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Rachel Baldes's avatar

To the people who scoff at socialism as Unamerican; I want to know what is so very American about the nation's population having their tax dollars used to repeatedly bail out every type of corporate malfeasance and bad acting? Why are so many people unbothered by these companies getting their own exorbitant forms of welfare from both state and federal agencies yet paying little to no taxes often themselves?

It's nonsensical to me that underwriting bailouts for the already rich yet criminally reckless is seen as somehow more moral than helping individual people with dire circumstance often brought on by the same asshole suits we give all the money we're not spending on whatever the fuck the DOD does spend our money on. We're not safer. We're not happier. We're not healthier. If THAT'S what being American is, perhaps we need to rethink it.

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Switter’s World's avatar

And rebrand the airline Air America, because Amtrak and Aeroflot are already taken.

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