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Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water.
Did you ever think you'd live long enough to see Jewish Nazis?
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Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water.
Did you ever think you'd live long enough to see Jewish Nazis?
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
This is as close to factual reporting as we're likely to see for a minute. This isn't satire; it's sociopolitical commentary.
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Opposition to the butchery in Gaza
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My entire school life there was so much pontification over what "you" would do during segregation or the Holocaust or slavery?
Turns out my entire family would grow a toothbrush moustaches and start painting vegan landscapes while I kept working because the cost of living rises more than wages and I long for the reprieve of death.
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no values
They have values they're just not logically or morally consistent with reality.
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That's a good question
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Everything about Christianity is basically backwards from what Jesus actually fucking said.
No idolatry is the first commandment for a reason. People that worship the idol of the cross have already failed to learn what the religion was to teach.
Basically, look at Republicans. They absolutely worship the flag yet at the same time defile everything the country supposedly stands for.
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15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Illegal
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This is why felon mush bought shitter.
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Auto-Brewery Syndrome
My ex had it and it's the reason we broke up. Being drunk all the time/at random and not aware is problematic to say the least.
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Anyone?
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I'm tired boss.
I was born into a conservative family where hitting was the solution to basically every parenting dilemma. Long story short, I spent my life being exploited by everyone and gas lighted about it.
After therapy, I found out I'm asd, ADHD, cptsd, BPD, with anxiety and obviously depression.
I was born into conservatism and beaten to unquestioningly stay. The longer I'm out, the father left I've gone to the point I see the US has -always- been a fascist imperial attack dog of the world banks.
We don't go after dictators because we can't be the world police but any time a small country goes left of selling kids into slavery the US economically cripples it.
The general public -wants- to be led. They don't -want- to be a functional part of democracy.
I've actually gotten into office specifically because of a corrupt official. I got the most resistance from the law and order dipshits that couldn't believe -their guy- was breaking the law.
I live in one of the smartest states in the country and the overwhelming majority of the general public and elected officials operate on auto pilot knowing little beyond what the day to day calls for.
Education is basically rote memorization of authorized paradigms with little room to question the basic operating assumptions are wrong. The first surgeon to suggest washing hands was laughed out of his practice and died of sepsis in an institution.
Little has changed.
We have brains that spent 2 million years in caves eating berries that spent the last few hundred dressing stupid and paying taxes to maintain a society that's become so comfortable it's collapsing under its own incompetence to detect or resist it's suicidal self extinction for the enrichment of a handful.
People aren't too busy to understand they're being fucked, but they don't have time to understand why or how so they listen to all the monied interests that tell them how to feel about what they let them know is happening.
Brief complaints like we're "being fucked" are agreed with but don't establish anything. Detailed complaints that explain the depth of the grievance are called manifestos to delegitimize whatever is said. Length and complexity make them easy to ignore and disregard.
There's so many problems and people are just dumb, lazy, exhausted, gullible, or just not able to understand everything is ultimately one giant problem actively maintained to keep the masses so busy chasing their asses they haven't seen this shit coming for the last 100 years.
It's not that Trump is breaking norms.
It's not that Democrats are captured resistance slow walking us right and refusing to stop him.
It's not that the election was stolen and Democrats certified everything without zero resistance. (Seriously, if you don't understand this look into election truth alliance.)
It's not McConnell, Reagan, Nixon, Eisenhower, or any one act or individual.
You can look back to the business plot 100 years ago. Or the communist manifesto 200 years ago.
The Western world was built on the wealth extracted from the third world via imperialism and capitalism. Now that wealth is further being consolidated into the hands of even fewer.
You can't buy a cell phone that wasn't built with slave labor. Fair Phone tired. It's not possible.
How many people know that? How many people care?
As long as it's ok people are exploited as long as we just don't see it, nothing will change. By the time we can see it, we can't change it because it's us.
Assume there isn't an unholy union of accelerationist evangelicals and dystopian feudaltechno lords. (Seriously, Musk is going to use gitmo to test brain implants on detainees and protestors.) Further, assume enough people see through the 5 layer dip of bullshit that is MSM, strike, refuse to power the death cult and want change...
Give the Democrats power? They can't manage shit with a majority yet also can't stop Republicans with a tie. The primary goal of the DNC is to sand band actual leftist policies that benefit people by raising taxes on the rich.
Fundamentally, democracy doesn't work because most people are content being worthless morons that didn't understand how essential facets of civilization work.
Capitalism has an intrinsic motivation to undermine democracy at every step because educated workers want benefits and safety regulations and clean water.
At the end of the day, every American is propagandized from birth to think only of themself and any kind of tax is theft and socialism. There are like 9 Americans that know what socialism means and the rest just get angry and shoot at schools.
Capitalism produced the Idiocracy fucktards it wanted and now everything will crumble because no one will want to come up with a better idea.
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How Democrats plan to make Republicans squirm on tax cuts, DOGE
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Think of the county as a car driving towards a cliff.
Republicans want to stomp on the gas and roll coal to trigger libs.
