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Most of the elites are weak, cowardly and selfish hypocrites. There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. They'll fall like dominoes the minute the tension starts to rise...

If you're an elite and you have any strength at all, you'd better start throwing your buddies under the bus soon. It's going to be you or them. They're so weak and so selfish, you don't have much time left before they start to crack.

If there is any dirt at all, it will all come out. Always has, always will. There are too many people in the world. You can never control all of them.

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Pretty good example of the kind of nonsense endemic on Reddit

Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon here, either.

Increasingly so alas

> There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution.

As someone who grew up poor in America, these talks about “revolution” have always perplexed me.

We have one of the highest median incomes in the world, and we live in a country that pushes much of the world forward in terms of technological progress.

People have always flocked to America for opportunity, and if we cut welfare so we can expand immigration again, I guarantee there will be another giant influx.

This country allows people of virtually all income levels access to an abundance of food and pleasures through our capitalist system. Grocery stores with packed shelves aren’t something you should take for granted.

Revolution isn’t the path to become like Sweden. It’s the path to become like the USSR.

For a country with abundance and happiness, there is large incarceration rates, inequality, protests, some escalating to riots, politically motivated murders of protesters and recently attempts to devalue voting process.

I am not saying who is right or that America is not superpower anymore. But the way it was getting dysfunctional is worrying.

Did you know that other countries have grocery stores too?

> People have always flocked to America for opportunity, and if we cut welfare so we can expand immigration again, I guarantee there will be another giant influx.

And how are welfare and immigration related?

> Did you know that other countries have grocery stores too?

In the countries destroying the rich in revolution, grocery stores are empty.

> how are welfare and immigration related?

Welfare and immigration are related because increasing both are fundamentally incompatible.

If you substantially increase welfare, you must avoid mass immigration that collapses the system.

If you substantially increase immigration, you must avoid welfare that collapses the system.

The United States is rare, as a wealthy country, in generally choosing substantial immigration over substantial welfare.

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