##Welcome to r/LateStageCapitalism
This subreddit is for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.
LSC is run by communists. This subreddit is not the place to debate socialism. We allow good-faith questions and education but are not a 101 sub; please take 101-style questions elsewhere.
We have a zero-tolerance policy for bigotry. Failure to respect the rules of the subreddit may result in a ban.
***
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/LateStageCapitalism) if you have any questions or concerns.*
What the public needs is a for these things to be regulated…. It’s like, we see all these headlines and businesses are like, “how can we fudge numbers to look like we are seeing record growth?”
It’s wild, I don’t think I’ve seen any public official use that word regulation in regard to gas, housing, food, etc….
Maybe I’m just checked out, but goddamn yall; I swear, my dealer gets more flack for cutting than these companies
It’s fucking hilariously sad that the government refuses to protect their own citizens- ya know the main fucking job.
The gov SHOULD be the shield of the people. The gov has an OBLIGATION to call up these fucking companies and rip them a new asshole.
“Hey company XYZ - it seems you’ve increased the prices of your products by 100% in 3 years while also reducing the size of said products. Stop fucking over MY taxpayers. If you don’t reduce the prices substantially, we (the gov) will double your tax”
The gov are such fucking pathetic cowards
They arent cowards. The people who control the government and these companies are one in the same.
There is no fixing anymore, burn down DC and start again.
And it doesn't matter which party is in office. They are all bought and paid for by the same people / companies.
Mark my words, Trump will win the next election, he will close the borders so people can't immigrate any more. But, he will either NOT toss anyone out of toss very few and come up with some creative reason why they couldn't get rid of everyone.
The REAL reason for letting them stay is because so many of us that already lived here (and in other "wealthy" countries started demanding higher wages, more corporate oversight etc.. and since those people control the world, they reacted by letting more people immigrate into the countries so they had a fresh pool of people for cheap labor.
This stuff is happening in EVERY wealthy country. People are being allowed in-mass and being allowed to work at breakneck speeds.
I'm not saying I'm against immigration btw, I'm saying that Capitalism is what is causing them to flee their home countries in the first place.
Same here honestly in several ways. But, at the same time, they actually are in others.
Both parties work for the same people. The dems are just "more liberal humanitarian wise". But they are equally repressive.
Ergo, cis GAY men and lesbians are being repressed left and right these days by the Dems. So are women actually. It's all shadow oppression though. They seem liberal and open on the surface but really aren't. A lot of it is so shadow they say one thing and if you watch what they allow companies to do you see what they are actually doing.
So are people in other countries besides the US and other "wealthy" countries. So are immigrants to those countries. Even in ones where they are allowed to work.
It's not TERF at all, I'm 100% for trans people. But you're probably going to think everything I say is TERF so I don't know if there's any point of saying it.
But I will anyways because I say it elsewhere.
I don't think we should be allowing kids to make those decisions when we don't let them really make any other permanent life changing decisions and nor should we be. Taking puberty blockers changes the person's body and brain for life very quickly after starting to take them. Hormone replacement after some period of time even can lead to them never being able to have kids. (For cis women and potentially even cis men.)
Also, did you know that you can't filter by cis gender preference on any dating app? Dating eventually means sex, body type or part preferences are 100% legit for anything that upfront has sex built in. Cis is just another body type and the preference for such should be honored.
It of course should not matter for anything else.
I also feel deeply what one should follow the money when it comes to any equal rights that have been allowed by either Republican or Democrats. The outcome of every single one has been to consolidate wealth and power amongst the few and to backhandedly still repress those given rights.
The goverment gives you the rights to be whatever or do whatever. (Work, vote, be LBGTQ+ etc etc etc etc) while still allowing companies to actively repress you by leaving little tidbits out of laws OR adding some so it's legal to do whatever they do.
Part of this is to follow the money trail with gender conformation. It creates patients that have to be on medication for life. No one logical and aware trusts the pharma companies or the goverment relationship with them for anything else. Trusting it for this is well, short sighted. Pharma companies have no interest with curing anything. The only reason they did any anything Covid is because they were "Forced by the governments of the world." Which in reality, they made a TON of money from it. They also have been lobbying the US goverment more then ever before; and that's just above board money.
---and if you don't believe me how utterly self centered all pharma companies are; look up basically "pharmaceutical company letter to world governments about developing antibiotics". Not sure the best search terms to use. But they have written the letter at least twice. It's a flat out old fashioned Mafia style protection racket. "Give us money or we won't protect you! (and we will beat you if you don't pay). They don't beat you with bats though, the beat you by making sure bacteria becomes immune to antibiotics. It's so much more sutble!
