Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked

ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And exploitation. And extortion.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And exhaustion and depression

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The ones born after the Great Depression lived through an abnormal period of capitalism. One that featured a lot of socialist policies. As far as I’ve read, most people were well aware that capitalism was dog shit for the working class before that and a lot believed socialism was the solution.

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  • ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes. Capitalism was in an ideological battle with communism so the government put it thumb on the scale with socialism but gave credit to capitalism for the outcome. Then billionaires spent 75 years indoctrinating, corrupting, and distorting history to claw back their power.

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    • fishy@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This guy is informed. Socialism got us out of the hole capitalism dug in the depression. Seeing their power slip away, conservative politicians wasted no time in shifting the narrative. The US needs another FDR to equalize things (let’s just skip the prison camps this go).

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the boomers were sold socialism with American characteristics mislabeled as capitalism

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• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  With Medicare and social security cuts how old you are doesn’t matter anymore(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

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  • bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oof

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