All because the rich must always steal from the poor.
  • AttackBunny@lemmy.world
    59·
    12 days ago

    If you were born after like 1980 it’s been pretty apparent that we were all fucking lied to. Go to school, be a good person, try hard, go to college and then you’ll be set for life. What a fucking joke.

    • Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world
      5·
      12 days ago

      I don’t feel like I try to do things correctly or try do good things for nothing. Maybe those are the only things that will get done right today, maybe everyone around me will fuck me over for trying to be decent. But the right way is there for anyone to take that can find it, and good has never existed outside of our minds and hearts. I have to try and I have to try to be good so that I know someone is trying and that good exists. Even if it is imperfect or doesn’t change anything else, it changes me.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          BTW, my entire life I’d hear older cons bitch about FDR because even more than Carter, the cons hate the guy.

          But they don’t seem to realize that FDR was the motherfucking compromise. But these cons are the types that, if they were still alive today would be full magoff and supporting donvict and fElon doing their worst to our institutions, including cutting off social security, medicare and medicaid and kidnapping people and sending them to gulags in other countries, just like I’m sure they would have loved the fascist coup attempt (Business Plot) succeeding back in 1933.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          Ahhh ok, just curious. Yeah, Ronnie Raygun’s people brought in whole new levels of destruction.

          I just didn’t understand the “born after” part. I watch older movies like The Graduate or read older books like Catcher in the Rye and get the sense that much older genrations felt lied to as well…and I know I as a Gen Xer felt that I had parts of the establishment lying to me.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    12 days ago

    Particularly from 1981 on, through corporate lobbyists and the merging of various ideological perspectives from both the Republican and Democratic parties, the new lower tax system for the wealthy and for corporations took shape.

    Can’t vote this away

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    12·
    12 days ago

    It’s been over for a while. Just took people a while to realize it and admit it. Well, unless you’re republican. The American Dream is still alive. Y’know, the one where a fake billionaire felon can become prez and wreck the country while hiring a billionaire racist foreigner to fuck everything up the felon doesn’t understand. Which is pretty much everything.

  • don@lemm.ee
    8·
    12 days ago

    It was officially over quite a long time ago. Are you just now waking up?

  • Wren@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 days ago

    “Dream”?

    Let’s not kid ourselves, it is and always has been an anxiety driven nightmare for anyone that isn’t white, male, and possesses a cognitively fractured moral compass.