Janx 81 points 5 days ago

Or shelter. Or healthcare.

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bryophile 17 points 5 days ago

Or if you live in a functional society, not under a dictator

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plateee 4 points 4 days ago

Where can one find such a place? And do they want/accept immigrants?

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bryophile -2 points 4 days ago

In Europe and South East Asia you're mostly good? It's not hard to think of countries that do better than the US regarding access to healthcare and reasonably affordable living.

Don't know about migrants from the US though... We worked hard for this. We don't want these slackers leeching off what we built. Maybe they should just get off the couch and get to work and build their own functional society. /s

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JoMiran 43 points 5 days ago

Or the need to pay rent.

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Multiplexer 42 points 5 days ago

Or IT equipment.
Or (looking at the current draught during our 6th heat wave this year) water.

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redsand 1 point 4 days ago

Good thing we upgraded all the end points to windows 11! Yellow Key Exploit ☠️

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orca 25 points 5 days ago

When do we start the revolution?

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surewhynotlem 35 points 5 days ago

Already have. Do you think it's a singular event to attend? No, it's many small things that eventually grow into big things if they have to.

Look at all the flock cameras destruction. See how that's happening cross country will minimal repercussion? People are learning they can become ungovernable.

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orca 7 points 5 days ago

I’m all in on the Flock takedowns.

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the_q -2 points 5 days ago

I hate this kind of kumbaya take. It serves to lessen the need for real action.

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WanderingThoughts 9 points 5 days ago

On the other hand, there's surveillance specifically for organized action while unorganized action is much harder to police.

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chahn.chris 6 points 5 days ago

How is people taking down cameras not action? It’s more action than posting here…

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the_q -6 points 5 days ago

Is it? Neither is making a difference.

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surewhynotlem 6 points 5 days ago

You've been trained on history books that highlight huge events, and action movies. The real world is about slow pressure over long times.

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FistingEnthusiast 8 points 5 days ago

When being lazy finally becomes too difficult

While people are willing to pay for some poor bastard to bring a milkshake to their door in 115° heat without thinking about the slave doing their bidding just to survive, 'Murica will keep doing what' Murica does

Exploiting people. Being a collective example of every single thing that people can do to treat others badly

And they will be pissy when they are called out for it

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Major_Tsiom 6 points 5 days ago

My guess is never, but let's see what happens in November. Cancelling the elections or obvious tampering or outright disregard of the outcome will probably spark mass protests. Things can happen from that. There will be heavy military presence, but if millions show up... who knows? Still, we tough and independent Americans will likely just bend over and take it in the ass. It looks like the home of the brave was the easiest country for the wealthy elite to take.

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CultLeader4Hire 3 points 5 days ago

I don’t think anything can spark mass protests in the US personally

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furzegulo 13 points 5 days ago

eating? in this economic situation?

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schnapsman 10 points 5 days ago

At least for the gas this is the start of a better way of thinking about the problem. When I still lived in the US, I heard ppl complain about the price of gas all the time. However, I never heard complaints about our dependency on gas or the economic problem that the cheapest stuff there is per volume felt expensive to buy.

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jtrek 8 points 5 days ago

One of the things that feeds into my insufferable smugness about living in a walkable city is I haven't paid for gas in years (outside of like... maybe 2 road trips a decade). It's just not something I think about.

I had the luxury of being able to move somewhere with trains and buses, though.

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Tja 2 points 4 days ago

I'm in the "drives an EV charged from roof solar panels" insufferable smugness camp.

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scrubbles 4 points 5 days ago

There how I've reframed it every time I hear it. So how are you reducing your need for gas? I'm biking and taking transit so it has stopped hurting so much. Try to alter their thinking from "this is unavoidable" to "I guess we could do fewer trips"

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SaharaMaleikuhm 7 points 4 days ago

I don't need gas, but I do need to eat every now and then.

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TwoWeebles 4 points 5 days ago

Remember the good times? January 18th 2025, Louisville Kentucky. So much better now.

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Abyssian 4 points 5 days ago

"A lot of the country needed a diet and more exercise anyway."

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wizardbeard 4 points 5 days ago

It's simple, just make more money. /j

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weps 4 points 4 days ago

make America healthy again by being able to afford less food and less gass

you just don't see how true they are to their word

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cram 4 points 5 days ago

or ram.

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daggermoon 3 points 4 days ago

I just need a hug.

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InvalidName2 3 points 4 days ago

Gas prices have been higher, both in a relative and absolute sense, if you're looking at the USA's national average. The biggest issue now is that these prices are due specifically and directly to Donald Trump, his administration, and the complicity of the courts and congress. They were avoidable and unnecessary.

This is in DIRECT contrast to his campaign promises: Lower prices, Day One. He's going to immediately lower prices.

Average intelligence people and above knew that this was a lie from the get go. That millions upon millions of American voters believed it, is a shame.

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ftbd 2 points 4 days ago

Crazy that you mention gas before groceries, when food is one of the few things you absolutely need to survive

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Dozzi92 1 point 4 days ago

Alphabetical order!

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sudoer777 2 points 4 days ago

Or my multi-thousand dollar medications that I keep having to fight with various programs over

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HerbGrower 2 points 4 days ago

Things are great, but I live in the UK where minimum wage is high, food is cheap and I couldn't afford to learn to drive in my teens/early 20s so I don't need fuel!

Housing is painful, but at least inflation is reducing the number of hours I need to work to cover my mortgage payments each year. Very approximated, my monthly housing costs each year since I bought would be 105, 95, 87, 81, 78 hours of work to pay for at minimum wage. I would love to see house prices continue to stagnate so that buying a house gets easier with inflation dropping their price relative to wages.

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pineapple 1 point 4 days ago

Luckily I only need a house...

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Ioughttamow 1 point 5 days ago

Well at least my oldest has all of her vaccines for a while, and the youngest has been on schedule. And I recently got boosters.

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kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 1 point 4 days ago

convert your European car gas consumption into burger units, and post here to piss off Americans.