That's a bad faith argument. No body wants that. Just because it exists doesn't mean I'm defending it. The alternative is letting a paste-brained Putin-wannabe become King.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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No body wants that.
Somebody must want it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. And that's fine. People want what they want, I don't think it's mine, or anyone else's place to tell someone what they can or cannot like or want. But, I hope you understand why it's hard for some to find the motivation to fight for a society that they don't particularly like.
The capitalists wanted it, and with influence on media and culture instilled it into us as the ideal. We are fighting to change it.
People don't have to want things for them to exist. That's a stupid qualifier and a logically bankrupt argument.
Sadly, people do "want" this. They have been conditioned to want it their entire life, from a young age, through the media they consumed telling them it is what they want and then internalizing those notions without ever realizing it. Now as adults they hold onto those beliefs and are incapable of being introspective about the roots of their own desires to see that they are being manipulated.
The human mind is no different from the mind of an animal, and can be manipulated in the many of same ways. We live in a society that is a direct product of these manipulations.
That's a big turd of a false dichotomy.
The alternative is a sustainable future for the planet.
The neoliberal forced dichotomy of "you have to choose to maintain the capitalist status quo that is actively getting worse with every day, otherwise you get the Big, Bad Boogeyman who is gonna do the same thing but at an accelerated pace" is so fucking infuriating.
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I thought that first image was super earth for a second and was feeling very patriotic
Sadly it's from regular earth
Common mistake. It’s a little known fact that Super Earth was modeled after regular Earth.
It's not a super suburb. It's just....
A boring suburb.
Sarcasm doesn't seem to be this sub's forte.
i thought that's what were fighting against
We're fighting against the elderly?
motions towards us government
Not every fight has to be fair.
Warehousing the like factory farmed trash, notice how they're in a hallway?
Also what many hospitals look like these days!
Yes, what do you think elder care homes are for? TO GET RID OF THEM ON THE PRETENSE OF CARE.
No, i think theyre to turn a profit.
Yes. They profit off of the service being provided, which is corralling the elderly in a place where others don't have to be bothered by their existence, essentially "getting rid of them" on the pretense of providing care.
We exist under capitalism. Everything is presumed to be generating a profit. That's a requirement under the current system. It is what they are profiting from that is in question.
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I interpreted that as elderly who were depressed because they were in bad care facilities.
So like the bad thing is bad care facilities, or the fact that families don't have the means to take care of their elderly.
Constantly.
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Is this loss?
Keep your eyes peeled, soldier. You can never be too safe, the enemy is everywhere!
Place to live, slave work, buying useless things, dying alone. Monkeys have better life than humans these days.
I'm pretty sure we (as a species) make sure that that's not the case.
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Think big. This is a wake up call, time to reverse course on this long slow decline. We've hit an inflection point.
"The American way of life is not negotiable" -- Liberal hero "normal President" George W Bush.
Liberal hero. Many people hated Bush at the time. It’s funny how over time he has somehow been normalized as “the not so bad Republican.” Like that’s all it takes, to literally not be Hitler, to be considered an ok Republican.
As a guy who spent the first day of the Iraq war trapped in a police kettle, yes I know.
When W's rehabilitation began during Trump 1 the libs were saying "Cheney was the real bad guy". Then along came Kamala.
Cheney was the real bad guy, pulling the strings. But that doesn’t excuse bush for being a puppet and going along with everything.
You can take our Land! And you can take our freedom! But you can never take our Funko POPS!
Turns out there was a corporate merger abd a dmca notice says to take your funko pops
Nothing shows the lack of humanity and collapse of social bonds in... some cultures better than retirement homes.
How we treat our worst and our most lonely is the standard I live by and boy howdy Americans are up there for worst. Apparently it's easier and more profitable to be that cruel.
I mean yea but the dystopia doesn't feel that boring these days
Fucking funko pops got me
When you get old, you’re often tired.
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