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STEVIERAYK
Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society you republican ninny.
Turbolibros
VinnieJonesDiary
I've long said that America's greatest issue is an empathy shortage.
Feralkyn
I think the best campaign slogan to counter the cry of "socialist" would be "WE WANT WHAT WE'RE PAYING FOR."
smartblondesandsarcasm
I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people
Pipeliner5641
I don't have kids but I still pay taxes to local schools.
EndersPregame
keefuskimball5
I don’t have kids, but i willingly pay school taxes because i don’t want a bunch of dumb fucks running / ruining the country when I am old.
qwaszx8888
Why is every comment on tumblr somebody copy pasting the OP or “i will never not reblog this” Shit is whack change my mind.
SmokeMeAKipperIllBeBackForBreakfast
mytruepersonality
But these same people that don't want benefits for others want them for themselves.
moranpillage1297
A rising tide lifts all boats
HalloIamherenow
The real sin of taxes is paying for all these fucking wars in places halfway around the world. Military should be at our borders...
HalloIamherenow
... not in the Middle East
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
Sesame Street is on HBO now. Not that that matters - I agree with you.
Flyer770
JFC, we really are living in endtimes.
NomDeImguerre
The entire human race's survival strategy is to pool all skill points in communication and cooperation. And they want to abandon that?
EvilDeadTed
No, they just want the benefit without having to contribute.
CoarseAndSalty
It don't benefit me, but the second shit starts burning,. who am I kidding bitches never figure out how much helping others benefits them.
Chpgmr
They may not directly improve your live but they indirectly do. But no, instead vote for shit that directly ruins your quality of life.
52pickup
The sheer amount of humanity that fails to grasp indirect consequences is baffling.
crazyspelling
"But I'm a Libertarian!" Fuck your Diet Republican bullshit.
Dekkonot
No you don't understand Libertarianism is different because in my laissez-faire fantasy, I'm rich.
SaveitforQueenDoppelpoppolus
if you dont want to be part of society, walk into the woods alone and die mad
EvilDeadTed
EvilDeadTed
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
TheStaffmaster
Think about it like this: they are like hardcore gamers. Unless you are beating Dark Souls on impossible difficulty, no death run, >>
TheStaffmaster
>> ON A FISHING ROD PERIPHERAL, (FROM A DIFFERENT SYSTEM) while simultaneously going for 100% completion, then, bruh, ARE YOU EVEN TRYING?
TheStaffmaster
GET GUD SON!! Pressure makes diamonds! Be thankful for God's challenges! #Blessed #Sacrifice
EvilDeadTed
SOURCE: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_b_59519811e4b0f078efd98440
NewNordicWarfare
Go live in the woods and die mad about it.
EveryoneWhoDisagreesWithMeIsLiterallyHitler
LeSethX
At a city meeting about adding new housing, one person said she would move into the woods rather than support more housing here. Good.
LeSethX
Our area is still critically under housed, but the older generation only thinks "I have my house, fuck everyone else!"
xjsxjs
You’ve met my FIL?
Consolidatedheadmelter
"Can we have society?" "We have society at home"
n0n53n53
the society at home
mondeca
n0n53n53
TFW he's about to eat your baby
mondeca
But not like this one!
TacoThePerson
These are the same kind of asshats who would ask "when are we ever going to use this?" in class.
smax410
To the people who say this “you achieve the level of education you want to be capable of the career you want, if you lack the imagination1/2
smax410
To see why this is useful I can see how far you aspire to go.”
CatsAndBikesAndCarsAndBeer
If my taxes went exclusively to those things I wouldn’t complain. Instead an unacceptable % goes towards bombing brown children, ICE, CIA...
meowlion19
I know it's not an all-encompassing solution, but this is why we should all vote.
TheStaffmaster
"But never cut military spending! you HATE our "HEROS!!"" Yeah, sure Betty Ann. I positive that Under Lt 4th class Latrobe from the >>
TheStaffmaster
Rear base Motor pool Janitorial staff, got a full load of PTSD from all those Camel Spider Fight bets he lost while stationed in Fallujah.
CatsAndBikesAndCarsAndBeer
I won’t badmouth them, but seems like the best way to support them is stop putting them needlessly in harms way.
TheStaffmaster
Hurch
we're trying to have a fucking society here
abitskeptical
That's the problem
CheckMate343
Ah yes, the fucking society, I've sent my application.
TheStaffmaster
Make love not war... or failing "love", at least more consensual casual sex. (properly condomed and Birth controlled, of course)
ITellBadPuns
A society of fucking? Count me in
tehmatser
olekingcole001
The taxation I hate are the airline bailouts when they mishandled their billions of excess. The oil subsidies when we have clean power for
olekingcole001
Cheaper. The lobbyists that lead the politicians to spend money on things we don’t want, in their interest and not ours.
n0n53n53
we are, they aren't. They think they will be let in on the riches
ArdentSlacker
No, they don't. They just care that someone they hate and fear will be harmed. That's a higher priority than surviving a trump rally.
ArdentSlacker
Also? I think humans invented civilization to protect us from republicans...
DavidBrooker
Almost everyone agrees that the government wastes money on useless programs. But if you go program by program, they all have something 1/2
DavidBrooker
like 60%+ support. Its that nobody agrees on *which* 60% they like, and for some reason if you're in the 40% everyone else is invisible. 2/2
CrazyEarl
Except for when congress votes to overfund the military over what the pentagon requests.