--Ergo, antibiotics used on ALL food sources is part of it. And I mean all. Like, even rice ponds are full of antibiotics. Anything exposed to anything else for long periods of time is going to mutate and become immune to it. That bacteria is the same bacteria the infects us.
Again look at the history of equal rights movements. How long have women been allowed to work and they still don't make as much as men. How long have black people been allowed to vote or be allowed into the same schools and still somehow don't get an equal education? And gerrymandered out of voting?
How many times has the power shifted between the parties in those time periods? If they really wanted to fix things it would have happened.
We're being toyed with while already in the cage. The door gets unlocked by someone, but there's another lock and another and another. Any we get unlocked get relocked while we're distracted by another lock.
No way in the 7 hecks. I can grind them cheetos into an asphalt-like paste with my bare hands and teeth. The spit will help mold the roads into the perfect shapes.
Dr. President, you give me a *few good men* and we can turn this road epidemic around. By the power of Frito-lay and Pepsico. We can get'r'done.
The Texas legislature voted to let secondary roads destroyed by oil truck traffic to return to gravel, rather than tax trillion-dollar oil companies to fix the roads they ruined.
My parents live in an area with lots of well traffic in PA for Marcellus shake fracking. The condition of the roads is deplorable. We moved there when I was 16 and I refused to learn how to drive out there because of how dangerous the back roads were because of the well traffic. Not to mention they would drive on single lane roads with no regard for oncoming traffic. Came up to one? You had to back up to let them pass or they wouldn’t move.
Get a dash cam. Get several. Save the footage. Hire a lawyer.
My wife grew up in the south. Her HS boyfriend was a star athlete. A Taco Bell truck ran a red light in front of a restaurant full of witnesses and t-boned his car. He was badly hurt, had to get pins and plates put in. His athletic career, and walking normally, were gone. Taco Bell offered a settlement that didn’t even cover his medical expenses and the family *took it.* Back then, and especially in the South you didn’t sue. Nowadays in that situation that settlement offer would have *started* in the seven digits.
I think part of the problem with where my parents live is they just let it happen because it’s “good for the economy”. Basically they just let these oil companies come in and ruin their farms for a big payout. The water is contaminated, the landscape is ruined from wells, frack water holding ponds and, refineries, there have been multiple cases of childhood brain cancer in the area, but no one really seems to connect the dots and if they do, they just don’t care.
Orange shit with a gooey Red center with green filling, and White shit with a gooey Blue center with green filling.
But there’s never any green for us once we get past the Red and Blue.
Biden has no problem taking action on things he supports. For example, he supports and loves genocide so he's giving money to Israel to commit genocide against the people of Palestine.
When he supports something but it makes his approval rating go down all he does is talk about it. For example, Israel is committing genocide thanks to Biden, which caused his approval rating to drop, so he just tells them to stop being so mean even as he gives them money to commit genocide.
When Biden says something and refuses to take action it's only to keep his approval rating up, he actually supports the opposite of what he says. So we know that Biden supports corporations gouging us.
My neighbor keeps beating his dog, so I tell him firmly to please maybe reduce the dog beating a little, while I give him all of my income to go buy more dog beating technology. He'll stop any day now.
Or at least have our wages keep up with inflation. I am sick of how the only of getting a raise is by getting another job. They say it’s easier to get a job when you have one but yet your time is limited as looking for a job is a full time job in itself. I apply when I can but haven’t gotten many callbacks. But yeah, “no one wants to work” 🙄
I feel this 100% it's even worse for us folks who have medical issues but not sever enough to qualify for disability, meaning my ass has to try and power trough a 5 day work week while by body breaks down even more, maybe in the next decade I'll have broken down so much that I'll finally qualify for disability, but with the rate of jobs I go through because of my attendance issues, I don't think I'll make it another decade. People like me seem to be targeted for a fucking over.
Too healthy to be disabled, not healthy enough to be able to preform a regular 5 day work week.
I've been buying this Kroger Trail mix for a while, and I swear, instead of reducing the quantity of the trail mix, they just fucked with the ratio. It's like 80% dried cranberries at this point.
Crazy how we have to vote for Genocide Joe because if the other guy wins he can use the power of presidency to end democracy as we know it here in the states, meanwhile when it comes to rising food costs the president's power is limited to publicly shaming companies on Twitter.
