Lately I've had a really hard time finding pleasure in anything.

The world is such a depressing inhumane shit show at the moment. And I'm tired of being gaslit by every government from my local borough administration all the way to the federal government.

Capitalism and fascism had taken a hold on the world's nations the likes of which we have never seen in the history of humankind.

And the worst part is I feel people have been indoctrinated to as point where we're never gong to collectively get out of it. I don't even think a violent revolution is possible because people are too fucking dumb to notice what's wrong.

And the "fuck you, I got mine" attitude that capitalism has brought has ruined any chance of salvation. Empathy and solidarity are ridiculed as being some woke mind virus.

The world's climate is beyond fucked. There's wars and crimes against humanity being perpetrated by the Epstein class in our name. We keep electing wolves in sheep's clothing who win our votes on fake promises to help us then turn against us and double down on policies that make life more difficult and increase our level of misery. Unless you're a billionaire CEO or a politician, your life is absolutely worthless. You're nothing more than a low value resource. And you don't have freedom. Neither of speech or otherwise. Not as long as what you say or do goes against what the elites want.

We're fucked. I don't foresee any future worth living in.

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[+] -7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Capitalism and fascism had taken a hold on the world’s nations the likes of which we have never seen in the history of humankind.

Oh buddy, you do not have it half as bad as many historical working class people.

Just looking at the middle ages, you had the vast majority of the population as Serfs or Peasants, who didn't own their own land, and were taxed so heavily that many starved to death to fund wars. You weren't allowed to even leave most of the time, so there was no chance at a better life.

Not saying the world doesn't currently have problems, it does, but it could be FAR FAR worse than it currently is.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    "You whippersnappers don't know how good you have it!" isn't really a good point. I bet there were people just like you right around the dawn of agriculture, and they would have gotten just as many groans.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    A better example would have been the East India Company, which remains unrivalled in terms of extreme corporate excess. But I get the downvotes, because it's not really what the thread was about.

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