• Randomdog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    “If you were writing a Dickensian novel, it would be about millions of desperately poor people being promised a $15 starvation wage, and then watching their millionaire senators tell them that a parliamentary adviser in the palace said no.”

    For real this shit is the sort of thing that a creative writing professor would tell you is too on the nose and to town down the metaphor a bit. Madness.

    See also: Bombing Syria before sending covid relief cheques.