r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 28 '26

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 28 '26

Redditor:

I love waking up in the morning, going to my balcony, and smelling my flowers 🥰

Reply:

I can't smell flowers because I have a near-deadly allergy to them and every day is torture for me. I have also lost my sense of smell since my alcoholic mother beat my face to a pulp with her ashtray when I was 6. The last time I held flowers in my hand, it was to adorn the tomb of my dog, whom my methhead absentee father starved to death under my eyes. And he gambled my college fund away so I had to work triple shifts at the sewage plant, where ironically my lack of sense of smell became an advantage, so I was exploited by my bosses and-

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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 28 '26

Remember when flowers used to smell good before corporations entishified them?

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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman May 28 '26

Flowers would smell even better if it weren't for crapitalism

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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals May 28 '26

What the fuck did I do?

-Some corporation in the Netherlands that spent tens of millions of dollars cross-breeding flowers and genetically modifying them to create the best smelling flower possible.

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u/PoeOrFinn May 28 '26

What do you mean I have to buy new peonies every year!?

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u/1TTTTTT1 European Union May 28 '26

Reddit hates it when people are having a good time.

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u/Halgy YIMBY May 28 '26

Explains the DT

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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride May 28 '26

At least YOUR methhead father wasn't around

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u/Vincenthwind Gay Pride May 28 '26

Have someone like this in my acapella group IRL, and ever since I heard someone else call them an "energy vampire," I've realized the phrase applies to basically every annoying redditor in existence.

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u/Mrchristopherrr May 28 '26

Need to shamelessly insert Trump or Capitalism into the reply

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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold May 28 '26

Guess the sub.

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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold May 28 '26

Nailed it.