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Cake day: March 22nd, 2025

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  • Yes, boomers are responsible for what there generation did. We’re responsible for what our generation is doing.

    Don’t misconstrue my criticism of the current youth as exoneration for the previous generations.

    Like it or not, it’s a lot easier to manipulate young people into spending their money than it is older people. This is directly related to the concept of consumerism and how the powers that b have convinced yet another generation to follow in their parent’s footsteps of “those who have more deserve more, and those who have less deserve less.”




  • Calling young people consumerist is just blaming them for circumstances of which they had no real control.

    What? Have you heard the music they listen to? Gucci this, versace that. Have you seen the celebrities they look up to? Gold chains this, expensive tattoos that. Don’t even get me started on the cars that cost more than my house.

    Just try suggesting to them that delivery apps are scams or that they can be getting most of their digital entertainment for free and see what reactions you get.

    No, they are proud consumers doing their part to keep the disparity in wealth growing.










  • for everyone everywhere

    This is all so the American companies don’t actually have to compete with anyone else. Instead of lowering their prices to be competitive to give better deals to customers, they game the system and force everyone else to raise prices to match theirs.

    There are people who are benefiting from this. People like elon musk who don’t need to worry about, say, affordable electric vehicles from China.

    I’d like to call Republicans the Party of Useful Idiots, but I genuinely believe they’re working in tandem with the Establishment Democrats at this point. It’s a two-pronged strategy to ensure the disparity in wealth never decreases.

    The rich get richer while the working class squabbles over bullshit.



  • Copyright and patent laws should just go away entirely.

    The amount of resources we spend enforcing them, just so we can spend more resources on the products themselves, could all be spent improving the lives of people who need it.

    Most great art doesn’t make much money anyways, barely more than a service job if you’re lucky. It’s the trashy-shit for low-standards morons that makes an egregious amount of money, like the marvel crap we keep seeing every year.

    I’d be fine with less marvel-crap in the world. It’ll make what we do get more impactful, and we can dedicate more resources to fewer, higher-quality products.




  • This is unironically a great deal for him and his cronies and an awful deal for the working class.

    I swear, it’s just distraction after distraction, obstacle after obstacle that keeps us from toppling the ruling class. Anytime we get anywhere close to doing something significant, it’s like the useful idiots come out in droves to make sure “NOPE NOPE NOPE, gotta keep history repeating itself!”

    I wish I took my teachers and intelligent peers more seriously as a kid. I didn’t realize how lucky I was to be surrounded by such great, smart people. I took them for granted, and now that I’m out in the real world I see exactly how stupid the average idiot is.

    It’s scary. Terrifying, even. There’s so many of them and they all use that as justification for why they’re right.