Comment on The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…" “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?” “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” “Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.” “I did,” said Ford. “It is.” “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?” “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.” “You mean they actually vote for the lizards?” “Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.” “But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?” “Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?” “What?” “I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “have you got any gin?” “I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.” Ford shrugged again. “Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.” “But that’s terrible,” said Arthur. “Listen, bud,” said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say ‘That’s terrible’ I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.” ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You have to vote for the less fascist

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s what you’re doing when you vote Green.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … In places where you don’t throw your vote away by doing so

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You throw away your vote by voting Democrat and Republican.

        How badly do they have to fail before you stop doing so?

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, you’re giving half a vote to whichever of the 2 major-party candidates you hate more.

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      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And you are actively participating in your own oppression, knowingly voting for a candidate when you’ve seen for four straight decades that either ruling party is going to make your life demonstrably harder.

        Do you like paying double for your groceries?

        Do you like that your rent is skyrocketing?

        Meanwhile they make hundreds of billions appear out of thin air for other countries’ wars.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In Germany, certainly

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• exanime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  but every single election, you all insist to me that I have to vote for a capitalist as a moral imperative.

  Have you ever had the choice to vote anyone other than a capitalist?

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes.

    You can vote Green.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ralph Nader on Simple Capitalism

      “What the corporations have done is destroyed the principles of simple capitalism, that if you own something you have some control over it,” Nader said in a hulking, stentorian voice, belied by his now-stooped shoulders and 80 years. “Managers control the process and define their own mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy without any shareholder rights, as well as how much they pay themselves.”

      Only by putting aside the bitter anger and acrimony that forces us to take sides can we break the corporate stranglehold over government and the economy, Nader said.

      You see, America hasn’t tried the correct type of capitalism. They’re stuck on Sparkling Corporatism, which is where all the problems come from.

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• HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  reagan, bush jr., trump. I wish that party could not win and election so that we could have the democrats as the conservative party and start making real progress on shifting left rather than their continual wins moving us right.

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• unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  muricaaaaaa

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