Ain’t that some BS

  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    They too busy getting by day by day, as designed by the billionaire-run system. Commuting back and forth possibly up to an hour each way, getting paid a fraction of what they should be, unable to afford a mortgage, little to savings, probably working paycheck to paycheck. Reliant on work for their insurance coverage for chronic issues that would otherwise cost tens of thousands of dollars because the medical system inflates all costs to justify its existence on paper. No time to research issues, reliant on things like an hour of TV news to inform them. And those are owned by the billionaires as well, pushing their propaganda and ignoring the real issues.

    There are a lot of smaller independent things keeping people busy and stuck. While they almost all come back to the billionaires and end-stage capitalism, the propaganda from them is nearly inescapable for the average person.

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      7 hours ago

      And when you don’t have kids because you can’t afford them, they just open the borders and fill however many positions they need. because f you.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      19 hours ago

      This. Freaking thank you.

      I called my reps to tell them to oppose the slew of bad Internet bills (badinternetbills.com) and even something so simple felt like I had to make myself an appointment to get around to it.

      And it turns out I should be calling a lot more often. Oh boy.

      Working class folks must struggle excessively to even be civically active while managing a ton of responsibilities domestically. That’s why you mostly see old people at local government stuff.

      And these keyboard warriors are talking crap because we’re not forming militias and running weeklong campaigns against the secret police.

      I really wish direct action was a lot more exciting but while we’re fighting for our rights, any number of dozens of private institutions are waiting eagerly to punish us into the pavement for missing payments.

      Yeah this system needs to be rebuilt from scratch, but this is what we’re working with right now, and it sucks!