You did it "undecideds" and "both sides" people: You saved Palestine! /s
"The gang saves Palestine"
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Their strategy is to overwhelm the news cycle with distractions. Stay focused.
On what? It's all crazy. "We're going to invade Gaza" is just as insane as "we're going to put 18 year olds in charge of the Treasury", "eliminate the department of education" or "win the war on diversity".
Yeah people keep saying "this is just a distraction" to, like, very single story. So what are they distracting from? Please tell us, because all of it is fucking awful.
Honestly I think some of this bullshit could be considered semi serious. This is Donnie's crap. Leon has his own agenda.
Panama, Greenland, Canada, Gaza, what else? The world?
new zealand's underground movement to keep it off world maps about to pay off.
If only it weren't for those damned Hobbits.
Once the elves left the property values went to shit.
Australia is west of New Zealand...
does that make Australia the undying lands?!
They want us looking elsewhere while they steal the keys to the kingdom.
I'm starting to adjust to the Trump term and learn how not to be disappointed with these news stories - here's my one simple trick:
Expect news tomorrow to be worse than today, in ways you can't even imagine. Each day repeat this process, with new baseline lowered expectations from the day before. It's that easy!
the thing is, i expected 'bad'. we got 'worse' instead.
then i expected 'even worse', and we got 'what the fucking hell?' repeatedly.
and it's been downhill with no end in sight, since.
2 weeks down, 206 to go
At this rate I expect their second civil war to have kicked off by April, should be quite an event!
From my perspective, that's "our" second civil war 😐
Every day worse than the last, it's part of their tactics to demoralize and inundate us as well.
Yeah, in posting my comment, I was thinking about this as well. It's certainly their tactic and it's how fascists win.
The problem: I don't know how to effectively counteract it. "Stay hopeful," "don't get discouraged" is all well and good, and I'm going to continue to watch the bloody corpse of America get hacked to bits out of some semblance of duty, even if I'd like to look away.
The only response that would actually help is collective action and direct resistance - and I'll certainly join a protest, or something with an actual end-game plan that isn't just "raise awareness we don't like this." But none of the leaders we elected are giving any actual leadership. Even if they were, the media isn't reporting on it so we can't efficiently align. Lawsuits aren't even being filed fast enough to keep up with the onslaught, even if the Supreme Court is potentially captured. The Overton window is moving so fast, they're actually pulling off the coup.
I did my taxes the day I got my tax forms because I'm afraid Elon Musk is gonna determine that tax refunds from last year are not "efficient."
My return was only like $300, but imma need all I can get with how things are going.
What the actual fuck...
Just don't call it genocide
Apparently that was 100% Joe Biden 🙄
Well, this is involuntary ethnic relocation for the sake of American real estate tycoon wannabes. Not genocide at all. Nosireebob.
It's not really a shock, Kushner has been talking about it for over a year.
Not a shock. Maybe surprise that he specified Gaza, but not a shock.
What the hell...
Keeping the shock and awe on himself while musk fucks off with wheelbarrows of money in the background?
and data. tons and tons of data, on everyone, siphoned off fed systems.
Thank goodness they took a stand against American inaction. Now they get action.
All his billionaire crones are going to be pissed. Think of all the jobs that will create. How will they be able to abuse the average worker when thier aren't enough of them to go around. It's going to drive up wages. And the investment capital that goes to gaza isn't going to the billionaires tech companies.
Sooner or later, one of them is going to off him.
Shock?
Yeah, a lot of things but "shock" ain't one of them.
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