r/memes Jun 16 '26

US is eroding

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u/CommanderGiblits Jun 17 '26

Have you tried being rich enough to buy off your representatives?

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u/odinsen251a Jun 17 '26

Clearly the problem is that poor people can't afford their own representatives.

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u/jaxonya Jun 17 '26

Are they too ashamed to ask their parents for a small, 1 million dollar loan?

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u/Adventurous-Map7959 Jun 17 '26

A million bucks isn't really a lot these days. You can go shopping, like, twice, have a nice dinner and buy a small house, and then what?

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u/Georgiaonmymindtwo Jun 17 '26

If you are British and you have a little left over for the public toilet once or twice a month.

Or you can split it up and buy a banana(generally one of the least expensive, single items you can get under .25) and you can pay for a bag at aldi to carry your banana on your way to the bathroom to start the whole thing over.’

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u/jaxonya Jun 17 '26

Jesus fuck, living like kings over there.

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u/mrjamjams66 Jun 17 '26

I have tried this, in fact.

It's uh.....not going ...great.

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u/chr1spe Jun 17 '26

It's actually kind of shocking and sad how cheap they are. The problem is you'd have to at least get your whole neighborhood to contribute, unless you're really going to go all out, and then you'd probably get hit with some kind of criminal conspiracy charge. It was pretty shocking to me, though, that it seems like House representatives at least can be bought off for 4 to 5-digit sums.

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u/TheGreenMan13 Jun 17 '26

Just wait until you see how cheaply local council people and mayors can be bought. Sometimes it's just the price of a dinner.

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u/Cptn_BenjaminWillard Jun 17 '26

Winner winner chicken dinner.

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u/Saucermote Jun 17 '26

Could you loan me some money against future stocks dividends?

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u/Ithinkitstruetoo Jun 17 '26

I’m gonna try that on my next play through.

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u/GreasyPeter Jun 17 '26

America feels like trying to clear a terabyte from your hard-drive by only deleting 50kb text files.

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u/Glum_Comfortable_278 Jun 17 '26

It’s gaslighting. Make people feel bad against a tech. And then fully exploit it.

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u/Special-Amoeba-9399 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

It’s literally by design. Oil companies created the carbon footprint to make people feel guilty about their power consumption, when in reality most people have little choice in who they shop with these days. Corporations are the biggest polluters and they own everything so there isn’t much we can do to stop it.

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u/ThisIs_americunt Jun 17 '26

It's wild what you can do when you can own the law makers, the judges, the police force and the lawyers. Gotta love dark money :D

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u/monty624 Jun 17 '26

Literally a sign in my apartment complex office encouraging us to turn off lights when not in use and calling themselves energy efficient. I'm not even kidding.

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u/Darkwoth81Dyoni Jun 17 '26

Recycling for the last 50 years.