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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 20 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol

If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty "Hope and Change" Obama!

So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.

You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You'd rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren't even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.

But this is just pathetic.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Most of the mainstream media is owned by a few rich fucks, corporations who strive to make money. Corporations love fascism because that gives them more power and less regulations, so ofc they do everything in their power to enable fascism.

The biggest lie I was told in school was that the market is thriving in competition, it doesn't. Corporations always want monopolies, so competitors are usurped and driven out by any means necessary.

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I'll say what I already said during the Brexit campaign - if a politician is caught on provably lying to the public, they should be fined, put in prison and prevented from making ANY public appearances or taking public offices for life.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee -3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This thread is an amazing honeypot for any instance admins looking for a well organized list of accounts to ban.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I never expected this thread to go so viral.

[–] Muyal@lemmy.world 3 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

Lemmy was founded by communists and it follows a lot of communist principles.

If you don't want to deal with that, Reddit is next door and it's 100% suited for centrists and right-wingers like you.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 30 minutes ago

You’re assuming a lot with your comment. I’m against authoritarianism.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Republicans are always evil. They don't do anything good. Ever. They're a known quantity. That's what we expect of them.

We expect the Dems to be better. And they get the smoke when they fail at that. Cutting Corp taxes. Border crackdowns. Genocide. Those are things that should exclusively be the pervue of Republicans. If dems run to the right they will always lose because the right was so triggered by Obama that policy doesn't matter to them whatsoever. It's purely teamsport for them. You can't appeal to them in any way. They see a (D) and vote against that person. Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders. We would have a perpetually booming economy and a high standard of living. But even that is far too far for the DNC Services Corp. So we get a gameshow host and a car salesman destroying everything.

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Republicans are always evil

"Conservatives", not Republicans. Around 100 years ago the style of both parties in the US was almost exactly reversed.

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders

lol

About half of America thought Kamala was too far left. The idea that Americans are secretly socialists just waiting for a real leftist candidate and are willing to tolerate progressively more fascistic politicians in the mean time is simply ridiculous and without any basis in reality.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 1 points 37 minutes ago (2 children)

Not at all. She went too far right and a lot of people stayed home. Cuz one republican is as good as another. They both fuckin suck at literally everything. Except fucking up the economy. Republicans are great at that.

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 1 points 30 minutes ago

And do you have any actual reason I should believe that?

"Well, lots of people would have voted for her if she put on a keffiyeh and sang l'Internationale."

Why should I believe that? There is just no basis to believe there is some secret American socialist majority.

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 1 points 32 minutes ago

She promised to institute a tax on unrealized gains.

What constitutes "far right?"

Trump has concentration camps. Biden didn't. One assumes Kamala wouldn't. If you don't see a difference, it speaks to how privileged you are.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

Seems to be a lot of talk here about authoritarianism.

Is demanding responsible speech over free speech absolutism "tankie"? ....because the US is demonstrating exactly what happens when you give free speech to fascists and don't monitor their "religion".

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Republicans have no enemies on the right. Democrats have no friends on the left

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[–] takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Republicans ran on a purely populist agenda, that resonated with many non voters. If Dems had an ounce of sense, instead of digging their heel on 'vote losing' points, they would have acknowledged the merit of those populist rhetoric to defang republicans.

[–] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah it's crazy to me how quickly they dropped price controls as a talking point as soon as the corporate media was against it. That could have easily been their populist position to counter Trump's claims that getting rid of illegal immigrants would drive prices down.

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