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    Are people finally waking up to the horrors of late stage capitalism?

    Good good. Let me know when the bell riots start.

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      under the american media ecosystem? no, probably not. american oligarchs didnt buy up news entities because theres still money in traditional media advertising.

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      Weren’t those supposed to be a few months ago? We fucked the timeline somehow

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        September 3rd, 2024 in the show.

        I’m still fully convinced a similar event will happen, it’s only a matter of time.

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        tries to pull shirt down and say “make it so” but disintegrates into billions of separate, diffuse glimmering pixels. worf opens his maw to scream “it is a good day to die!!!” but he has long since dissolved into theoretical grains of sand in the hourglass

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    Wow … what a beautifully terrible way of describing our modern world.

    As if that weren’t terrible enough … it’s made worse by the fact that we all accept that as normal and won’t do anything about it

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    And if you’re not murdered, you’re imprisoned by the new president for not being able to afford a $500k home on a $15 an hour wage.

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    "On May 1, 2023, in New York City, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless American man, was killed after being put in a chokehold by Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old United States Marine Corps veteran. "

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