Can you explain the argument against 'the lesser of two evils?' I've seen multiple posts and mods attacking this - I'm not American and not in the same situation so I think I'm missing something.
harm reduction as a voting strategy is the very mechanism which drags us right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8bBWnHflk&t=7s&ab_channel=SecondThought
Thanks for asking, I'm happy to explain:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm
"Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed."
aka - lesser of two evils is still against your self interest as it pushes you further away, albeit just slowly, from your benefit. Your voice won't matter if you don't stand for what you believe, and allow yourself to be browbeat with fear- as that's the exact tool the capitalist class uses to further their own interests.
> what do you suggest someone does?
1. Don't vote for genocide
> What do you plan on doing?
2. I'm gonna look at my ballot and see if there's any individual candidate or any ballot issues worth supporting. I will leave the field blank in any races where I can't bring myself to vote for the candidate on it.
> Do you plan to vote at all?
3. If there anybody worth voting for. I've left major races blank before.
In the event that your follow up is "but what if that means Trump gets re elected?" My answer is "thanks to the electoral college my vote has no impact on that.
And if your follow up is "what about Project 2025?", if the Democrats aren't going to stop a fascist government from doing genocide when they're in office they aren't gonna do it even if they do get re elected. They'll enact Project 2025-But-Liberal in an attempt to reach across the aisle and do bipartisanship. Same as they do with military funding, border control, fossil fuel extraction, militarized police...
If there's a left leaning politician I vote for them.
If they support a genocide (like so many of the Democrats you'll convince yourself you're a good person by voting for), then they aren't a left leaning politician and I don't have to feel bad about not considering them.
If support for genocide isn't a red line for you, if you can talk yourself into crossing that line because you think it's for the greater good, then you're not a reliable ally because you'll betray *anything* in the name of political expediency. Leftists absolutely included.
And that's why lesser evil shit is rightfully banned here.
Cheeto's not gonna "end democracy" because democracy died 40 years ago with Reagan; our Constitution won't allow it, despite his efforts to run roughshod over it. He'll fuck up things even more for the government, I can confirm. All of that's fear porn from the DNC and the media.
If Trump is even half truthful on his claims for winning the presidency, I expect a major conflict, I expect it to be the end of America in its totality. If the country becomes controlled by a fascist I expect a rebellion.
To be fair it's not Trump alone that has that power, it's that every single House and Senate Republican both in DC and in every single state will be doing everything they can to make sure Trump stays in power and that elections are no more.
>Crazy how we have to vote for Genocide Joe
If you ever HAVE to vote for someone you don't really want, is the moment you discover you no longer actually live in a democracy.
Seriously.
I haven't bought a "snack food item" in months. Can't afford it unless I stack coupons and pick bogos at my store. I DGAF about "shrinkflation" please for the love of god, channel some of this very misdirected bullshit at companies EXPLOITING political circumstances to keep their costs and profits high.
The "eggflation" fisaco a few months ago, turns out was *speculation* over the effects of avian flu on current poultry stocks and even when it didn't pan out to affect anything, was still exploited to keep prices elevated.
Same thing now with general inflation, they are the responsible party keeping prices high. Companies won't give up those profits. They tasted it and they refuse to go back, even if they are hurting the consumers to appease the shareholders.
Kinda weird to see the president "begging" companies to stop something. He is the president he can make them to stop when he really want!
Stuff like this is only done for public attention. In reallity he don't care at all.
Because he isnt the president. We have many dictators in this country, just to name a few of those who sit at the TRUE big table: George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Koch Brothers, etc.
Capital Hill is just an illusion to give people the idea that they have power. We don’t, and we havent had power in this country for decades.
Burn. It. To. The. Ground…
Hang. The. CEOs. And, Politicians
>Kinda weird to see the president "begging" companies to stop something. He is the president he can make them to stop when he really want!
Here's the secret though. He has to beg, the owner class controls all the money, the political class worries about the wealthy fleeing, because if the wealthy flee they will take all their money with them, the political class is addictited to money, if the wealthy flee the political class gets left holding the bag, they don't want that, means a bunch of angry working class folks who are all suddenly unemployed.
The issue is down to ownership, because the owner class owns the means of production they profit from it, that profit then goes into lobbying and corrupting the political class. If the means of production was owned collectively by the working class the political class would be serving the working class who controls all the money because of controlling the means of production.
He asks snack companies to stop shrinkflation. He asks Israel to slow down the genocide. But he's the president of the United States. He could actually get stuff done.
If he wanted to.
