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Living in the 21st century has its perks, but there is no denying that, like every group of people living through their decade, we’ve got our own unique set of problems in front of us. Sometimes it can ultimately feel like some issues are way too much to handle.
We’ve gathered posts from this Facebook page dedicated to sharing people’s thoughts on modern society and why everything feels dystopian. So settle in as you scroll through, upvote the most poignant ones and be sure to add your own thoughts to the comments down below.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
Or creating products with built-in obsolescence that cannot be repaired so that people are forced to buy new every few years,
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Or subscriptions - where you pay but don't own.
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Auntriarch 1 month ago
I was poor briefly, a couple of years, and that's when I realised why poor people "waste" money on drink/cigarettes and betting/lotteries. It's lack of hope. They will never have enough money to get out of the hole, but they have enough for a little fun.
Julie S 1 month ago
When people say they won't give money to homeless people because they will only spend it on booze, I always think if I was sleeping on the street I would want to be drunk 99% of the time.
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Day Andie 1 month ago
Let's the shame the rich for taking money out of circulation and holding onto it like greasy slime balls so that our economy stagnates, for not paying their taxes and not caring about the society that helped make them rich, and for being megalomaniac selfish bastards.
General Anaesthesia 1 month ago
They pay politicians and Supreme Court justices well enough.
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Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago (edited)
Emmanuel Macron (president of France) once asked the poor to "buy more organic products and less Netflix accounts" and then a few days after the Elysée ordered for 550 000 euros of champagne.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Hey, we need our champagne, which is an organic product.
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Day Andie 1 month ago
PenguinEmp, the reason you're not poor--the reason most of us are not poor--is not because we pay our housing, groceries, and the like first and put off unnecessary purchases It's because we're d**n lucky. That's all it is--luck. You can have 100k in the bank and own your own home, be doing hotdamn good, but if you lose your job and can't get back on your feet, have a major medical emergency, get sued, or any other life crisis that leaves you hanging in the wind, you're screwed. Maybe you're a member of a church or can get a Go-Fund me, but right now, if you're expecting to get help from this society, it's not likely to happen. Get in line, start filling out the paperwork, and expect to be treated as a lesser human being. We all want to believe it won't happen to us. We want to believe life is fair. It's so easy to believe we're better than those others....
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
How 'bout we admit that classism is alive and prospering in the US. And it's not the fault of poor people, but Congress's inability to change loopholes that the rich use to grow richer.
Rich Black 4 weeks ago
let's compromise - forbid corporations from making things which are not essential? The USSR can show us the way . . .
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Colleen Glim 1 month ago
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. And most to them are so far in de Nile, they have sand in their ears
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WubiDubi 1 month ago
Your founding fathers made it very clear that religion and state needed to be kept way way apart. Now extend the logic.
Colleen Glim 1 month ago (edited)
Creative interpretation. Just like they do with the bible
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
"We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb they are as safe as they are in a classroom" - Sarah Huckabee Sanders.... those poor babies
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 month ago
Most see exactly what they want to see...............not what is!
Day Andie 1 month ago
Gordon Tate, what it SAYS on the label is Pregnant women and women who are breastfeeding should consult a doctor before using. PERIOD.A real doctor, not some anti-science quack. Real doctors don't believe Tylenol causes autism. Prego women should consult a doc before taking any kind of d***s. Also please put in a link so we can read your supposed corporate message from Tylenol on how it causes autism. Oh, wait, because it doesn't exist.Argh, I have no patience with you people who are conspiracy theorists and science deniers!!!!
2WheelTravlr 1 month ago
I think their plan is to create an avalanche of fake studies, incorrect assumptions, and outright lies so there's no way to defend against it all with facts. It's so much easier to make a lie sound good, facts are usually nuanced and take time to research and comprehend.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Tyenol just needs to up its campaign contributions to the NRA's level.
Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 month ago
Guess Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Tylenol themselves are just talking out of their behinds on this, huh?
#3
Rich Black 4 weeks ago
if you want free housing - or food - live with your parents.. don't expect strangers to bankroll your indpendence.
Charlotte Ingle 1 day ago
Meanwhile, strangers paid for you to go to grade school, and for the roads you drive on
Load More Replies...The term "dystopia" has become ubiquitous in contemporary discussions of literature, film, and political discourse, but its origins trace back to the mid-19th century. Understanding the etymology of this word and the common elements that define it provides insight into how societies conceptualize and critique their worst fears about the future.
It was first used publicly by British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill in an 1868 speech before Parliament, where he employed it as an antonym for "utopia" by adding the Greek prefix "dys" (meaning "bad") to "topia" ("place").
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Gebidozo 1 month ago
Yup. Which is a good thing, actually. As long as it doesn’t lead to the abolition of any free enterprise and the resulting total economic stagnation, as it did in the Soviet Union, I’m all for it. Free basic necessities of life should be a given.
Load More Replies... Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago (edited)
I saw a concerning lot of people say (and defend with all their passion) that waiters and fast-food workers shouldn't be allowed to earn a livable wage because they didn't had important jobs.
Annette Sell 1 month ago
I think waiters and servers deserve universal healthcare. Anyone working with food, from the ground till it hits your okare does, I want them to be the healthiest people in the country.
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Abel 1 month ago
To pay bills you first need a home, and right now it is a luxury. People here in Spain, in the main cities are starting to rent rooms at b******t prices. It is crazy, but nothing new.
nm 1 month ago
It's collateral damage on every place (not only Spain) with hypertourism and too many Airbnb .
Load More Replies... RS 1 month ago
I don't think basic human needs like food and shelter have to earned. People who don't work don't deserve to die.
Rich Black 4 weeks ago
society doesn't owe us anything. neither does god, or the government, or anybody else. everybody is going to be dead in the long run, anyway. stop looking for a reward, or paradise.
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
Please tell me how that relates to the fact that people who are working full time can't afford food, housing and healthcare?
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Rosie Cat 1 month ago
Wait housing and food aren't basic human needs to you?
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JK 1 month ago
I'd like to start an anti-tHUMP forum, but I'd probably get deported even though I am a citizen. There is only one, for now, thing I want to say out loud: HE IS STARVING PEOPLE IN THE US TO GAIN POLITICAL POINTS. HIS GOAL IS TO WITHHOLD FOOD FROM CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND THE ELDERLY TO BEND THE DEMS TO HIS WILL. Let me tell you, people are stepping up and we aren't going to take it. He is the one that is going to bend and it is going to hurt his ego. Dems are going to win it all in 2026 midterms making him a lame duck, which will make him more dangerous.
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
Trump knows that the way to a third term is to start a war, civil or otherwise. He is disappointed that the No Kings protests did not end in violence and multiple arrests, so he is upping the ante by cutting off the food supply.
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Anne Roberts 1 month ago
People who wear masks like ICE are typically up to no good. Otherwise, why not show their faces?
Manny 1 month ago
The difference that dumb liberals and bunny hugging idiots don't get is that agents wear the mask so they aren't identified by cartel and others. Like undercover cops when the bust happens. Why are the stupid protesters wearing masks? because they are pussies that don't want to be identified and called out especially by their parents since most of them still live at home.
Megalodon Meg 1 month ago
Are you actually mentally handicapped or are you just cosplaying?
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
Authoritarian dictatorships ALWAYS attack, discredit and if allowed, persecute (and even execute) intellectuals... they can't have people thinking for themselves and challenging their authority.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
Hence the right's war on higher education...
Load More Replies... Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago (edited)
Future Dictator Trump called his cult members "dumb" to their faces and they all cheered.
S Bow 1 month ago
Wow, I missed that but I certainly believe it. Incredible, isn't it?
