Posted by one of my acquaintances that claims to be an ANCAP but also thinks Fucker Carlson has good ideas, and that trans people and poor people are ruining America. Also worships Elon. I hate these people.

  • Plurrbear@lemmy.world
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    Maybe it’s because all oldies fucked up our economy so much, we can AFFORD house, let alone a damn child, or even a damn car at this rate! Our wages are trash, healthcare for all is abysmal, and taxes are up the ass! Not to mention now… TARIFFS. It’s asinine to think that anyone would wanna bring a child into this garbage US economy!

    We threw tea into the ocean when the king tried to tax it but now it’s okay with Americans that we can get taxes of almost 30% of our HARD EARNED income!! What in the absolute fuck?! DRUMPF hasn’t “worked” a day in his life! All he’s proven is failed businesses and shitting his pants! Embarrassing America!

    DO FUCKING BETTER! Fucking VOTE, you lazy ass fucking clowns!

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      I think this is a big issue with the democrat party. We are still gonna get 30% taxed no matter who’s in power. Its bullshit and should be more like 15%. This is why poor red states vote republican because they run on tax breaks (and the people in those states are too dumb to realize its tax breaks only for billionaires, not you)

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    I think this is not a comment on economics. She is implying that people are not “pure enough” to settle down now or something like that. The statement gives off the impression that people are willingly choosing this behavior without outside influence.

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    Hey! I’m in this graphic. Namely 30 yo and nowhere close to married or a homeowner.

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        In fox news country this is a super common sentiment. I know people who were actualling having breakdowns a few months ago that in new York they were killing babies and also Kamala was planning to start ww3 and have a draft.

        Im dead serious. They absolutely believed it.

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          On my last visit, a close family member declared that “Democrats are murdering babies”. “WHAT?!?” I told them, “That’s called infanticide and I can guarantee you that it is illegal in every state in the US and most of the developed world.”

          They later looked it up online and figure out it is not true.

          People I used to think have basic sense are off the deep end believing whatever shit they see.

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            These (old) people are also terrified of Russia and putin, but think nothing of ut that drumpf is his best buddy. I cannot comprehend.

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        Idk, it’s a tough call. Ancaps support a governance system which will, by design, oppress marginalized people.

        Whether that’s worse than personally hating marginalized people is kinda open to interpretation.

        “I want there to be a perpetual oppression machine” vs “I want to do some oppressing”

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          Basically that yeah, combined with the fact that the stupidity required to not realize than an ancap society would lead to them personally being significantly harmed offends me on an intellectual level.

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            This person also has no actual skills beyond common service jobs (not saying that is bad) but thinks the poor are the reason for his bad luck. Its baffling how duped they are by consuming social media (they love xitter as well, if it wasn’t clear)

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          I think it’s better to be greedy and go “yay no more taxes” and not realize how large the detriments are instead of I HATE YOU WHY DO YOU EXIST

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            ANCAP is not just “no more taxes”. They specifically advocate against any sort of regulation on business and commerce, thinking that “the free market” will self regulate all the bad stuff away. Regulations such as bans on asbestos, or making sure that developers build structurally sound houses, or even just “you have to actually do business with someone before they can charge you money”.

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      They rail against the poor yet they’re 1 paycheck away from being homeless. Also they dont think libraries should exist.

      And they listen to Jordan Peterson all day. Im not for certain but they probably liked Andy Tate as well. I’d guess they do.

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    Ooh! Someone make a graph of the average price for a home over the same time period, then the federal minimum wage, then do the math on how many hours you have to work to get that much money…

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      Median price of a home in the USA from Q2 2025: $410,800.

      US minimum wage: $7.25

      56,662 hours of work (roughly, we’re not taking into account taxes and whatnot)…

      Which is approximately 1,416.5 weeks at full time (40 hrs per week)

      Which is 27.24 years of work.

      Average length of a mortgage is still 25 years. So working full time, at minimum wage, and paying no taxes, and spending zero dollars of your money towards stuff you need in the mean time, like… IDK… Food?

      It will take you 2.24 years longer to pay off the house than you have time to pay it off.

      The system is working as intended.

