• Sabata@ani.social
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      8 days ago

      Ugggh, seeing my idiot parents eat the onion on every damn election story not questioning a thing there fed…

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      7 days ago

      No lie, a few days ago, one of my coworkers, 22, said she thought George W Bush was the first president when some of us were taking about him.

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        7 days ago

        I overheard someone while I was at a drive-through say that they didn’t know Biden was president. They thought it was still Trump.

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      7 days ago

      It’s not their fault.

      We’ve been cutting rich people’s taxes by destroying public education for decades.

      I’m actually surprised thousands of my fellow Americans don’t drown staring upward whenever it rains.

      We chose die alone aka “I’m a temporarily embarrassed, ruggedly individual millionaire” over live together aka “we live in a society.”

      That has consequences we are now feeling at a new level. The Nordic nations understand this and are the happiest people’s on Earth because they get taxed massively and understand it benefits the society they live in.

      That’s an absolutely foreign and highly contemptable position to most Americans. After all, If everyone gets their basic needs met, how can I have mooooaaaaar than everyone and shove in their poorie faces while they die in the gutter? And what good is wealth without that, amirite?

      A nation as wealthy as ours need not have any economic losers dying in the streets and not being fed in school. We insist upon it, because America runs on schaudenfreude.