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Ann Kapoxeet 1 month ago
Trump is good at distracting the non-thinkers with lies so they keep begging him for the opportunity to have him steal their money.
pelemele 3 weeks ago
Nationalism is a perverted form of patriotism. It is nationalism that destroys democracy.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
I think nationalism has always been anti-intellectual. It worked well in the 1930s for exactly that reason.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
Didn't look better under socialism / communism either though, lots of intellectuals were executed because Stalin feared that they are all traitors, Pol Pot cleansed Cambodia of them, to the point that wearing glasses got people k****d, because the ideal communist nation was one fully set on agriculture in his mind
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 1 month ago
It's starting to look like the dumber you sound, the more you are praised.
Colleen Glim 1 month ago
The US has been systematically gutting their education system for years now. Tell them something is patriotic and they’ll eat it up.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Because their form of patriotism requires no thought, facts, or justice.
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Space Invader 1 month ago
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent" -Isaac Asimov
In this speech on Irish land policy, Mill stated: "It is, perhaps, too complimentary to call them Utopians, they ought rather to be called dys-topians, or cacotopians." However, recent scholarship has revealed earlier usage. The original spelling "dustopia" first appeared in Lewis Henry Younge's work "Utopia: or Apollo's Golden Days" in 1747. Jeremy Bentham proposed an alternative term in 1818, "cacotopia" (from the Greek "kako" meaning "bad"), though this never gained widespread acceptance.
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John Dilligaf 1 month ago (edited)
yep. The people who gave us the I n q u i s i t i o n thought he went a little too far. That's something to think about.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
No one expected the Spanish I*********n to think that.
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WubiDubi 1 month ago
Yet the primary school education system (US, UK and more) still has him as a pioneer saint. Pull down the statues.
Day Andie 1 month ago
Once this c**p gets enshrined in the school system it's impossible to get it out. History is written by the winners--and many lies are told.
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Riley Quinn 1 month ago
Nah, I get to judge people based on their actions and behaviors, and I really don't care what time period they lived in. Wrong is wrong. There's nothing right about genocide, whether it's done by Columbus or Andrew Jackson or Netanyahu. See how I covered 3 different time periods there.
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columbus was arrested for executing spanish overlords who were abusing and k*****g their slaves.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
I'm 74. I can't tell whether I feel like I'm 74 because this is the first time I've been 74..
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago (edited)
I agree. Getting old sůcks, but it sure beats the alternative!
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
I'm male, seventy. The only concession I make is trimming my eyebrows very short, down to the skin. As soon as my eyebrows grow out the hair gets in my vision and that drives me bonkers, especially when I'm reading. Other than that, I embrace "old age". I have lived recklessly at times. I'm amazed at myself that I've made it past forty. Wrinkles, grey hair? Badges of honor, thank you. I'm very healthy, take no prescription meds, and am physically active but by no means an exercise enthusiast. Just moderate walking and bicycling is sufficient.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
I started to get little strands of silver in my hair in my late 30s and I wear them with pride. As someone who struggled with my mental health for much of my teens & 20s, I never thought I'd live to see them. These little strands are proof I've made it 🩶
rustyscate 1 month ago
I’m 38 and feel 80 I’m also a woman in construction so I asked for it lol
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 month ago
They don't want to because then they would have to admit that they are wrong!
Robert Beveridge 1 month ago
They don't want to because they want us to die. Their alternative is "no health care for people who can't afford it". This has not been a secret since the publication of Mandate for Leadership, but it does not get NEARLY the column inches it deserves.
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Khavrinen 1 month ago
The "President" has been telling us he'll have a "much better plan" in "two weeks" for the last decade.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
And don't forget he stopped the fighting in Ukraine within 48 hours of taking office.
Load More Replies... Day Andie 1 month ago
This is supposed to be the greatest country yadda yadda, and all these Republicans can see exactly what's wrong with other country's health care, but apparently we're not so great that we can figure out how to do it better, and the Republicans are the ones that would rather see people die instead of voting the citizens of the US receive viable health care. They're all in bed with the insurance companies.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
But they do promote an alternative. It's "Death to the Poor!" Right now the government is at a standstill because they want to cut medical benefits for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
It did take them nearly 50yrs to overturn Roe v Wade, so be patient. They still have 35yrs to come up with an inefficient health care policy.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
I wrote my (GOP) Rep and (DNC) Senator and copied and pasted both letters and alerted them they were getting the same message. I am on ACA, first year I paid $80/mo, this year after cashing in my meager 401k, I pay $370/mo. I should not get a 'break' over someone who pays $180/mo for Medicare 'Part B'. Make an ACA premium no LESS than what a Medicare eligible person pays.
The word "dystopia" stands in direct opposition to "utopia," a term coined by Sir Thomas More in his 1516 work of the same name. More's "utopia" derives from Greek words meaning "not" (ou) and "place" (topos), literally "no place," describing an imaginary island with ideal social, political, and legal systems.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 month ago
As Donnie boy would say, "if not for profit, then what is the use of health coverage?"
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Which then raises the immediate question "What's the use of Donnie boy?"
Load More Replies... WubiDubi 1 month ago
The virus is spreading. US companies bribing UK MPs. They bought the UK Labour party.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
Yes, this is sadly true. It's being attempted in Australia too, but not successful do far. We will probably survive it.
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General Anaesthesia 1 month ago
"Developed country". If it weren't so sad it would be hilarious.
Ace 1 month ago
It's not actually true though. It's possible to create a healthcare system using private insurance providers (who of course are profit-making enterprises) but which is heavily regulated and mandated by the government to ensure that it's equitable and fair to everyone, e.g. the whole population where I live is required to have insurance, the insurers are required to make it available for everyone at the same price regardless of existing illnesses.
Power puff scientist 1 month ago
In Europe healthcare is also provided by insurance companies that are normal for profit organizations so not sure where this idea comes from it's only in the US. Also we don't have free healthcare, for example in Netherlands, we pay 158 euros a month for basic insurance. Then you still have a minimum threshold of 385 euros you need to pay yourself. So that's over 2000 euro a year for healthcare, but after that most medical care is included and we don't have the outrageous medical costs you sometimes see in the US.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 month ago
Dear person from Netherlands. We pay about $2000/month. You realize your healthcare is much cheaper than US healthcare right? My premiums for myself and my son were $1600 a month. Then $50 for each general practitioner. $75 for specialists. Some of my meds were over $100/month, each, with insurance. Ten percent of hospital bills- which run easily in the 10's of thousands. And that is with insurance. Some plans have deductibles where you pay that much but you still have to pay the first $5,000-25,000 out of pocket. To us your healthcare appears free. Because what you pay is so laughably little. This is why the US needs socialized, non-profit, healthcare.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 month ago
The US has taken capitalism to unimagined heights on the backs of the working class. Guess that is the second thing the US is #1 at following incarceration rates, which in itself is feeding the capitalist system with private prisons getting prisoners to work for pennies on the dollar.
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Bec 1 month ago
Oof. No it didn't work, but despair at the state of society and our beautiful world is very real.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
Bec: when I let myself pay attention to all the horrors around us, I tend to get angry (and very sad) - despair? Well, no: the situation isn't hopeless. I mean, I thought civilization would have been wiped out by a nuclear war long before I got to my current age. As it is, there's 8 billion people on the planet and we're not all having to live in high-rise hutches eating yeast-derived vat-grown food as the doom-mongers suggested back in the 1950s and 60s, should population ever get this big (I'm reading one such book right now). Also: Terminator 3 - Anger is more useful than despair: www DOT youtube DOT com\watch?v=jeIy2MHZ0xE
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 month ago
If I could reduce my emotional reactions down to numb, I'd be a better nihilist. Right now, nihilism is merely an intellectual process, which ain't doing my emotions any good.