Sure, Democrats UNDERSTAND the "concerns" of pollution and driving off a cliff, but they also have to be sensitive to the desires of their oil donors and constituents that work in refineries, so they feel obligated to reach across the aisle to push the gas a little to keep $XOM over $100.
The news blames the Dems for the car slowing down. No one wants to rock the boat by stopping the car from going off the cliff. Attack anyone that considered reversing for being a socialist because capitalism needs us to buy a new car after we crash this one.
Leftists and the third world are in the trunk.
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Anyone?
Every day is basically just trying to not kill myself at every turn because I have a daughter and pets to care for and I hate every day.
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i've mastered the art of procrastination
And my boss still says I'm one of the best on the team... 🤷🏼♂️
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So, is the USA screwed?
Yes.
In the short term not much will change and no one will react. By the time they want to react, they'll play into a fascist crackdown.
Look into the Business Plot. This is basically the result of a century of planning between business interests and religious fanatics with too much money.
As long as capitalism is propagandized as a good thing, civilization will continue to face this issue of the few exploiting the many.
Do you believe every human deserves the same rights and dignities? It's not possible to make a cell phone without relying on slave labor in the supply chains.
Profit is unpaid labor. As long as we normalize giving at the profits to those that already have everything, civilisations will continue to implode until one makes a mistake of such hubris everyone dies. Look at PFAS. One day we will unleash something we can't contain and we'll be dead before we can detect it or treat it.
Our species simply will not survive because we're too eager to shit where we sleep just so we don't have to walk all the way to the bathroom.
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'Stop Playing Nice,' Says AOC as Senate Dems Help Approve Yet Another Trump Nominee
Democrats will keep losing because that's their sole purpose.
Ratchet effect.
The Republicans tug on the levers of power pulling everything right.
The Democrats' duty is to normalize and rationalize while the GOP resets for the next tug.
There are Democrats that do actually care, but the DNC leadership is well right of center and would rather lose to Trump than win with Burnie.
Democrats will always lose because liberals are right of center nimby turds that will continue to worship capitalism as we all burn.
Anyone expecting the Democrats to save them is ignoring this is the first election in decades no state Democrat contested any result and PA, NY, and NV all show results that are statically impossible and obviously manipulated.
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One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
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Black Rock basically owns the entire stock market. Even the best intentioned companies eventually have to cave to fiduciary duty to shareholders.
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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A huge percentage of the problem is what people think is left.
https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
Hilary was right of Trump, just less authoritarian. The whole caravan spectacle was basically fallout of her time as secretary of state under Obama.
Liberalism coopted equality from socialism. Rainbow capitalism will underpay and shrinkflate all the poors equally in the name of the shareholders.
Conservatism coopted a man being entitled to the sweat of his brow. Profit is what's left over after reinvesting in the business and wages. Every cut corner of quality and penny of retirement savings denied is more riches for the ruling class. Workers eagerly defend their bosses entitlement to the sweat of their brow.
Media plays the masses that deserve both against itself.
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Jon Lovitz Wants A Reboot Of ‘The Critic’
Jon Lovitz wants work.
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Bruh, on election night a Jew from Jews for Trump complained antisemites were at the victory party, too.
How many dumb as fuck old people vote for Republicans that will cut social security?
How many Hispanics (even fucking undocumented) supported Trump because he'd keep illegals out?
How many obese straight white men over 40 railed against DEI that will be laid off because they're old? Dropped from insurance because they're fat? Have their taxes raised because they're low earners hit harder by regressive structures?
I have seen basically every group targeted by Republicans for the last 40 years send its dumbest motherfuckers to support Trump with zero self awareness.
Americans are irredeemably stupid, weak, and worthless.
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Stop Being Weird
America is failing as a country because people are willing to spend more energy on things they hate than things they need like functioning education and transit.
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Something like 80% of all theft at this point is unpaid wages.
You have to understand that a system that calls corporations people is inherently violent. Profit is unpaid labor, so the existence of a tax code that not only allows -but celebrates and defends- billionaires is class warfare. If you steal $1000 from a store, the police show up. If the store steals $1000 from your paycheck the police tell you to get a lawyer with a $5k retainer. The store's existence isn't hampered by the $1,000 while most families would be ruined without out.
However, the only instance of the crime the system cares about is the one against the corporation.
Corporations are the only people that don't have to worry about eating. Corporations are the only people that don't have hands for handcuffs. Corporations are the only people the law cares about.
Corporations own the media. Corporations own the red ones. Corporations own the blue ones. Corporations own the food. Corporations are eager to own everything the DNC will meet the RNC half way in privatizing.
We are here because infinite money now equates to infinite speech. We as individuals have ever less speech because we have ever less money. Unions are being crippled now and soon protesting itself will become a crime against the state.
It will be a crime to speak out. It will be a crime to be different. It will be a crime to work too slow or think too much.
When every notion of freedom becomes a crime, crime becomes our only freedom.
Ready Player 2 mother fuckers.
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If you're still on Lemmy...
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Bro, I've been high basically every fucking day for the last 5 years for sure but we're getting on a decade here.
There isn't much shit I haven't tried on weed because raw dawgging this timeline is a guaranteed shotgun slurpee.