Living in western society
(midwest.social)
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Yeah, that's the playbook for any nation in any era. Debasement of currency until it's mostly colored iron is normal. A bunch of deviants on the throne is a given. Bonus points for generations of incest. Bread and circus, jousting and all kinds of entertainment were always there as a distraction. And latrines leaked into the groundwater. Your mistake is thinking this time would be different. Every nation has its high point and decay.
Money is not fake, it's arbitrary. It's also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.
Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of "chemicals". Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but "poisoning you" is a bit much.
And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn't unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it's being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.
Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.
The country run by pedos? Yep, that one's a go as well.
Too distracted? Yeah, and that's thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it's all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it's hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.
But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.
Do what you can, whatever that is.
Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary.
While distinction between fictitious and arbitrary is technically correct, it's just pedantry which misses the actual point of the colloquialism. It's not that it doesn’t serve an exchange function, or that the dollars in your account are somehow illusory. It's an expression of frustration with how we have chosen as a society to treat economic institutions being treated as laws of nature, rather than as social construct which we ourselves have invented and therefore can revise at any time. As in much public discourse, the statement is a rebuke to the widespread habit of treating financial constraints as absolute barriers, beyond which no serious thought need be expended, and as an excuse for avoiding responsibility to address the underlying human issues. Correcting their metaphors ignores their argument. If the rules that govern human wealth are entirely of our own making, they can also be systematically changed whenever those rules no longer serve our common good.
Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit.
Meanwhile in the real world, there's literally a lawsuit against companies knowingly designing, marketing, and selling food products that are harmful and addictive.
- https://www.olshanlaw.com/Advertising-Law-Blog/food-manufacturers-to-suffer-increasing-legal-pressure
- https://sfcityattorney.org/san-francisco-city-attorney-chiu-sues-largest-manufacturers-of-ultra-processed-foods/
- https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2025/09/emerging-litigation-over-ultra-processed-foods
- https://hls.harvard.edu/today/the-new-case-against-ultraprocessed-food
Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.
Again back in the real world, the history of US water pollution is unfortunately marked by numerous instances where industrial discharge, coupled with weak or failed regulation, has poisoned water supplies. Just a few examples which you could've trivially googled yourself
- https://environmentamerica.org/michigan/media-center/campbell-soup-admits-to-more-than-5000-days-of-clean-water-act-violations/
- https://www.hbsslaw.com/press/oregon-groundwater-contamination/oregon-lawsuit-alleging-nitrate-polluted-groundwater-filed-against-power-company-and-dairy-manufacturer
- https://www.selc.org/news/the-city-contaminating-almost-900000-north-carolinians-drinking-water/
What about the water in Flint?
I think the problem there is lead pipes and old infrastructure that hasn’t been replaced… half assed renovations which causes changes in pressure and acidity etc and cause the problems with the lead being released.
Yes… just looked it up… they switched sources of water which caused the old lead pipes to leach toxins and they didn’t use enough chlorine which allowed some bacteria to thrive and make people sick
Food and water being poisoned is a questionable stance. Maybe in the US especially in the 20th century where there was a "put it in food first, if it has bad side-effects, outlaw it later" attitude. Especially heavily processed sugar is one of the worst offenders to health but the outrage about it is too little, and that's probably not what you meant anyways.
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Slow down! 👴🏻
Looking good
would love to do something but my rent is due tomorrow and i got a lot of ground to cover so
but we do have "human music" lol
Incredible
They don't have problems like this in Mongolia.
Sounds like human music to me.
We don't even have Szechuan sauce
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Look at the assumed powerlessness inserted here.
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