People elect Conservatives. Don't elect Conservatives. They want to make the world shit.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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People keep electing conservative fascists like morons
America, in particular, doesn’t exactly have an alternative.
To wit,
“Americans are served by three political groups, but are represented by only two political parties.
“The alt-right have a party all to themselves, while the centre-left share a party with the centre-right such that they cannot effectively function.”
You take a look at any president since the Carter administration, and they have all been right of centre. Obama was solidly centre-right. Biden is on the threshold of being fully right-wing.
About the only people who sit anywhere to the left are people like Bernie Sanders and AOC, and in most other countries they would be considered solid centrists and milquetoast moderates. They are not extreme-left in the least.
America has no left-wing politicians, much less any on the far left.
But on the far right? pretty much the entire GOP is sitting there with their asses hanging off the fascist end of the political horseshoe.
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Collectivism
Greed
Greed, wanting stuff, precipitates giving value in return for value. Regardless of motives everybody benefits. This is a free market.
Throw in an institution that can manipulate & distort free market forces - government - then you get parasites that use the violence of that institution for non reciprocated greed. This creates distortions in wealth and power in favour of the scrupulous.
Doesn't that assume that resources were at one point distributed fairly? If you have all the value, you can devalue everyone else.
I mean, I think it has to do with different kind of value, some have capital, some have services, they would not work without eachother
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like.. seriously this.
Normal function of capitalism. It has superseded law. Just "accumulate".
My theory? The Mayans were right. 2012 was the end of the cycle, and so the 12 years before and 12 years after are the transition period.
So we're in the final lap, we just have to make it to December
(I'm not coping, you're coping)
It was those damned churches staying open during COVID
The powers that be realised that a non-stop feed of bad news for you to Doom scroll makes people apathetic and apethic people don't protest, or revolt, or even vote against you. They go through life scrolling on their phone and just accept whatever life gives them.
Healthy food costs more than unhealthy food....
Edit: mb, not really an answer to your question, but it sucks nonetheless..
No it doesn't. Stop lying.
What doesn't? Is healthy food cheaper or does it not suck?
Healthy food doesn't cost more than crap food. The people that say that is because a fast food burger costs five bucks and a pound of ground beef also costs five bucks without the bread or cheese or ketchup. But that pound of meat will give you eight of the fast food burger.
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Chronic disease and general poor-functioning has been skyrocketing and the vast majority of people just ignore it like it's no big deal.
Obviously it's a big deal when the intelligence and competence of a majority of people has been severely diminished. We're now living in Idiocracy. And it's why for two elections in a row we've ended up with the choice of two senile old white men.
"What's wrong with me, Doc?" "Well, you look like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."
Shareholder value. Companies are cutting everything they can to increase stakeholder value: wages, quality, support, ownership, etc.
I think the enshitification of the Internet was sort of just what happens to everything once it gets monetized. It was already happening before COVID.
On the other hand - when I was growing up, my city was rough. So much violent crime, bands would not come here, it was notorious. Now? No. Violet crime has decreased sharply, my kids grew up in a different world than I did.
Jobs haven't become less secure, or at least not in my experience, that change happened in the 1980s, and it's been about the same since.
Everyone is broke because of Ronald Reagan, for lack of a better way to explain it. Deregulation. Workers have gotten ever more productive without getting their cut of that increase in productivity and this is the endgame of that trend.