Nol Malone ☭If you think the US is a Democracy, and not just a complicated form of slavery that benefits the few, you really aren't paying attention.
Kalshann@anolandria
Open air prison disguised as a nation.
mike805@Kalshann @anolandria This is why the Left/Right divide is so important and has been stoked up so vigorously.
If we're divided between gender theory and prayer in schools, we are not voting 60/40 for our bottom line interests.
Which we should be.
Jay@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria Bottom line interests include civil rights like freedom of and from religion, personal privacy, and bodily autonomy.
The correct reaction to the rich and powerful destroying daily life for the majority is not to cede defense of civil rights to fight for economic justice; rather, to defend said rights is to engage in economic justice.
@WhiteCatTamer @Kalshann @anolandria The division I am talking about is the one where if you are in favor of thing A you are supposed to oppose thing B and vice versa.
The rich have divided "rights" into to mutually hostile packages and want to force people to choose.
@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria No, civil rights are a whole package for the left. No one who is in favor of bodily autonomy and trans rights is in favor of forced prayer in schools.
People can pray in schools. That violates no one’s rights. What DOES is FORCED prayer, and that’s what the “prayer in schools” advocates want. They want FEWER rights.
mahadevank@anolandria goodness, that's 60% poverty then?! Wild!
Nazo@mahadevank @anolandria Yeah, but most don't realize it. They're drowning in massive debt, maxing out credit cards, but still vote Republican because it's all the neighbor's fault for existing while brown, not, you know, the ones actually doing this to us.
Even the people voting Democrat still are fooling themselves and voting in candidates that are no different from a Republican used to be.
Wokebloke for Democracy@anolandria
I found a different headline on the site:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
I found a different headline on the site:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
GhostOnTheHalfShellI wonder how much longer that article will remain online.. thank God for the Internet Archive. There’s a columnist on the financial times who remarked that the UK was a few islands of wealth amidst an ocean of poverty.
Both the United States and the UK were the first targets/victims of neoliberalism, a conman’s ask that people surrender their sovereignty to the totalitarian rule of wealth.
That’s what privatization is. The rank and file have no say.
Kinene⭐🐻
Kevin Neely 
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dougiec3 @anolandria do they post the same article under different headlines to target different groups?
Clarissa@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ktneely @dougiec3 @anolandria One was a tweet (BlueSky post?). They may well have edited the headline later.
さよなら皆さん@anolandria yep! Wage slavery is still slavery.
No Exceptions@anolandria The ~$36,000 the article cites, for a family of three, is roughly only 138% of the federal poverty guidelines for 2025.
If that correlates, then yes, the majority of the population is poor (which I tell my incredulous European friends all the time -- Americans are, by and large, poor).
Ronan@anolandria I agree with you, and the following is probably obvious; that inequality is the source of so much domestic trouble in USA and issues they export to the rest of the world. So many trapped in poverty and their only way out is greed, take everything for yourself and screw everyone else.
A more equal society would be happier and safer. But that means paying taxes and obeying rules, something the rich refuse to do and the poor struggle to
Pseudonymous 
That's called neural linguistic programming. They're wording it that way in the hopes that you'll be afraid of being "at the bottom" and will deny your poverty as a result. 
Hey, Russian bots! Pay attention! The American media does this trick a lot. You wanna rattle your saber, learn this trick. Hen you can rattle it to my benefit for a change. 
RegI'll grudgingly admit that from a slavers' perspective, a self-organising population of wage and debt slaves is an impressive evolution on the old model.
Dźwiedziu@anolandria “democratic slavery” \s
Andy Torbet@anolandria That’s a strong claim, but it oversimplifies a complex system. The U.S. is a democracy with real flaws—economic inequality, influence of capital—but calling it ‘slavery’ ignores both historical context and the mechanisms people still use to push for change
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
ts 🚇@darkmemer @anolandria if you take context into consideration then slavery remains widespread. In the Congo, from California to New Hampshire. The Epstein class is doing everything they can to coerce people into doing more for free
@darkmemer @anolandria *California is partly rhetorical, as I’ve heard that they rely on prison labor. New Hampshire has been true well into the 21st century here
RRB@anolandria Wouldn't that be a "super majority"?
masukomi@anolandria I mean it's worse than that. Slavery is still legal in the US and a great form of profit for the prison systems.
Carina C. Zona@anolandria 51% would be majority. 60% is arguably supermajority.
softproof@anolandria This has a non-zero chance of violating their appropriate risk posture.