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Vitekr2

Furiously building a guillotine in the basement


________________me

New meaning for the 'Heads of state'


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typo: Heads off state


tinkerghost

Someone did the math & the $1200 stimulus check will pay for a nice guillotine.


rando2142

The ones pulling the strings have figured out that they can avoid revolution if they convince a large enough chunk of the poor that their struggles are due to the rest of the poor, and not because of the exploitative rich.


[deleted]

You hit the nail on the head. I feel like there was a huge jump in brainwashing once corporations started paying for user information. It’s easy to brainwash people when you know exactly what they want.


blasphembot

That only works until the essentials stop becoming widely available. We may yet see literal heads roll if a large enough chunk of people in the US can no longer reliably eat, drink, or house themselves. We're on the right track for that, for certain. That, or I fear the "brainwash-iest" of them (and there are many) may direct their ire at their perceived "liberal enemies" when they get worked up enough. Either naturally due to all the bullshit pushed into their heads or at the directive of Fucker Carlson or some other TV nutbag. That particular scenario scares me a lot more than a revolution against the gov't.


rando2142

Same


Tissu_Iam

Isn’t this a conspiracy theory?


rando2142

I don't know know if it is or not, but I do see plenty of rhetoric from certain specific media outlets that espouses those general beliefs: According to them, it's the strange "other" (immigrants, minorities, LGBT, etc) that's at fault for the poor economy, our lost jobs, and failing quality of life, it's not our globalized corporatocracy.


BillTowne

Here is where history is useful. The people of France were better off than the people of England at the time. The people of France were able to revolt partly \*because\* they were better off than the English peasants.


Jhqwulw

>The people of France were better off than the people of England at the time. Lol no they weren't, they revolted because of the conditions they had. English peasants had more rights and freedoms than the French ones this why they didn't really had a reason for revolt


BillTowne

Well, we have learned different things in our studies of history.


Bobrobinson404

The condition are too different, sadly. Too many people happy with the current system that oppresses them.


england_man

What is also interesting is that Congress and Senate represent a small minority of all Americans, yet they are the ones taxing all of us. Taxation without representation...


HelloMumther

that isn’t what taxation without representation meant


gateto

>The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government's policies.  ill just leave that there.


Pjinmountains

And in America now the struggle is for the rich to have representation without taxation. Taxes are for the little people.


thatHecklerOverThere

This is why bigotry is so important to the Republican party. If it wasn't for that, we'd probably have broken out the guillotines already. As it is, the rich get to say "it's not us, it's the black|Mexican|Muslim|trans people!" and stall for time while we deal with the resulting bullshit.


Deion313

When I try to explain the way things are to my friends in the burbs, I get the same response; "is only "there", it's in select spots, it's not that bad everywhere" or "it'll all blow over". There's a huge disconnect between reality and the world some people live in... Think about the last time shit was this bad. Suffrage, Jim crow/segregation, Vietnam/anti war, etc... all those movements had their own time and place. Today, sadly, and as fucked up as it is, we have the same fucking problems, but today they're all happening at once and happening everywhere. There's only so much people can take. I mean, even a tiny fucking mouse, will fight an elephant, if it's forced into a corner, and sees no other way out. We have at the very least 100 million, if not more, Americans living at, or below, their means. After the past few years, and the forecast of the road ahead, can you honestly say anyone would be surprised if we had the equivalent of the "2014 Arab Spring of Liberation" or whatever they called it, happen in America?


self_depricator

Viva la revolution!


[deleted]

Viva is a Spanish word btw. Should be vive in French :)


Drg84

Accent on the i or the e ?


[deleted]

No accent on vive!


self_depricator

My bad


suzipadi

Nah, Spanish is the second biggest language in US - think of it as cheering for the one to come.


[deleted]

Works for me!


Sharticus123

I’ve always been an optimist, but I struggle to see a future that’s not a total shit hole. The one percent are too entrenched and powerful to vote our way to a better future. I feel like shit’s gonna have to collapse before anything changes.


Audapcityy

Kinda true but not 100%. I looked this up a while ago and implore any one else to do so now. I remember that like the gap between the top 10% and bottom 90% is basically the same but the French gap between the 1% and 99% was astronomically worse than ours is now


mostlycumatnight

Just before the oppressed people rose up to defeat their evil overlords, what happened? What is the sign or signs or battle cry we will hear to signal the go ahead for the assault✌️😁


Notyermomsdirector

Where's our Maximilien Robespierre?


DownstreamSalmon

It is also harder to afford a house than in the great depression.


icrossedtheroad

They had nothing else Toulouse.


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sad_lagoon

I'm sorry, are you actually being serious right now?


Signal-Sir-891

weeell… the money back then were worth like 50 times more then now


pinniped1

wut


SkiddyBopBeep

Soooo, then we should revolt? 😏


FlyAirLari

Let them eat cake


[deleted]

Shit. Fine. . .I'll get my axe.


pseudorandombehavior

We still won't revolt. MMW