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    I can’t believe the country of guns and freedom is letting those guys at their government.

    If you don’t want to fight, you should really gtfo.

    This is the type of shit I used to read in books at school.

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      64 months ago

      I really don’t get it’ where this myth of freedom and democracy originated. Especially that life shows us real USA face all the time now.

      The only freedom there was, was for billionaires to treat people like slaves.

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      The guns were pointed at gays, minorities, liberals, and communists in order to free themselves from the tyranny of other people daring to exist in their presence.

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      24 months ago

      Remember how you all were bashing Russians for not doing enough to stop Putin and his war? Yeah, it seems that a democratic nation with guns is doing even less. Gives you a perspective on why things are the way they are.

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    94 months ago

    Department of Government Efficiency is about commodifying the domestic proletariat, you say?!

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    “I’ll never forget, I turned to Mr. Brown, one of the Browns made this crack (that Unarco managers were a bunch of fools for notifying employees who had asbestosis), and I said, ‘Mr. Brown, do you mean to tell me you would let them work until they dropped dead?’ He said, ‘Yes. We save a lot of money that way.’”

    From an article quoting Lewis H Brown, corporate owner of an Asbestos Company, and ALSO the Founder of The American Enterprise Institute, a Conservative ‘Think Tank’ which pushed anti-trans rhetoric to help get Trump elected.

  • Laser
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    244 months ago

    Dude is angry because he has to get Romulus to pump his limp dick up

    • doug
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      64 months ago

      This comment makes me think I probably don’t get the symbolism behind Romulus and Remus; I know Romulus killed Remus during a dispute on where to settle Rome? Was it? And they both were raised by a wolf? But uhhh, symbolism eludes me; what’s the joke with your comment? Me big dum-dum and need things spoon-fed to me.

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    64 months ago

    To be fair we do live too long. Rotting in our failing bodies while we lose who we are is a fate worse than death. All to keep Republicans in power and scammers rich.

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            14 months ago

            Oh haha. Yeah I know how I sound, but you watch a love one deteriorate and see how you feel.

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              64 months ago

              It was common a few generations back to have your teeth pulled and be fitted for dentures in your 30s.

              The end of your natural life is always going to be gnarly.

              There is a distinct concept between a “life span” and a “health span”.

              Nobody denies that there is a point in time that your health fails to the point where additional life comes with diminished returns. This is where right to die legislation becomes very important.

              But, speaking in broad general statistical generalities, both lifespan and health span have been increasing. The gap has always existed. In short: people have always lived too long, as you put it.

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        No he’s right. They want you living longer so you can work longer and consume longer.

        Number only goes bigger if you have more workers and consumers. Once either of those things stops being true you can’t have “infinite growth”.

        There’s no way they want you living a shorter life. Not to mention all the money in old people care. It’s a massive industry.

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        24 months ago

        OK. So if you’re one of the VERY few lucky people to have amazing healthcare then sure… Live forever. Most of us don’t so what do we do?

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          64 months ago

          Some countries actually care about their people and provide free, government funded healthcare. You could vote and write to your politicians in ways that support implementing that into your area.

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                Have you missed the part where fascism has taken over the US, in spite of the millions of us who tried to stop it in the polls, only to have a slightly larger number get duped into believing that the fascists will fix the price of eggs and that would make the horror okay? Or before that even how the rich have managed to convince so many of us of the lie that government run healthcare was not only socialism/communism (dirty words here) would ruin our healthcare system and we’d be forced to sit and wait for months or years for necessary procedures and die on the waiting list, or that the government will just flat out decide it was time for you to die through “death panels”?

                There are plenty of us who have been fighting for this our whole lives, maybe hold off on that “bitch ass attitude” bullshit for us just pointing out that we don’t actually have power here.

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      If they are killing people, they are not doing it in broad daylight for all the satellites to pick up. This is a fucking idiotic thing that people keep bringing up.

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        64 months ago

        I very much doubt they care at this point. No one is trying to stop them. They could do it in broad daylight for every satellite to pick up, claim it is “construction work” and way too many would eat it up and run with it.

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    In The Wealth of Nations, the general gist is that it is the labor of the people that creates the wealth of the State.

    So this gets interpreted by the oligarchs as: Humans only have value if they are able to provide labor we can exploit. Once they can no longer provide labor, they have no value.

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    He could do something against the average lifespan and off himself.

    Seriously what the hell is this timeline.