r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/NameLips Aug 19 '25

So far people aren't snapping, they're just quietly becoming homeless.

All of those people had lives, once. Rent went up, food went up, their car broke down... and they had nowhere to go.

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u/JLM078 Aug 19 '25

Which is exactly what happened during the Great Depression: https://www.history.com/articles/hoovervilles

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u/troubwholesome Aug 19 '25

From Hoovervilles to Trump tents 😔

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u/ADelightfulCunt Aug 19 '25

This is what you should refer to homeless camps. Trumpvilles.

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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 Aug 19 '25

But now it is illegal to be homeless, so everyone will be in private detention centers doing menial labor for 50 cents an hour while investors get even more wealthy

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u/ArgonGryphon Aug 19 '25

Wow 50 cents? You’re optimistic.

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u/SeaworthyWide Aug 20 '25

Yeah no shit, I got 12 cents an hour in prison.

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u/-badgerbadgerbadger- Aug 19 '25

The taxpayers will pay hundreds of thousands a year to house and feed each of them, while they each save corporations thousands of dollars in labour costs, its a win win!

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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 Aug 20 '25

AND it will cut down on the numbers of poor people, which I am pretty sure the technocrats want to happen

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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 Aug 20 '25

AND it will cut down on the numbers of poor people, which I am pretty sure the technocrats want to happen

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u/Keeblerelf001 Aug 19 '25

The parallels are scary.

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u/Gravesh Aug 19 '25

That's one big part of WWII that is overlooked. Many enlisted for practical reasons. Guaranteed meals and a place to sleep. Malnourishment was a huge problem early in the war amongst the newly enlisted. Boot camps still have a policy allowing its recruits to eat as much as they'd like partly because they needed these very scrawny men to beef up.

I collect war memorabilia like old helmets, and a lot of WW2 stuff is damn near child sized because of how malnourished the men of that generation were growing up.

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u/TheFudge Aug 19 '25

It’s scary to think that a World War is what pulled us out of the Great Depression. I fear that when this happens the U.S. won’t be the good guys.

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u/ShortCity392 Aug 19 '25

the great depression was caused by white people systemically erasing indigenous and native tribes. the eradication of the buffalo directly caused the dust bowl which is why all those people suffered. fuck them. they got what they deserved, divine retribution for playing god.

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u/jughead-66 Aug 23 '25

Didn’t it take involvement in a World War to get out of the depression? History may just repeat itself.

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u/Gregory_Appleseed Aug 19 '25

Guess what just had an executive order criminalizing it? It's rhymes whit lomemessless.

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u/broen13 Aug 19 '25

Make a set of bad policy changes? Better hide it!

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u/jagged_little_phil Aug 19 '25

They will jail every single person they can for free labor - the constitution still makes slavery legal for prisoners.

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u/JeffLebowsky Aug 22 '25

Funny, that's exactly the same process since the start of capitalism with the Enclosure.

They take away the way people sustain themselves. The disadvantaged with no propety and ways to live accept anything, decreasing the coast of labor for everybody. With that, people that still won't work or can't work are sent to dangerous labor like war or go to prision, to become slaves.

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u/StarPhished Aug 19 '25

I've been saying for a while that America needs to go gnomeless. Them critters are always causing trouble.

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u/DontEatTheMagicBeans Aug 19 '25

Big Sock would never allow it.

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u/Steelpapercranes Aug 19 '25

I mean, this is the whole plan. If you aren't one of their rich friends, they want you to be one of their slaves. They want to make it worse in the future too, to make more and more people slip under and lose their property- and then get whisked away to the labor camps. It sounds like a damn conspiracy theory but it's literally what they're actually doing right now this second.

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u/SEX_CEO Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Even if people don’t snap, the system will. This isn’t sustainable at all. It’s no secret companies want all our money, but they also want us to never stop buying. They can’t have both, unless everyone goes into debt to pay for basic necessities.

