I mean, really?
– The economy is crap. They’re trying to cut healthcare, and practically everything the poor and middle class has. They’ve already pushed through the ‘fuck-you-poor-people tax plan.’ Also the ‘fuck-you-middle-class’ plan. Anyone making under 75k just deserves to get screwed over, cuz well, it’s your fault you make too little and therefore are unimportant like the little peons you are, so who gives af about you?
– Every day there’s more news about new and better ways politicians, giant corporations and the rich fuckers are screwing us over.
– Net neutrality is dead. Companies can fuck with your internet, throttle your speed and jack up your rates even more.
– The price of everything has gone up- rents, mortgages, food, education, healthcare- what am I forgetting? Everything has gone up. But real wages have not increased since 1972. 19 fucking 72. That’s longer than 3/4 of the people on SP have been alive.
SIX people (the Walton heirs of FuckYouMart) have more wealth than the bottom HALF of the WORLD population, COMBINED. Sure, life is great- if you’re not the poor or middle class, or part of the 3.8 BILLION people on Earth.
Anyway, Happy Fucking New Year. 2018 looks great.
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Well, at least you’re angry – that is something, that means you care.
Tbh I think one of the curses of our day and age is that at any moment, we have the means to compare ourselves with someone who is doing better. We are constantly reminded of all the experiences on which we are missing out.
Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
I share the same concerns as you do. Very deeply.
I’m riding the biggest sinking ship on the planet. HMS Titanic doesn’t hold a candle to Dinghy USA.
Another year, another decade, another century, of watching the country sink, but at least I have 4G coverage. So theres that. Eat shit, Trump.
So become politically active. Use your computer to support Democrats and undermine the Republicans. The Republicans are doing things that are highly unpopular now. Mid-Term election might see the Dems taking both House and Senate!!! Use you voice ( or computer skills ) for the better good.
With all due respect, this will work? Are you serious? Tell me someone PAID you to just say that. PLEASE. Because at 53 old freakin’ years, I believe I’ve spent my last bit of energy being “politically active.” The points I’m pushing here, and obviously I’m doing a poor job of it because I didn’t say what I meant, are not political. They are simply an observation on the unchanging egocentric nature of the self imagined “most highly evolved ” garbage walking the planet, humans.
In order to keep from rambling more, rest assured political activism is the least important thing on my agenda. Replacing scum with swine has brought america to today. . . I’d rather waste my time passing gas than helping place psychopathic megalomaniacal nazi turds in office.
When a candidate with a plan presents it, I will consider voting. But it has to be a plan. Not another recitation of all of yesterday’s empty promises, clung to by fervent flag wavers who excite easily. Rah Rah rah.
I both agree and disagree with both of you.
@LoveDogs- I would do more if
1- I wasn’t disabled and sick as a dog every day. I literally struggle to breathe so I can’t really do much of anything for anyone, let alone myself.
2- If there was something I can realistically do that CAN actually effect change, I would try. As of right now, all I can do is sign petitions or donate to causes that try to effect change.
@Once- I agree that we’ve been presented with nothing but a choice between shit and explosive shit the past several decades. My whole rant is that life fucking sucks for the poor and powerless. On the other hand, to do nothing, is exactly how they want it. Doing nothing will result in exactly what we’ve got.
What can we do? I don’t know.
-Support Bernie Sanders- the only person in power who is actually for the masses. He’s still a Senator and he’s still fighting for us.
-Support grassroots organizations like the Justice Democrats who are fighting to get money out of politics.
-Tweet and shame the bad politicians and wealthy businessmen. It works to some degree. Obviously not enough, but hey, if shaming works 10% of the time, then keep shaming the fuckers.
What other things can we peons do? Idk. Hence my frustration and anger in the above post.
My solution would be to take a Peaceful Pill and say sayonara to all of this fuckery. But they’ve taken that away from us as well.
What is Peaceful pill?
Net neutrality ain’t dead. It’s a guiding principle more than anything else, and something like 96% of people on the planet agree with it. The current administration is doing everything possible to brew a tankful of dissent and public malcontent, which will wash them into the ocean like a tidal wave. I have my popcorn ready. This is going to be a great show.
Trust in the Democratic party is at its lowest mark in 25 years, at the same time as the Republicans are drilling holes in the bow of their ship. I think both parties are pushing for single-digit favorable ratings. And mobs with pitchforks and torches marching on Washington.
A guiding principle? You think these corporate bastards have any kind of morals? They do not, which is why killing net neutrality is a terrible thing. This is why we’re in the situation we’re all in. Screw everyone over. Who cares about the lowlife masses? As long as they line their pockets. Fuck the poor. We’re seen as cockroaches to these people.
And…this is why sales of alcohol, drugs, etc are at an all time high. How else to escape? Especially since we can’t off ourselves properly.
If 96% of the people of planet earth agree with that principle, I’m sure many of the same work for ISP’s and mega corporations. Many probably run it and disagree with shifting regulation from the FCC to the FTC. Plus, you know, loads of those people also vote for their representatives. The folks in Washington are walking a very thin line already. Any destabilizing act could resonate through the entire country. And just look what they’re doing. They’re jumping on the tight rope!
It doesn’t matter how much money the corporations have. If nobody else has any money, or can’t afford to use an overpriced internet, it will create revolutionary potential that they can’t afford.
1. Just because 96% of no-power poor people agree with something, doesn’t mean they get to have it.
2. “Plus, you know, loads of those people also vote for their representatives.” Sadly, no. 46.8% of people DID NOT vote in the 2016 general election. The numbers for mid-term elections and local elections are WAY worse (63.6% couldn’t be bothered to go vote). Maybe if everyone cared enough to vote, then yes, then that 96% might mean something. If the 4% are against and they are the only ones who go out to vote, then the masses do not get jack. In that case, the 4% who do vote get heard. This is especially true of gun nuts. They’re actually a minority (the ones who want NO restrictions on guns whatsoever, even machine guns). But they’re the majority when it comes time to vote on gun legislation, comes out to committees, hearings, assemblies etc. Hence, we get the gun policies that we get. They’re the minority but they’re very politically active, so they get their vote, not the however larger the majority who couldn’t be bothered to vote or show up.
3. Corporations have finely-tuned pricing to the breaking point- the point where we will pay sky high prices, but won’t revolt or switch. Heck, you can’t even switch to another company. How many major iSPs are there? How many cable companies are there? How many telecom companies are there? The past 3 decades have seen a record consolidation of power. Any competitors get eaten up. We do not have a democracy. We have an oligarchy.
Is a revolution coming? Maybe. I’ve been thinking that for quite some time now.
How many of those portion of the overwhelming majority of people who like net neutrality own arsenals, thanks in no small part to the people responsible for taking net neutrality out of the FCC?
I personally think the industrialists of the ’20s and ’30s probably liked how things were going in their day, but everybody universally got pissed about having their livelihoods subverted by powerful economic interests and elected a crazy left-wing populist in a landslide. History is known to repeat itself.
What is there to look forward to? I will have to get back to you on that.
*…crickets chirping…then zoom in on a wooden rocker with a skeleton…* O.o
Ha! That’s a really clear picture there. For me I would call that procrastination!
I’ll never make a cent in my entire life but I’m not worried about it as long as I have a way to end my life and I get to end it soon then I am good
Who needs money when you can have death?