I think everyone that wishes for the fall of civilization should have to read The Road - That was a bleak story.

That would suck to have to have done that, sounds like he was at least a empathetic human.

It’s horrific to witness that kind of death, or it was for me.

Yeah, it took a while to get over that shit, but I guess it worked because I sure as shit changed my ways.

As a result of being a dumb ass teenager the state gave me 50 community service hours. I got assigned to an animal shelter that was being managed by some very deranged people. I witnessed some horrific things that mentally unstable people will do to animals when no one cares.

My job was to pile up the euthanized animals in a pickup and off load them at the landfill. Fucking grim.

Think of the knock off effects of universal health care beyond paying less.

you would not be tied to a shitty job anymore - your ability to quit and move to another company becomes easier

You could quit your job and start your own company since now you don’t have to worry about medical bankruptcy

Or maybe you live a minimal enough of a life that you could quit your job that you have only because of the health insurance and go do something that is fulfilling to you?

At my last physical my doctor when on a short rant about insurance. Told me that the reason that there is so much burnout and a high suicide rate among medical professionals isn’t due to their primary job function, helping people become healthier, it was due to having to deal with insurance companies bullshit.

But if you have a company whose only customer is the government then you don’t need to worry about the plebs buying your shit.

Fuck You, Elon

It also reinforces who he is to less hard core supporters which may have a positive effect over time.

That we are emotional animals that sometimes have logical thoughts. But we live in a society (at least in the west) where we have to pretend that we are logical animals that sometimes have emotions.

Recording Resident: This ain’t weird? Look at the neighborhood creepers. The neighborhood creepers.Yeah. Look at Buddy, he’s still creeping.

Unknown Neighbor: Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve. No, no, no, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve.

RR: Huh?

Geffrey Gardner: You know exactly what it is, man. You know it.

RR: What the F do I know exactly what it is?

GG: You’re recording me. You’re trying to race bait me. You know, I know you are.

RR: I don’t want to race … Bro, I have no issue with no color.

Steve Carega: He attack your wife?

UN: That’s what I thought, man.

RR: Come on now.

SC: You calling his wife a liar? What’s up buddy, you want something? You need something? How’d you get here, bro? You walk all the way back, past all the cattle, you walk back here? Come on. You walk to go through a gated community? Whatchu want?

RR: You think I would do all that to hang out with you? Come on, now. Come on, now.

SC: Buddy, you’re crossing the line now, bro.

RR: Hey, you’ve been crossing the line, acting like you gonna hit me.

UN: Yeah, we all know that.

SC: We know that, bro. We know what you want, buddy. We know!

RR: Bruh. They creepers! They following me.

“as you turn the corner you hear in a deep voice ‘LÅNGARYDBESTÅ MACKAPÄRSTÄLL!’” and in front of you lies three boxes and one simple tool. A voice comes into each of your heads telling your party they must build the items only using this universal tool, It must feel solid and you can not argue."

The way I see people like this is that they have too many other things tied up in their decision. It’s not just about facts they have friends, co-workers, family that all believe a certain way. If they were to make a big change to this way of thinking it puts them on the outside of their social group.

But what you may have done with your line of questioning is set a seed for change in their thinking. It may take a while to grow into an obvious change but it can happen. Of course this means that they have to put the work in to grow those ideas, which may not happen but it was good to do.

It just depends on whose finances they feel responsible for. If it’s wealthy people then yes they are fiscally responsible to make sure they get more tax breaks.

Kroger is the largest grocery store chain in the U.S. by revenue and owns a number of different brands, including Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Pick’n Save, Food 4 Less, and Dillions, among a host of others

Kroger told Gizmodo… “customers are shopping more with Kroger now than ever because we are fighting inflation and providing great value.”

… or maybe customers don’t have much of a choice ?

This is just one of thousands of rage bait and ‘trump bad’, ‘trump stupid’ articles. There is nothing of real substance other than to get anti-trumpers to click on the link.

If you went to a more pro-trump site you would see very similar articles about Kamala and Biden

While there have been successful prosecutions of the J6 terrorist, there is still an ongoing campaign to try to whitewash J6 as peaceful tourists that have been unfairly singled out due to their political affiliation. So while I agree, we do need to go after these people we there also needs to be a push to stop the gaslighting that happens

Fuck you, alex!

If I notice that I am spending too much time trying to cover all the bases so someone can’t nitpick or acktually my reply I just give up and hit cancel. I appreciate an entertaining comment thread, what bug the shit out of me are people that reply to a comment with an obscure edge case or who are just pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

I agree with all of this and I think many people on Lemmy do as well. My concern is: Will the population that is excited to vote for candidates that are willing to push these changes through have the staying power?

These are huge changes to a system that has been manipulated to benefit a small group of well connected, very powerful, very wealthy people. It’s not something that can change in one or even two presidential terms. These are changes that will take many election cycles to complete. These, and other big changes, need sustained focus.

Not saying it can’t be done - it can. The republican party has proven that. Over the course of 40+ years they have reshaped America to fit their ideals. But it took 40 years. One part of how they did it was/is by keeping the pressure on their voting base even during non-election years through FOX news, rush limbaugh, alex jones, and other pieces of shit. So when it was time to vote their base was already “educated” on why they had to vote for the republican candidate. It made/makes it easy for the republican candidate to step in and just say the right words and phrases to the voting population and they were guaranteed a certain % of the vote.

So if the left wants to re-shape how America looks and how it treats it’s population then they have to be willing to play the long game.