Some people have a feudal mindset - even when they're on the bottom of the ladder

Not only does he give money. He votes.
Remember that when you decide to skip an election.

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Or throw your vote away on a spoiler that only benefits fascists.

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- Both red and blue candidates owns multiple million-dollar properties. I believe you are missing the point of this meme
  
  Edit: I didn't noticed the flag at first, for a moment i though people were finally realizing how much the system is rig but it's just another political meme
  
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If the situation is the one described in the picture, not voting, not paying taxes and not playing the government game sounds like a fair decision.

Edit: didn't noticed the flag, i thought this was a meme describing society in general

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naw. Fuedal is the tax guy shows up and demands payment. this is something else.

Maybe it's a Fin-dom kink?

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I dunno, I feel like the hierarchical nature of feudalism is more core than tribute extraction. The lord needs the support of his loyal vassals, while the loyal vassals only need their lord insofar as they crave a ruler over themselves - or over their despised peers, for which they are willing to sacrifice money and dignity, and sometimes even their lives.

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- It would be awfully hard for a vassal landholder to get the kind of materials that they can’t produce on their own. Iron, tin, copper, lead; depending on the area, lumber, as well.
  
  There was also the military presence keeping the brigandry in check (including from other feudal lords.)
  
  Vassals also exchanged military service for land. (And the serfs that came with it!)
  
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- They still needed land, though. Trump's promise of fossil capitalism might resemble that land, but the whole comparison shakes a bit.
  
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- I agree here. Feudalism to me was a system to maintain order by splitting the kingdom into essentially vassal states that worked relatively independently through a kings central government rules.
  
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The funniest thing about this is Trump won't stop grifting them. Every month is something new. Trump trading cards. Trump shoes. Trump NFTs. Like the moment Harris tries to sale me shoes, I'm out. But these people can't afford medical care because their Republican state government cut their benefits, so now they are going to send money to a guy who is selling NFTs... Enough said.

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But, but... That $100K watch is awesome!

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The important thing is that he hates brown people just as much as they do.

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This is something I see a lot with the houses that have Trump signs in my area. They always have a multitude of run down cars, a house that is falling apart, a bunch of stuff in their yard that are not lawn ornaments, and occasionally are fenced in. It's pretty consistent and they always have Trump signs and flags even though voting for Harris would likely help them afford to fix up their cars or house.

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I think the fact that Harris would help everybody is the dealbreaker.

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- Oh 100%, they don't want minorities to benefit from it so they'd rather fuck themselves over than allow everyone to have a better standard of living.
  
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Maybe it's a post hoc ergo procter hoc, ie. the run down property, and voting for Trump, are both symptoms of the same thing: That life's been hard, that they are in over their heads, and that nothing seems manageable anymore. (Doesn't it sound an awful lot like undiagnosed neuro divergence?)

Maybe voting for Trump initially was an f you to the intellectual elite that "are keeping them down"? After a while it became part of the identity. And now they may not have much going for them, but they have their savior Trump.

I just noticed that both previous paragraphs starts with "maybe", that wasn't planned, but it doesn't convey my own doubts.

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Because some day I might be rich and then people like me better watch their step.

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But this is necessary because wealthy people keep society away from war and chaos, right?

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Because he is convinced they are on the same team. He is just a temporaryly embarrassed millionaire. He might get his too. Spoiler, he won't.

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nah, he just wants to fuck over darker skinned people. that's why he has the loser flag.

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He is just a temporaryly embarrassed millionaire.

If mental healthcare were more widespread, available and good quality, a lot more people would really be something like that. Many of them not embarrassed anymore.

There are reasons our current time is so ... overloaded with junk and depressed. A lot more threats to one's mental health and triggers for otherwise less notable conditions have emerged, but everyone was like "it's just the Internet, common sense doesn't apply there, it's all toys and not real".

My comments are a good example of someone who would be stronger (not a millionaire, I'm afraid of power) should they go offline completely. Quite lonely though and unable to scream out my opinions about civilization going to hell at least in text T_T.

There's such thing as critique. We usually talk about it as something good. The issue is - in society there's your side and the other side. It's just life and humanity. When you allow yourself to feel too much shame and guilt, or allow your approval of actions of your group to replace your own action, dropping your own "me" and the responsibility of that "me" stemming from there being no justification for your position except your decision only - you lose.

Parents 20 years ago would teach their children to say "no" and to stand tall, but they didn't have to explain how it scales for Internet echo chambers because there were none. Ultimately there's only you. You can't do anything, even think, without taking full responsibility. Internet communities make that appear contested, but in reality it isn't.

That's the most important problem of our time. The rest people standing tall and taking responsibility for everything they do will fix.

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Honestly even with the current situation, I'm seeing call for donations and aid to the affected States who have been hit hard this week. But I think to myself, why should I help these people when they are voting for politicians who are literally refusing federal aid, cause they don't want to look like they're accepting Biden's help. Now my poor ass is s donating to people who are refusing aid at the same time. I hate it

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That's kind of narrow minded of you, not every person in the south is a trump loving conservative. That's the same kind of thinking they have when wildfires affect California, or pandemics hit cities more than rural areas, you have to be better than them and more open-minded.

Also Asheville, which is now flooded, is one of the most hippy liberal cities in the country.

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- I confirm that ashville is super hippy. If ypu havent been there then im sorry for your loss
  
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Don't donate then?!

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Because despite political bullshit there are good people suffering. And even if you dont see some of them as good they are people and dont deserve the arbitrary harsh treatment only imagined in polarized social media echo chambers.

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- Is it arbitrary if they voted for the situation they find themselves in politically and financially in the wake of a disaster that would otherwise have been eased by the social programs they abhorred until needed?
  
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Why’s it say km

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For scale but they forgot to include the scale

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Not sure tbh

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Just a variation of the Prosperity Gospel. They think they will become rich if they just give this rich guy more money.

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Pardon my ignorance... Who lives in this house?

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The Annoying Orange

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- Oh. Idk that I've ever seen a picture of his modest house. Lol
  
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Dunno, the first photo seems a nice place to live except for the racist flag.

But then it's probably not a big chance to get a girlfriend or an interesting job while living there.

But then again, girls are strange - some of them care about glossy appearances less than they seem to, and jobs are strange - some of the pretty good ones can be remote. Both may not work too well with that flag though.

I'd say without the flag I'd choose the first picture. I like nature. The second picture causes some kind of nausea I can't describe.

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I mean with all those hurricanes the man's probably drowning in insurance premiums alone!

/S

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been to serf city. not going back

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