The American Dream is officially over
The American Dream is officially over
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The American Dream is officially over
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Like it was ever real to begin with
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It was for white middle class Americans. That’s why they’re so angry now, they can’t guarantee their hierarchical standing so they need to try and pull every other denomination down.
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They call it a dream because you have to be asleep to experience it
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It’s been over for a while. Just took people a while to realize it and admit it. Well, unless you’re republican. The American Dream is still alive. Y’know, the one where a fake billionaire felon can become prez and wreck the country while hiring a billionaire racist foreigner to fuck everything up the felon doesn’t understand. Which is pretty much everything.
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“Dream”?
Let’s not kid ourselves, it is and always has been an anxiety driven nightmare for anyone that isn’t white, male, and possesses a cognitively fractured moral compass.
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I'm a privileged white male, you guys aren't having an anxiety driven nightmare?!
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Good point. I fixed it.
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All this bullshit about this or that is officially dead or over in America... Democracy, the American Dream, leader of the free world etc. None of that shit was ever true. Yes, Trump is a particularly unvarnished avatar or the US, but stop pretending we were ever what the propaganda told us we were.
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The qons always wanted this, that much is true. And so they were always a dark undercurrent in America and often got their way.
But the rest of us could at least work to aspire to higher ideals that America is supposed to represent. With the qons in charge now, they seem to have no real agenda other than make a bunch more money for the broligarchs and maximize unhappiness for everyone else - cruelty is the point.
But that doesn't mean America and Americans should not realize we used to do better and we should continue to aspire to be better. Saying "yeah, but America was always shit" is not only not really truthful (but I realize it is a fashionable thing to say with a certain set), it's demoralizing.
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I think it is truthful, and it's important to be honest about it-- not least if you genuinely want a way out of Trumpism. Pretending that the Democrats aren't a big part of the story of how we got here is dangerous. We need to come to terms with our fundamental issues before we're able to start moving in the right direction.
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Sweet.
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Pretty sure white people are still making money on killing babies abroad. Seems like the American Dream is still around.
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Particularly from 1981 on, through corporate lobbyists and the merging of various ideological perspectives from both the Republican and Democratic parties, the new lower tax system for the wealthy and for corporations took shape.
Can't vote this away
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If you were born after like 1980 it’s been pretty apparent that we were all fucking lied to. Go to school, be a good person, try hard, go to college and then you’ll be set for life. What a fucking joke.
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Not just lied to, gaslit.
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The LulaRich documentary is basically a story about capitalism as a whole. The entire economy is a pyramid scheme.
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I don't feel like I try to do things correctly or try do good things for nothing. Maybe those are the only things that will get done right today, maybe everyone around me will fuck me over for trying to be decent. But the right way is there for anyone to take that can find it, and good has never existed outside of our minds and hearts. I have to try and I have to try to be good so that I know someone is trying and that good exists. Even if it is imperfect or doesn't change anything else, it changes me.
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Yeah this sucks for so many right now.
When you go on LinkedIn and find a major tech company, those who meet the following two criteria:
- Born after 1980
- Have “senior” in their title
…they’re numerous right? But is it <1% of 1980 born college grads who are crushing it? Or <10%, or…
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I see stories that Gen Y are about to become the richest generation on record.
And then over the next ten years that Gen Z will beat even that record.
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No shit guys. This has been the case for a really long time.
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Yes but I think we are just now reaching a critical mass of people for whom it is over but wasn’t for their parents. I believe that’s the most important part, it’s easy to accept that other people are just worse off than you. It’s a lot harder for people to accept being worse off than their parents.
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Its been over since before carlin did his famous bit. Whats happening now is like the smell that lets everyon know that the neighbor no ones seen in weeks died in their house a month ago.
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It was officially over quite a long time ago. Are you just now waking up?
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George Carlin said "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" 20 years ago. This is how America has always been, people are only now starting to wake up to that.
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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"Forget it. He's rolling..."
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What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. 'Ooh, we're afraid to go with you, Bluto, we might get in trouble.' Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.
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Was it over when Iraq did a 9\11??
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It was over when Abe Lincoln wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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I must have missed that
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From rags to brownshirts
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