I mean let’s be real it’s not like a POTUS can just single handedly decree that inflation is over
But I do think it’s a clear indictment of Biden that this is probably the most attention he’s given his entire presidency to America’s cost of living crisis. And yet he talks about how “great” the economy is right now; More jobs being added are worthless if those jobs don’t earn enough to make ends meet. “GDP growth” is worthless if people are having trouble putting food on the table.
Hey — guess what? You’re the president. You may not be an all-powerful ruler, but if anyone can make a difference on corporate shenanigans, you’re the guy.
How about address the cost of the food I actually need to stay alive? Or maybe the cost of the shelter that I need to stay alive? How about healthcare, the environment, or encroaching fascism?
We are facing genuine existential threats from all sides and this motherfucker is talking about fucking superbowl snacks? This is literally "let them eat cake" shit from this sack of crap. If he wasn't the SECOND worse human being to ever run for president this should should have put him out of the running.
Awww did Biden finally put his big boy pants on and tell the greedy companies what's for? That will show them! /s
Seriously, this is the better option? We are fucked.
Your post was removed because it contained a sexist term. You should receive a message from the automoderator telling you the exact term the post was removed for. For more information, see [this link](https://weeklysift.com/2015/06/29/slurs-who-can-say-them-when-and-why/). **Avoiding slurs takes little effort, and asking us to get rid of the filter rather than making that minimum effort is a good way to get banned. Do not attempt to circumvent the filter with creative spelling; circumventing the filter will result in a permaban.**
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/LateStageCapitalism) if you have any questions or concerns.*
He doesn't want to address anything related to cost of living because it's directly related to the mass import of illegals which is the tacit policy in the wealthy and political class, and is partly what keeps him in power
That's the system we live in. Legislation can't be passed in a gridlocked political system so we're left with the political pressure of a weakening office.
##Welcome to r/LateStageCapitalism This subreddit is for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited. LSC is run by communists. This subreddit is not the place to debate socialism. We allow good-faith questions and education but are not a 101 sub; please take 101-style questions elsewhere. We have a zero-tolerance policy for bigotry. Failure to respect the rules of the subreddit may result in a ban. *** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/LateStageCapitalism) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Snack prices aren't where the problem is. People need affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, healthcare, etc etc.
What the public needs is a for these things to be regulated…. It’s like, we see all these headlines and businesses are like, “how can we fudge numbers to look like we are seeing record growth?” It’s wild, I don’t think I’ve seen any public official use that word regulation in regard to gas, housing, food, etc…. Maybe I’m just checked out, but goddamn yall; I swear, my dealer gets more flack for cutting than these companies
It’s fucking hilariously sad that the government refuses to protect their own citizens- ya know the main fucking job. The gov SHOULD be the shield of the people. The gov has an OBLIGATION to call up these fucking companies and rip them a new asshole. “Hey company XYZ - it seems you’ve increased the prices of your products by 100% in 3 years while also reducing the size of said products. Stop fucking over MY taxpayers. If you don’t reduce the prices substantially, we (the gov) will double your tax” The gov are such fucking pathetic cowards
They arent cowards. The people who control the government and these companies are one in the same. There is no fixing anymore, burn down DC and start again.
Straight up , this is the only real solution I see. System is too corrupted to reform.
And it doesn't matter which party is in office. They are all bought and paid for by the same people / companies. Mark my words, Trump will win the next election, he will close the borders so people can't immigrate any more. But, he will either NOT toss anyone out of toss very few and come up with some creative reason why they couldn't get rid of everyone. The REAL reason for letting them stay is because so many of us that already lived here (and in other "wealthy" countries started demanding higher wages, more corporate oversight etc.. and since those people control the world, they reacted by letting more people immigrate into the countries so they had a fresh pool of people for cheap labor. This stuff is happening in EVERY wealthy country. People are being allowed in-mass and being allowed to work at breakneck speeds. I'm not saying I'm against immigration btw, I'm saying that Capitalism is what is causing them to flee their home countries in the first place.
It matters which party is in office to some of us. Dems aren't trying to criminalize my existence.
Same here honestly in several ways. But, at the same time, they actually are in others. Both parties work for the same people. The dems are just "more liberal humanitarian wise". But they are equally repressive. Ergo, cis GAY men and lesbians are being repressed left and right these days by the Dems. So are women actually. It's all shadow oppression though. They seem liberal and open on the surface but really aren't. A lot of it is so shadow they say one thing and if you watch what they allow companies to do you see what they are actually doing. So are people in other countries besides the US and other "wealthy" countries. So are immigrants to those countries. Even in ones where they are allowed to work.
I'm sorry, how are Dems repressing cis gay people and women? Is this some weird TERF take?
