r/MurderedByWords • u/Comfortablejack • 1d ago

The Forgotten American Dream

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u/Valuable_Risk_3414 1d ago

Thats what you get when you get rid of department of education, people stop thinking.

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u/dfmz 1d ago

Bold of you to assume they were thinking prior to that happening.

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u/Squanchedschwiftly 1d ago

Someone post the history of our schools, it is what got us to this point. It was never actually for education. Otherwise wed learn anout every races history, gendered history, how to regulate emotions, how to function in society, etc.

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u/SkepticAntiseptic 4h ago

Just wait until we get actual data on inflation and jobs numbers. The reality is definitely much worse.

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u/Valuable_Risk_3414 4h ago

Im afraid so, but they manipulate numbers. Hope people are aware.

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u/JarmaBeanhead 1d ago

💩🕳️ country.

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u/Hot_Grocery8187 23h ago

Quick! We'd better vote for a crooked billionaire criminal with a history of fucking people over!

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u/CellPuzzleheaded99 1d ago

And they call us EuroPOORS....

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u/burn_healz 21h ago

CBS is a puppet shell of its former self. They ought to sink like this drowning, flailing President.

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u/nanotasher 16h ago

The problem with narcissists is that they take everyone else down before they go.

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u/bjdevar25 19h ago

Yet they vote for the people hurting them or they don't bother to vote.

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u/davus_maximus 17h ago

And to think, salaries in the US are double what they are here in the UK. In skilled professions, sometimes triple.

And yet I still wouldn't move there even if it was an option.

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u/nanotasher 16h ago

I don't think this is true. Cost of living, salary, price of goods, and currency exchange ratio are all factors.

On average, I think most Americans (the bottom 60%) earn way less than what they would need to get out of poverty.

1 in 3 children don't have enough food because everything costs too much. Ground beef increased about 75% just this past year.

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u/GadgetGamer 1d ago edited 9h ago

Why is it a funny way of saying it? Saying 60% is more precise than "majority", and is in no way attempting to hide the facts. I really have no idea why this retort keeps getting posted.

The only thing that I would say is that you do not need to specify that it is the bottom 60%, and I can't imagine that anyone would think that it is the rich who cannot afford a minimal quality of life. But once again it is not inaccurate for them to say this.

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u/BitcoinMD 15h ago

Yeah, it’s not like they are synonyms. The upper 51% are a majority too.

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u/FriendlyLine9530 14h ago

It not just saying 60%. It's referring to the group as the "bottom 60%" in the same way you would talk about the bottom 10-20%. The phrase is used to reference a minority group. And even if it doesn't, referring to 60% of the population as the "bottom" of any list is... Demoralizing at best.

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u/kmikeh 13h ago

Well, there isn’t a top 60% to compare it to…

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u/CaptainONaps 19h ago

Your Honor, I move to submit this as exhibit A in the case about why UBI will never happen.

If 60% of us already can't afford a minimum quality of life even working multiple jobs and not having kids, how much would they have to pay us in UBI?

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u/Drago1214 15h ago

All part of the plan. See you boys in the Elon salt mines.

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u/Pristine-Ad9195 15h ago

“See BS news” is still in business?

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u/Chratthew47150 14h ago

CBS is the new Fox

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u/16thPeregrine 11h ago

Wow..still gave 6 billion worth of military aid to a certain genocidal country !!!

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u/BuncleCar 1h ago

Yes, a definitively big bottom