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Chris El 1 month ago
Made me giggle sorry. You have a good sense of humor :)
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WubiDubi 1 month ago
Hmm, ok BP, have you got "Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS" in your list.
Load More Replies... Mark Childers 1 month ago
I will never advocate for violence or loss of life, but there's no way I could mourn someone who hated everyone but straight, white men so strongly.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
This. I’m sorry about the way he died, but I’m not sorry he’s dead. Everybody dies someday. It finally happened to him.
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Peter Bear 1 month ago
He also said that de@d children were a fair price to pay for the right to own firearms. Live by the gun, unalive by the gun.
Cuppa tea? 1 month ago
Best thing happened to him was his exitus. I'm certain half a year ago 90% of people never heard of him.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
She’s hitting on JD Vance now. Charlie is hardly even cold yet. And the fat-faced fake hillbilly is married.
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While definitions of dystopia vary across disciplines and contexts, scholars and literary critics have identified several recurring elements that characterize dystopian societies. Dystopian societies typically feature oppressive societal control through propaganda, restricted information and independent thought, and the worship of a figurehead or concept by citizens. Citizens experience a sense of powerlessness in the face of oppressive governments run by totalitarian dictatorships or organized into massive bureaucratic institutions.
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Day Andie 1 month ago
Ah, There's Smeghead, another one that's worried that someone that has less than him might get something that he doesn't. He doesn't think how those that have so much more than him will get things he can never even dream of while he's fighting about somebody swindling the system for...let me check...the absolute f****n' minimum which is the government attempts to give the disabled. The thought process: Somebody not disabled might get something they don't deserve. Well, let's not give any disabled anything! That way we don't have to worry about it.
Huddo's sister 3 weeks ago
I wish I could reply to him, because what he said makes me so angry! The government took far too long to come up with the NDIS, but did so without really understanding what people with disabilities need. Now they are cutting down how many conditions are covered by it because 'it costs too much' and restricting what services can be covered under it because they still don't understand that there isn't a 'one size fits all' treatment for them. For example people with autism, who they didn't realise need things like occupational or speech therapists sometimes. Or people with ADHD who might need help with cleaning services because of their executive disfunction. They also stuffed up by not noticing when therapists/carers were abusing the system until they earned thousands of dollars, so they try to fix it by making it harder for smaller organisations to be covered, even though they are the ones who are doing the most for people who need them usually.
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 month ago
Which is why I don't like all the "he lost both his legs, arms, nose, one ear, and one a*s-cheek, but he climbed Mt Everest naked, backwards and singing "the wheels on the bus go round and round". Great achievement, but it leads to people thinking that having a disability is 'no big thing' and "look what that guy achieved", or my favourite "only people like him are worthy of help".
Huddo's sister 3 weeks ago
As with anyone else in the population, people with disability should just be able to have a good quality of life. If that means they should be given more support as a group (which it does), that is what should happen, rather than individuals having to fight, campaign, and do extraordinary things just to show they deserve more than another in their place.
Rich Black 4 weeks ago
we already have safe and easy lives. that's what causes migration from 3rd world nations.
Colleen Glim 1 month ago
Then they should be allowed to do so. But worrying about how they’re going to house and feed themselves is not the same thing
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Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
Exactly. And you don't have to agree with everything your chosen political party stands for.
keyboardtek 1 month ago
Which is one reason the Democratic party has a difficult time getting things done. They argue over every issue until they get voted out of office. The Republican strategy on the other hand has been to be 100% united in opposition to doing any good for the people.
Load More Replies... Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago (edited)
In France we love to do that ! I mean it doesn't help that the political landscape is a landmine and everyone is an @ss, but still !
Howl's sleeping castle 1 month ago
Exactly. This is my problem. In my circle, the right wing calls me leftist, the left calls me right. Just because I voted for a particular party doesn't mean I am going to support every decision without questioning
liam newton-harding 1 month ago
This is what so many taco-cultists don't understand about "the libruals"...How can you say that your own chosen one isn't perfect?...Because they are NOT my "chosen one", they are my employee. They are supposed to represent my, and everybodies...EVERYBODIES...best interest. But, this is also one of the reasons the Democrats lost to the bloated taco twice, because a lot of Democratic voters privately thought, and publicly stated, "My candidate is not perfect!"...No, they are not...but you know what they are also not? Blatantly...publicly...proudly...f*cking evil. And look where we are now, because Hilary, Biden, Kamala "weren't perfect".
Michael Largey 1 month ago
I don't want my congressman to find a backbone. I want his ideas to frighten him as much as they frighten me.
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Lost Panda 1 month ago
Wasn't there a saying once "People should not fear the government, the government should fear the people." ?
Beak Hookage 1 month ago
V for Vendetta. (V might have been quoting someone when he said it).
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UKGrandad 1 month ago
It derives from the Eminem song about an increasingly dangerous obsessive fan, but is now used as a generic term for a sycophant.
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WubiDubi 1 month ago
Forget the electricity, the water usage is even stressing out Nestle who want to own all the drinking water out there.
Sofia 1 month ago
what is worse is that AI uses a lot of power and what is the first thing when you google something? AI generated result... so use AI also when people dont want to use it
Beak Hookage 1 month ago
That's why I use DuckDuckGo now. You can turn the AI results off.
Load More Replies... Day Andie 1 month ago
Worried about electric and water? Wait till you see what's being used to produce digital/virtual/crypto currencies. This is the money that is pretty much going to be controlling the world, because it can't be traced. Money laundering is like cheating at marbles for the big players in digital.
Rich Black 4 weeks ago
its worth it to have ChatGPT write your kids' homework, instead of helping them yourself.
CaliPanda 1 month ago
This is my concern about the state pushing EVs. Where is the power coming from? What will it cost to recharge? Where are the charging stations and how long does it take to recharge?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
It costs money to refuel a car with gas. The gas comes from somewhere. Where are the gas stations? How long does it take to refuel with gas? If they figured out all this stuff for gas vehicles, they can do it for EVs.
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Chrystina Sumpter 1 month ago
When our youngest was in high school, he figured he would need to find a job that paid $40K per year in order to have a comfortable life. Now, at 38, he and his wife make over $150K per year, no children, and they can’t afford to buy a house.
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
I have family who thought if they just went to college, worked for the government, bought a house, and had kids, they would retire at a specific date and go on a permanent vacation. Now, they are about to lose job, house, wife and kids all because they couldn't handle it when reality settled in. Apparently you can't just pay people to take care of everything, and objectify your family members without consequences.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
We grind for our 35 hours for a lousy wage, but thanks to this thing called socialism the work/life balance actually involves some "life" (even if, in my case, it's often sitting alone in a rocking chair with a nice cup of tea - it's what pleases me (and I don't live near a beach)).
Rich Black 4 weeks ago
everyone believes they're entitled to live near the beach. ain't gonna happen
Fred L. 1 month ago
Meanwhile France has its own issues with costs of living and retirement. I'd expect most places in our global financial society to have some.
Day Andie 1 month ago
But at least they dont' have to worry about being one medical bill away from poverty.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
Most (if not all) jobs could be performed equally well by a male or female person... Gone are the days when brute strength was the only requirement for a job. Women can work, given the chance, in any field men have traditionally dominated...
Saint_Zipcodus (oh / no) 1 month ago
I for one are at least sporadically tempted to do my share. Does that count?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Yeah, I do think about it sometimes….😏
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago (edited)
Look, both halves can't commit 80% of the crimes each. Demarcation!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
You should let them múrder your family members and people you care about, then, since that would make the múrderer feel happy and accomplished. Since you're so big on sympathy for murderers and all.
