I hate

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    70·
    1 year ago

    There’s a neat/horrifying feedback loop with Walmart parking lots in particular.

    1. Walmart enters a town and undercuts all of the small businesses due to their scale

    2. Small businesses go bankrupt and that town is reduced to a Walmart colony with a dollar store shanty town on the outskirts.

    3. Walmart doesn’t pay enough so it immiserates the employees that have no alternatives

    4. Walmart employees end up spending their food stamps at the company store while living in a Walmart parking lot because it’s the only safe place in a town totally decimated by the Walmart

    5. We need to protect the Walmart parking lot because that’s where all these Calvinistically-destined homeless people live and that keeps us safe from them.

    And it just continues snowballing as a local problem becomes a regional problem and a regional problem becomes a national one. Locally the homeless populations are concentrated between the two largest local monopolies- Walmart for general goods and Kroger for groceries. The whole psychogeography of that area is shaped by how far you are from either of those businesses.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    One of my favorite jokes about Kamala Harris’s “operating a business in a disadvantaged community,” from either here or /r/cth, went something like “More and more Americans are struggling to afford housing. That’s why, as President, I will offer tax breaks to any American who sleeps in their car.” Whoever lathed this, stop yourself before you kill again.

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      porky-happy: “Keep lowering your expectations, proles. Everything is in a crisis, not my fault that everything is more valuable than ever…aren’t you excited to literally own nothing and be happy?”

  • wombat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    Everything should be put in cars: hospital - car, mcdonalds - food trucks, megamalls - swarms of trucks, government should be racetrack with 100 senators goind in circles in opposing directions, depending how they vote

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      Snowpiercer but instead of society being inside a long train, society is people in their personal vehicle driving continuously on a long highway. The closer you get to the bourgeoisie, the more SUVs and pick up trucks you encounter

    • LeZero [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Not a bad idea, but what if instead we rigged bombs to the tachyo of the cars and if the speed dips under a certain numbers, no more senator

    • FishLakeEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Could we put a big chain chomp on the track too?

    • bigboopballs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      When will people finally have had enough and start fucking organizing and fighting back already? Jesus.

      At this point, I have to believe that the answer is never because the brains of western people (or any liberal alive today) are rotten.

      It will either be Nazi Germany 2.0, or a slow gradual collapse into a dark age for the west.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        a slow gradual collapse into a dark age for the west.

        inshallah

        Though I suppose you never know how people will turn when things get really really bad. If illiterate Russian peasants who’ve been brainwashed all their lives to obey the Tsar and God can rise up for the Bolsheviks, I suppose anything is possible.