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Vice President JD Vance recently traveled to Bay City, Michigan to speak at a manufacturing plant to tout President Donald Trump's economic agenda, and was welcomed by a crowd of protesters.

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[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 153 points 4 days ago (33 children)

"You were supposed to be too shackled by the minimum wage jobs we allow you to have two of and kept fearful of loosing your worthless health insurance to run around and protest when we abuse you some more, damnit! Who allowed you out?"

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 83 points 4 days ago (32 children)

On god, US is such a dystopia I always remain flabbergasted when people talk about the american dream. My third world country (Romania) is a shithole but at least I can hope to pay for serious medical illnesses if I go jobless.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You also set an inspiring example with how you dealt with Ceausescu.

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Sadly what started as a people's revolution got deturned into a coup d'etat back then: the old guard of the Securitate and high echelon of the Communist party continued (and still continues to a high degree) to have most of the power.

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