Trump draws Marie Antoinette comparisons as he leans into the gilded trappings of the presidency
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I hope they realize just exactly why in the 1900s-1930s the government allowed for busting monopolies, strong unions, and workers' rights.
The reason is that from ~1880 to 1930 there were hundreds of violent riots and revolts, assassinations of CEOs, literal wars (Coal Wars, check out the movie Matewan) fought between workers and capital owners, etc. So to stop all the violence and assassinations of executives, they finally realized they should give at least something to the workers.
We're quickly approaching this dynamic again, and hey if they want to lean into it, just expect the same response from the people.
The number of "rednecks", "southerners", "hillbillies" etc that don't know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over..... just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their "heritage" they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.
Putting "thin blue line" stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers....
They just love their "culture" of owning other humans. That's literally it.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might've had a paragraph in the textbook about "labor rights" movement.
Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.
Part and parcel of the intended dynamic I would say. It's all a soup of disastrous bits and pieces
Correct, I’m from the south, my school was actually well funded especially in comparison to most, and if I weren’t naturally curious with an eye for the spurious I wouldn’t know about any of the riots all across the south, not about race but about wages and taking down bosses. Shit I just recently found out i had kin take part in the textile strikes and riots during that time that was just never discussed
Hence why I loathe my kinfolk so much. Bunch of fucken disgraces to our forefathers.
Let’s just finish the job this time no matter what they give to make it stop
Yes. When they concede, they show we are close to victory. No half measures. Drive them into the sea.
Strong French Revolution vibes here
They are expecting it that's why they're investing so much in surveillance and snitch-tech(LLMs). They think they'll get away with it this time. And they might. We won't know until the bodies hit the floor.
lol of course they won't
It'll end how it always ends. Gadhafi.
Leon Czolgosz 🤘
And ask former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg what happens when you ride union support to power but then go corporate.
France 1793 anyone???? WTF. I thought wankees said they would have no kings. Guess that’s true except for their failed reality TV star pedo criminal king.
I wish.
Where is this bullshit from? This is absolutely not true.
Looks like the source is MS Paint and trust me bro.
You know what, fair.
Why is he still alive?
He's getting fresh blood from Thiel's blood boys.
Liberace is the only person I can think of with similar taste. You would think someone would point that out
He has no imagination or taste. He is a dumb, petty, piece of garbage in a human suit. He believes that gaudy trash is what everyone else thinks look rich so he does it.
Colbert did a couple nights ago.
Well this is kind of scary, hitler had better taste:
https://time.com/4052601/photos-hitler-at-home/
Trump has dictator from developing country taste
Nazi architecture was great. It just sucks that they saw the volk as a subset of the actual volk, and murdered the rest...
Somebody needs to chisel the fake gold off everything and force feed it to him. All of it.
That's probably his diet already. Not sure he could be more orange.
If folks seize Versailles, feel free to strip it bare of valuables. It belongs to citizens, not the wannabe king.
...hmmm...continue!
Let them eat tariff checks!