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[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

Are you sure? I checked around and couldn't find much about this. Cable and broadcast news don't seem to be reporting it, and none of the major newspapers. It's not supported by X or Facebook either. I don't see a lot of books about it on my Kindle. I mean, that's quite a conspiracy theory you've got going there. For it to work, a small group of people would have to somehow hold over half the wealth of America and use it to elect politicians with so few scruples that they'll appoint anyone to powerful offices. Even that is assuming they could somehow pack courts with compliant judges who are willing to declare that corporations are people and money is speech. Next, you'll be telling me that a median salary is unlikely without a degree that costs almost as much as a new car, but that it doesn't matter anyway because a median salary can't support a family in the same standard of living they were born into. I can't imagine people would tolerate this kind of thing. We'd have to be living in some kind of dystopian, authoritarian plutocracy like a bad 1970s sci-fi.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Hahahaha... ha...

sob

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 21 points 10 months ago

This comic depicts four people who couldn't be bothered to pay attention to anything for ten years.

I have no sympathy.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago
[-] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 10 months ago

That is correct.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago

That doesn't help the cause though, in fact this exact attitude might be a pretty big part of why we're all in deep shit now.

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[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

USians are so racist you have to explain bad things using the words "Russian" and "Iranian" next to them. Like, you have Fox news already for half a century don't you? What do you mean "Russian style disinformation"? You guys invented it before the Russian Federation existed lmao

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 22 points 10 months ago

These people have presidents swear on the bible and talk about theocracies smh

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago

The US has only had 1 president who wasn't Christian and that was Thomas Jefferson who thought the Bible had been adopted by to many political ideologies that tainted the better moral frameworks.

Every president after has been directly and only Christian. No Jewish, no Buddhists, no separation of church and state ever allowed.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's nationalism and jingoism, not racism.

Jeez.

Well, probably all of the above with the Iranian thing.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At the end of the day, they’re still pathetic amerikkkan exceptionalists who think “we are better than this.”

We are not better than this, and we never have been.

Fucking pieces of shit got us where we are with their ignorance.

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[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Fox News was founded in 1996 which we all know was only about 10 years ago.

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[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 12 points 10 months ago

I thought characters in webcomics were more politically aware, but I guess they are just 2 dimensional.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I feel like it kinda fell flat.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can't wait for Trump to rename the months after his family members.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I vote for "Ivanktober" because that's the creepiest of their familial relationships I can think of off hand. It'll really augment the spooky vibe of the season.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Spooky season has been canceled due to being witchcraft and satan worship. You will instead be assigned a pew at your local evangelical church for reeducation.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

What priests do to kids is way scarier than Halloween anyway.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Don't you know? Those priests were seduced by those children! It's the devil in them, making goodly and god-fearing men do these unthinkable acts! Really, we should be punishing the kids.

/sarcasm, for the people in the audience who will inevitably be too dense to get it

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 10 months ago

I hope these fuckers are happy now. They got what they wanted. Or just ignored the problem and now that it's not going away they've finally realized that maybe they should have voted differently. Or at all.

I hope y'all bastards suffer.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you think they're rethinking their choices, or are even aware of any of the problems, you are a god damn child. They live in a bubble and think things are better than ever.

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[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Voting for what makes you mad, living for what makes you sad.

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[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I'm not at all ready for it, but I've been acutely aware it was coming since the night of Nov. 6th.

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I mean most of us were acutely aware of it since November of 2016 and perhaps even before, but yeah. So far the awareness seems to be more of a punishment because we can see the train wrecks coming but can't seem to convince the drivers of the car we're in to actually stop parking on the tracks.

Perhaps blissful ignorance may save our mental state.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I avoid news a lot more than I used to because all it does is cause distress about things I have no control over. In his first term I at least had the hope that the shaky guardrails were there to keep him from going too far, but those are gone now and I'm fully aware I live in a country under a fascist regime with no opposition from anyone with the power to do something about it.

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[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

i'M tOo LaZy To bE bOtHeReD WiTh BaSiC CiVic DuTy, So i BeLiEvE aNyOnE oNLinE wHo TeLLs Me ThAt bOTh ParTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe? LoL_!!!_ 🤣🤣🤣
i'M sO pUrE!!! 😇🤪🤩

Millions of self-destructively lazy, stupid mediocre people shouted in unison (again):
Vote for a woman? When PIGS fly!!!

Or if Biden had remained in the race:
sLeePy JoE! LoL!

[-] ZMoney@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, and 70 million people voted for a fascist.

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

But it's okay because he is their fascist.

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[-] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean you can exist in this world if you want to. It is more fun than the truth which is sad and boring.

Most people really do care and have good intentions, but are too overworked and too uneducated to pull apart the propaganda that's being pushed to them 24/7.

The oligarchs didn't win when Trump got elected the second time. The won when they got control over the media. That was a while back.

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Stupidity and ignorance are way too widespread. It should not take a genius to figure out that trump and the GOP are pretty much against the working class. I’m not saying democrats are saints, but at least Biden tried to cancel student loan debt, and somehow that got looked at negatively??!?

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[-] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's like Americans lost their national identity or something. They literally act like Russians, judging by the comic.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Turn it up Listen to the shit they pump into your head Filling you with apathy Hold your breath Wait until you know the time is right on time The end is near

NiN, Year Zero, The Great Destroyer

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[-] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hungary didn’t crack down on education? Our scores are still competitiv-ishly high in Europe! Our teachers are unfortunately paid in animal crackers though, like most important jobs! The teacher, doctor, bus driver scarcity is just more apparent than some others

In our system Viktor Orban have bought the media with stolen public funds! And the opposition parties and much of our economy…

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago
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