• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Since Obama, the US has crowed about adding jobs, but most of those jobs are bad jobs that nobody wants because they have low pay, high demand, and hurt your body long-term. McDonald’s isn’t a career for most people.

    The cost of living has skyrocketed, unabated, and shrinkflation is everywhere along with inflation.

    I don’t know why we’re all supposed to be so happy that companies have record profits when they don’t deign to share any with the workers who made those profits possible.

    Because every single fucking one of us knows that if Amazon lost every delivery driver in one day, Jeff Bezos would not be able to physically deliver all the packages himself. The value that comes from these companies comes from the workers, not the figureheads skimming all the value creator by labor for themselves.

    Why should we give one fucking shit that these fucking vampires are doing so well at our expense?

    If voters genuinely think that the GOP does better on the economy, then it means the GOP has succeeded in gutting our education system and is relying on voters who either can’t fucking read or don’t give enough of a shit to read, and have no clear memory of the last 30 fucking years.

    Although, in fairness to low-information voters, the Democrats absolutely have a history of crowing about their half-measures as though they’re exactly what voters needed and wanted. That can make some people feel like they’re unserious.

    Well it’s because they are. The parties are not the same. One of them is full of terrorist whack jobs who want to dismantle democracy and the other is full of neoliberal chucklefucks who want to be middle managers for democracy and neither gives one fucking shit about regular ass citizens. That’s the one major thing they have in common.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure why wanting to dismantle democracy is supposed to be a bad thing? American Democracy is why we are here right now. It was all extremely democratic.