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I keep seeing Harris ads with this line about Americans "not just getting by, but getting ahead."

Ahead of who? honk

Ahead of who! big-honk

USians don't even bat an eye at this. Their ideology has created a mass delusion that causes them to believe "everyone can get ahead" in the competition of all against all. But "getting ahead" necessarily neans someone is behind!

Libs will deny this if confronted. They can live with this dissonance because they fundementally do not see the people behind as human beings. People behind have moral failings and therefore could never be ahead - no matter what you try to do for them. The people ahead obviously deserve it and are the only real people anyway so they can't even see how obviously anti-social the entire concept of "getting ahead" is. Deeply psychopathic culture.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Capitalism? Or financialized hyper-calvinism? We discuss the issues on... Hexbear!

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Capitalism? Or financialized hyper-calvinism?

The differences are getting harder and harder to distinguish, especially when "elect" failsons keep failing upwards and the working class suffers no matter how hard they work.

[-] LigOleTiberal@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

GETTING BY IS MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE GET IN THIS WORLD!

you greedy american pigs are never satisfied.

DEATH TO AMERICA.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Not to mention the step up that "getting by" would be for many people

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

THANK YOU. I legit have been yelling that under my breath every time I see that fucking ad.

All I can think of is this Debs quote

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses—you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Great Debs quote!

Yeah that ad has been pissing me off for weeks

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

"Getting ahead" by kicking off World War III with Iran, China, Russia, ALL OF THE ABOVE? Oh yeah it's feckless liberal time.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

gui-better Getting A Head

It's called capitalism because heads will roll inevitably sicko-wholesome

e: also just found this forbes article with the same line from 2015: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yec/2015/08/11/how-to-get-ahead-instead-of-just-getting-by/
Dems just rehashing rightwing BS again

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I gotta get ahead of all these random SOBs so I can be loaded and then stunt on everybody and be so rich I can give money away to help all the losers that I fucked over to get where I am.

not so much that they are made whole. I gotta drive a Lexus and wear nicer clothes and send my kids to a school with a Latin motto and shit.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Canis Canum Edit

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i read these as getting ahead of the financial abyss and consequent dehumanification that lurks behind every working person and creeps up on them slowly but surely unless they're employed (and even that's not a guarantee of staving off the beast), rather than getting ahead of any actual people

maybe im giving her campaign too much credit though, idk. the people who wrote that probably didnt even think it through this much

Death to America

[-] MonsterRancher@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Every thing from them is so vague and platitudinal. Just like corpo-speak word associate graphs posted to various media.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago
[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

chefs-kiss a thing of beauty fidel-salute

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