Capitalism be like

10 days ago by Viking_Hippie to c/aboringdystopia

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53465227

tomkatt 87 points 10 days ago

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Aralakh 29 points 10 days ago

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Viking_Hippie 17 points 10 days ago

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Asafum 68 points 10 days ago

How do you write an article like that and then just like... keep breathing... as if you're a human being deserving of living or something?

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NateNate60 33 points 10 days ago

The New York Times and other traditional papers have a tendency to write headlines like that in order to attract attention. When you read it, nine times out of ten you realise they're not actually endorsing it and the article itself presents a much more reasonable take on it.

Newspapers editors write this stuff with the assumption that you will read it, not just screenshot it and post it online. Maybe that's not a good assumption in the age of short attention spans, but it's what they do.

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01189998819991197253 4 points 9 days ago

Newspapers editors write this stuff with the assumption that you will read it, not just screenshot it and post it online.

Have they met people?

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radiofreebc 32 points 10 days ago

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PineRune 12 points 10 days ago

We should go the other direction. Let Canada take over the Northern US; states like Michigan and Wisconsin are basically Canada already (at least parts of them).

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Viking_Hippie 14 points 10 days ago

states like Michigan and Wisconsin are basically Canada

Cue confused Midwestern progressives feeling simultaneously outraged and flattered 😁

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fonix232 4 points 10 days ago

Just take over every bordering state, and any state that would be cut off from the rest of the US due to such a move (e.g. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island).

And every time Trump threatens Canada once again, just repeat the process - excluding DC of course.

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JamieDub86 9 points 10 days ago

Nah, I think that they'd quite like a few slaves.

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BeatTakeshi 21 points 10 days ago

That shit is old, but real, damn I hate this timeline https://nyti.ms/2NNr2Nq

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isVeryLoud 0 points 10 days ago

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some_designer_dude 16 points 10 days ago

“Successful” capitalists only see investment opportunities because they literally have nothing to fear. The water shortages won’t materially affect them so they just see a new market as a game to be won.

It’s going to be much too late when the populace wakes up to the reality that the only way things get better for them is if things get a lot worse for the oligarchs.

We’re cattle and chattel. Until we decide otherwise.

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wangaBanga 8 points 10 days ago

Totally. But acting without the numbers and proper organization, we're just cattle and chattel dead or behind bars.

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atro_city 13 points 10 days ago

Watch "Extrapolations" (pirate it so you don't give CrApple money). It's a quite sober take on what could happen if we continue with business as usual.

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TankovayaDiviziya 11 points 9 days ago