You mean the capitalists spent decades breaking the minds of Americans so they could break the shackles of prosocial regulation and loot the wreckage.

The Reagan/Welch capitalist jihad, removing what little restrictions big corpo had while getting their former opposition on the take leaving the people with NO VOTE on the economy rigged against them, only the social issue symptoms stoked to keep us divided so we don’t rise up, while destroying education and the commons to keep us stupid and get tax breaks did this.

We are going to collapse, and I’ll be damned if I’m not going to go down with this ship reminding everyone I can it was the capitalists that did this by promising the nation of imbeciles they made they’d be the beneficiaries living large on the backs of their exploitated neighbors so long as they vote to hurt their exploitated neighbors. Twas the celebration greed and “individualism” aka learned sociopathy that killed this beast.

Robber barons/profiteers should never have been allowed to leave their homes without having rotten fruit pelted at them for their cruel, antisocial behaviors. Their own victims look to them for wisdom, tune into their reality shows and economic forecasts, and praise them as… 🤮… “job creators,” it’s pathetic to see, especially here at the end.

This country was destroyed half a century ago. Citizens United drove that reality home for anyone with 2+ brain cells to rub together that the oligarchs had not yet destroyed, Trump and his billionaire cadre is just a vulture feasting on its well rotted corpse.

My condolences to the harm reduction blue voters, but did anyone else’s ears just start ringing with the screams of millions of southern state Republican hypocrites, willfully oblivious to the staggering irony, demanding GOVERNMENTAL ASSISTANCE disaster aid for this UNREGULATED CAPITALIST CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE once preventable tragedy? "

And I want them to get that aid too. That’s what separates us from their barbarism. I for one want them to have universal healthcare and access to education, as we’d all benefit from them being less ignorant, whereas they would very much prefer those outside their out group be dead. Of course they’d turn on each other then.

Nah, Karmas coming for them.

Not because of some just world fallacy, they were just fucking stupid to build their supposed “promised land” on top of people who were already there, and surrounded by more people that it pissed off.

Iran’s got a nuclear something for their ass sooner or later. Which will be WWIII, but Israel is Scrappy Doo, they’re not as big as they think they are, and they just keep pushing, they will be pushed back, because a shittier neighbor by actions there is none.

They always need someone to blame for their ever descending new level of hell they’ve made of society.

Fascists sell off society a plank at a time while telling the angry, ignorant crowd which powerless scapegoat is to blame this week.

Hell, my fellow Americans have been blaming powerless homeless people, the neighbors we’ve failed as a society, for hurting their property values with their inconsiderate continued existence while destitute since before Donnie was fake firing people on brain rotting reality TV, solely because the for profit media told them to do so as they counted those gullible idiot’s money.

Sabotaging education has made us a nation of suckers.

If I were Panama, I’d be setting charges to collapse the canal at key points requiring years and billions to repair should such an invasion occur, no different than Taiwan and their semiconductor infrastructure killswitch that would royally fuck over the world should China try to take Taiwan by force, making it China’s fault.

Fuck em, and by em I mean us because we’re the baddies. If the people that live, work, and die down there aren’t the beneficiaries of the revenue of the canal they operate, no one trying to steal it certainly should.

Live cooperatively or let the wannabe dictators of the world conquer a heap of ashes. Ill bet the global capitalist leech markets would be mourning the loss of such an efficient trade route.

I hope you get universal healthcare and proper education one day.

Sorry you hate your countrymen and therefore America.

It’s abundantly clear by the state of our nation that we need to drink a whole lot less alcohol and smoke a whole lot more weed.

One amplifies hatred, the other dispels it. Blow Marijuana in a Republican’s face, it’s your civic duty.

It’s not the most important reason by a long shot, but it’s yet another reason why extreme wealth hoarding, aka billionaires and centimillionaires, should have been taxed out of existence and legislated from existing going forward:

Even they aren’t happy, even sitting in the complete victory of their coup. They could have a dozen space station mansions each and they still wouldn’t be satiated or satisfied. They can’t be satisfied. That is their defining character deficit. Literally everybody loses so long as the avarice diseased capitalists remain in charge, even them. The intensity of their cringeworthy attempts at social media flexes betrays their intent and blasts us all with their screaming insecurities day in and day out.

