Americans are increasingly unlikely to believe that those who work hard will get ahead and that their children will be better off than they are, according to two recent polls.

  • June@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Dying?

    That shits been dead since the 60’s at least. It had been thoroughly dragged through the streets and mutilated by the 80’s. It’s been dead long enough that it’s not even a rotting corpse anymore, it’s just bones in a pile slowly turning to dust.

    In 30 years no one who was alive before it died will still be around and it will be a forgotten concept that lives on in the imagination of children as an echo of times past while they brave the streets as they’ve had to drop out of school and work alongside their parents to make sure the family has enough money to buy dinner.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      Work alongside their grandparents we’ve only got 14 more years before social security runs out.

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        11 months ago

        They’ll always keep it going. The Olds are an enormous voting bloc, and there’s never a shortage of 'em.

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        11 months ago

        How is it we have 14 years until that dies out but somehow always plenty for the Pentagon?

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          11 months ago

          Because one party is there to break everything and the other is to do just enough to prevent another party from happening

          • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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            11 months ago

            The break everything party turns into the take away the ball when they lose party when they aren’t in power. The other party is gonna have to stop playing by the bullshit norms that the other party ignores if they want to save this place.