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[-] CentauriBeau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What happened to us (Americans)? We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech. Now we’re burning books and outlawing news sources that don’t abide by the official propaganda. It’s sickening.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech.

pssst

those were lies too

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

I.m.o. US media has watered down revolution and resistance to injustice into purely a matter of aesthetics. Our movies, shows, and books constantly recast events to gut the actual historical context. Its why MAGA people can imagine themselves as a sort of resistance, because they are so used to identifying the aesthetics and not the substance of political movements.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 12 hours ago

The US has always had propaganda and book burning, it's just really good at projection. Hell, even D&D was attacked for being "satanic."

[-] yetiftw@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

did you miss the red scare? it's always been this way

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 14 points 21 hours ago

Lol, classic American. Sees Americans doing bad things in America in a way that America has always done: "what are we, a bunch of Russians!"

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 5 points 18 hours ago

You're moving out of golden age and into the 'find out' stage.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 15 points 23 hours ago

Because our empire is collapsing

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Entropy will not be denied.

Rome always falls to the corruption of its elite run amuck.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Don't forget the lead poisoning. Something else America has in common with the Romans.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world -2 points 21 hours ago

You guys are actively collapsing it.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I voted for Harris in yet another attempt at harm reduction, not hope, but the Neoliberals and Republicans have just been playing good cop/bad cop since Reagan, intentionally stoking and magnifying social wedges to keep Americans divided and at each other's throats while they serve the same masters on protecting the shape and fucked up priorities of our sociopath owned economy we don't get a vote on from either major party.

Voting for Trump just makes our collapse sound like fart noises. We've been in freefall since the 1980s, our society strip mined for private profit. IMHO the United States under the current Constitution was irrevocably captured destroyed half a century ago. That's when America died. The last 50 years or so has just been a combination of leftover momentum and denial.

In a dark way, it's almost refreshing to someone like me to finally see everyone else waking up to the grim reality there's literally no longer any way to squint hard enough to play pretend the country isn't irreparably fucked. Better than all the willful self-delusion many enjoyed as education crumbled, healthcare became a murderous con-job, retirement became a decadent luxury for the few, etc.

We haven't been a society for a long time. We're an oligarch piggy bank/military platform. We wage war on the world, both through hard warfare and strong arm diplomacy, to open up new exploitation markets for our capitalists by trying to make other nations turn on their own people for private profit in exchange for a cut for their respective elites.

We are the primary vector of the world's greed disease destroying societies, civilization, and even the very air we all breathe.

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Based if true.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago
[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I’m British, we recently had Brexit. It will be “we have book burning but it’s different to that book burning”, or something like that anyway.

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