• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Americans are so far to the right that minimum wage, affordable housing, free schools and healthcare is considered “far left”. These are given and common sense in the rest of the world 🤣

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        Even in developing countries, governments do their best to provide free services for those in dire poverty, especially those considered “poorest of the poor”.

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          The poorest of the poor cost society money but can never invest back into it. Bringing them to a level where they can pay taxes to invest in the services they are provided while also getting a better quality of life is such a basic concept that it’s just stupid that a modern society would oppose it!

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            The purpose of having extremely poor people is to act as a warning to everyone else; “Stay in line or you’ll end up like them!”

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      All American major parties are considered extreme right from an EU point of view.

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        Gotta love our “Tipping culture”. The more this country is going down I’m reminded of Mr. Pink’s quote “I don’t tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I’ll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds.”

        It’s gotten to the point where the US needs a real change and yet the 1% really don’t want that change and would rather die on their hills. Which, imo, maybe they should while others watch?

        But alas, who am I to judge the wealthy when I’m just a measly common worker.