They’re mentally ill with an obsession/compulsion related disorder that they’ve manipulated civilization into enabling at literally every possible expense, including mass human murder and seriously risking human extinction for short term private profit.

They should be in mental health facilities receiving inpatient treatment for their extremely destructive antisocial behaviors for both their and everyone else’s safety and wellbeing, too bad at least in the US they defunded mental healthcare into utter ruin (and education, and common infrastructure, etc) to cut their own taxes through their captured government.

The inmates are truly running the asylum our society.

Maybe Saruman would be a better metaphor for the Neoliberals, but Saruman just seems too… competent.

"I affirm your identity! You’re free to be who you are without shame! As you die in a cardboard box under a freeway of exposure for failing to be exploited well enough, and as an intentional threat to the other poories to keep laboring for their corpo bribers. 🤷

Ooh, but here, have a ribbon! I hear they’re quite tasty when boiled."

They’re not the primary villain, those are the corpo Fascists, but they’re sure as shit the bumbling secondary antagonist. The Denethor to Sauron.

To be fair, attacking America’s corpo capitalist’s profits is an attack on America’s only practiced religion and belief system.

“Biden should have warned us harder! Harris tricked us! Fuckin leftists(lol) used reverse psychology! Imma MAGA even harder just to get revenge!”

Sports are a pathetic institution when they’re more about competition than fun.

Life is competitive enough.

Sports are games.

Games are supposed to be inclusive and fun.

Society taking games deathly serious (and equivocating it with academic merit, aka serious pursuits) is the problem.

People rioting and murdering if the game didn’t work out for their team is the problem. Putting billion dollar stakes on games is the problem.

Trans people or any people wanting to play games with their friends should be what society fosters and nurtures as the entire fucking point of society’s existence. Something something… planting trees something something knowing they’ll never sit under…

Nope? let’s bring on the climate change induced extinction then. If our values are hyper competitive, dog eat dog bullshit from labor to fucking games, we should go extinct.

“a great economy” for the top 10% being supported by a massive underclass.

An American tradition to be sure. Slaves to Jim Crow to immigrants, but now most are that underclass.

And they’ll still call this a healthy economy, lol, as only those of capital means are human to the capitalists. Everyone else is livestock. Welcome to Panem.

https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/24/higher-income-americans-drive-bigger-share-of-consumer-spending/

May the capital markets burn to the ground. At least climate change will do what we should have in a couple decades when it doesn’t matter anymore.

Americans betrayed one another since Reagan under the capitalist call of “you can get more, just fuck over the fellow Americans that you don’t like” for over half a century. When’s the last time a party has said a god damned thing about solving a relatively easy problem for a wealthy nation: ending homelessness?

The incoming pain is well earned.

I’m going to think of all the burgeoning socialist regimes we’ve destabilized through soft power and military action, places that wanted to be societies of people that lifted one another up, in the name of keeping exploitation markets open to our capitalists, now that the bill for our mass cultural malice both within and without has come due when I’m feeling the pain.

How about you? Will you acknowledge our nation’s decades of unrepentant malice when your family is hungry? Or blame it on the for profit media pushed powerless scapegoats dejour like the homeless or immigrant neighbors we’ve failed and often ironically vocally resent?

He’s doing this on purpose so the oligarchs can buy the dip and own even more.

Don’t mistake malice for incompetence, or vice versa. Trump is often incompetent, especially in live interactions, his tariff game ain’t it, it’s part of all he’s there for: self-enrichment.

He already called them on and back off once this term to do just that. Calling such moves idiocy instead of a plan to further drain wealth from the many to the pre-informed few plays right into it.

Yet another example of why the capital markets are the bane of human civilization in innumerable ways, undermining and sabotaging entire societies to accelerate short term growth/metastasis.

The capital markets will be destroyed either by the people out of self preservation, or by capital market made climate change after it doesn’t matter anymore for humans. I take solace in knowing this con game won’t last another century either way, as the tumor of unchecked human greed will destroy its own host if not cut out by force.

Thank you! I try to, even though at the end of the day the best you can do is the show runner that signed off on it, as you’ll never really know who invented it in the writer’s room.

"Who I am is where I stand.

Where I stand is where I fall."

-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who

I have a lot of darkness in my head due to my upbringing. I’ll never get it out. That doesn’t stop me from being a good man, because who you are and what you’ll be remembered as isn’t your internal struggle, its what you chose to stand for in practice.