to you, but stay mad I guess. That’ll accomplish something.
So the people who immigrated to America recently, because of wars America started in their own country, deserve that, too?
And then when you ask them what we should be doing they get mad and call you stupid.
Why, if this was in my country, I’d be goddamn John Wick right now.
Death to America
The concept/nation, the people in power, or every citizen regardless of circumstance?
All of the above.
Dang that’s messed up, I hope things get better for you.
I hope everything gets worse for you
You embody everything wrong with America.
I’m not American. Good call though blaming the people from the country you are currently invading for your own fucking problems loser.
and they would be right.
But no need to do something.
On the contrary, glad to see them go down the shitter.Given how many countries the US has victimized, it’s at least a little comforting to know they’re getting some of it turned back on them.
They had a chance to make things better, unlike so many other countries. They had it good for decades, only to blow it all up for some narcissistic, billionaire pedophile. Fuck em.
The libs were perfectly happy to live in their american bubble of ‘democracy’ getting the crumbs of the empire’s looting and murdering.
As long as it happened far away they could turn a blind eye.
So you’re glad to see children in concentration camps? Glad to see LGBT people assaulted? Glad to see people shot in the head for nothing? That’s pretty fucked up.
That’s what happened already, only on a lesser scale.
And again, more importantly, it didn’t inconvenience the white libs.
I bet you don’t know any of the names killed by ICE under many presidents from either side of your uniparty.
But you specifically mention “people shot in the head for nothing”.
I know exactly who you mean, those 2 dead white people were the outrage and big news.
So fuck you hypocrite and your selective indignation.Ah, the “you’re only mad now so you’re wrong” song, heard that before.
First of all, that’s assuming I wasn’t mad, or doing something about it, before this all happened. Just because I reference a recent outrage doesn’t mean that I’m not aware of, or was working against, previous ones.
It’s also not a very good thing to say? Like, if that’s what radicalizes someone and gets them to wake up and do something, that’s good, right? Like people and outrage don’t count unless they’ve been doing it the longest for the most obscure reasons?
Secondly, I’m saying those people being oppressed? The kids in cages, people being arrested? Exploited? Shot? Killed? Tortured? Those people are Americans, too. So people who are like “yeah fuck em all” are in favor of those things happening. They are in favor of ICE and Trump and everything else because they only want the house of cards to fall, and they don’t care about collateral damage.
Or, maybe, there’s some people who don’t like those things, think they are terrible, but have compartmentalized “victims of the system” into a very different hole than “Americans”. They are these atrocities and don’t think of the people being deported as “American”, see people being shot and don’t think of them as “Americans”. They only associate “American” as the cop with the gun, not the person being shot.
If we going to criticize and laugh at the right for having cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy, as we should, we should look out for our own.
So when you say or think “fuck Americans, fuck em all I hope they burn”, you need to either accept the collateral damage or change your stance, because I for one an not going to do the job of the Right’s propaganda machine and think of these people as non-American.
Yes you’ve heard it before because people know you’re a hypocrite.
The huge amount of brown and black people killed before are ‘the most obscure reasons’ for being angry?!!!
Man what a total POS do you have to be to say that?
And then pull some mental gymnastics to claim you don’t ’ think of these people as non-American’.
I’m going to block you because you disgust me.
And burn in hell with the rest of your hypocritical shithole.
Fuck you all
Notice how they downvote you, but don’t reply? They don’t want to think, they just want to hate us.
makes sense.
how many times have you been told to stop voting for the political duopoloy, but you still kept doing it anyways or – worse yet – not bothering to vote at all?
how many times have you been told to start using green tech to mitigate climate change’s impact, but just shrugged your shoulders when your gov’t effectively banned green tech and maxed out fossil fuels nonetheless. and did you vote for them anyways because the red team was slightly worse for the world – not just the united states – than the blue team?
how many times have you been told that your media has chocked fully of propaganda but never bothered to change your media consumption habits while decrying all other media sources as propaganda?
how many times have you been told that it’s not a coincidence that all the us empire’s political enemies are “authoritarian” hellholes, but you still accept the lies that your propaganda keeps telling you despite the fact your government had already effectively admitted that are lies decades ago?
this i-told-you-so nagging is annoying, but it’s the only way to keep people aware that they’re choosing this enshitify their own environment, society and future just so that the epstein class can keep their control over us.
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the only assholery on display here is the presumption that they’re powerless and the re-enforced misinformation.
history proves that the people can be just as powerful as the epstein class — and that’s exactly why they expend so many resources keeping you from ever doing what that nagging tells you to do.
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Cool story bro
Go back to Reddit
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reddit’s the right place for them – lots of like-minded people there and on facebook and dallas rn. lol
no one said that the epstein class is not powerful and the fact that the nagging has to exist proves that here is no morality police anywhere.
also, history has already given us the benefit of hindsight to teach us what works and how to unfuck ourselves as a result and both it and the nagging agree with each other on what americans can do as individuals – right now – to start effecting change.
Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.
please consider going back to reddit – it’s clear that you’ll be much happier there since you fit in so well with them.
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doing all these things on a personal level also didn’t do much to help as far as i can see. i get conflicting propaganda now, and can maybe see accidental glimpses of the truth more often, woohoo. and i pay more for the privilege, but as lest i actualy have the financial mobility to make that choice. make the nagging much more shrill.
the epstein class has been forced to reveal several times that collectivism is the only threat to them and all of this nagging directly points out to how the epsteins prevent collectivization from happening on an individual scale.
and nagging and othering people promotes collectivism how exactly?
the nagging points to the things that you – as an individual – can do to ruin the epstein class’ day.
and collectivism will make you understand why & how doing it will ruin their day and take it a step further.
and i have done these things, and i see no difference.
you push for individual culpability through othering and alienation to force collectivism, absurdity on nonsense.
just the notion alone that in order to achieve collectivism one must alone shoulder the burden of systematic change separately is oxymoronic and a waste of time.
do you just assume that people don’t do as you say because they are inherently evil? they actually seek their end?
all this nagging does’nt seem to be convincing me to agree with you after all
The nagging is the bare bones minimum that we could do and, as such, it has little impact by itself. (but could if everybody did it).
Couple it something like protesting like Americans used to do during the civil rights era – ie the opposite of no kings rallies – and you get the same winning combination that Mexico had in 2017 – which lead them to permanently breaking up their own political duopoly and giving them president Sheinbaum.
I’m not a fan of the nagging partially because it’s a last ditch effort but I can appreciate that’s the only step you can take to get people to do what morality, responsibility, and basic human deceny requires them to do.
The other reason I don’t like nagging is because it’s clear by that point that you will not be convinced by reason or logic. Instead, history proves that nature has a way of forcing things and either climate change or catastrophic economic bubble is going to do a better – and significantly more painful – job than the nagging ever will do.
Ick. Yeah gas stations are addiction centers. Doesn’t help theyre often the only employment in small towns too.
And pay minimum wage.
This one hurt, and I realize how grateful I am for my job, even on Workers’ Comp.
Yeah, and its not an easy job.
Ask me how I know.
How do you know?
I worked at one, briefly, because my boss at another job said they could use the help.
This is sad…ly accurate.
No liquor? I thought this was America.
Right there, next to the toy trucks and fireworks.
missing ads for casinos and lottery tickets, that shit gonna sell like free pancakes
What’s EBT?
Electronic benefit transfer is an electronic system used in the United States that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card.
There is a HUGE amount of EBT funds being stolen before people even have a chance to use the funds. States are not refunding it either
food stamps
