• threeduck@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    Ehh, good. The more Americans are bailed out, the less they suffer the consequences of their actions.

    May the complacency of the left and the idiocy of the right reap their fullest rewards.

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      1 day ago

      the complacency of the left

      I have to assume you’re using “left” in that peculiar American sense in which it means “center right”. The actual left are not complacent, but they’re unrepresented.

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        23 hours ago

        Yes, he’s referring to neo-liberals.

        Neo-liberals always align with conservatives when their wealth is threatened.

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        when i start talking politics with people, i regularly have to preface the conversation with “i am an extreme outlier that is very far left” because i get very weird looks for saying things like, “all people should be able to eat.”

        its a weird state of being trying to defend something kind.

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        The actual left is very much also complacent. Mango man’s goons just robbed an innocent family (of citizens, though I shouldn’t need to specify that) blind and where’s the action? Where’s the outrage? Where are the goddamn strikes?

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          Where are the goddamn strikes?

          I think that’s lack of organization, given how difficult companies have made it for workers to unionize, rather than lack of will. Also lack of numbers, given how many workers have become Trumpists or consider unions to be evil communism.

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      23 hours ago

      Agreed. I welcome all the suffering that is about to befall consumerists.

      They only have themselves to blame, and their incessant greed.