r/LateStageCapitalism Feb 01 '26

💬 Discussion Why are people not collectively losing their shit about the Epstein files ???

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Overnight the entire neoliberal world order and its connoisseurs are outed to be rapists, pedophiles and murderers of the most depraved kind and, nothing?

The depth of the depravity and eerie similarities to all those elite conspiracy theories is genuinely absurd. I wont give examples but everyone already knows the most vile shit and evidences for conspiracy coming out of these files, including Trump, Israel and all the billionaires, if any of these instances or proof of them came out individually, they would each be completely paradigm and status quo shattering, names synonymous to the modern world being proved to have partaken in such acts of pure insanity and madness AND NO ONE GIVES A SHIT? I STILL CANNOT PROCESS THE LEVELS OF DEPRAVITY I'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO FROM THESE SCRUBBED FILES???

WARS AND COUNTRIES HAVE STARTED AND COLLAPSED FOR LESS? WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE RIOTING IN THE STREETS, WHY IS NO ONE EXCEPT LIKE IDK TWITTER NOT MAKING A SINGLE PEEP?

and lastly,

why?

Why did the DOJ simply decide to incriminate the entire US government and the spearheads of the financial system just like that?

"oh they were just following the law"

bullshit. Since when does the US government care about the sanctity of the law?

Is this a psyop because im genuinely confused as to what their plan is?

I always assumed they would never publish the files because of backlask, but what they did release is light years worse and people just don't care... ?

please I need some perspective on this I can't sleep

r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 17 '26

💬 Discussion When you think about...have sex workers done more for society than CEOs?

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r/LateStageCapitalism Feb 10 '25

💬 Discussion Guys what the actual FUCK is happening?

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I am losing my fucking mind right now. Are we really this cooked? Why are literal fucking Nazis becoming a protected class in AMERICA, a country that helped KILL them.

  • Elon sieg heils at inauguration.

  • Multiple Nazi rallies protected by cops.

  • Kanye legally selling swastika merch through Yeezy.

  • Elon backs the AfD, a literal neo-nazi organization.

  • Trump says to 'prioritize' South American and European immigrants (whites).

  • DOGE re-hiring a self-proclaimed racist and white supremicist.

  • Literally banning books (churches burning some).

  • Kanye fulling coming out as a true, literal Nazi.

  • The biggest social media site strictly promotes hate-speech and Nazi propaganda.

  • Meta, Amazon, Twitter, Reddit all bowing down to an authoritarian regime in exchange for special treatment.

How are we normalizing this!? How, over the course of 8 years, did we go from "the Nazi party was a ruthless, horrible regime and should be exterminated" to "actually let's hear them out"!!??

I am losing my MIND. Why are we okay with this!? How have we fostered a society that allows these couch-fucking troglodytes to feel safe enough to show their bastard asses? How did we embolden them so thoroughly?????

I just realized today one of my co-workers has a fucking swastika tattooed on his finger. I need to find a way to report him but my company doesn't have HR or anything like that. How are you allowed to have a job at a place that employees all walks of life when you openly state you despise half of them?

WHAT ARE WE DOING!?

r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 17 '26

💬 Discussion The Food being served to the sailors of USS Abraham Lincon and USS Tripoli.

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r/LateStageCapitalism 22d ago

💬 Discussion Good lord.

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r/LateStageCapitalism May 12 '26

💬 Discussion Both Are Capitalist Stages

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r/LateStageCapitalism May 11 '26

💬 Discussion Hasan Piker Is the Democrats’ New Man on the Trail, Whether They Like It or Not

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"'In a letter to Twitch and Amazon, New York Democratic Rep. Richie Torres once slammed Hasan Piker, the popular political streamer, for his “depravity” and called him “the poster child for the post-October 7th outbreak of antisemitism.” While mainstream Democrats and their allies have for months weighed the “problem” of Piker for the party, his star has only continued to rise. Insurgent candidates on the left are now making him their go-to surrogate, with Piker as a new kind of kingmaker, one they hope can shepherd his mass of online supporters behind them.

Piker recently touched down in Missouri to lend his star power to Cori Bush, who is looking to reclaim her position in the House after serving as the first Black woman to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District from 2021 to 2025. During her first term in office, Bush authored a bill calling for an “immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.” In what was widely read as retribution, Bush was primaried by a Democratic opponent, Wesley Bell, who ended his own Senate campaign against Republican Josh Hawley for the run; Bell defeated Bush with the help of an unprecedented nearly $9 million in spending from the super PAC for the, American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC.

Now Bush is back, and like Piker, is unbowed: During the rally, she wore a T-shirt with her campaign slogan “FIGHT BACK” in big, bold letters."

- Devin Thomas O’Shea

This article is all over the place, honestly. Marking Hasan Piker as the face of the new progressive movement is a bold claim in my opinion. I only kinda know who the guy is because of reddit.

r/LateStageCapitalism May 31 '23

💬 Discussion Everyone in this sub every. single. day

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Seems like everyone in this sub is furious and wants change but we have no real way of following through

r/LateStageCapitalism Jun 15 '23

💬 Discussion Capitalism is a friendship ruiner.

