• Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    people are realizing that the American dream was a lie and they don’t want to believe that the people they voted for all along are the ones who caused it

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        3 months ago

        no, if you were a white middle class boomer born between 1945 & 1970ish who managed not to go to vietnam, you got to live the American dream. then we methodically voted for the people who stripped away all of the policies that made it possible

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      3 months ago

      The funny thing is it used to kind of work for a lot of small businesses and poor people in general. It sucked but you could do it. Only true visionaries like hunter s Thompson and Carlin really understood that the system was rotten before it all started to fall apart.