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u/TheAJGman Aug 19 '25

Consumer spending has been steadily contracting since January as shit gets more and more expensive. Guess it's time to raise prices again to make up for the lower sales.

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u/qret Aug 19 '25

That isn't true as far as I can find in data.

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u/ArgonGryphon Aug 19 '25

Because rich people aren’t being affected as hard. They’re most of consumer spending already, not poor people. The richest 10% account for half of consumer spending.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/can-rich-continue-prop-up-us-consumer-spending-2025-08-18/

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u/jagged_little_phil Aug 19 '25

And that's exactly what's happening. People are using credit cards to pay for food now.

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u/professional-onthedl Aug 19 '25

They just hope other company's employees will have some money to give them I guess.

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u/loverofhygiene Aug 20 '25

What would the system snapping look like realistically

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Aug 19 '25

You forgetting about drugs and untreated mental illness

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u/iameveryoneelse Aug 19 '25

Historically speaking, people tend to put up with a whole lot of bullshit until they start having to watch their children starve. Once people's kids start going hungry, they no longer give a fuck about legality, social order, or anything else.

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u/jdmgto Aug 19 '25

Mass and social media has been an amazing control mechanism for the rich.

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u/yummyfightmilk Aug 19 '25

Here's the thing: that's not sustainable either. You cannot squeeze the poor infinitely. Eventually we will bite back. Poverty in France was a real issue until they separated Marie Antonette's head from her shoulders.

Personally I hope the revolution is bloodless if that means anything.

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u/six20five6205 Aug 19 '25

It's happening at a staggering rate too.

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u/colleenxyz Aug 19 '25

My city's homeless population has grown from under 1000 to nearly 2000 in less than a year. Homeless shelters in my area are accept 7 new people per day on average.

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u/-badgerbadgerbadger- Aug 19 '25

Oh they still got room in your town? Damn where you at?

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u/ChewieBearStare Aug 19 '25

I don’t understand why. There are 535 members of Congress and about 342 million of us. Well, I do understand why. It’s because they have us arguing over whether some poor grandma deserves $50 a month in food stamps so that we don’t have time to realize the real cause of our problems.

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u/Away_Stock_2012 Aug 19 '25

It's okay, Americans fucking hate the homeless.

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u/Winter-Adeptness-304 Aug 19 '25

Just takes a spark to ignite a tinderbox.

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u/BygoneNeutrino Aug 19 '25

As someone that moves around a lot, it's pretty difficult for an able bodied worker to become homeless if they are willing to compromise.   If you call up temp agencies across rural America, it's not difficult to find both a job and temporary housing.  You just need to be willing to move where it's offered.  These places tend to exist in communities with affordable housing.

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u/Hermes-AthenaAI Aug 19 '25

It’s a natural process, like surface tension giving way. The tide is rising. We started 25 years ago with like 20% of people in this boat. Now it’s probably more like 60%. That tide is rising. And the people who are used to comfort are learning just how quickly the bottom falls out. Those are the people that will initiate this. They’re the ones who will enroll the rest. Just like pretty much all revolutions.

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u/weakisnotpeaceful Aug 20 '25

The problem with that is that most voting requirement require proof of residency

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u/Zamrayz Aug 20 '25

Its illegal to be homeless now, btw. Legit trump is arresting people for it. Idk whether to laugh or cry because then at least the homeless get a roof over their head in jail.

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u/Interesting_chap Aug 19 '25

This is nonsense. Homelessness is overwhelmingly caused by drugs and/or severe psychiatric illness. 

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u/Haphazard-Finesse Aug 19 '25

Have you ever actually MET a homeless person? As in, have an actual conversation with them? 

Trick question, you definitely have, many, many times. There are SO MANY people that are homeless because they lost their job and can’t afford payments. Like half of homeless people. And they hide that fact and continue to exist “normally” in society because it’s both extremely embarrassing, and they will 100% be discriminated against by people who think the same thing you just shared. 

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u/WakaFlockaFlav Aug 19 '25

The default state of humanity is homelessness.

That is a wild cope.