Gandalf: "Flies, you fools!"
Fellowship: Visibly confused due to lack of subject-verb agreement
Gandalf: "No, you idiots! I mean, you're literally flies! Why the hell are you walking all the way to Mordor?"
"And Ebenezer, be especially fearful of the Ghost of Metal Album Covers Past. He likes to lightning-punch people directly in the scrotum. Merry Christmas."
Slavery was about 99% of what drove the entire thing, so it makes sense to me.
This sounds high to most people, but if the minimum wage had kept up with its inflation-adjusted peak (1968), it'd be somewhere in the range of $31 to $32 an hour right now.
It never caught back up afterward, and has been severely harpooned in the years since, shifting unfathomable quantities of money to the wealthiest people. And it's not just minimum wage workers... when you sink the wage and salary floor, nearly everyone made less than they should have been.
To stay in compliance with weekly Lemmy AI image memes, here this is.
No, you're not imagining things.
It's security footage of Sailor Moon stealing from a Target whilst eating a fried spaghetti sandwich.
Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US... this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.
In order for us to vote for change, change has to be on the ballot.
Moreover, the ballot itself must change.
"I'm sorry, fairly-right-of-center Southern Democrats. You're not quite evil enough for me anymore, I need to spread my wings."
I'm getting major "I'm asking for a friend" vibes off of this post.
Oh, you've got a behavior there, but the wrong motivation.
I sit at home, but I don't sit on public toilets precisely because dudes have been whizzing all over the seat.
As someone living on the East Coast who is never within 2,000 miles of an In n Out Burger, I'll continue to do my part.
"The free exchange of communication and ideas, unrestricted by capitalist interference? Can't have that kind of evil in the world. Surely it's my duty to shut this down, so that others may come to know the flavor of corporate boot leather as well as I have."
Burgers and orange juice, I can't think of a more iconic combination.