Rooskie91

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[–] Rooskie91 61 points 2 months ago (14 children)

This is your friendly reminder that there are more reasons than, "I didn't feel like it," for not voting.

We have GOT to stop acting like the non voting population in America country is a monolith, and admit that the problem might be more complex than "lazy, ignorant people."

[–] Rooskie91 21 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Fun fact: most rubber is synthetic and made of plastic now, including car tires.

[–] Rooskie91 5 points 2 months ago

It's a culture of repressed violence. Once you see it, it's bursting out of every seam that holds this country together.

[–] Rooskie91 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aren't we kind of already in that??

[–] Rooskie91 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well good thing we have massive, well funded media campaigns!!

[–] Rooskie91 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That, and people become economicly dependent. They tried UBI when Nixon was president (I know right) and it was considered a failure because the divorce rate went up. What later studies showed was that the divorce rate went up because women in abusive or dead end relationships were finally empowered to leave the spouses they had become depend on.

[–] Rooskie91 4 points 2 months ago

It's like they're trying to make it the next step from neoliberalism but people are starting to even see the flaws in neo liberalism.

[–] Rooskie91 181 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Wait till he hears how necessary it is for life to get harder for billionaires.

[–] Rooskie91 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TBH, it feels like social media always needed some back door business like this to make it profitable.

[–] Rooskie91 62 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You don't know them either, so why pick any side?

[–] Rooskie91 23 points 2 months ago

Theory divorced from historical context results in all kinds of cognitive dissonance, and that's what I see there for the most part.

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