• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Same as it ever was.

    The Cruelty Is The Point.

    They’d put all the money in a literal pile and set it on literal fire before they’d just help people who need the help.

    If I had to characterize the US govt when it comes to helping its citizens I’d compare it to Immortan Joe.

    Immortan Joe: Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

        • stinky@redlemmy.com
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          10 hours ago

          Hard disagree. Most of our billionaires will have lived long, happy lives, dying in peace and comfort surrounded by loving family after decades of cruelty. For each of them, it was perfectly sensible.

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            9 hours ago

            Billionaires genuinely do not consider the people beneath them to be anything other than pawns and slaves. They really, REALLY don’t care.

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            7 hours ago

            Billionaires are selfish and whatever cruelty just comes second to that. What we’re seeing with Trump and ICE is cruelty as the main purpose and if we’re using the Nazi’s as the established pattern, we’ll see it end that way as well.

            Well, unless climate change cuts it short, which is what I was really getting as with “long run”.