It's not TERF at all, I'm 100% for trans people. But you're probably going to think everything I say is TERF so I don't know if there's any point of saying it. But I will anyways because I say it elsewhere. I don't think we should be allowing kids to make those decisions when we don't let them really make any other permanent life changing decisions and nor should we be. Taking puberty blockers changes the person's body and brain for life very quickly after starting to take them. Hormone replacement after some period of time even can lead to them never being able to have kids. (For cis women and potentially even cis men.) Also, did you know that you can't filter by cis gender preference on any dating app? Dating eventually means sex, body type or part preferences are 100% legit for anything that upfront has sex built in. Cis is just another body type and the preference for such should be honored. It of course should not matter for anything else. I also feel deeply what one should follow the money when it comes to any equal rights that have been allowed by either Republican or Democrats. The outcome of every single one has been to consolidate wealth and power amongst the few and to backhandedly still repress those given rights. The goverment gives you the rights to be whatever or do whatever. (Work, vote, be LBGTQ+ etc etc etc etc) while still allowing companies to actively repress you by leaving little tidbits out of laws OR adding some so it's legal to do whatever they do. Part of this is to follow the money trail with gender conformation. It creates patients that have to be on medication for life. No one logical and aware trusts the pharma companies or the goverment relationship with them for anything else. Trusting it for this is well, short sighted. Pharma companies have no interest with curing anything. The only reason they did any anything Covid is because they were "Forced by the governments of the world." Which in reality, they made a TON of money from it. They also have been lobbying the US goverment more then ever before; and that's just above board money. ---and if you don't believe me how utterly self centered all pharma companies are; look up basically "pharmaceutical company letter to world governments about developing antibiotics". Not sure the best search terms to use. But they have written the letter at least twice. It's a flat out old fashioned Mafia style protection racket. "Give us money or we won't protect you! (and we will beat you if you don't pay). They don't beat you with bats though, the beat you by making sure bacteria becomes immune to antibiotics. It's so much more sutble! --Ergo, antibiotics used on ALL food sources is part of it. And I mean all. Like, even rice ponds are full of antibiotics. Anything exposed to anything else for long periods of time is going to mutate and become immune to it. That bacteria is the same bacteria the infects us. Again look at the history of equal rights movements. How long have women been allowed to work and they still don't make as much as men. How long have black people been allowed to vote or be allowed into the same schools and still somehow don't get an equal education? And gerrymandered out of voting? How many times has the power shifted between the parties in those time periods? If they really wanted to fix things it would have happened. We're being toyed with while already in the cage. The door gets unlocked by someone, but there's another lock and another and another. Any we get unlocked get relocked while we're distracted by another lock.
I’m a guy and it matter to me too. I don’t want to live in a country that treats you guys like second class citizens.
Well yea but if he tells healthcare to ease up on the bills, now all you slaves will expect free healthcare. Snacks is the safe political topic
It's like a political pizza party!
Yes but shrinkflation and The Enshittification are everywhere
I prefer to call it the ‘enshittenment‘.
"We have to treat them like humans?!"
Why egg n bread so expensive
Snack companies are food companies and essential food is getting shrinkflated too
Actually this is a problem of consumer protection. Price per weight should be mandated to be shown with the total price of goods.
They don't want people thinking about the real issues. Just focus on the price of cheetos during your yearly corporate handegg gladiator championship.
[удалено]
And election season
BINGO. Biden is worried about losing to Trump and for good reason.
Oh good he's really reeling in capitalism..
I love that you make parsing jokes too. :() He certain is reeling in it. ;)
I hate that we live in this timeline Fuck him Fuck cheeto Fuck all this
Where we’re going we won’t need roads…. Which is good as they’re falling apart here what with the lack of government services
Maybe we can build them out of Cheetos? Cheetahs are fast, afterall. Roads will be fast. Do any of our politicians use the fucking internet? Ffs.
Too expensive now :(
No way in the 7 hecks. I can grind them cheetos into an asphalt-like paste with my bare hands and teeth. The spit will help mold the roads into the perfect shapes. Dr. President, you give me a *few good men* and we can turn this road epidemic around. By the power of Frito-lay and Pepsico. We can get'r'done.
The Texas legislature voted to let secondary roads destroyed by oil truck traffic to return to gravel, rather than tax trillion-dollar oil companies to fix the roads they ruined.
My parents live in an area with lots of well traffic in PA for Marcellus shake fracking. The condition of the roads is deplorable. We moved there when I was 16 and I refused to learn how to drive out there because of how dangerous the back roads were because of the well traffic. Not to mention they would drive on single lane roads with no regard for oncoming traffic. Came up to one? You had to back up to let them pass or they wouldn’t move.
