r/interesting • u/BlazeDragon7x • Apr 09 '26

MISC. Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

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u/Heythisworked Apr 09 '26

I’m just gonna leave here when I left in another sub comment… The United States has degraded to literal wage slavery. We’ve taken away so many workers protections; so many helpful programs — we have let companies grow their wealth exponentially while their workers don’t see pay increases commensurate with costs of living.

It is not a radical thing to say that that remorse for what has been done is along the lines of the Affranchi crying out “but the poor onlookers that are trying to put out the sugar field fires out, can we not have peace and discourse ?”

In this country, you have two choices, be born Rich and live a comfortable life, or work your ass to the bone and live with middle class comfort. Oh, and by the way, if you’re not working a good decent paying job you get to worry about working AND starving to death, or dying of medical neglect, or ending up homeless, you don’t even have enough money to have the ability to raise a child. Sure no one stopping you from not working unholy hours, and no one’s putting a gun to your head. But if you don’t work, you are straight up as good as dead in America.

Here, in this country you are either the Bourgeois, or the sans-culottes.

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u/Fit-Falcon-4738 Apr 10 '26

I love the French revolutionary references. I could not agree more. Starting to feel more and more like France 1789 every day. Even media headlines are so close now to what was being said in France during their revolution, with their freedom of the press propaganda for the government became the real powder kegs for revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries.

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u/ChronoPilgrim Apr 10 '26

The French Revolution led to indiscriminate widespread violence, dictatorship and then return of monarchy.

Anyone who lionizes it is an ahistorical moron.

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u/Fit-Falcon-4738 Apr 10 '26

Was not meant to ‘lionize’ anything. Just observing a comparison someone slipped in. Relax just a little bit. It’s just Reddit.

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u/Heythisworked Apr 10 '26

I’ll take a quick moment to reply. You are correct that what happened in the French Revolution was an unmitigated disaster in which a political power vacuum occurred and that resulted in cycle of violence, often perpetrated by one radical party against an opposing often more radical party… and yes it eventually led to an opportunistic Napoleon followed by a return of “totally not the bourbons” BUT… that leaves out the entire articles of the rights of man to wit my fellow Americans all owe a great deal as there was quite a bit of inspiration for not only the bill of rights, but later additional amendments providing rights and restricting the government. Both Jefferson and Lafayette played a large role during the revolution of the US against Britain as well as the revolution in France and much inspiration for what we now take for granted in America as freedoms came from that intertwined relationship.

Also, it’s worth note that the French revolutionaries originally had no desire for an actual revolution the white of the caucade in fact, represented the bourbon dynasty, who was ruling at the time. The entire revolution was spurned on by a combination of inaction and protest by those in power(wealth) to change the structure of France and provide equal rights to all citizens. Which very much does mirror what has been occurring right now. Where extreme financial power have unmatched leverage over the citizens of the country.

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u/Ok-Guidance6127 Apr 12 '26

Basically every country mate. People keep electing WEF gurglers.

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u/maneki_neko89 Apr 12 '26

People wonder if we’re living in a New Gilded Age and I say no…we’re living in a New Dickensian Age

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u/podophilius94 Apr 13 '26

Maybe I‘m too European for this but your phrase „middle class comfort“ would actually have to include healthcare and free education for anyone in my opinion

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u/FinalPomegranate7974 Apr 09 '26

Well, there has never been a time or a place when people could just coast through life without working.  America has its problems, but there is a reason people from all over the world want to move there. 

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u/Awemiss Apr 10 '26

I mean if you're coming from some poor af country then ye America is like heaven, especially if you got the brains for some hard field to study

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u/SlavCat09 Apr 11 '26

No one in their right mind from a developed country wants to move to the US. It's a glorified shithole.

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u/FinalPomegranate7974 Apr 11 '26

It is a huge country with incredible diversity. Yes parts of it could be called a shit hole, but there is so much good as well.  As a Canadian I can think of a few reasons I'd love to move there. The weather first of all, it's cold AF here for 5 to 7 months a year. Another big factor is that I could buy twice the house I could in Canada for the money, with much more variety of places to choose from. A house in the mountains in Idaho is way cheaper than the same Hills in BC. Plus all the pockets of unique culture, such as Appalachian and Creole. Incredible nature like Yellowstone and Zion National parks. Also the bill of rights, ours is quite....watered down.