• labbbb2@thelemmy.club
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    It’s like Americans lost their national identity or something. Billionaires and Russians/Chinese wanted to reach their goal to make people socially conservative and they did it, sadly.

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    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.

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      They didn’t get what they wanted and will never get it but they’re too brain rotten to realize.

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      I think it’s bad to think like that. Billionaires and hostile foreign nations wanted to divide Americans and rule them, and that thinking divides them even more.

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

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      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.

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        By the way, there were sanctions against Russia in 2014 because of occupation of Crimea, and that gangster fascist state significantly started to use psy-op techniques and weponizing of corruption against Western countries.

        But people still should have personal responsibility, anyway.

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        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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    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

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      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.

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
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      These people have presidents swear on the bible and talk about theocracies smh

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        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.

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Yipper46@lemmy.world
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    This is what I ordered. Not how you famed it but the exact thing I wanted I am getting here. So… not too worried.

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      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.

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        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.

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            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

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

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      If the GOP is riding in under the banner of the Christian god, then Hail Satan indeed!

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        No I think it’s more likely than not that there’s a small extremely dedicated group of terminally online progressives who are wholly unaware of how bad they make basically every liberal look.

        Except on reddit, which is clearly astroturfed to hell from some organized group. Probably multiple.

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          No they are aware. They hate liberals more than they hate conservatives. They say so all the time.

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    You guys always manage to make the worst out of a morally questionable concept. Did it already with slavery.

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        Ah, no, i thought more about that there were different types of slavery (african, british, etc.) that somewhat worked with society but US took of every type the worst parts and made it an inter-generational instead of a limited-time thing.

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    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!

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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      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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      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.

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      More relevant than ever.

      Unrelated, but just the other day I was thinking about an extremely offensive NIN t-shirt I had in the 90’s. I wish I still had that shirt.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I remember when I discovered the CD would change from white decal to black with 1’s and 0’s all over it from the heat of being played

      dude that was peak CD art with an amazing album that has a vivid theme and the biggest fuck you idiots we are all doomed no matter what