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Gebidozo 1 month ago
Norway has a program that basically finances artists so that they can focus on creating. My buddy, a jazz keyboardist, told me he basically never needs to think about getting jobs as long as he keeps performing and doing music projects in general. I wish this were the norm everywhere.
zatrisha 1 month ago
Thats the reason why so many great Artists come from Norway
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Earonn - 1 month ago
Basic income has been a success in every test, AFAIK. Just the fact that people are less anxious about poverty, and in a position to risk something so they can try new businesses etc. make it worth it. But don't listen to science, listen to the jealous fvcks who begrudge others the black under their fingernails.
liam newton-harding 1 month ago
Everyone, personally, and time. Most of the greats, the Masters, were considered "hacks", or even abysmal, in their time.
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Citizens live in a dehumanized state where they conform to uniform expectations, and individuality and dissent are considered negative. Some dystopian works depict societies that force individuals to conform to radical egalitarian norms that discourage or suppress accomplishment and competence. Common elements include environmental devastation, mass poverty, and the loss of connection to the natural world. The natural world is often banished and distrusted.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
Boys are easier to raise in the sense that society gives you permission to neglect them.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
Also explains why the oldest form of terr0rism is violence against women.
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Day Andie 1 month ago
The US is going backwards, and the rest of the world is trying to tell us that.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
I don't think they need to tell us what we already know.
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Glen Ellyn 1 month ago
MAGA is trying to take away voting rights from anyone who doesn't support them. They're using underhanded and illegal means to do it in order to remain in power forever.
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Jossh Nine 1 month ago
The US presidency has always been racist. "K**l it when we don't like it" is the motto.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
How did they lose voting rights? I'm assuming this is America, despite the oack of reference.
Asri 1 month ago
Gerrymandering. Also a "justice" system that disproportionately charges black people more often, with greater charges, and they get longer sentences. Felons and prisoners can't vote or have limited voting rights in almost all the US.
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Stardrop 1 month ago
i feel bad for them, but they make it reallyyyyyy hard to empathize with them because their logic is "i KNEW he would s***w people over, but i didn't know he would s***w ME over!!!"
Chrystina Sumpter 1 month ago
I must confess I experience a certain schadenfreude every time I hear a MAGA voter complain, “This isn’t what I voted for!”
Gingersnap In Iowa 1 month ago
Umm 🤔 so I've mentioned before that I grew up on a farm. My Dad is still a farmer, he DID NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP! EVER!
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
I feel for your dad, then. Do other farmers treat him like shît because he’s not a MAGAt?
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Chich the witch 1 month ago
They should stick to their guns and refuse any socialist handouts from the government .
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
They lacked empathy to such a level that they voted for a political party whose campaign hinged on oppressing the majority of the population. Karma's a bîtch.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
This sounds harsh, but it is, unfortunately true. As long as farmers, the working class, and women keep voting against themselves, I've got better things to do than offer them a hand.
Dystopian fiction features technology more advanced than contemporary society, with the group in power controlling it. This advanced technology serves as a tool for oppression rather than liberation. Society presents an illusion of a perfect utopian world. What appears on the surface to be an ideal society reveals deep flaws and oppression beneath.
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Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
Analyn Lahr: while us Europeans always knew that white men were dangerous, we never bothered pointing it out because we've mostly been white for many thousands of years by now.
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Riley Quinn 1 month ago
Yeah, pretty much sums it up. I'm well aware of skirmishes, battles, and territorial landgrabs among tribes and clans, but whites took it to an unprecedented level.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
Sure, because there wasn't the Islam spreading mostly by military conquest, Ghengis Khan commiting genocide during his campaigns and african kingdoms never enslaved their enemies and sold them, right? Can we agree that humanity as whole is kinda s**t?
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 month ago
Humanity as a whole is shite, yes. It also doesn't change the fact that, historically, the colionalism done by white nations is heavily engrained in many systems the world has today. Everybody can suck, but we don't need to point it when focusing on a specific group of suck.
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Day Andie 1 month ago
Yes. Read American history. The rich made socialism a dirty word so they would stay on top. They fought worker rights and unions and did everything they could to stratify society and make sure they were on top. They gave corporations the same rights as human beings, but gave them no responsibilities to society. Socialism was supposedly evil and society would collapse. Well, s**t's gonna hit the fan for the rest of us under the capitalism they created.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
All of your fears about capitalism are rooted in the dystopian oligarchy that is the American political/corporate bribery machine. It works much better in civilised countries.
Jossh Nine 1 month ago
The fire department is a socialist program. Nobody wants to do away with them. Start thinking 🤔
Tom Brincefield 1 month ago
Republicans & Libertarians want to make them privately owned, just like prisons.
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Kate Johnson 1 month ago
The US in it's current state of all f'ed up, brought to you by parasitic billionaires!
Bartlet for world domination 1 month ago
There is a world of grey between dictatorships that are socialist in name only and the predatory capitalism that rules the US.
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Day Andie 1 month ago
But remember, corporations have rights. No responsibility, but lots of rights.
keyboardtek 1 month ago
Someone recently told me all of the tax breaks that billionaires get are all legal. Just because something is legal does not make it ethical to do.
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And if Congress really represented their constituents instead of their bank accounts, they would regulate these greedy SOBs back to the Stone Age. Blame Congress, both the Reps and the Dems brought this greedy beast into our lives.
Dystopias, through exaggerated worst-case scenarios, present criticism of current trends, societal norms, or political systems, and typically reflect contemporary sociopolitical realities. Dystopian fictions invariably reflect the concerns and fears of their creators' contemporaneous culture.
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2WheelTravlr 1 month ago
I admit I laughed when someone who is bemoaning decreasing numbers of readers uses a word that essentially means the opposite of what they're trying to say. They mean "discord" rather than "discourse".
Mark Alexander 1 month ago
Maybe they meant the "discourse" that is the loud, raging and condemning people who think we should read, learn, and think.
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Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago (edited)
I saw someone say that the only thing keeping teenage literacy rates from going to 0% was fanfictions, and I kinda believe that more and more. (I read a lot of fanfics and honestly some of them were so well written that I cried)
kzys59pcrp 1 month ago
I’ve read over 500 books in less than 5 years. It’s one of the only things I can do with my multiple illnesses.
WubiDubi 1 month ago
I'm Gen X and struggle to read books now. I do it now mainly because I feel in my bones once the skill has gone and you stop, getting back on is near impossible. Second reason is hoping seeing me reading a 7th hand book that has travelled the world more than me rubs off on my kids who are reading little and what they do is almost at gun point. COVID can be blamed up to a point. Meta can be blamed a lot more.
Colleen Glim 1 month ago (edited)
My middle daughter has a learning disability that makes it hard to read. But she still reads. It opens all kinds of door from escape to enjoyment to critical thinking
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago (edited)
We never had a television in my own household. My children had to read!
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
A huge part of the collective knowledge in my brain came from reading fiction, which contains a surprising number of facts. I learned about gamma ray bursters from Spider Robinson. Larry Niven taught me what burl is. The amount of science I've learned from Robert Heinlein is staggering.
Bartlet for world domination 1 month ago
And weirdly, it's the only thing that gets young people to read.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
Everyone deserves a liveable wage... More money needs to be invested in mental health and support programs to help people get back to being able to cope in the (working) world and have a decent life.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
The right will have one hand out for their benefit check while the other hand is slapping down the next person in line. They all live perpetually in the crab bucket.
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"The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there...just to scare the shіt out of the middle class." - George Carlin
Robert Benson 1 month ago
The worth of someone's occupation should be based on how long it would take people to notice if everyone with an equivalent position quit working. Not on how "hard it is to learn". if everyone quit "flipping burgers", fast food restaurants would fail. If a CEO quit "working", how long would it take for anyone to even notice?
