• Ellia Plissken
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    263 months ago

    people are realizing that the American dream was a lie and they don’t want to believe that the people they voted for all along are the ones who caused it

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        3 months ago

        no, if you were a white middle class boomer born between 1945 & 1970ish who managed not to go to vietnam, you got to live the American dream. then we methodically voted for the people who stripped away all of the policies that made it possible

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Hey, my boomer dad got to be a slave soldier AND live the dream.

          Because his dad was a dentist and he could afford to pay for college after Uncle Sam, it turns out, got him shot twice, blown up once, and gave him leukemia.

          But at least Vietnam doesn’t have universal healthcare.

          • Ellia Plissken
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            43 months ago

            actually 87% of the Vietnamese population are covered by social health insurance (as of 2018)

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              3 months ago

              I know, I’m referring to the fact that all that got done to him to defend a fascist state against Big Scary Communist Ho Chi Minh who actually wanted to be a US Ally against Chinese influence in Asia.

              And then they didn’t even fucking win. Which was probably good, but still.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      The funny thing is it used to kind of work for a lot of small businesses and poor people in general. It sucked but you could do it. Only true visionaries like hunter s Thompson and Carlin really understood that the system was rotten before it all started to fall apart.