Society can’t function when people only care about themselves, countries with robust social safetynets are happier. For all the GDP and mega yachts we generate, we’re 23rd.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

And have the thing we crow about as our thing, when we’re pathetic for that in the developed world, upward mobility. We’re 27th.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Our culture hyper-individualism is quite honestly inhuman, it’s a perverse point of pride to have about this cesspool of greed and rewarded sociopathic behavior, yet many do, smh.

Capitalism must be heavily regulated straight jacked to work for society if it is to work at all. We subsist in service to our economy here.

As someone who participated in the last, maybe shut down any fellow peasants who try to insult and/or mock the next one, if the owners allow there to be a next one.

There’s nothing more demoralizing than being attacked by the people you’re desperately trying to help.

This right here is why I walked away from my species.

The less help, empathy and respect you need, the more you get.

From my perspective, that makes us monsters.

Bernie is too old, she’d be my top pick in Congress by far.

But the Party probably wants to go maximum hail corporate neoliberal, especially when there isn’t a pesky primary to deal with, because thats what they’re paid to do.

You know, someone who will come to continue to protect our beloved economy… from our society and the needs of our people. Better than fascism, but just extending the meaningless subsistence in service to the owner class.

Yeah, when you cross the pond, there be monster Mickeys

Its always interesting to me to see how horrifying they are based on the location.

Lucky guess, I’m not sure why other commenters in this post are going “of course its vegas.”

I’ve been to Times Square, they have the knock offs. I’ve been to the real Eiffel Tower, they have the knock offs. I forget where in London, but they were there too.

Anywhere on Earth tourist trappy enough to be in any proximity to an M&M store, and you’ll likely find mutant Disney characters in costumes of wildly varying quality appealing to your kids for a $20 picture.

Wait another decade and “90s kid” won’t be a title anyone wants to claim.

I think we need a new constitution based in criminalizing socially destructive greed.

I’d take an electoral system not created to disproportionately represent land owners.

That said, imho both are beyond pipe dreams until collapse. This place is bought and paid for, and capitalists are only fans of representative “democracy” they can purchase through their legalized bribes and propagandized, for profit media.

Reaganomics was a bullet to this country’s brain, Citizens United was just pissing on it’s cold, long dead corpse gratuitously. This place is just the bought and paid for launchpad and military for the market capitalists to spread/grow/metastasize their greed disease accross the globe since then.

https://youtu.be/ZgdUWXf8jJk?si=hnwDV0rvBLwgTxid

I think Newhart, his second sitcom, was the OG meta, 4th wall break for a scripted show to to hit TV. Funny as hell. So much so that Bryan Cranston riffed it after breaking bad with the wife from Malcom in the middle:

https://youtu.be/oVdB36lmbII?si=fgaxy6M-IV4MRDAA

Bob really was a legend.