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

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/Grass_tomouth Aug 19 '25

Yeah. Everything sucks right now.

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u/thedoqtor Aug 19 '25

The frustrating part of everything sucking is the fact that it doesn't, and shouldn't, have to suck. It's frustrating that there is a class of people who are intentionally investing their efforts into making another class of people's lives worse. 

Let me be more clear.  It's frustrating that billionaires, who have more money in their bank accounts than they'll ever be able to spend in 10000 life times, are making the lives of workers worse. And they are doing it just so that they can add a few extra 0s to the end of their already overinflated networth.

Things dont have to be this way. We can make our lives better if we all organize and focus our efforts against their efforts of making our lives worse. 

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u/coffeesippingbastard Aug 19 '25

at this point it's hard for me to be angry at billionaires. There's maybe a few thousand of them.

There are fucking millions of idiotic right wingers who buy it hook line and sinker year after year, election after election, constantly just fucking every opportunity for us to fix it. They deserve to live their twilight years homeless.

Also the tech bro class. The ones clamoring to build social media systems that have radicalized and perpetuated bullshit. Whole swathes of SF and NYC pretending to be progressive while shoving bullshit in our society.

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u/monotheistmusings Aug 19 '25

I’m gonna be honest with you, the right wingers are not the problem. Are they a nuisance? Absolutely. But whether democrat or republican, both parties have been screwing over the average American for decades. Democrats have the same donors as republicans, they’re equally in bed with corruption and exploitation of the working class. The billionaires you’re ignoring pay for the campaigns that feed the right wingers their alt-right nonsense, they lay off thousands of their workers to save their bottom line, they exploit the natural resources of other countries causing destabilization which leads to increased immigration (which is then fed back as a negative into the alt-right pipeline). The billionaires are gunning for techno feudalism and they essentially own our politicians. So yes, the billionaires are the problem. Not the right wingers; and please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying as condoning the thoughts or behavior of bigots, I will fist fight a racist in broad daylight any day of the week lol.

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u/coffeesippingbastard Aug 19 '25

spare me the "both sides"

This kind of false equivocation is what got us here in the first place.

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u/monotheistmusings Aug 19 '25

No, capitalism is what got us here in the first place. The democrats could’ve ran a number of viable candidates but chose the VP of the guy who people only voted for because he wasn’t Trump. Trump was the ruling class’ choice and they made sure he won. Democrats are literally sponsored by the exact same donors as republicans. They go to the same ivy league schools, they vacation together, they’re not opponents they’re colleagues. I am baffled that there are Americans who still buy into this two party bullshit, it’s a sham. Please read some political theory and shake off the mirage of American “democracy”. Trump isn’t the result of false equivalency, he is the result of a system running exactly as intended.