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
And yet, except for the filthy rich, we're all one paycheck or one major illness away from homelessness.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
Riley Quinn: I sympathise with your position, but here in the UK and other civilized nations, we're not at risk of homelessness when we get sick.
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The rich keep getting richer "That's the feeling we learn to live with in North America"
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Nikole 1 month ago
They think the lack of being prioritized is discrimination. Ha!
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Saint_Zipcodus (oh / no) 1 month ago
What was the saying again? Something like 'For the privileged equality looks like discrimination'.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
"Those who are accustomed to privilege often believe that equality is oppression." - Howard Brenneman
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Siege Rook 1 month ago
I have been subject to racism as a white man on many occasions, some of it pretty egregious. And yet it doesn't begin to compare to what the typical person of color will experience in this country. Not to mention the fact that I'm a stastical outlier, and I experienced a lot of that racism because I was living and/or working in predominantly minority areas where I was the odd-man out. The average white person will not experience even a quarter of the discrimination I have, and what I have experienced isn't even 0.5% of what the average POC will experience in their lives. And while the racism I experienced inappropriately directed at me, the source/cause/origin of it is fully justified based on the treatment POC receive so often from people who look like me.
Robert Benson 1 month ago
Just to pick a little nit... if you were living in the US, what you experienced would generally be called bigotry. My understanding is that racism has picked up the connotation that it is bigotry that is supported by the government. I don't think there are any places in the US that have government-sponsored anti-white policies, even though there are definitely individuals and businesses that are. There aren't the equivalent of ICE agents gathering up white people. I say this, as a white person, since I was confused when I was informed that white people can't experience racism in the US.
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I teach at the university level. I recently had a white student make a comment on racism against whites to a non-white student. We had to have a chat about realities. He also made a comment to a female student about the merits of increased pay for men based on certain physical characteristics. Such fun.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago (edited)
A number of years ago, experts predicted a decrease in the white populace and, sure enough, it's happening. White people are freaking out as they near becoming the minority. Had they not sh1t on so many different races for generations, they'd have nothing to fear. Payback's a b***h!
Tyranamar Seuss 1 month ago
I don't think "payback" is healthy or called for. It is not white men today's fault that white men in the past did a bunch horrible s**t. However, I think privilege needs to go and equality needs to be in place. One is leveling the playing field. The other is punitive towards people who've done nothing wrong.
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shg stewart 1 month ago
China is an authoritarian, state-capitalist hellhole that's ethnociding its non-Han minorities, executes almost as many people as the United States, practices forcible organ harvesting, and is rapidly developing income inequality as bad as anywhere else in the world. Plus, they're desperately in need of writing reform if they ever want to achieve universal literacy. That's not worth emulating any which way.
Space Invader 1 month ago (edited)
There's a certain sad irony in you citing "they execute almost as many people as the United States" as evidence of it being a hellhole... (made worse by the facts that it has 4 times as many citizens)
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Cuppa tea? 1 month ago
China is a joke on Russia. 70 years ago the Soviet communist changed it into totalitarianism, Mao threw it back 50 years. Now they are economical Moloch, while Russia is stil stuck in 1970. At least technologically and economically.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
Socialist dictatorship, not facist. Not much difference in governmenting style though
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Jeremy James 1 month ago
"I'd be fine with Superman, as long as he came here legally. You know, through the proper channels."
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Michael Fernandez 1 month ago
Many American “Christians” oppose nearly every tenet of Christianity.
Dani 1 month ago
Remember when all the MAGA crowd got upset that The Boys was mocking them? They thought Homelander, the obvious and heinous villan would have a redemption arc. The character is a vain, racist, sociopathic m******r.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
If racists only knew how much stuff they use, listen to, rely on, and eat were brought to them by non-whites, their heads would explode. Space does not permit me to list them all, but if you're curious, you can Google it.
Gerry Higgins 1 month ago
MAGA claim like Jesus but forget Joseph & Mary were immigrants and Jesus was an anchor baby.
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
Not technically, no. Joseph was from Bethlehem but lived in Nazareth. Mary may have been Nazareth, but Jesus wasn't technically an "anchor baby" given that he was born in Bethlehem.
Load More Replies... Saint_Zipcodus (oh / no) 1 month ago
There you have it in a nutshell - the crown jewel of creation in all its unfathomable glory...
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Nikole 1 month ago
Very true. I can be impressed by, like, a sword swallower and have no attraction to him.
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Roxy222uk 1 month ago
Sorry guys, but some of us find men trying to impress us very off-putting. That’s not what we’re interested in.
April Pickett 1 month ago
What are we impressed by? Empathy, awareness, consideration, politeness, humor, humility, and joy in people, to name a few charactistics.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 month ago
We have reverted to the Naz! era.......only this time it is spreading with little resistance!
WubiDubi 1 month ago
There is resistance but you won't see it on your TV.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 month ago
They say the pendulum swings back and forth, but it wouldn't move that much side to side if we weren't producing idiots who fear their own shadow. The idiots have gone with authoritarianism in many countries, and this will cause repercussions for generations.
Bartlet for world domination 1 month ago
Now start your little story in 1870.
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FoxThatHasFennecaphobia 1 month ago (edited)
Lets go back in time, to the 1400s, back then, Italian sailor/explorer Christopher Columbus starts to sail to India, but arrives at America. Later the British came as well and set up a government there. If anyone "jumped the line" it was probably you guys. (Both of these parties also k****d natives, which were the people who didn't "jump the line".)
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Nikole 1 month ago (edited)
As someone who lives in Chicago (actual city, just south of Pilsen), it's been fúcking terrifying and infuriating. I'm just waiting for them to come into Pilsen, Chinatown, and my neighborhood. Yeah, disappear that 80 year old Chinese grandmother who has lived here for 25 years. She certainly is the "worst of the worst". I bought a fúcking "respirator" mask because I'm just waiting for ICE to arrive and I will confront them. We're being invaded and it's not by "illegals".
Jac Carr 1 month ago
The Proud Boys have just changed the colour of their masks, that's all
Load More Replies... Sue User 1 month ago
Not a single corporation willbe fined for highering undocumnted. The head of the Dairy Association in Idaho stated thst 90% of his worrkerd were non American and they couldnt do business any other way.
Laserleader 1 month ago
Non-american doesnt mean illegal. Our fish processor hires visa workers from Turkey, Phillipines, and the Caribbean for most of their workforce. Normal practice for almost 90 years. So your entire 2nd sentence means nothing.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 month ago
The racism never left this country after the Civil War. Then Rush Limbaugh made millions promoting it all again because such a large percentage of Americans are still at their core hate filled and intolerant. It took Germany two generations of re-education and laws against that kind of hatred to recover from Nazism. It will likely take many generations in the USA to recover from Trump. But the majority will have to actually want to recover.
Cydney Golden 1 month ago
If you only watch only faux news you have no idea this devastating thing is happening.
EM 1 month ago
Jada, no human being is "illegal." That is the narrative of a xenophobic spray-tanned loser. ICE is an unregulated group of masked thugs who have been shown terrorizing communities, detaining American-born citizens, housing people in inhumane conditions, and causing property damage. If you are fine with all of that, you aren't worth debating. There is no tolerance for intolerant, fear-mongering pharisees who blindly follow a racist s*****g.
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Seriously. I used to live in that neck of the woods and it is whiter than white. As white, perhaps, as sheets.
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Type in 'typical Mormon family" into Google Images. Put on your sunglasses, you are going to be blasted by the white.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
I can see this starting to change with the younger generations (I'm in my mid 50s). People do want an actual work-private life balance, enjoying their lives as they go along rather than seeing enjoyment as reserved for their retirement years they may never get to experience.
