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>Debt rising
>Cost of living become worse and worse
>Climate change
>Nuclear warfare
>Collapse of the American dollar
>All while our leader rape and eat girls on boats or whatever
Nobody seems to care.
I genuinely believe that the world as we know it will end horrifically within a decade
Please tell me i'm not crazy

The only thing on this list the average person cares about is the nationals debt, despite it being a non-issue.

its not that they dont care
its that they are cheering for the end of the world

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>>756618
How is it a non-issue lol.

They don't believe they can affect change.

>>756618
>The only thing on this list the average person cares about is the nationals debt
Wrong, that's the thing average people are least concerned abput on that list. They're concerned about the cost of living, you out of touch weirdo.

>>756625
practically this
the average man is too knee deep in thinking about work in the morning to actually believe they can single handedly shoot epstein's pedo buddies or end the debt or end cruelty in general or liberate gaza or do anything at all, most people cannot really join a movement like that, so it becomes a general attitude of "not my problem, its already shit for me, and its not like i can make change single handedly anyway, i'd end up like those mocked childish antifas i see on the news"

>>756624
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/31/richard_wolff_economy_debt_ceiling
>>756627
No bro, it's "muh taxes" and "muh gas prices" for the average usaian. If there's anything remotely political on the apoliticial's mind, it's the enormous amount of "debt" the US is in.

dead corpses shuffling along

meat sagging along the streets

whiff of gasoline keeps me strong

till i meet the earth again, asleep, for longer

buzz buzz buzz buzz

>>756658
the children are the only spark left

flames flames pitter patter whoosh

its cold, hurry put it in again

nose shrivels in the frigid air, the world is clear for just a moment

then back again to the sludge, drowning? drowning already lost

>>756657
if you're actually worried about taxes you're petit-bourgeois.

Nobody making $30k a year can be not taxed into prosperity, you are still fucking broke.

>>756662
Then the average burger is petit bourgeois. Welcome to the imperial core

what do I gain by caring?

I'm about to smoke a cigarette, chud life 2026

All of them are abstract concepts. Mental thought constructs that don't even exist in reality.

>>756657
>No bro, it's "muh taxes" and "muh gas prices" for the average usaian
Incorrect. Literally the only thing anyone ever fuckin talks about is how expensive everything is, i had this conversation eight times today alone. Also, gas pricea and taxes is part of cost of living moron.

Ofc people care anon why do you think Trump got voted in in the first place? And now lots of Trump voters are moving to the Mamdani camp. Talking about solving the cost of living issue is basically a free get to office ticket

At best we might get another occupy wall street, but as long as the treats still flow people won't do anything, however the treats are becoming more unaffordable so maybe something could happen.

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>>756665
Let it go, its over. The average burger isn't paid well enough to be a happy class collaborationist, they are just cucks.

>>756811
>using 90s anime for your amerikkkan masses-facing agitprop
Reconsider

But good message

>>756813
Its for the hispanic audience, also not my OC thats why its so grainy ;)

Many people do care, it’s just that people are socialized into being docile and helpless. Everyone is thinking to themselves “Why is nobody doing anything??” waiting on everyone else to do something.

>>756811
Uh huh

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>>756657
What is that interview?
Marxist Economist Richard Wolff on How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich & Powerful
That's not remotely what he said.

>RICHARD WOLFF: The debt ceiling is a decision made by the Congress of the United States to limit themselves. And let me explain. In our federal budget in the government, in order to spend money on the Defense Department, the war in Ukraine, Social Security and all the rest, the government basically relies on taxes. But therein lies a problem in our economic system, because the corporations and the rich, on the one hand, and the rest of us, on the other, want the government to provide services, but we don’t want to pay taxes. And the politicians we elect are caught in that dilemma. They don’t want to lose votes by taxing the rest of us beyond what they’ve already done, and they don’t want to lose donations and all the rest of it from corporations and the rich by taxing them. And they found a solution, because they don’t have much political courage — namely, to borrow the money. In that way, they can pay for the spending without taxing anybody, and they can parade around as if this is an act of efficiency rather than an act of no courage to do what they know could be done —

<raise the taxes or cut the spending — and then we wouldn’t have to borrow.

>They’ve been borrowing so much. Let me give you an example. In 1982, the debt of this country and the GDP, our output, were roughly the same. Today, our output is $21-22 trillion, but our national debt is $32 trillion. That is, over all these years, when we’ve had a sequence of debt ceilings, a rule that you can’t borrow more, after the theater of the president and the head of Congress getting together, they extend the debt, they raise the debt again, the ceiling is eliminated or postponed or reset at a higher level, and so the debts keep going. It’s 99% theatrics. Mr. McCarthy can say, “I’m against taxes,” which his base likes, and the Democrats can say, “Well, we don’t want to savage the spending the country needs,” which is what their base wants. They go back and forth. It gets dicey. We have late-night press conferences.

<And then we raise the ceiling, which is literally kicking the problem down the road.


<Absolutely, the debt grows again. If you cut taxes, obviously, and you don’t cut spending, you’re going to have to borrow the difference. Or, if you like, if you don’t mess with the taxes but you spend more, then you’re going to have a bigger debt problem.


>What we’ve had is a series of actions in which the euphoria of the moment gets a vote in the Congress without anyone speaking publicly about the impact. I’ll give you two examples. The one you will point to, the tax cut of Mr. Trump, still one of the greatest tax cuts in American history, in December of 2017, it was a savage reduction in how much taxes the government could get, and therefore, of course, it expanded how much you’d have to borrow to replace that debt. Here’s one on the other side. If you suddenly, over the year 2022, expand by $100-plus billion the spending plan for Ukraine, well, then, of course — for the war there, I mean — of course, you’re going to, therefore, get yourself again in an imbalance between the money coming in through taxes and what you’re spending.


<There is another dimension to this that people are afraid to talk about but needs to be talked about. If the government borrows instead of taxing, this is really good news for corporations and the rich, particularly.

>And here’s why. If they can succeed in cutting their taxes, as they did under Mr. Trump, for example, then the government has to borrow.
<You know who the government borrows from? Them. It borrows mostly from corporations and the rich. The average people of America do not lend to the government, because they don’t have the money.
>So, the irony is there’s an imbalance. For corporations and the rich, they can get out of the taxes they might have to pay,
<and instead the government comes to them and borrows from them the money they otherwise would have had to pay in taxes. They have to pay that money back to those people, plus interest for the time that they hold this debt.
>So you can see that when corporate America pushes for tax cuts, it’s looking at two benefits: It doesn’t have to pay taxes,
<and instead it gets to have a loan to the government. The choice between those two is kind of obvious.

Like was this article supposed to be contradicting me? That's the point I was making bro. The debt is a theft from the average American buy the oligarchy.

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>>756836
And this whole system is obviously just a slight of hand trick to pretend like all these parasite financiers get paid. The government lends the money to the banks who then lend it back to the government. Huh? Who could that possibly benefit but these people paid to move these numbers around?

>>756837
>pretend like all these parasite financiers get paid.
*deserve to get paid.

>>756834
>>756835
Like I said, the bourgeoisie. The average burger can't even enjoy a socdem life, nothing of that wealth is trickling down.

>>756840
Yeah, right.

>>756665
Damn, last couple years is the only time since 2008 that american real wages haven't grown?

As a thirdie I'm telling you it's gonna take a lot more than that for revolution


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