COVID did wonders for the wealth concentration of billionaires… Mom and pops close down, billionaires can ride it out and if anything made profit.

The immense concentration of wealth, driven significantly by increased monopolistic corporate power, has allowed large corporations and the ultrarich who exercise control over them to use their vast resources to shape global rules in their favor, often at the expense of everyone else.

This is literally everything.

Aside from the bullshit religion is responsible for, the vast majority of the issues with the whole world is down to this. Government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.

Our “lords” have already told us why things are the way they are if you look at the “reasoning” behind why the Senate let the child tax credits expire.

“People wouldn’t have an incentive to work.”

They literally use healthcare to chain you to a job. I have 3 coworkers that I know of off hand that have all said they literally are only working here for the health insurance…

This system can go to hell.

There’s no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball a person!

:P

Peewee herman voice and all…

Yes I’m quite the lady-killer…

I only just recently learned the voice bit as I’ve never recorded myself. I used to think I was just ugly lmao

I used to make a joke with friends back in highschool that if I ever had a kid I’d name them something like Bu62bil8 and just say it’s pronounced “David” to mess with teachers.

Elon Musk must have heard me and thought I was being serious…

Hey hey hey let’s not just assume they’re all Mexican! Let’s just make a brown smiley face patch so we can include everyone they’ll be deporting.

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Ha! Got ya liberal!

Your fancy chart just shows its bias! “Violent crimes per 1000 people ages 12 and older!”

They just soooo happened to keep the most violent ones out of the data! 5-8 year olds! Propaganda and lies!

:P

Fake news is exactly what the Magoos will be saying… They’ll just make up some absolute nonsense to dismiss it like “they removed tracking violence in Mexico City and Venezuela from the US statistics to make it look better for the election!!”

I live in a VHCOL area and $30 actually gets you the ability to save… If you rent a garage “apartment” and keep a partially empty fridge… Yet those salaries are still non-existent for anyone outside of a profession.

I’m not a right winger and while I can’t give specifics exactly, I do basically buy the same things every week because I’m boring like that. All cheap stuff, no organic or gourmet anything. I can say that in the last say 18 months I went from spending $65-$80/week depending on whether I was restocking non food items, to spending $110-120/week. Not exactly double, but damn close.

To get it back to the 70ish I now just eat less and I don’t buy any extras like anything premade. :/

About 132

And to set up the steal as “legitimate.”

Whatever plan they decide to go with to steal the election they’ll point to instances like this to “prove” it was stolen from them. :/

Exactly.

They are the ones playing the long game and have been stacking the courts with henchmen for decades.

Mitch McFuckingDemonTurtle wasn’t spending his life refusing to hear judicial nominations from Democrats for nothing.

For one, it’s about the rights NEED to always be against anything from the left.

For another, this is the start of the disinformation laundering chain. Faux News can now run stories about how “Florida surgeon general is fighting back against liberal disinformation!” Their position gives “legitimacy” to the claims…

Not voting is just allowing the worse option which still puts blood on your hands. Inaction still has consequences.

We don’t live in a world where we have the ability to be completely pure, it’s an option that simply doesn’t exist unfortunately. :(

I wouldn’t say it has much to do with pedophilia and just about everything to do with greed. They’re entirely the party of the ownership class, they always have been. They would revive slavery in a heartbeat going much further than the 13th amendment allows if they knew they could get away with it.

It might be an “interesting” endeavor to find out the correlation between those that have immense wealth and/or power and pedophilia. It might be that they are also pedophiles because of how their power and/or wealth have affected them.

It’s propaganda. People that choose to consume corporate media (even us here) are often duped by propagandists, but Fox and Newsmax are among the absolute worst literally fabricating a false reality for their viewers so that they feel victimized by their opposition and see Trump as their savior…

It’s so fucking gross.

Obligatory: I FUCKING HATE PROPAGANDISTS!

It’s why the gigantic spiders don’t bother them, they see a bit of themselves in them.

:P

Questions about his mental health? Are you fucking joking? The lengths these people will go to so they don’t have to flat out call him a liar is absurd…

Oh maybe he really believes it and he’s just mentally unwell. Feel bad for poor poor aging Trump. Nooo it couldn’t be that he’s lying out of his fucking teeth to manipulate the population! Nooo he doesn’t hold the amount of sway he currently does because of propaganda and a history of lying about absolutely everything. Nooo it’s just poor poor aging Trump… For fucks sake.