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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 42 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

My dad died in May. He was driving for DoorDash up until 3 months before his death. He had his own roofing company for 60 years but it declined after 2008 because people didn't have money to spend like they did after Dubya let Wall Street permanently kill people's spending power, but he made it work until he physically couldn't work anymore.

I don't understand how anyone can be patriotic in this country. Most of us, even if we're surviving, can't afford the lives we enjoyed just five years ago. I imagine most of us are doing our best to float our elderly parents too.

And all to keep the imaginary line going up for a couple thousand billionaires and literally nothing else.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

And all to keep the imaginary line going up for a couple thousand billionaires and literally nothing else.

i think that fact that most of us are aware that we're doing this, but doing it anyways because of generation brainworms given to us by almost a century's worth of efforts like COINTELPRO is worse -- we know the problem, but we refuse to fix it no matter how much pain it's causing us.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 15 hours ago

the best system possible folks

[-] gray@lemmy.ml 20 points 22 hours ago

In hell you're supposed to be punished for your sins. This is in some way worse.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

If you read the bible closely, it's always God punishing the innocent.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago

Yep humans being automatically born with sin, evil until you grovel enough

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

Well, except that what counts as a "sin" is rather extreme

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

Get the fuck back to work, fuckos.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Oh hey! That's me in the future, except worse! That's me... and probably a lot of people in the future, except worse...

[-] figjam@midwest.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Does he have to update his transition plan daily?

[-] mik3dd0@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago
[-] Methio@jlai.lu 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh my sweet summer child.

Europe is the same shithole in that regard, only leaner.

[-] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 14 points 16 hours ago

Late stage capitalism and far right extremism are on the rise there too.

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

We should better start thinking about how to stop it because this stuff is coming and fast.

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2026
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