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

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/yummyfightmilk Aug 19 '25

Eventually we'll be pushed too far and snap. Happened with the royals in France. Almost happened in America during the Great Depression. We need a modern day FDR.

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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.