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gizzlon04/03/20251 replyview on HN

Do you assume it can't get worse? Or that 10 other things could not get worse?

Like, much much worse?


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palmotea04/03/2025

> Do you assume it can't get worse? Or that 10 other things could not get worse?

> Like, much much worse?

It will at least afflict the comfortable, otherwise they wouldn't be so opposed.

And that's fine. We've been running on a twisted "win-win" logic in this country for a long time: no policy can be pursued where the working class "wins" unless the well-off also "win" (because if they don't, there will be much whining), but if the working class loses it's "Who cares! They've got to suck it up and adapt. Be more grateful and go fill the holes in your life with cheap shit from Walmart."

Enough of that, and a lot of people rightly stop caring if things can get worse. Trump is the chickens coming home to roost. If people didn't want this outcome, they should've gotten together to fix the problems with neoliberalism.

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