CheesecakePi
bonoboforscale
One persons essential service is another persons “pork barrel project”
colderfish
Part of the problem is that one group *intentionally* makes programs inefficient so they can say, "see, it's inefficient. Privatize it!"
BBoyBouillabaisse
Do you have a source for that number?
DavidBrooker
Not comprehensive, but for example
Jak8714
God knows i used to feel that way about social security. I mean, I couldn't believe how much of our budget went to that one program.
Jak8714
But then you think about the people who are using it, and you realize that there's a good chance they have nothing else to rely on.
CheesecakePi
The biggest thing that changed my views on Social Security was working in finance and retirement planning and realizing how many people /1
CheesecakePi
fail to adequately prepare for retirement, or who will leap to sacrifice their long-term finances when they really probably shouldn't. 2/2
frankthesomething
But that's socialism! /s
NicoNicoKneecaps
UwU
AmCow
"You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"
fknbastard
darwinsshooter1
I was part of the US's biggest socialism experiment for 10 years. Sometimes I miss the army
fredbloxx
only entitled fascist snowflakes call it socialism.
copingcabana
I've been a Republican since Reagan, and the problem is most people on the right can no longer distinguish good government from socialism.
ProfessorChaos
Can someone remind me why people get so mad at the word socialism? Everyone wants a nice society but hates contributing to it. Greedy cunts.
ILikeNewEnglandBeer
Because they automatically point at Argentina amd Cuba
SallyZou
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Because silent gen and boomers were brought up to irrationally hate & fear "communism" and "socialism" for easier manipulation by the rich.
PizzaDolphin
Propaganda.
CakeShapedPie
McCarthyism
yourdailydoseofnope
Fear mongering
NaughtyNinja74
It all started with the Red Scare in the 50s and has never really stopped
dav8388
They think by helping people out they're just going to mooch off the system.
PlaidBastard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society This. Specifically, this.
PositivelyKAH
I remember my father, a WWII and Korea vet, used to watch Crossfire with William Buckley. He giggle-laughed at them~Big worded ignoramuses.
PositivelyKAH
And my father was very particular about pronunciation, didn’t want me to sound like a hick. And conversely, not sound like a accented snob.
PlaidBastard
(Where the peculiarly US-flavored version of anti-communist right wing propaganda started.)
GodsFoot
Because we have a generation or two who grew up believing that socialism=communism/USSR and were given everything so voted to lower taxes...
bluemyles
this is such a big part of it, basically boomers, gen x, and the early part of gen Y had the anti-ussr propaganda machine in full effect.
GodsFoot
But expected everything remain the same. So they with their jobs they have been at so long they don't get fired even though they have zero..
GodsFoot
Modern skills blame the new generation that we are lazy not realizing they screwed us over (generalizing, there are many who realize this)
NeverEnoughFoxes
People conflating socialism with Soviet communism
Beefkins
This is 100% my dad. He said they are the same thing. When I asked him to define it, he couldn't. He has no clue what it even is.
Sponger004
Are we brothers? Lol
Beefkins
Brothers from different mothers, mi amigo!
NoAsBigAsMediumJockButBiggerThanWeeJockJock
(US) People that are brainwashed into thinking this for decades
NeverEnoughFoxes
Accurate
ChainmailleAddict
Not even socialism. Socialized democracy or even "Getting the shit our taxes are supposed to pay for". All that makes you a filthy commie!
NeverEnoughFoxes
Yes, but us Americans seem to see anything related to social programs as "socialism" because of lies and brainwashing.
ThatIsIncorrect
Republicans have forced us into comparing socialism with evil. In order to further ingrain capitalism as the virtuous choice. Unfortunely...
ThatIsIncorrect
Dems have done a terrible job at defending socialism, and would rather try to agree on anything with the Republicans even if it means...
ThatIsIncorrect
Throwing socialism under the bus. "No im not a socialist, I would never do that! I just want universal health care!" No backbone.
azazyel
Alpha5772
So his was Jackson Polick?
TuckerCarlsonWarnedYouTheredBeGirlsLikeMe
A splatter? Sounds right.
delecti
Even if this is fake, JFK would have at least understood it. Remember when we had presidents that could understand sentences?
DVSBSTrD
I also remember the days before Andrew Jackson.
ShutUpAndLurk
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedy-quotations
polarbearbaby
Right now I’d settle for a president who could form a sentence.
TheStaffmaster
Even Dubbya could do that. Sure his pronunciation was a bit off, but TBF her WAS from the south, so pass.
polarbearbaby
I didn’t know that he said this. No wonder he was killed ☹️
ukalliq
There is a reason we named our national performing arts venue for him.
FireSolvesProblems
Historically speaking people with messages of peace and tolerance tend to meet a rather ugly end.
awesomespeler
Like painting a Jackson Pollock in a drop top Lincoln.
Higure
Good omens yeah that'll do it.jpg
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
pseudopants
Oh damn, I didn't realise Toby was quoting when he yelled that. Rewtched that episode just the other day
Dinkleboop
Stealing this to see if it'll take me anywhere near the front page
ZebadiahCarter
SAME
Dinkleboop
Spoiler alert: it didn't.
EorlundGreymane
I watched the first ever televised debate about a week ago. The same night the actual “debate” was held. I am still physically moved by
EorlundGreymane
JFK in that debate. Even Nixon did great. Better than anyone that’s debated in my lifetime, besides Obama, of course. Way more interesting
EorlundGreymane
than watching trump and Biden take shots at each other all night.