Rooskie91

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 points 5 days ago

It's a culture of repressed violence. Once you see it, it's bursting out of every seam that holds this country together.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Aren't we kind of already in that??

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well good thing we have massive, well funded media campaigns!!

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That, and people become economicly dependent. They tried UBI when Nixon was president (I know right) and it was considered a failure because the divorce rate went up. What later studies showed was that the divorce rate went up because women in abusive or dead end relationships were finally empowered to leave the spouses they had become depend on.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 points 5 days ago

It's like they're trying to make it the next step from neoliberalism but people are starting to even see the flaws in neo liberalism.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 179 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Wait till he hears how necessary it is for life to get harder for billionaires.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TBH, it feels like social media always needed some back door business like this to make it profitable.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You don't know them either, so why pick any side?

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 22 points 1 week ago

Theory divorced from historical context results in all kinds of cognitive dissonance, and that's what I see there for the most part.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of them are paying teams of retired Navy seals to protect themselves.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does this person not remember that literally everyone was upset about bailing the banks and auto industry out??? Like why are we pretending that those were popular decisions, and that the population is to blame?

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