For weeks, Trump and members of his administration, some of whom spread anti-Democratic conspiracy theories about Epstein, have been trying to quiet the MAGA base after the FBI declared there was no client list and that the disgraced financier died by suicide. The same manosphere that boosted Trump isn’t letting his administration off the hook on Epstein, even as Trump has tried to dismiss the whole thing as a hoax.
The young men in his base aren’t doing better economically, and also feel stabbed in the back by Trump’s refusal to RELEASE UNREDACTED COPIES OF THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Well, it’s a lot harder when you grow up with brainless parents that constantly extoll the virtues of being rich on you. Then it’s pretty easy to assume some rich asshole is good aktually because they’re rich. Yes, it’s tautological. Yes it’s stupid and wrong. Yes many, many americans are stupid and wrong and believe being rich is a virtue itself.
Cosigned - me, because this shit you just said is absolutely on point.
This is what I absolutely despise about western culture, especially in the US. The grindset. Everyone just wants to be pointlessly wealthy. Accumulating wealth has become something of a gamescore now, and everyone needs to be grinding these fucking coins to rank high on the leaderboard when they die.
People are no longer happy, too busy running after the gilded carrot.
Being rich is nothing to be impressed by. When rich people use their money to help people, that’s something to praise them for
Ehhhh even that should be questioned pretty hard. If they’re just pulling a Mr Beast and making more money by doing a facsimile of charity work, or merely making a “charitable donation” so they can deduct a bunch of taxes, then they’re still kinda’ being a money-grubbing shitstain.
Should they be thanked anyways? Sure, I guess. Though what you shouldn’t do is view them as a good person for it. That’s just perpetuating the, “money is a virtue” thing.
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