Day Andie 1 month ago
And yet if we had free daycare, free health insurance, decent wages, and billionaires that paid their f*****g taxes, people might be willing to work to make the wheels of society turn, and it would do so without grinding them down.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
I am cautiously optimistic to see how N Mexico's experiment works out.
fly on the wall 1 month ago
Have you ever tried to understand the phrase " it takes a village to raise a child "? Part of it is that there is value for the village.
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WubiDubi 1 month ago
Forgive me if this is the same: but externally advertising posts because HR demand it. when the internal candidate has already been selected.
shg stewart 1 month ago
It should at least carry a heavy enough fine to discourage companies from doing it.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
Fines get paid by the shareholders, we need something that reaches the decision makers. Some sort of licence to be a CEO or something like that, withdrawable by a Court.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 1 month ago
Posting ghost jobs should be illegal, but jail time isn't right, besides you woud have to jail the entire upper echelon of each company. Happening? Not.
Tinker Gnome 1 month ago
I lost my job end of March last year - applied to over 300 jobs via LinkedIn and Indeed (25 years of IT experience), and the only ones that reached out were scams. I had two actual, REAL interviews the entire time. The only reason I finally got a job in December 2024 was because I had a good friend on the inside help rep for me and it's not even in IT. I feel like the "ghost jobs" are just to pad the resumes of recruiters...the ones on LinkedIn are usually closed within 24 hours of being posted.
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Chich the witch 1 month ago
I see pictures like this and have to wonder what a bunch of Europeans were doing in the middle east back then.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
As if Jesus would just be walking around free in the US right now instead of locked up in Guantanamo, and I say this as an American.
Kalikima 1 month ago (edited)
Yeah, I've been getting child care assistance for 8 years now, through the state of Arizona. They help me pay for daycare, and have done it forever, but this time when I renewed it they asked for my sons birth certificate. They've literally never done that before. It showed the Orange Jackàss' influence and rubbed me the wrong way.
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
The irony is that Jesus is arguably more on the left-wing side. While there will be someone saying that tax collectors are sinners in the bible, Jesus also hated people who profited off of him
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Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago
Being apolitical is being right-winged. Look at this hill, and see me ready to d!e on it.
Earonn - 1 month ago
It just shows the person's perceived privilege. "I don't care about politics"? You will care when it affects you. And usual they do have an opinion, most of the time it's about "illegals" and "non-whites". But even if not: welcome to adulthood. You also don't want to clean the toilet, so what? If you want to remain a baby, hand over your rights, you don't deserve them.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago (edited)
It's not that I've become apolitical, but at my advanced aged, I'll be d@mned if I'm making a decision that will outlive me and have a potentially negative impact on younger generations.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
I think the time may have come when you should consider making decisions which will enable younger generations to have any choices.
Load More Replies... aubergine10003 2 weeks ago
Being apolitical in a system created by and for wealthy white men means that they are okay with the system as it currently stands. No thank you
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Supporting the government is picking a side because you are supporting its policies.
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Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago
"It"s not that deep" well if someone is offended maybe it IS that deep !
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
My brother-in-law and I are pretty much at the opposite ends of the political spectrum. We have calm rational conversations that we both agree on most topics. Example: "Abortion should be outlawed"..."very well, and the 11 year old who was molested by a family member or family friend should have that baby?"..."well, no".."and????"
Robert Millar 1 month ago
It's not that deep if you don't understand it but want people to think you do.
Kate Johnson 1 month ago
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand"
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Day Andie 1 month ago
Maybe we can have some Thanksgiving this November when we vote the a******s out.
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I think the trick will be to have a viable alternative ready when it falls. Anarchy is usually not survivable.
Robert Benson 1 month ago
I would be content for it to just be "poorly regulated" capitalism that goes away.
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Judes 1 month ago
Ha. I'm married to a white guy who speaks Mandarin...just thought I'd share :)
Howl's sleeping castle 1 month ago
My husband speaks 6 languages including Japanese and German. I know only three. Can't tell you how proud I feel when I tell people about this.
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Riley Quinn 1 month ago
Don't forget to thank the US and the UK for displacing the Palestinians to make room for the Jewish people back in '48.
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Do none of you apologists for Hamas remember the slaughter they are so proud of that started this war? The men that did that evil thing deserve death, as does anyone who supports their goals. Why is Israel supposed to live with a gun pointed at their head? These people want nothing less than to wipe Israel off the map and to k**l EVERY Jew! That sounds like genocide to me. Or is that all right because it’s just Jews?
Kevin Hickey 1 month ago
News Alert!! This war started a looooong time ago.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 1 month ago
Both Israel and Hamas are in the wrong. Neither should be supported. Hamas did start this "war", and Israel has reciprocated. The Gazans are caught in the middle and are suffering for it big time. Hamas needs to go. They do not care about the fate of their people, and are not willing to support the Gazans. They basically could care less if people other than themselves die. Yes, Israel is overdoing the revenge, but Hamas has tunnels, support, and supplies from those supporters. A peace treaty is a good idea, but there again, Hamas is'nt following the conditions set for the talks to begin.
siedzac niej 1 month ago
people on the side of hamas are just simple death cult wanna be moron. They would take one look at you and just either marry you off to one of their 'freedom fighters' or just shoot you in the head.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
That whole part of the world is fûcked. Nobody there is rational.
RS 1 month ago
Their land was taken from them and they should just accept their genocide, because any attack on their oppressor would be aggression apparently.
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Chris El 1 month ago
Yeah dont hit someone in the balls when they have missiles pointed at your head. Basic playground rule
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
I don't understand how anyone can possibly be threatened by a minority which makes up less than a percentage point of an entire population... Take a reality check folks. And stop falling for the propaganda of the fear and hate mongers who are trying to have people infighting to distract them from political matters that actually matter.
Chrystina Sumpter 1 month ago
I read some post by “Christian” parents complaining about how their children were being indoctrinated by LGBTQ influences. Seriously?!?!? Children are “indoctrinated” into traditional gender roles before they are even born. People who come out as LGBTQ have to overcome consistent, persistent indoctrination in order to be themselves.
Load More Replies... Day Andie 1 month ago
I once read a book about LGBTQ people, and it didn't "indoctrinate me into being LGBTQ. I even read a book about penguins, and it didn't make me wear a black and white suit or walk funny!
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
Although I've heard that being at least one of the LGBTQ types can lead to you walking funny ... ;-)
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
I have a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy with the conservatives of my acquaintance. As long as they aren’t openly and blatantly bigoted, hateful MAGAts, we can still interact and things stay cool. The minute they’re overtly right-wing, I start distancing myself from them. If they ever change their mind about the fåscist stuff, I’ll be warm and friendly again.
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Jac Carr 1 month ago
Because they're stuck in a place they're legally obliged to be; crazy
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 1 month ago
But Billionaires are, "job creators"!...tens of thousands laid off, every month because "AI can do workers jobs "better"".
Siege Rook 1 month ago
I think they got this backwards. I know, it's supposed to be ironic sarcasm or something, but it would actually be more meaningful, truthful and relevant were the labels reversed.
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Riley Quinn 1 month ago
But... but... we didn't know. Yeah, we know you didn't know. You suck as parents, case in point.
EM 1 month ago
Given the number of mass sh**ters in recent years who have cited extremist right-wing propaganda, I would disagree.
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Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
Not an actual in circulation coin, right? Because then I'll have to stop using cash.
UKDeek 1 month ago
It is "intended" to be a collectable, none curculating coin due to certain laws, but we know how much DJT loves to follow those kinds of laws...
