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Yeah you call Israel the murders here and I am 100% sure who you are. One sick twisted f***.
someone is pissed about their zepbound copay
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Watching working stiffs identify with oligarchs is the biggest con that’s even been perpetrated.
The barriers to entry for a working person to reach upper middle class have never been higher - and are increasing exponentially.
But sure keep blaming “work ethic” as opposed to greed, grift and monopolization.
We need a Teddy Roosevelt and yet we voted for even more Kleptocracy.
Eat the rich.
How incredibly out of touch with reality.
It is tiring seeing the older generations constantly making excuses and covering their ears instead of admitting they failed their descendants and actually listening to their struggles.
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You don’t have to be a CEO to be wealthy in America. I am a nurse. Worked my ass off, saved my pennies, paid off my house (worth 1.4 million) and have over a million in my 401k. I even committed the ultimate financial sin and got divorced in my forties.
Whining about your lot in life is not going to help you or garner you sympathy. Work for it, like the rest of us did.
All choices have consequences.
You speak of the rich like they’re personally holding you back. You’re holding yourself back. You have no one to blame but yourself.
You’re not rich. Or even wealthy. You’re upper middle class and good for you (so am I)
We are probably the last generation to have access to that.
No?
You know damn well the rich are trying to cut your pay, weaken your benefits and limit your negotiation ability at every turn.
And your (our) kids will have it much worse as consolidation, monopolization, asset hoarding and AI remove even more paths.
That’s not whining, that’s reality.
This branch of the convo is way way way out of bounds, will be thread banning anyone who continues it regardless of which side they are on @Sunflower
That 12% is households, not people. There are multiple people in the average household. 3.2, on average, as noted in the post you quoted but apparently did not fully read.
I'm also doing well for myself. Quite well. I also understand that my ability to have done well for myself is dependent on a variety of factors that had absolutely nothing to do with me or my hard work. None of us are a product of the void - if I build a successful company, the people I employ were in large part the product of the public school systems and colleges that receive significant funding and benefit from the government. They get to my office on public roads. The water running to their house is delivered by public civil works. The police officers keeping my business safe are paid out of public funds.
The fact of the matter is no one with a eight or nine+ figure net worth got there without greatly benefiting from society at large, and society at large has not received a share of the wealth that was created that is proportional to it's contribution. Wealth inequality is ever growing and corporatism funnels that wealth and concentrates it at the very top, which they then use that wealth (and in turn power) to further stack the deck to further concentrate it.
I worked hard to get to where I am. But I also recognize that many, many, many people have worked just as hard, or harder, as I have, and not had nearly the success I did. And I'm not going to pretend it's because I'm so much better than them - effectively, it was because I was lucky enough to receive opportunities I could capitalize on. Many people don't get those opportunities, due to no fault of their own.
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Never said I was better or worse than anyone. My point was we all don’t need to be CEO’s. The world needs ditch diggers too. You make the best choices you can make for yourself and you don’t blame others.
We are human and we need others to survive. We need lineman to keep the electricity on, we need cops to keep us safe, we need paramedics, nurses, and doctors to help take care of our health. Not all opportunities are equal but keeping your nose clean and working hard goes a long way in America.
Being joyful at murder will get you exactly no where.
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it's a totally normal response and feeling that normal people have.
i was happy when Ken Lay, Jeffrey Epstein and a bunch of others died in prison. i get happy/amused when some super rich off themselves in experimental aircraft, deep sea diving bells or whatever.
i like it when scumbags meet their demise. it's funny. lighten up.
why should i waste any time on these people when kids are getting killed every day in school
there was a guy Thomas Jefferson who took great joy in the French revolution happening. said something about it being a good and necessary thing.
to characterize anyone having no sympathy for these rich scumbags as some kind of poor white trash... well you might be surprised.
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Have you heard the 'hey there Luigi' song about how everyone hopes he meets Diddy in jail too?
Sink182 was the best thing to come out of the submarine thing
I did feel bad about the teenager who got dragged along by his dad into the sub implosion
It just screams faux outrage to me. To be upset that other people aren’t upset. Let’s use this same energy and actually be outraged when people who aren’t white, male, and rich are murdered. But it’s crickets when that happens.
Ok that’s probably enough. The healthcare-related remarks were tangentially related to the subject matter of the forum but at this point it has diverged from even that thin connection.
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