If you're poor and have free time, clearly you're lazy and you should be working all the time! 
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I wasted so much time in government and corporate lines when I was unemployed, of course I used the internet during that time. OP really did find a well dunk worthy post.
Reading through all the comments, it’s funny to me a Star Trek fan not being able to conceptualize a world without money.
A staggering number of Trek fans are libertarians and that bewilders me. You'll see them on Star Trek Online zipping around in USS AYN RAND and USS FOUNTAINHEAD and the like, usually coming from tacticool Section 31 themed fleets. 
Libertarians are not an intellectual people.
I had a libertarian tell me that the minimum wage was racist the other day. They said this in the same breath as arguing that black people won't work without an incentive.
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Star Trek Online Fun Fact:
In the Romulan Republic campaign, there's a lore terminal in one of the Tal Shiar bases that namedrops the Communist Manifesto as one of the many literary works seized from rebel Romulans. In fact that whole campaign's first arc is fighting a civil war to overthrow the Empire.
Killers Among Us
The government literally had/has a program to give out cheap smart phones, tablets and laptops to poor people during Covid.
The idea of this technology being inaccessible to those in poverty is like 20 years out of date.
It's so funny when you see someone complain about poor people having smartphones. Imagine being so out of touch that you think the standard is still a candybar dumbphone and touch screen smartphones are some kind of luxury. I guess there's a few companies making those phones, but they cost about the same as a cheap smartphone.
I literally got my smartphone for free from my phone company. They hand out backlog phones like candy
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Even if there wasn't a program for it, having a phone is not optional in 2023. It is required. You have to have reliable access to email and phone in order to apply for jobs, apply for government benefits, have a social circle, etc.
But poor people don't have time for a social circle! /s
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I'm wishing all reactionary Star Trek fans a very happy why the fuck do you exist
Many people don't digest their entertainment critically at all, and take it in on a very superficial level. New Trek doesn't help this, being entirely superficial laserporn content without any substance - so any new fans are going to be extra like this.
Lots of people just grew up watching lasers and spaceships on TV as a kid and liked the aesthetics of it without ever interrogating any of the central themes or messages.
Even the idea of critically analyzing their treats is seen as a waste of time because it is not LE STEM. They're ideologically lead around by the nose by propaganda they can't even comprehend.
Even ends with smuglord ellipses...
Internet is the new Big Screen TV that clearly the poors could never have! 
My dirt poor uncle had Netscape in the late 90’s, I don’t know how they think this is impossible
Any perceived luxury^1^ is blasphemy and proof you aren't poor in the eyes of 
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how do you do fellow tankies
I'm feeling happy the good guys won in Vietnam
Yo fucking link me or get them on here I wanna wreck their shit
"If you spent less time on the Internet and more time picking pennies up off the street maybe you wouldn't be homeless."
YOU CAN'T HAVE OPINIONS OR VOICE THEM IF YOU'RE POOR! GOT SHOULD ONLY BE WORKING EVERY POSSIBLE MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE UNTIL YOU'RE NOT POOR ANYMORE AND THEN YOU CAN SPEAK.
BUT IF YOU SPEAK THEN AND ARE AGAINST CAPITALISM YOU'RE A HYPOCRITE. CURIOUS! 
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OP in that thread is the epitome of "i'm as left as they come buuuuuuuuuuuuuut" worthlessness
"I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me"
to
"The GOP is directly inspired by the homophobic attitudes in both countries [Russia and China]. Have you been living under a rock?"
in the course of a few hours. 
"ummm actually Americans are homophobic because of foreigners sweety, and I care about LGBTQ+ rights more than you"
The fact that you can live in the USA and think the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is anything but homegrown (you know, like the racism) is the definition of “living under a rock”. Either that or just good ol’ American exceptionalism - “we are so amazingly progressive that it must be someone else’s fault there are bigots here.”
really gotta wonder about the "i identify as a socialist/all socialist regimes, past and present, are irredeemably evil!" folks
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If anybody ever says this to me, I start asking them about Bordiga and Organic Centralism. See if they are really as "left as it gets"
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They got stomped so bad they even deleted their account over there.
To the libs: If you're gonna fuck around, know what you're talking about otherwise you're gonna get people jumping on your fuckin' head.
The last post I saw of that liberal crybully was a circlejerk agreement with an enlightened centrist on another thread about how "both sides are equally right and wrong." Of course both of them had right wing opinions but wanted the both sides merit badge.
It was on this thread.
These people's argument always collapses when you press them for their solutions to the problems plaguing liberal democracies. They can't talk you in circles if you keep digging for answers that you can then dismantle credibility for.
Ultimately, liberalism collapses under the pressure of dialectical materialism's analyses. Just walk them through it and they'll prove themselves to be full of shit for you.
That rules, fuck that person 
The Star Trek Lemmy is surprisingly only second to the programming one in terms of users with obnoxious politics for some reason.
bro i can literally shitpost from the toilet. does he think poor people just shit their pants?
Probably, or like, in the corner or something
These people don't realize that even homeless and poor people have phones with internet
unless you just have really bad priorities?
They realize. They're just trying to say that the poors and homeless who disagree with them online deserve being poor and/or homeless
You know those charity drives where they buy kids on homeless shelters tablets for Christmas? Haven’t they ever considered just gifting them a JOB instead????
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The same people who defend the idea of meritocracy will also defend nepotism and inheritance as legitimate forms of success.
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I'm poor and for one of my jobs I work on the internet, take that.
Holy 
that post has got some spice to it!
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