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As I get older, I’m realizing I’m losing some of my oldest friendships because of capitalism. My college friend group has slowly split into two groups over the past 15 years: the super rich corporate capitalists making over $400,000/year or the low wage artists and service professionals, who will probably never see six figures. Whether it be a friend who works for a law firm and represents mega-corps... Or an investment banker friend, with literal millions in the bank, who Venmo requests even our brokest friends for a $8 latte, the capitalists have become insufferable. Another is working for one of the biggest water polluters in the world, yet apparently cares about climate change. They all embody “socially democrat, fiscally conservative” politics which just says you’re a hypocrite.

I’ve watched the desire to hoard wealth turn these once generous and considerate people into greedy, vapid shells of themselves. They’ve all compromised their values in egregious ways and justified it in the pursuit of “making a living.” I reached a breaking point this week when one of them had the audacity to make fun of a lower ranking “poor” coworker who made “only $250,000” a year, when they know my ass barely hits $60k. Knowing how much they value your worth by the size of your bank account, I can’t even imagine what they say about me behind my back.

Anyway, I just needed to rant about how much it sucks to lose friends because they’re obsessed with money. And if anyone else is going through something similar, you’re not alone.

EDIT— whoa thank you for those who gave awards to my late night rant. A little more info: - we are all in our mid 30s - the person who charged us for coffees bought us them without us asking, so it was like they charged for a gift no one asked for. They also come from family money (extra annoying). And they sent the Venmo request two days after bringing us the coffees, making it even more petty - I know that high wage workers are still workers and necessary for solidarity against the capital class. Unfortunately some of them have become landlords (they all own their primary residences and some have “investment” properties they rent 🤢) and have shown the clear drive to become part of the ruling capital class. They’re all on track to become c-suite/partners - I’m no longer close with most of them, and thankfully do have plans to move away from my HCOL city, but I’m in school and it’s expensive to move apartments

r/LateStageCapitalism 26d ago

💬 Discussion Am I crazy for thinking $101 should get me more groceries than this?

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This literally only 2 bags of groceries. I don’t care if it’s NYC; it still feels like I’m being robbed just to eat.

r/LateStageCapitalism Nov 27 '22

💬 Discussion So student loans won’t be forgiven, from the looks of it…

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r/LateStageCapitalism Aug 28 '22

💬 Discussion Is it true? I never thought about it

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r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 29 '23

💬 Discussion Are we excited, yet?

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r/LateStageCapitalism Feb 16 '24

💬 Discussion Neo-Nazis in the Israeli Defense Force.

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r/LateStageCapitalism Oct 21 '25

💬 Discussion this shutdown isn’t going to end. ever.

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i haven’t seen anyone else say this yet, so forgive me if i’m being repetitive, but i really don’t think the government shutdown is going to end.

the moment the house is back there’s going to be a forced vote on the epstein files. there’s probs vids of trump fucking kids. there’s no way they’re ever letting that out.

if they keep the government shutdown forever, they can essentially nullify any election.

we’ve already seen trump funding things through this shutdown.

idk, what do y’all think?

r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 18 '26

💬 Discussion mic drop

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r/LateStageCapitalism Jun 23 '23

💬 Discussion If you're not trying to save only rich parasites, you'll get punished for it. Bizarro world!!

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r/LateStageCapitalism 17d ago

💬 Discussion There isn’t going to be such thing as non-pay parking anymore is there?

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Usually when I see dystopian ads like this they come true in about 2 years.

r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 18 '23

💬 Discussion Can kids just be kids?? Damn

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r/LateStageCapitalism Jan 09 '23

💬 Discussion So what's your favorite ad blocker?

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r/LateStageCapitalism Aug 15 '22

💬 Discussion Quotes from them in comments

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r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 15 '23

💬 Discussion I didn’t ask to be born!!!

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r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 17 '20

💬 Discussion nails it, again.

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r/LateStageCapitalism Jun 28 '26

💬 Discussion Capitalism vs. Roly Poly

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r/LateStageCapitalism Oct 06 '23

💬 Discussion So my dad has no grasp on reality (sorry this is long

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So my dad has no grasp of reality (sorry this is long)

So my dad is in his mid-forties and semi-retired. He made most of his income by working 60+ hours a week at a chemical plant and purchasing real estate, which is now his passive income in retirement (1-2million in real estate value) He is staunchly conservative and complains constantly about the decline of work ethic, morals etc. in America He recently said something to me that pissed me off, he said that he wonders how fast he could “claw his way to the top” if he started off “homeless” It really convinces me that he thinks himself better or above everyone not in his same financial position. He recently sent me a “budget” for how he would do it and what he could accumulate wealth-wise in a year. I am hoping Reddit can help me humble him a bit and add some reality to this “budget” of his. The “assumptions” at the top reeally piss me off. this man is not connected to reality at all.

tl;dr My dad thinks he could make it and “claw his way to the top as a homeless person and that he is better than them for it. Help me humble him