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It’s wild how conservatives have been led to believe that people shouldn’t make a livable wage doing whatever job needs to be done.
Then, when people don’t want to work for shit pay, they cry that “nobody wants to work anymore”.
For me to win, others must lose
That's the crux of it. Republicans almost invariably see life as a zero-sum game. It honestly does not occur to them that everyone could be happy and prosperous.
Well, of course. They agree that someone has to do those jobs, they just don't think they should be able to afford a one bedroom apartment while doing so.
A one-bed apartment! The lap of luxury! Get three roommates and stop being lazy!
first house
They really just want slaves, but they know that's a line they can't say anymore. In public.
Not just conservatives. My stepdad is far from being one, but he lives in a fantasy reality where "no one in the 80s made a living or supported a family working fast food or running a register." (I paraphrased a tiny bit, but this is a near-direct quote from him.)
In the 80s we were already on this path to severe underpayment. He was being fucked by the system already, it just wasn't as obviously destructive so he took it with the lube they provided and said thank you. Now they can't admit that's what happened because they would have to admit were/are idiots getting willingly fucked by the business.
bankers don't give a shit about red team or blue team, they've just been stealing from everyone. Good luck!
I mean they really, very obviously, do go in for conservatives. It’s their whole fucking thing.
@Soup 🤔 is it obvious? seems obvious they're funding both sides to me, but apparently not to you? Are you sure you're looking in all directions or just where you've been told to look?
https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donations/
https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/how-amalgamated-bank-became-the-the-lefts-private-banker/
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-updates-03-13-23/index.html
Seems like you are making his point for him. The people being funded in these articles are all conservatives. Some are Democrat neoliberal conservatives, but they are still business-class conservatives, regardless of party affiliation.
Conservatism is a plague of oppression that benefits the wealthy.
@Burn_The_Right you think those are the only articles with those stories about those banks? search for yourself, or don't, but don't act like I just gave you the contents of the internet.
I'm not trying to attack you at all. My apologies if it came off that way.
I am pushing back on the common idea that the majority of Dem leadership is non-conservative. The establishment Democrats are neoliberal conservatives who align pretty well with Reagan on most topics. We don't have a viable progressive party at the moment, unfortunately, so we're stuck with diet-conservatives in the Dem party and the few progressives within the party.
@Burn_The_Right i don't feel attacked at all, I feel sorry that you still see two fake and gay oppositional sides that are holding hands behind the scenes, while they rob everyone blind.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/liz-cheney-endorses-kamala-harris-president-rcna169654
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/06/dick-cheney-vote-kamala-harris-liz-cheney-00177784
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-conservative-group-led-by-billionaire-koch-set-spend-beat-trump-2023-06-29/
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-endorsing-kamala-harris-trump-1960937
Trump is the biggest RINO ever, he was a Democrat for years and most of the standard Republicans are pro WW3/Harris.
Ok, I retract my apology. May you find your conclusion swiftly.
@Burn_The_Right spoken like a socialist
Conservatives are a plague long overdue for a cure. I may not be able to meet you on a battlefield, but I will be sure to think of you for a moment while dealing with a local. It's my little gift to you. Don't say I never gave you anything.
@Burn_The_Right do it pussy, I want the vids.
You're right. I'm just a pussy. And a socialist. I would never.
@Burn_The_Right I know you will, and I don't care.
Baby Boomers really struggle to accept their enormous share of how we got to this place.
Invariably it's some Millennial's fault. And by Millennial, I mean anyone who looks under 40.
Ask him how those Reaganomics are working for him.
The problem is that those Reaganomics affect younger much worse than older. He probably still did fine and that's why he didn't understand what others are complaining.
"makinh a living" and "surviving" are two different things
This. My parents and my husband and I went to the Smithsonian archival museum in Washington DC. They had an exhibit about the coal and steel strike from the 1800s-literally present day. My parents were raised in the era of "work hard put your head down". They really needed this to show class inequality of capitalism. I mean you can find that anywhere on the internet but it was cool to be there and talk about it. Fuck Capitalism and the cancer that it has always been. My parents are still voting for Trash but I feel its a step forward.
Nobody wants to work anymore
Aha, Snopes rates it as "True", therefore nobody wants to work anymore!
It's the mentality that billionaires use to impose on us. Yes, our life sucks, but it is not bad, because there are people for whom or sucks much more.
I am currently reading book called On Freedom by Prof. Timothy Snyder and is really eye opening, how we are being manipulated to hurt our and our children's future. I think everyone should read it.