• Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    How many more years of these news stories do I have to read before we actually do something about this?

    I’m so fucking sick of this happening constantly.

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      10 months ago

      The sad thing is we’ll keep reading stories like this until we die. I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and I’m tired of being that guy talking about this issue.

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        10 months ago

        we die

        Or they do. This level of wealth inequality is a new phenomenon, and it is already showing how great it goes, with fascism and other fringe ideologies on the rise.

        The chance that Trump or a similar idiot being elected and turning dictator is a possibility in the US is a direct consequence of these fuckwits gutting society itself. It is very well possible that these guys will either become sock puppets of a Trump-like figure, and keep some of their wealth in exchange for losing all of their power, or commit grisly murder-suicides of their whole family in droves like in Russia.

        They either don’t see or don’t care that they are cutting down the branch that they (and everyone else) are sitting on.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      10 months ago

      We have to stop voting for rich or wanna-be-rich business people. It’s the only way. Combined votes for the best of the worst to eliminate the tyrants, then vote out the wealth focused. Can’t believe that’s the situation we are in.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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        10 months ago

        Voting alone will not get us out of this situation. Maybe implementing rank choice of voting might do it. I just don’t see good solutions because the politicians were all about sold anyway it doesn’t matter which one gets voted in, voters never get the final say.