• tomiant@piefed.social
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    7 hours ago

    I thought living in the future meant we would all be super smart and know shit, not whatever the fuck this is.

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      57 minutes ago

      Thank you for your daily contribution to capitalist society. Unfortunately, your woke-style awareness of social dilemma is counter to the goals of:

      • Increased profit
      • Decreased labor costs
      • More regressive taxes
      • Less progressive taxes
      • Military domination
      • Economical domination
      • Cultural division
      • Decreased regulation
      • Decreased education

      You’ll have 15 social credits deducted and may participate in free speech once again starting at 12:00pm tomorrow. Be aware that your score is nearing levels that will prevent job occupation, social program participation, social media participation, sunlight exposure, and time spent with family. Should your score decrease further, you may be required to shop exclusively from Grade D consumption centers. Have a good day.

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      5 hours ago

      I thought living in the future meant people would understand how to use computers.

      I was, uh, wrong.

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        5 hours ago

        I don’t think so, Tube Titties. There has been a lot of smart fucking politicians, and lots of solid fucking political movements.

        I think it’s money. Money has superseded democracy and rule of law. It’s literally the only thing that matters. That is the problem.

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            4 hours ago

            Well, see, there’s your problem right there. There is a distinction between what politics means and how it gets corrupted.

            Like, in ancient Rome they made a decree that anyone hitting someone has to pay a $50 fine on the spot (or the fucking correlate amount of Sestertians), and one rich fuck went around in his sedan slapping people in the streets and have his posse pay the victim and then move on to the next one.

            That’s hardly “politics”- that’s abuse and loopholing the law.

            There is such a thing as just law, just politics, democracy and basic fucking human decency, and we can have it.

            But rich fucks decided, what if we use our money to corrupt politics, so we can slap people in the face with impunity?

            That’s the problem. Money. Not politics itself.