• @[email protected]
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    415 months ago

    How did they never pay for anything? Shoplifting? Are they literally a statue of a Confederate general?

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          195 months ago

          I mean debtor prisons are basically just involuntary prison labor, which the US already has. Not really a leap, considering you can get arrested for legitimately anything.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            Here’s how you go to jail for debt:

            Rack up a ton of credit card debt.

            Don’t pay it off, goes to collections.

            If it’s high enough, and you don’t move to another state…

            Collections sues you, you get a court summons in the mail.

            You throw away the court summons along with all your overdue bill notices.

            Congratulations, you now have an active arrest warrant, police will be at your location in… a few days to a few weeks, you go to jail, then likely prison for contempt of court, and when you get out, the debt collector won their judgement against you by default, any wages you try to get will be garnished, your credit score is absymal so you can’t get an apartment basically anywhere.

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          35 months ago

          I mean, it kind of is.

          Debtor’s prisons were never fair, but at least it usually involved adults who made their own choices.

          Kids can’t legally consent to anything - though I’m sure the republicans want to change that too.

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    “Fuck you, I never had mine” is definitely one of the positions one could take.

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      325 months ago

      Ah… It’s fair? If wealth isn’t distributed well, blaming radical ideas will only fuel the fire. Solution is a much deeper one no one wants to invest into.

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        I can call it a really stupid take while also acknowledging we need deep systemic change.

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          75 months ago

          I meant it’s fair from a common man perspective where the laws might protect you from corporate greed

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            145 months ago

            Burn the world down and build it back fresh and new. It’s a great strategy when you don’t ask who is building it back and what are their goals? Nobody should ever trust Trump or any other billionaire to be that person.

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      Except we still live in ‘free’ market vibes based capitalism - where the profits are privatized, and the losses get socialized. If this tariff stupidity goes on, there will be some kind of bailout/grift like there always is. From PPP loans, sweetheart tax breaks, to liquidity bailouts for banks, the Fed will step in and Congress will have to do something to restore market and consumer confidence. Or else we all facetank turbo inflation, job losses, and stagnant wages in a new economic depression.

      If these NEETs were old enough to have been alive during the 2008 crash, they spent it playing Modern Warfare 2 and wondering why everyone else had big sad - after all, they still had vidya, porn, and tendies living at home.

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    305 months ago

    All well and good until mom’s retirement accounts tank and you can no longer live in her basement.

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    855 months ago

    They seem oddly confident in the police state and cultural sharia they voted for will never come for them.

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        245 months ago

        Don’t blame this on depression. Most depressed people doesn’t become fascists. If anything this is their narcissism showing itself.

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          135 months ago

          I dont think al of the people that voted for the annoying orange agree with the fascistic tendencies. It’s probably an unhealthy mix of suicidals and depressed people, angry people, fascists, idiots and morons. Neither of these are mutually exclusive of course.

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      That’s where the goverment suppoorted neet’s come into the picture.

      I know some neet’s who get more money from goverment than some people working 60 hour jobs.

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        I don’t feel like someone relying on government helps would think some corporate fascist who generally wants to reduce government spendings represents their interest, but then again I don’t think there is a logical framework in which we won’t conclude that OP is at least a little bit dumb. But what makes me favour the parents supported hypothesis is the "never paid for anything " part.

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          I am from a very poor place in WV where most people are on assistance because there are no jobs.

          Trump flags everywhere. Cars driving down the road with no tags or insurance, but Trump stickers all over.

          I don’t get it. Well, actually I do.

          Religion. The preacher says the gay is bad. Preacher says the trans is bad. Democrats want to extend basic rights to those people and preacher says god don’t like that.

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            There’s also the idea that they’ve earned their government money. I once dealt with someone like that. Her ptsd disability money was earned unlike everyone else who didn’t suffer for it in her eyes. Higher taxes meant her victims (she was emotionally abusive af) couldn’t spend as much on her and higher government spending meant that the government couldn’t spend as much on her.

            These people don’t think that their money will go away.

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    345 months ago

    The most dangerous people are those with nothing to lose.

  • @[email protected]
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    175 months ago

    I kinda understand their point of view here actually. Wanting to drag everyone down to their level. Burn it all down.

  • @[email protected]
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    55 months ago

    The best thing to come of all of this would be bookers suffer too.

    Fuck you and your house and car and planed retirment