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Necrometer wrote:

In the American Dream, first expressed by James Truslow Adams in 1931, citizens of every rank feel that they can achieve a "better, richer, and happier life."

Better, richer, and happier than what. That entire statement grinds my philosophical gears so hard.

The Torsion wrote:No amount of advertising and peer pressure, no matter how insecure you are, is forcing you to buy anything.

father of lies wrote: I think this assumes a level playing field of self-awareness that doesn't exist. Marketing is in the state that it is because it WORKS. People aren't being FORCED to drink Corona, for example, but they sure as hell are being manipulated to want to drink it, even though it isn't much of an improvement of shitty American macrobrews. The otherwise unjustifiable increase in cost is made up for by attaching these nebulous emotions and ideas to it, and I don't think most people who spend themselves into huge credit card debt or thing buying off brand toilet paper is a sacrifice have any idea that they are being manipulated.

father of lies wrote: I don't know what your situation was like growing up, but you were surely raised to be smarter than that. Growing up, we were too poor to be able to buy our way into any sort of materialistic bullshit identity, and my general worldview, fairly consistently to the left since I was able to have half baked ideas about the world, prevented it from developing in me. On the other hand, some of the inner city kids that I worked with at my high school job were raised not by intelligent parents or (in my case) Jello Biafra, but by marketing departments. If that lack of money creates a need to mark off psychological territory in some people, that need is exploited by unscrupulous assholes to sell poor kids $150 shoes. Surely, they should have known better, but some people just have a much tougher time making it to that revelation.

Kurt Russell's Beard wrote:I might make a good house boy and companion for an older lady.

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60 years old.

VueeeuVueeeeuV wrote:DERP DERP DERP DERP

neckbeard wrote:I wish I could teach you guys about anarchism

The Torsion wrote: Stupid broke motherfuckers have been buying flashy shit they couldn't afford since way the fuck back when. There's no nefarious cabal against the poor at work here, it's human nature.

Gookstorm wrote:Fuck the baby boomers, more or less. They're the ones that fucked up social security, voted in a bunch of fucktards repeatedly, and kept on spending money horribly. And because so many of them were irresponsible fucktards, we generations that have worked goddamn hard for degrees and the wonderful "career opportunities" that await us like Starbucks barista and Home Depot associate that our parents were able to get with barely a high school diploma and yet somehow afford to buy a 1500 sqft house on a single 20-something guy's paycheck.

Fuck uncontrolled voting with dollars - the current housing market is exactly what voting with dollars creates. Irresponsible spending at the micro level over decades of idiocy has created an entire economy that's just plain unsustainable and will probably leave us worse off than where we started in the 40s.

The Torsion wrote:

neckbeard wrote:I wish I could teach you guys about anarchism

They learned everything they need to know about anarchism from Crimethinc and Chomsky pamphlets.

hipster holocaust wrote:

Gookstorm wrote:Fuck the baby boomers, more or less. They're the ones that fucked up social security, voted in a bunch of fucktards repeatedly, and kept on spending money horribly. And because so many of them were irresponsible fucktards, we generations that have worked goddamn hard for degrees and the wonderful "career opportunities" that await us like Starbucks barista and Home Depot associate that our parents were able to get with barely a high school diploma and yet somehow afford to buy a 1500 sqft house on a single 20-something guy's paycheck.

Fuck uncontrolled voting with dollars - the current housing market is exactly what voting with dollars creates. Irresponsible spending at the micro level over decades of idiocy has created an entire economy that's just plain unsustainable and will probably leave us worse off than where we started in the 40s.

once again hitting the nail on the head

Hell-haine wrote:

Kurt Russell's Beard wrote:I might make a good house boy and companion for an older lady.

Well my Mum is looking for a gardener these days.

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60 years old.

VueeeuVueeeeuV wrote:They differ on defense and offer the same view of a brutal, mercilessly right wing America that exists to get as much work out of its human property as necessary.

Kurt Russell's Beard wrote:

VueeeuVueeeeuV wrote:They differ on defense and offer the same view of a brutal, mercilessly right wing America that exists to get as much work out of its human property as necessary.

I never noticed it before but you're right. Torsion? What the fuck man? How do you reconcile this stance? Say something halfway human before I put you in the BattleTweeter box.