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        It’s kinda funny. I was thinking it would more fair to use the US single median income $40k x 35% dedicated towards housing It’s actually slightly worse $14k vs $15k at minimum wage.

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    Show the same graph of billionaires wealth, then again for inflation costs, then one more with the same minimum wage, finally overlap them all… let’s see how that goes! Hmmmm…

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    Whenever I see MAGAts talk about how important family is, it’s hard not to forget that “pro-family” was the euphemism used by anti-gay marriage campaigners ten short years ago. She’s blaming the gays for income inequality.

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    When the answer has been staring you in the face for so long that it has resorted to just slapping you in the face, but you’re still not getting it.

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      The problem? You mean you don’t want people unmarried, without sex, and without porn? Because I feel that will teach them to vote right wing!

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        No sex, no abortions, no fun, no porn, no smoking, no vaping, no weed (still schedule 1 federally)…

        And to top it off: the economy is super fucked, and getting worse.

        Yep. Let’s go Donny!

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            Oh, I’m not saying what people should do, just what they’ve made it difficult or impossible to do.

            Funny enough, my local area requires that you stay so far away from any entrance to a building when smoking that if you’re in any town center, or major city, you basically can only legally smoke/vape in the street. Everywhere else has access doors to buildings frequent enough that you’ll never be far enough from an entrance to use tobacco products legally.

            Fortunately for the smokers, unless you’re directly next to, or standing in a doorway, generally nobody gives a shit, so the law is never enforced, making it little more than a placation for the anti-smoking crowd that seems to want to ban all tobacco/nicotine products without exception… Which would just about work if the laws were enforced.

            But I use vape products and I see all the drama around that shit and how few fucks retailers give about age verification when selling this shit. A local vape shop was forced to take down a video where they sent an underage looking person who didn’t have ID into vape shops and tobacco retailers to see if they could buy shit, and all the vape shops turned them away. The same cannot be said for other tobacco retailers… Heh. The backlash from the industry was so severe that YouTube cancelled their channel.

            But vaping is the problem, right? The less harmful alternative with strictly law abiding boutique shops, needs to be regulated so the minors don’t get to all the fruit flavors!

            Then vape products started to be made by tobacco companies and suddenly all the media buzz about it disappeared, and vape products showed up at normal tobacco retailers.

            This shit is so fucking transparent.

            The system is working as intended. It’s just not working for you.

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              Those things are addictive, and it is quite evil to get children addicted. They should not have to be responsible for themselves at that age.

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                Yes. They are addictive. And yes, getting children addicted is bad. And yes, they should not have to be responsible for themselves when they are so young.

                I don’t disagree with any of your points.

                Fact is: vaping, and even cigarettes, are not, and never were, the problem. No fancy flavouring is to blame here. There are already laws in place that prohibit people under a certain age (varies by jurisdiction), from buying tobacco/nicotine/vape products.

                Laws themselves don’t do anything. This is not a problem of seeing forth the rules. The problem is twofold in my opinion:

                First, enforcement. There’s already so little oversight of tobacco restrictions. Company’s rarely get checked to see if they’re serving to underaged people. When they do the fine is tiny compared to what they stand to earn by just, ignoring the rules, and selling to anyone who has the cash.

                Second, the tobacco industry itself. As far as I can see, the tobacco industry lobbied hard against vaping when it was largely small shops and companies making the vast majority of the products being sold. Almost all of the scrutiny went away when large tobacco companies started buying up the vape companies. Remember juul? Yeah, currently owned by Altria, which was formerly known as Philip Morris. If you’re unfamiliar, they started out as a tobacco brand. Guess what they’re still heavily invested into…

                The whole Anti vaping movement, proposed laws, pretty much everything about it, entirely stoked by tobacco companies. At first they just wanted to keep people smoking, but when they couldn’t make vaping go away, they just bought up most of the major vape brands and took it over, which is around the same time the anti vaping thing finally calmed down.

                It’s all corruption, all the way down.

                The only thing that’s accomplished by imposing further restrictions on vaping is harming law abiding citizens who are looking for an alternative to traditional cigarettes for their nicotine fix. Anything else is just posturing and smoke screen. The laws exist already to prohibit use of these products by minors. If you want to stop youth vaping, all we really need is enforcement of the laws we already have.