The older generation is so selfish they don’t want the younger generations to get something “easier” than they think they had it. “I walked uphill both ways in the snow” kind of thinking. Most privileged generation.
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yup blame everything on the Dem's REAL UM NOT Cleaver duh
I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have a link to a stream of this show's segment? I tried Googling for it, but came up with nothing. I'd genuinely like to know what their argument against having these things is. I'm assuming it's the same old "who's going to pay for it" thing, which we all know is silly because we always seem to have plenty of money for wars, bailouts, subsidizes for corps/billionaires, etc. Still I'd like to hear their fearmongering talking points on this one.
Why is fox news trying to threaten me with a good time?
I cannot find a single flaw in this plan. I want it.
This boogie-man makes perfect sense when viewed through the lens of zero-sum thinking. They literally view helping other people as being detrimental to their own position because it means that the people "beneath" them are now less far beneath. This makes their position feel less lofty because we've raised the floor of human suffering, thereby making them feel less advantaged and less high above that floor of human suffering by comparison.
It's not even a meme to characterize them as saying, "the suffering is the point" when they support certain inherently evil consumerist practices. They literally think that way.
Sign me up!
If you just give someone a Palestine for free, what incentive will they have to work?
if i ever get a free palestine, u can be damn sure im putting it on display on my god damn fanciest shelf
I am pretty comfortable with socialism. Why is Palestine getting shoehorned in here?
HOW DARE THEY GIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LITERALLY EVERYTHING THEY EVER WANTED!!!
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Socialism!
Ooohh. Say it again!
Maybe the graphics designers are insiders?
It’s very much a “they knew” kind of thing here. Like how many of the staff is actually in on this. It’s so blatant it’s ridiculous.
The only thing I would alter is "college for all those that want it". However, this would also include "trades training and paid apprenticeships to those that want it".
Also, why not toss in a UBI?
Toss in freeing Ukraine and stopping China's genocide of the Uyghurs and I know who I'm voting for!
This is what the boomers most fear. Telling, huh?
This is Fox telling them what to hate.
I'm a boomer and want those things.
Who did you vote for in the 2020 Democratic primaries?
My parents are boomers and they want these things. And most people in their circles are the same. So I really get annoyed when I see this sentiment online, especially on Lemmy where you’d think people would know better. A lot of MAGA support is coming from younger people. Why do you think that Kirk dickhead was at college campuses, not retirement homes. These are people who are not anti vax because they grew up with polio. They support unions because they have seen them work.
Eh, plenty of Boomers will say they want those things but then shoot down any attempts at them as "not the right way". These are the kinds of people who showed up to the Democratic primaries in 2020 and voted for Joe Biden. If they really wanted these things they'd vote in the primaries for politicians who are fighting for them.
As with any generation, many of the people who were teens in the 60s did not like the depression- and war-torn, conformist, society they grew up in, They had much different values and music and politics and approaches to life. Yes ... today they'd be called democratic socialists, they showed up for Sanders' tour. They don't watch what Mideas Touch calls the 'Regime Media'. The Repubs are running scared about the midterms, for a good reason.
Thinking everyone in an earlier generation is to blame for anything today is wrong-headed and the result of just not knowing enough about history.
Good, I'm glad you're one of the decent ones.
I'm a socialist!
Their base has been so brainwashed into thinking that other people getting things means they WONT get those things, because as Democrats have pushed for equity reforms, Republicans have eroded away worker and lifestyle protections, and purposely ran propaganda campaigns to tell them their declining lifestyle is because of Democrats.
Many people don't want non-whites to get any of these things. They'd rather get nothing themselves than some of them get nice things. They're scumbags
Fox news is just an online church. Preaching all the hate, gloom & doom. No one is allowed to be happy or have nice things. Fear is the flavor of every day. What a sad, sad cult this is.
Sounds rad. Let's do that then.
Bro didn't have an icon for Palestine
Their graphics team is working on an icon of bombs landing on kids probably.
That's just the default if you ask GPT to generate "Palestine Icon" with no descriptors.
Faux news doesn't have one already?
Another example of the Caduceus being wrongly used instead of the Rod of Asclepius.
Oh no! It's... European centrist?! And a rogue Free Palestine with a steel chair from the corner!
Didn’t even get a clip art icon for them.
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Is there anything worse than giving the American people what they deserve and want?
The horror! Won't someone think of the rich who profit from each of these vital services?!
I am starting to feel that Fox news is for the filthy rich to watch and for people who are deluding themselves into believing that, one day, they will also become filthy rich.
*Profiting from the privatization of these vital services, thereby guaranteeing that those services are degraded to the lowest quality possible while reaching the smallest number of people possible while most of the funds reach the pockets of the people at the top.
As long as a profit motive exists, that motive is that the person at the top gets as much of the money possible, while the people who the services are meant to serve always get the absolute least as is possible, and what is possible continues to diminish until it reaches zero.
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