It’s really fucking common in the internet wild. It’s even common offline.

“Just pack up your entire life and move out of here if you don’t like it here. No one is holding a gun to your head to stay.” smuglord

Oh, I did, but it took years of planning, preparation, savings, and an early retirement with the penalties that entailed. There was no gun, but I couldn’t whisk myself out of Bazinga Land in CA any faster than I could sell a flooded house to Aquaman.

That’s it. That’s the post. No one held a gun to my head to post this, but I did it anyway.

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    Gestures vaguely at all the forms of explicit violence if you can’t pay, are profiled or othered, elect the wrong kind of leaders, try to unionize, or contradict the status quo in anyway.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It’s that “Spongebob tearing down the wallpaper and pointing outside the window” meme, applied to centuries of capitalism saying “dae commies kill gorillion”