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The Orange A*****e wants his face on a $1.00 coin (and won't that be inconvenient and a pain in the a*s to haul around, just as he is) Didn't he already put his face on plenty of fake money-- AKA stupid digital currency? He wants his face on real money because he knows that other c**p is worthless--and so is he.
Nikole 1 month ago (edited)
Yeah... Sitting presidents have never been on coins because it's very dictatorial, however... And it's like a dollar coin or something. I'd post a link but then I'd be hidden because BP is using some lazy àss algorithm.
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Khavrinen 1 month ago
"And tearing down part of the White House to build a ballroom! And demanding payouts from the Department of Justice because they 'accused' me of doing things I was obviously guilty of!"
Robert Benson 1 month ago
Well... My understanding is that you need to not be among the living to be on currency in the US. ... I think I can support Trump's desire to be on some currency, even if I have no plans to help him acheive that goal.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 month ago
At the rate America is going, there isn't going to be much time left.......................for anything!
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
Rosecrucian Roeth: don't worry about it. If the US economy does collapse catastrophically, I'm sure the Chinese will buy it up cheap and runs things better for you. 🤣 You might like start learning Mandarin. 😉
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 1 month ago
Not surprising in a country where long term is one fiscal quarter.
April Pickett 1 month ago
I thought I saw, or maybe I dreamed it, Trump had a banner of himself on one of the government buildings, sort of like those banners in Iran etc., that depict their leaders. He's already had his birthday parade with the tanks, other military equipment, and troops marching. He's building himself a ballroom, deporting as many Hispanics (at this time) as he can. He's letting ICE go their way. You all know this stuff. Just project these things to a year later, and see where we stand.
Tobias Reaper 1 month ago
this is exactly what happened with Brexit people fell for the scare mongering and thought Brexit meant all foreigners gonna be kicked out and money for the NHS. They never thought about what will happen long term
Earonn - 1 month ago
Or rather, they wilfully ignored what experts told them what would happen. Getting "forriners" out was more important.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 month ago
That guy is a joke! Just like most of President Cheetos' handpicked psychotic and completely unqualified sycophants...
Chris El 1 month ago
Picked one of the least healthy people on earth to be head of health dept. After he tells us a worm was munching on his brain. If this was a movie plot it would be too unbelievable to be taken as anything but comedy ..
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Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
It's possible even his b*****d of a grandfather would be embarrassed by him.
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
I don't want to alarm anyone, but it appears the orange is spreading. RFK's starting to look like a Dorito.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
He only got the job because he delivered his supporters to Trump last year in the election. I'm surprised Trump hasn't thrown him over the side just like any other administration official who takes attention away from him. Trump would need RFK jr only if he planned to run again. And he can't, right? Right?
Tobias Reaper 1 month ago
this guy just talks so much nonsense what's next cancer is caused by cheetos
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Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago
The day white people will be able to admit that they have a privilege is the day I can rest in peace. And yes, life is hard no matter your skin colour but at least when you're white it's not an everyday concern.
UKDeek 1 month ago
And that all depends on which society you live in. Growing up in the Yorkshire industrial heartland it was never about white priviledge, it was all about class. My father worked down the colliery, so the careers advisor marked my card as "coal miner", despite what I wanted to do with my life. A classmate, who was of Indian heritage, had both parents who were doctors (the local GPs), and the careers advisor marked her down as "doctor", as it was deemed that she would follow in her parents footsteps. I had to fight really hard to get into my career because I was from a "working class" background, and classed as uneducated.
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Ace 1 month ago
Err, no, I don't think that's a typical European perspective. If I were forced to try and locate it geographically it would probably be somewhere in the Mid-West.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 month ago
Most people love the constitution as long as they can use it for their own nefarious purposes.
Day Andie 1 month ago
Freedom of speech? Better not say anything nasty about our fearless Orange leader.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
Or point out any odious Charlie Kirk quote.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
I usually regurgitate the "establishment of religion" clause when the "Christian nation" crowd runs their pie hole.
Andrew Keir 1 month ago
It's that word "peaceably" in the phrase "peaceably to assemble" that enables the violent to cause protest to be shut down. See a protest you don't like, infiltrate it, throw a couple of rocks, then duck out quick before the National Guard start firing. Works most times - although it's more difficult to get away with when the original protesters dress up in bright candy coloured costumes...
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Pedantic Panda 1 month ago
Won the election perhaps because Trump promised them $40B? Nothing like interfering in another countries election. Wonder where he got that idea from.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
The US is fine with a dictatorship as long as we can dictate to it.
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Michael Fernandez 1 month ago (edited)
We’re where I feared we’d end up when Reagan was elected.
Toothless Feline 1 month ago
The seeds were sown then. It just took 45 years to mature.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
And sit in church Sunday morning, thinking how much God must approve of them.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
And then be shocked...shocked! as my boss was when he asked me to fill in for absentees after I retired. "Who would I be supervised by?".."Me".."Nah, I'll pass".
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Stardrop 1 month ago
this is pretty much their logic, actually. WHITE PEOPLE ARE SUPERIOR!! but also IMMIGRANTS ARE TAKING ALL OF OUR JOBS!!
Chrystina Sumpter 1 month ago
But are immigrants really taking your job? Or are they doing the jobs you are not interested in doing? My stepson worked in the kitchen of a restaurant in a wealthy neighborhood. Couldn’t get dishwashers. Some high school kid would get hired and wouldn’t finish out the shift because it too hard. They did have an immigrant from Honduras, a middle-aged man who showed up for work in a suit and tie and did three times the work of any other dishwasher. My stepson, who is a very hard worker, would pitch in when needed and he couldn’t keep up.
Load More Replies... JB 1 month ago
That's like half the rhetoric. This is what the Nazís believed: the Aryans are the greatest, but these nasty Jews are controlling everything, let's get them! ...It's why right wingers assert control
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liam newton-harding 1 month ago
*laughs at you* silly boi...charlie would have HATED you, with your "empathy illness" *S*
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FlamingZombies 1 month ago
Did you see how handsy JD was getting with Erika?
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Day Andie 1 month ago
And two of them will grow up, the third one, doubtful.
Load More Replies... Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago
How much do you want to bet that if she ever file for divorce he'll be fighting tooth and nails for custody ?
Day Andie 1 month ago
And then when he gets it, he either starts slowly pushing them back on his wife unless he wants to use them to control her, or he'll find a new step'mommy' to do the job for him.
Load More Replies... Jac Carr 1 month ago (edited)
I remember having a discussion with an ex where he said, I'd prefer you just say what you want to say, men don't like beating around the bush. I told him to get his f*****g lazy assed s**t together or his stuff will be on the pavement the following day; readers - it turns out he did NOT prefer me to say what I wanted to say, lol
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Nikole 1 month ago
YES. The whole "Oh, I don't pay attention to politics" búllshit is just that.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
"If you're not with us you're against us" - Every extremist group ever
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Introverts try to refrain from talking about anything in front of anyone. But some of us are lefties. There are other (and often more effective) forms of political action than talk.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
In civilised countries we let people hold their political views privately
Bartlet for world domination 1 month ago
Not sure about the "we" here, as we're all very aware of your political leanings.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 1 month ago
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. - Martin Niemöller
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General Anaesthesia 1 month ago (edited)
Everyone else is to the left of rеіch-wing ultra-conservative NatCs (Nationalist "Christians"), güber.
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Plentyofoomph 1 month ago
I don't understand how anyone supported Charlie Kirk, or even took him seriously. He was such a terrible debater.
Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago
I honestly can't believe that a PODCASTER could one day have such a big importance in the worldwide news. I mean the fre@king European Parliament wanted to make a minute of silence. For an American Podcaster !
