Ahhh basic human needs being met. The sign of a lottery winner if ever I saw one. At least here in America.
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What a shithole. You all deserve better.
Then they should vote for it.
They don't really have the option. It's not like they live in a proper democracy.
USAians don't have options? That has to be a joke. During the presidential elections, they had Bernie for decades, they had Warren for a long time too, and they had many others - that's only at the national level. At the local level they still have many options.
USA isn't the only country with options making dumb choices. Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Spain, Italy... we don't suffer from a lack of options. We suffer from a lack of unwillingness and understanding to choose those options.
People like to conveniently forget about gerrymandered voting maps and the ever growing influence rich people have over the govt through lobbying and bribes.
The US has been an oligarchal democracy for decades now where the individuals vote means nothing as everything will be decided behind the scenes by the "elite" class.
"We face opposition, we should just give up." Great thinking there. Don't be so weak-willed. If you believe you have no options, there no options shall there be.
Yes, we face overwhelming odds. Yes, the rich have outsized power. But if all you do is go "welp, nothing I can do, may as well spend the day jerking off", then you can't expect change. Change doesn't come easily either. It takes decades to build a movement, but a movement can't be built off of "meh, why try? my self-fulling prophecy of doing nothing leading to no change is being fulfilled".
Stop doing their work and speading hopelessness. You can be more than that.
This wasn't supposed to come off as "defeatism" just that people ignore these truths and want to act like the majority of people aren't being blatantly ~~ignored~~ suppressed.
The US has been an oligarchal democracy for decades now where the individuals vote means nothing as everything will be decided behind the scenes by the "elite" class.
Sounds an awful lot like defeatism. No need for the quotes. Your response doesn't make it any better. "We are being supressed, that's the the truth, we can't do anything".
Then YOU come show us how it's done, oh wise cunt.
Do you need a foreigner to teach you how to vote in your own country?
Please visit a central European county and maybe live there for a while. Then return or stay if you like, it's just that you experience first hand that countries can run in a different way. Not at all perfect but different.
From my personal perspective the most shocking thing is this hustle mentality. I think it's rare here. Some entrepreneurs have it (they get indoctrinated by US wealth influencers / Tony Robbins etc) but I believe most people here are pretty okay with their own situation, they don't have to worry about healthcare and even if we lose our job it's usually not an immediate disaster, even without large savings.
So we tend to worry less about the present and more about the future. Climate change, environmental damage, right wing movements, privatization of healthcare, enshittification etc. Still all very bad and cause to worry but it's less about our present survival, more about keeping things stable.
Winning the lottery to afford basic first world living standards. THE AMERICAN DREAM.
I was assuming hed just moved to Europe
In Europe, only select dentist services are free, and varies from country to country. The fear of losing a tooth to not being able to afford restorative services (which are only basic ones supported if at all) after a regular checkup is pretty common in Europe.
checks Powerball ticket
...fucking bullshit.
I keep forgetting you guys in the US don't have free access even to dental care.
Like, of this meme only the two left panels make sense in most of Europe, and only because the waiting lists for therapy places is rather long.
That's right. "Health insurance" here in the US doesn't cover eyes or teeth! Those are luxury body parts that you don't REALLY need to live.
Edit: Well... TECHNICALLY both of them would be covered if you choked on one, for example. Or maybe if you caught a stick through the eye into your prefrontal cortex. But vision, reconstruction, and really anything to do with teeth while they are attached to your skull parts is not covered.
Yup.
It's almost like capitalism isn't the best economic model for most people.
If I won the billion+ Powerball the sign would be the absence of my dogs and I, along with all the stuff in my bedroom disappearing and my phone left on the kitchen counter.
these living standards are actually really cozy
you need more than the lottery for these