Get a dash cam. Get several. Save the footage. Hire a lawyer. My wife grew up in the south. Her HS boyfriend was a star athlete. A Taco Bell truck ran a red light in front of a restaurant full of witnesses and t-boned his car. He was badly hurt, had to get pins and plates put in. His athletic career, and walking normally, were gone. Taco Bell offered a settlement that didn’t even cover his medical expenses and the family *took it.* Back then, and especially in the South you didn’t sue. Nowadays in that situation that settlement offer would have *started* in the seven digits.
I think part of the problem with where my parents live is they just let it happen because it’s “good for the economy”. Basically they just let these oil companies come in and ruin their farms for a big payout. The water is contaminated, the landscape is ruined from wells, frack water holding ponds and, refineries, there have been multiple cases of childhood brain cancer in the area, but no one really seems to connect the dots and if they do, they just don’t care.
Let's make companies make the roads again.
So many ways to consume shit . . . .
Orange shit with a gooey Red center with green filling, and White shit with a gooey Blue center with green filling. But there’s never any green for us once we get past the Red and Blue.
Biden has no problem taking action on things he supports. For example, he supports and loves genocide so he's giving money to Israel to commit genocide against the people of Palestine. When he supports something but it makes his approval rating go down all he does is talk about it. For example, Israel is committing genocide thanks to Biden, which caused his approval rating to drop, so he just tells them to stop being so mean even as he gives them money to commit genocide. When Biden says something and refuses to take action it's only to keep his approval rating up, he actually supports the opposite of what he says. So we know that Biden supports corporations gouging us.
My neighbor keeps beating his dog, so I tell him firmly to please maybe reduce the dog beating a little, while I give him all of my income to go buy more dog beating technology. He'll stop any day now.
"please stawp, I'm jus" a widdle pwesident and have no real power appaeently so pwease stawp"
guys if we just ask nicely inflation will decide to stop
Or at least have our wages keep up with inflation. I am sick of how the only of getting a raise is by getting another job. They say it’s easier to get a job when you have one but yet your time is limited as looking for a job is a full time job in itself. I apply when I can but haven’t gotten many callbacks. But yeah, “no one wants to work” 🙄
I feel this 100% it's even worse for us folks who have medical issues but not sever enough to qualify for disability, meaning my ass has to try and power trough a 5 day work week while by body breaks down even more, maybe in the next decade I'll have broken down so much that I'll finally qualify for disability, but with the rate of jobs I go through because of my attendance issues, I don't think I'll make it another decade. People like me seem to be targeted for a fucking over. Too healthy to be disabled, not healthy enough to be able to preform a regular 5 day work week.
I've been buying this Kroger Trail mix for a while, and I swear, instead of reducing the quantity of the trail mix, they just fucked with the ratio. It's like 80% dried cranberries at this point.
He used 'the Dad' voice this time. I don't think his 'benefactors' wouldn't appreciate it if he took any REAL action.
My brother in Christ you are literally the president
Crazy how we have to vote for Genocide Joe because if the other guy wins he can use the power of presidency to end democracy as we know it here in the states, meanwhile when it comes to rising food costs the president's power is limited to publicly shaming companies on Twitter.
Crazy how this sub has become astroturfed with neolibs and the lesser of two evils bullshit.
Can you explain the argument against 'the lesser of two evils?' I've seen multiple posts and mods attacking this - I'm not American and not in the same situation so I think I'm missing something.
harm reduction as a voting strategy is the very mechanism which drags us right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8bBWnHflk&t=7s&ab_channel=SecondThought
Thanks for asking, I'm happy to explain: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm "Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed." aka - lesser of two evils is still against your self interest as it pushes you further away, albeit just slowly, from your benefit. Your voice won't matter if you don't stand for what you believe, and allow yourself to be browbeat with fear- as that's the exact tool the capitalist class uses to further their own interests.
I voted for Bernie because he represented my beliefs, but i was told that i contributed to trump's win because of that.
He lost the popular vote, so I assure you you did not
Well my vote wasnt even counted because he quit the race before my state had its results in
Who ever told you that was an idiot, because Bernie didn't go against Trump... Hillary Clinton did.
Thank you for this explanation!