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Midwest Mike 1 month ago
Everyone knows what "Oracle" stands for right? One Rich A-Hole Called Larry Ellison!!! Thank-you so much!! Tip your Waitresses and Waiters!!!
Helen Rohrlach 4 weeks ago
I hope the Chinese guy monitoring my data isn't too bored. Sorry for having an uninteresting existence.
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Ellinor she/they/elle 1 month ago
I said it yesterday under another post, but I saw someone say that men want kids the same way a child wants a puppy. They want the concept of fatherhood without the responsibilities. My own @sshole of a sp3rm sh0oter is a great example of that, and he even managed to do it twice in 2 different continents ! (that I know of !)
MotorcycleDoggo 1 month ago
Any fool with a D!ck can make a baby, it takes a man to be a Father.
Kathy Brooke 1 month ago
By definition 'a father' IS a noun. The verb would be 'to father'. If you're going to use grammar to make points at least use it correctly, please.
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WubiDubi 1 month ago
Africa has been. Look at the mines.They have built some great infra but it's not for the benefit of the locals. Also buying London, Paris and Athens properties. Long game, as they said when asked about US tariffs. It's not a 10 year- like US plan (or is that 4) it's a 150 year plan.of a millenia old empire.
Chris El 1 month ago
Long terms plans and high tolerance for exploitation of its people
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Count Stefan Amaranth 1 month ago
The life in China is infinitely better than life in the US. Source: I’ve been living here since 2012
Load More Replies... shg stewart 1 month ago
I'm not keen on the race to the bottom here. I actually give a d**n about human rights. And the rights of ethnic and religious minorities -- like the ones China is imprisoning in massive "reeducation" camps until they give up their religion, intermarry with Han Chinese, stop speaking their language(s) in favour of Mandarin, and are disappeared and sold for parts if they don't.
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Namanmehta Mehta 1 month ago (edited)
They pool money from many and give to those whalo need claims the sum insured is always higher then premium you pay
Betsy S 1 month ago
Where I live (B.C. Canada), it's the same. You get a percentage off your premium that increases for every year you don't have an accident, up to 40% off your cost. You hold that 40% indefinitely, unless/until you have an AT FAULT accident. Each Canadian province has its own auto insurance plan, so I can't speak for the other provinces.
Load More Replies... 2WheelTravlr 1 month ago
This is how insurance works. A large group of people pay a (mostly) reasonable amount which is based on factors like age, location, and previous history. The funds produced from these small payments are then pooled and given to those who meet the criteria for a claim. The OPs plan is basically self-insurance or a personal savings account for a specific use which would require a much larger payment per month to cover any potential outlay. If you feel you can pay in enough to cover an at-fault accident where both cars are totaled and the other party requires some hospitalization, then yep, go for it.
Sue User 1 month ago
Yea, i fell for thst. Then they tracked my every movement and driving habit.
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DeoManus Argentem 1 month ago (edited)
You can self-insure in my state (Florida), maybe all? That's what the car rental companies do (you think they pay millions of individual policies?!) - it's like getting bonded, you just need to prove you can afford X amount of exposure and/or set aside whatever amount of coverage you want. Nothing happens, you get it back. Most individuals just can't afford the surety, or prefer not to risk or tie up a chunk of their assets. Edit: no edit, oops.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
Or at LEAST factor in the years you DIDN'T have a claim vs the amount of the claim in question.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
That's not how insurance works. Would you want health insurance the same way? You only pay if you need it? That's what America already has!
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Day Andie 1 month ago
I'm not a political person is under the table for 'I'm MAGA, but don't want to talk about it.'
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
True, but if you CAN have a reasonable discussion with a MAGAnite, they will soon find themselves in agreement with much you have to say as you concede points of theirs.
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Andrew Keir 1 month ago
I tried dialectical materialism. It was too difficult for me to understand.
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
Put a DNC and GOP rep in a bag, shake it up, and the ONLY things that fall out are campaign contributions.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
US senator from New Jersey. The right is deeply afraid of him becoming another Obama.
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So, you don't get that the answer to "is genocide wrong" is pretty simple, but accept that there's a lot of "weeeeellll" in it? Oh dear.
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Bec 1 month ago
Need more context. Is this an American post? One of those ones that assumes America is the only country on earth?
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
Racist much? What about rich [insert race]? Im too poor to even afford an apartment in my hometown.
TheGayUmbrella 1 week ago
Lemme tell ya, if I could end this, I would. But I'm queer and disabled, so my voice doesn't matter.
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
There are some really good ones here, good enough to trigger a few people I can already predict in advance. 🤣
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
This isn't society. This is America. You need to understand the difference.
Rick Murray 1 month ago (edited)
What happens in America... spills over like p*ss in a bed. Is there any country that hasn't been affected by random tariffs for bull-manure reasons? Or the EU pussyfooting around because they don't want to offend the Tangerine T*rd in case he says "sc*ew Ukraine" out of spite? After all, look at his reaction to Canada over a satirical advert. Or Elon Musk proudly supporting Germany's AfD, and stringing along that moron Farage... So, what happens there affects *everywhere*.
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
What happens in the U.S. affects other places sooner or later.
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 1 month ago
You ever wonder if other people get sick of americans whining about every f*****g thing about themselves all the f*****g time?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
It’s an interconnected world. Like it or not, what happens in the U.S. does affect other places.
Load More Replies... Kris Tyler 1 month ago (edited)
Still too many of y'all think there is hope in your team. They are in on it together
Peter Bear 1 month ago
History will record, later down the line, that America as a nation died in 2001 with the passing of the PATRIOT ACT. That was the fatal wound. Everything since has been the corpse rotting.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
Every country passes dumb laws from time to time (Britain's OSA, anyone?). No, the death of the United States will be recorded as when the populace voted in Trump for a second term. The damage he has done - not only to foreign relations but also to his own citizens... it's rather mind-numbing, really.
Load More Replies... Max(pronouns/whatever/hamster) 1 month ago
again americans, who think that the world moves around them. Europe were before america, and will probably still stand, when people in usa find a stone to k**l eachother with
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
There are some really good ones here, good enough to trigger a few people I can already predict in advance. 🤣
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
This isn't society. This is America. You need to understand the difference.
Rick Murray 1 month ago (edited)
What happens in America... spills over like p*ss in a bed. Is there any country that hasn't been affected by random tariffs for bull-manure reasons? Or the EU pussyfooting around because they don't want to offend the Tangerine T*rd in case he says "sc*ew Ukraine" out of spite? After all, look at his reaction to Canada over a satirical advert. Or Elon Musk proudly supporting Germany's AfD, and stringing along that moron Farage... So, what happens there affects *everywhere*.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
What happens in the U.S. affects other places sooner or later.
Load More Replies... Chich the witch 1 month ago
You ever wonder if other people get sick of americans whining about every f*****g thing about themselves all the f*****g time?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
It’s an interconnected world. Like it or not, what happens in the U.S. does affect other places.
Load More Replies... Kris Tyler 1 month ago (edited)
Still too many of y'all think there is hope in your team. They are in on it together
Peter Bear 1 month ago
History will record, later down the line, that America as a nation died in 2001 with the passing of the PATRIOT ACT. That was the fatal wound. Everything since has been the corpse rotting.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
Every country passes dumb laws from time to time (Britain's OSA, anyone?). No, the death of the United States will be recorded as when the populace voted in Trump for a second term. The damage he has done - not only to foreign relations but also to his own citizens... it's rather mind-numbing, really.
Load More Replies... Max(pronouns/whatever/hamster) 1 month ago
again americans, who think that the world moves around them. Europe were before america, and will probably still stand, when people in usa find a stone to k**l eachother with
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