• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You poor people need to get over yourselves and admit that the lines on the graph of economic factors that exclude poor people look good. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves, the fact that you aren’t happy about us making money is going to LOSE US THE ELECTION so get serious ok?

    The other guy is worse, so we really don’t have to listen to a damn thing you say at all and you have to vote for our guy, get that through your poverty addled brains.

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      8 months ago

      The other guy is worse, so we really don’t have to listen to a damn thing you say at all and you have to vote for our guy, get that through your poverty addled brains.

      I mean I hate to say it but this is unironically true. As bad as things are now The Other Guy absolutely would make things worse. Neoliberals may be a scourge but MAGA is cancer. One of the bad cancers. Not even prostate cancer, like pancreatic cancer.

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        8 months ago

        LINE GO UP! This is good for economy! You want line to go up don’t you? If you don’t, you let the communists win

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        8 months ago

        This sounds nice and pithy but it’s exactly what I repeated to conservatives throughout the pandemic.

        Cons: “No one around me is dying and we’re all fine. I went to the hospital and it’s empty. What’s the big deal???”

        Everyone with half a brain: “You’re talking about anecdotes. What matters is the data and it’s damning. Lots of people are dying.”

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        To clarify, I mean that this applies to the economy as a whole. Not that everyone does well when the market does.

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        8 months ago

        I appreciate your sentiment, but your lived experience is not everyone else’s lived experience.

        My lived experience is racism is dead because I’m not racist and neither are friends.

        Sexual assault doesn’t happen because I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone and only one person I know has been sexually assaulted.

        The economy is doing great because my company handed out $10k bonuses to all employees this year along with a 5% raise.

        Which lived experience should we believe?

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        8 months ago

        Poe’s Law and all that; conservative opinions are nearly universally idiotic enough that it’s hard to tell them apart from parody / sarcasm

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      8 months ago

      Let me leave this here :

      The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.

      ― A Simple Path: Mother Teresa