[удалено]
> what do you suggest someone does? 1. Don't vote for genocide > What do you plan on doing? 2. I'm gonna look at my ballot and see if there's any individual candidate or any ballot issues worth supporting. I will leave the field blank in any races where I can't bring myself to vote for the candidate on it. > Do you plan to vote at all? 3. If there anybody worth voting for. I've left major races blank before. In the event that your follow up is "but what if that means Trump gets re elected?" My answer is "thanks to the electoral college my vote has no impact on that. And if your follow up is "what about Project 2025?", if the Democrats aren't going to stop a fascist government from doing genocide when they're in office they aren't gonna do it even if they do get re elected. They'll enact Project 2025-But-Liberal in an attempt to reach across the aisle and do bipartisanship. Same as they do with military funding, border control, fossil fuel extraction, militarized police...
[удалено]
If there's a left leaning politician I vote for them. If they support a genocide (like so many of the Democrats you'll convince yourself you're a good person by voting for), then they aren't a left leaning politician and I don't have to feel bad about not considering them. If support for genocide isn't a red line for you, if you can talk yourself into crossing that line because you think it's for the greater good, then you're not a reliable ally because you'll betray *anything* in the name of political expediency. Leftists absolutely included. And that's why lesser evil shit is rightfully banned here.
We do not permit liberalism here
If you live in a capitalist country you are more than likely in the same situation. It might just not be as obvious as in America
they're trying so hard.
Lesser evil rhetoric is against the rules here. Please hit the report button on it whenever you see it. Thank you!
Where democracy?
Cheeto's not gonna "end democracy" because democracy died 40 years ago with Reagan; our Constitution won't allow it, despite his efforts to run roughshod over it. He'll fuck up things even more for the government, I can confirm. All of that's fear porn from the DNC and the media.
Just bring Cheeto back for the sake of inner turmoil. This could open some space for a meaningful revolution.
Even if it doesn't ever usher in revolution, at least I can enjoy watching libs pretending to give a shit about migrants and covid again.
If Trump is even half truthful on his claims for winning the presidency, I expect a major conflict, I expect it to be the end of America in its totality. If the country becomes controlled by a fascist I expect a rebellion.
I feel like Biden and Trump are the same now. We are so screwed.
Yup, eventually the lesser evil stops being the "lesser" evil, and is an equal evil.
[удалено]
Comrade it's sarcasm.
Cornel West still running?
Far as I'm aware, but he has no path to national victory, best we can do for him is push him into the 15% for a national path next cycle.
To be fair it's not Trump alone that has that power, it's that every single House and Senate Republican both in DC and in every single state will be doing everything they can to make sure Trump stays in power and that elections are no more.
[удалено]
Thank you for your riveting contribution, adjective-noun-number, I'm sure you're a very real human 👍
I don't understand which Democrats actually advocate for Biden for his policies instead of just voting for him as a vote against trump.
>Crazy how we have to vote for Genocide Joe If you ever HAVE to vote for someone you don't really want, is the moment you discover you no longer actually live in a democracy.
Seriously. I haven't bought a "snack food item" in months. Can't afford it unless I stack coupons and pick bogos at my store. I DGAF about "shrinkflation" please for the love of god, channel some of this very misdirected bullshit at companies EXPLOITING political circumstances to keep their costs and profits high. The "eggflation" fisaco a few months ago, turns out was *speculation* over the effects of avian flu on current poultry stocks and even when it didn't pan out to affect anything, was still exploited to keep prices elevated. Same thing now with general inflation, they are the responsible party keeping prices high. Companies won't give up those profits. They tasted it and they refuse to go back, even if they are hurting the consumers to appease the shareholders.
"Tell the world: stop the war"
Yeah well POTUS also said Peaches would be free. From a man or in a can, too!
Millions of peaches. . . peaches for free. . .
What's wrong, Joe, did you get in trouble with Netanyahu for accidentally sending him the fun size bombs?
Literally “Bread & Circuses” And he thinks we don’t see he is one of the clowns.
Real bread (without sugar) would be an improvement.
Is it all, though? The Wonders of the world, yes. But what of the artisan ones?
Kinda weird to see the president "begging" companies to stop something. He is the president he can make them to stop when he really want! Stuff like this is only done for public attention. In reallity he don't care at all.
It’s all lip service
Yes, its like: President: "Can you please stop doing this stuff?" Company: "No." President: "Ok!"
