When you Google for "best whatever" and land on a reddit thread, take some time to look at the histories of the people commenting.

You'll find many cases where the only post they've ever made was for that product, and cases where the person posting the question also posts in the comments with an answer, like they forgot to switch to alt accounts.

A lot of it is obvious SEO marketing nonsense. Trust nothing. The entire Internet is trying to scam you. Enshittification, indeed. This used to be a nice neighborhood before the capitalists moved in in the 90s.

". . . . except as a punishment for crime . . . ."

Slavery never stopped, it just evolved. There's a reason black men are so overrepresented in the prison system.

The US is a fascist country. If you live here and you don't feel it, you are benefiting from it.

For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it's not actually meant as a slide.

https://umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawowe-na-os-g-zjezdzalnia

Mixing an acid and a base makes a salt. She's drinking saltwater.

Common misconception. We cruelly hunt the majestic dorit, only to harvest the toes and discard the rest.

I mean, yeah, but this is like showing a picture of the alphabet and saying "this is spot on for so many books."

https://cwa-union.org/trumps-anti-worker-record

I'm sure others can back up the other claims, but you said "ANY."

There are six companies that control a very large percentage of the media consumed by Americans. They are all mega corporations. The media Americans consume is mostly corporate propaganda, and it's invisible to us. It's the water we swim in.

Whatever opinions the oligarchs want us to have are dictated to us.

It is not a coincidence that all our national political races come down to a wire, that we are divided almost 50/50. We are being intentionally divided so that we don't unite and challenge the oligarchy.

Politicians do not serve your interests. They serve their own, and they serve their masters.

Your side actually consists of your fellow workers. The other side consists of the capitalist class who are fucking you over and robbing you blind. National level politicians are members of the capitalist class.

When you get upset at "both sidesing" it's because you haven't internalized what the sides actually are.

And the same people that own the media also own and operate the state.

I'm so glad this stuff is starting to finally bubble to the top of the public consciousness.

Now, everybody read Marx.

You feel this way because you've been intentionally individualized.

There is strength in community, but community threatens the capitalist class so they've done everything they possibly could to drive wedges between us.

You're absolutely right that nobody is coming to save us. That means it's up to us to save each other. It's not too late.

Most of the members of Congress are extremely wealthy, Republican and Democrat alike. They're not doing anything about this coup consolidating capitalist class power because they stand to personally gain from it. They don't have to pretend to not have the votes to stop yet another grab at working class wallets because they can point at Elon and say "we have no power here."

There are certain people who never want to hear it, but very few national politicians give a shit about us, certainly not enough to make a difference. They're in it for personal gain, everything else is performative.

Liberals are pro-capitalism, which is the ultimate mechanism for inequality.

"Neoliberalism" isn't a pejorative, it's a political philosophy that has dominated the Western world for about 50 years, though it has roots much further back. It is a philosophy embraced by both Republicans and Democrats. It's about privatization of services, lowering taxes, and deregulating corporations. It's why we have for profit healthcare in the US, for example.

We are boiled frogs in regards to fascism in the US.

Look at the facts:

We have the largest prison population in the world, which is mostly black. Slavery is still legal as punishment for crime.

We have a surveillance state that watches all of us all the time.

Dissent and protest results in brutal militarized police response.

We have militarized police. With tanks.

We scapegoat immigrants (Biden hardly changed any trump policies.)

Criticism of US policy and actions is instinctively seen as unpatriotic by a large number of citizens.

The existence of our country is largely due to the genocide of native Americans, but that really triggers the national cognitive dissonance.

The wealth of our country was in large part built on the backs of slaves, and continues today in prison labor, but also in regular workers who get a tiny fraction of the wealth they generate for corporations and billionaires.

We do not have a democracy. Corporations and billionaires have captured our government and control 80%+ of the media we consume, easily drowning us in the propaganda they want to push. Nobody is immune, not me, not you. The largest consent manufacturer in history is operating in front of our eyes, but we can't see it because it's the sea we swim in.

Corporations and billionaires control who even gets to run in national elections by promoting those that will toe the line. Why bother fixing the actual elections when you can just control who is allowed to get the job in the first place.

The fascism people are worried about came in quietly and made itself at home. It isn't a Hitler. It isn't a Mussolini. Hell, it isn't even a Trump (although he would make things much worse.) The fascists are who they've always been. Pick your name - corps and billionaires, the 1%, the bourgeois.

It's already here.

I use two spaces and you are all "no cap fr fr skibidi Ohio fam."

Fuck off.

She's a former cop and prosecutor that wasn't selected through a primary process (not that Dems ever allow anyone not selected by party elites.)

She's basically a Republican with zero progressive policies, which isn't going to appeal to an increasingly radicalized base.

There were a lot of problems with her that had nothing to do with her being a her.

Democrats keep chasing votes to the right, abandoning the actual left and the working class.

US corporations are the US government. They outright own it. US media is state media with extra steps.

The slightest bit of material analysis exposes the whole thing, but the minute you add "Marxist" to that sentence everyone shuts their brain off because of over a century of red scare nonsense. As designed.

Pineapples have enzymes that digest flesh. Make sure to score it a few times first.

Thanks, comrade!