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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • 7101334@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    I think that credits them with having a coherent plan besides “MOREEEE! MOOOOOOORE!!!”

    They want people to have more kids… but only white kids… but not only white kids, because they need to maintain the school-to-prison pipeline… but they don’t want anyone to have enough money to want to have kids, except them… but it’s okay, the humanoid robots will be slaves instead… but the humanoid robots don’t actually work and are just piloted by people from India, one of the few industrialized countries which doesn’t have an aging population… but clearly there’s nothing we could learn from them, so maybe if we offered broke Americans $2,000 to have a baby… what do you mean $2,000 isn’t enough to raise a baby, how many pencils could they really need… what do you mean baby formula plants are closing because babies aren’t profitable enough because no one is having babies because we’re taking all the money… clearly the solution is to ban abortion… but wait, I don’t actually want that to apply to us rich assholes… so state-by-state abortion bans… but wait not enough states are voting to ban abortion…

    clearly the solution is to bomb Iran

  • 7101334@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Most gifted generation
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    2 months ago

    I got arrested for possessing a dust-amount of cannabis when I was 13

    then I had to work through the pandemic as a cannabis dispensary manager because we were “essential medical personnel”

    with no medical benefits. Earning less money than I would’ve if I had been able to go on unemployment.

    It’s a shit country. The social contract does not exist anymore. Thinly-veiled threats of violence are the only thing still keeping the population in line, including the threat of homelessness which is also a form of violence.

    Once, when I was on acid, I asked myself - how would I define America? The answer I settled on is, “America is everyone who is stuck here” (or forced by economic or otherwise imperially-orchestrated hardship to come here, even if they would prefer to remain in their home country otherwise). Everyone who lives in America and cannot comfortably escape lives in a prison. You may get the equivalent of a Nordic prison if you’re privileged, but look how many wealthy celebrities live miserable lives - it’s still a prison.

    And so I live by advice I heard from a prisoner. I wish I could remember the source, but I can’t. The advice, as to how to survive in prison, was: “Take everything they give you. Give nothing in return.” It’s important to note that this applies to the government, to corporations, to capitalism, NOT to your fellow prisoners (Americans). The only way we get through this is each other.