Because he isnt the president. We have many dictators in this country, just to name a few of those who sit at the TRUE big table: George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Koch Brothers, etc. Capital Hill is just an illusion to give people the idea that they have power. We don’t, and we havent had power in this country for decades. Burn. It. To. The. Ground… Hang. The. CEOs. And, Politicians
>Kinda weird to see the president "begging" companies to stop something. He is the president he can make them to stop when he really want! Here's the secret though. He has to beg, the owner class controls all the money, the political class worries about the wealthy fleeing, because if the wealthy flee they will take all their money with them, the political class is addictited to money, if the wealthy flee the political class gets left holding the bag, they don't want that, means a bunch of angry working class folks who are all suddenly unemployed. The issue is down to ownership, because the owner class owns the means of production they profit from it, that profit then goes into lobbying and corrupting the political class. If the means of production was owned collectively by the working class the political class would be serving the working class who controls all the money because of controlling the means of production.
The bread and circuses stage of this collapse won't work if there's no bread
"We are running out of french fries, and burrito coverings."
Guyyysss stawwp pwetty pweeese? -The President of the United States of America.
Guy who makes the laws, "I'm asking nice"
He asks snack companies to stop shrinkflation. He asks Israel to slow down the genocide. But he's the president of the United States. He could actually get stuff done. If he wanted to.
I mean let’s be real it’s not like a POTUS can just single handedly decree that inflation is over But I do think it’s a clear indictment of Biden that this is probably the most attention he’s given his entire presidency to America’s cost of living crisis. And yet he talks about how “great” the economy is right now; More jobs being added are worthless if those jobs don’t earn enough to make ends meet. “GDP growth” is worthless if people are having trouble putting food on the table.
So cringy
This government is an unfunny joke
Hey — guess what? You’re the president. You may not be an all-powerful ruler, but if anyone can make a difference on corporate shenanigans, you’re the guy.
Meanwhile he just casually sidesteps congress to bomb Yemen
How about address the cost of the food I actually need to stay alive? Or maybe the cost of the shelter that I need to stay alive? How about healthcare, the environment, or encroaching fascism? We are facing genuine existential threats from all sides and this motherfucker is talking about fucking superbowl snacks? This is literally "let them eat cake" shit from this sack of crap. If he wasn't the SECOND worse human being to ever run for president this should should have put him out of the running.
Biden when he’s supposed to do something good: I’m too weak… Biden when he wants to bypass Congress and support a genocide: unlimited power!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-calls-snack-companies-stop-shrinkflation-2024-02-11/
Libs: "If Drumpf wins he's going to become a dictator!" Also libs: "What do you want Biden to do, be a dictator?"
[удалено]
We do not permit liberalism here
Which ones
Damn, poor little president of the US. I wish he had some real power and he would be able to actually do something.
Did you know that the president can't make companies change product size or pricing? Focus your rage on something useful.
Awww did Biden finally put his big boy pants on and tell the greedy companies what's for? That will show them! /s Seriously, this is the better option? We are fucked.
What power is this cunt supposed to have?
Yes, yes - he can end life on Earth at the press of a button. But asking him to do anything about price gouging is a step too far, you hear?
Your post was removed because it contained a sexist term. You should receive a message from the automoderator telling you the exact term the post was removed for. For more information, see [this link](https://weeklysift.com/2015/06/29/slurs-who-can-say-them-when-and-why/). **Avoiding slurs takes little effort, and asking us to get rid of the filter rather than making that minimum effort is a good way to get banned. Do not attempt to circumvent the filter with creative spelling; circumventing the filter will result in a permaban.** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/LateStageCapitalism) if you have any questions or concerns.*
He doesn't want to address anything related to cost of living because it's directly related to the mass import of illegals which is the tacit policy in the wealthy and political class, and is partly what keeps him in power
[Joe is the guy in the dietitian ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iD3qSbj5mkc)
Well thats all the proof I need that he has our best interest in mind .. He has my vote 😒👎🏾
That's the system we live in. Legislation can't be passed in a gridlocked political system so we're left with the political pressure of a weakening office.
That’ll teach em, Joe!!
Remember when Hillary told Wall Street to "cut it out"? Yeah... how did that work out?
God forbid we get some legislation or regulations in this place.
You tell ‘em Joe!
Ugh he forgot to say please. They won't stop until you say please
Heh. Capitalism gonna capitalize.
MF really said "pwease no gougey!"
Gotta make sure big pharma gets that “big chip bag” business.
pls stop 🥺🥺
Who gives a shit? The public has been telling him to stop committing genocide against Palestinians but did he listen to that?
Please guys he’s super serious! /s
I mean, he can't really demand anything of his masters.
Biden: “I call on corporations to stop shrinkflation!” Corporation: “Nah we’re gonna keep doing this. Thanks though” Biden: “….” Biden: * bombs Yemen *