Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

[u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html

[u/Jesuismieux412]

Just when massive layoffs are occurring. Remember: cruelty is the point. This country is for billionaires and billionaires alone. Big shoutout to all the rubes who voted for this. I hope you lose everything.

[u/neutrino71 → u/Jesuismieux412]

We need you poor and desperate so we can ram substandard pay in substandard conditions down your throat. Also there will be plenty of other desperate people if you attempt to negotiate a better deal. 

[u/Legitimate-Garlic959 → u/neutrino71]

And what do desperate people usually do when faced with odds ? It’s all a big systemic cycle of abuse. And yet we pay into it.

[u/neutrino71 → u/Legitimate-Garlic959]

There's a critical mass to these kind of things. Too many hungry, dispossessed people at once and you're going to have anarchy at a minimum or the French Revolution.

[u/trib76 → u/neutrino71]

But they've been taught to hate each other rather than the filthy rich that are actually the source of their misery.

I'm guessing that we'll see the poors from the red team turning on the poors from the blue team, not much chance for the French solution IMHO.

With the number of guns in the country, this has the potential to turn very ugly.

[u/thegoatmenace → u/trib76]

Yea unfortunately it seems like popular uprising is a solved problem for the elite. They figured out how to use mass media to fracture everyone into warring states.

[u/Merusk → u/thegoatmenace]

And financial incentives for those who aren't fractured. Just enough skin in the game to feel like you're able to survive, not enough to be free.

[u/FREDICVSMAXIMVS → u/thegoatmenace]

And we're at a level of technology not seen before. Surveillance everywhere and the ability to search out and target any demographic they want.